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Hi Sheila, Thanks for your feedback on the 1847 Freeholder listing. The purpose of "senior" and "junior" was to distinguish between two people with the same name, not for family relationships. I reckon they could be father and son, or they could be two men with the same name but different ages. Eith...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for sharing the fascinating information that the Rev. Patrick Quinlivan was the uncle of two sisters who married Eugene O'Curry and John O'Donovan. Back in July, when I posted on page 46 the 1962 Irish stamp commemorating them both, I was not aware that O'Curry and O'Donovan had...

Yes, I did use the link you provided for the topic “Quinlivan of Ballyroughan” and I read it all, but did not think there was any contradiction between the Ballyroughan Quinlivans having a priest (or two) and the Garruragh Quinlivans having their own priest. But you have convinced me that Rev. Mr. ...

Hi Sharon, Thank you for providing the 1851 Catholic priest registry and 1846 Slater's directory. Here are a few more clippings of Rev. Michael Quinlivan's various exploits and promotions through the 1850's. At the Petty Sessions of Ennis, the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan, RCC, and two others, appeared to ans...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for obtaining the 1864 civil death record for Daniel McNamara who ended up being from Newgrove, father of a Patrick McNamara. And I wouldn't worry about any mistranscriptions of the Tulla records. I had previously caught that "John Quinlivan" was "James Quinlivan", it was fairly...

Hi Sheila, Thanks very much for highlighting that the Rev. Mr. Quinlivan and his two nephews were brought to a board meeting of Tulla Union in May 1851. Have you any idea who this Rev. Quinlivan might be? Paddy Waldron in a posting back in 2012 was researching a Quinlivan from Rathlooby, with an ear...

Hi Paddy, It has been over ten years since you've first posted about the family "Quinlivan of Ballyroughan" and you may have already sorted out all your questions or perhaps lost interest. The past few weeks the ongoing search for the missing Thomas McNamara of Glandree has led to Garruragh townland...

I was interested to see, in the 1888-1913 map, that the Workhouse burial ground is in the townland of Drummaghmartin (adjacent to Garruragh). Griffith's Valuation shows only one tenant in Drummaghmartin: Anne Molony leasing from Dorothea Tottenham. Burial grounds are usually listed as exempt from r...

Hi Sharon, Thanks for sharing your brief notes on the Tulla workhouse. Was surprised that the new location for the custom-built workhouse was not settled until as late as April 1851. Hi Sheila, Thanks for the various news clippings, especially the 1856 mention of a "new fever hospital" at the Tulla ...

Hi Sheila, On google street view when you look over the stone wall surrounding the auxiliary workhouse (Plot 13 on GV), there is indeed "a two-story ruin partly viewable behind overgrown shrubbery". Given the context of my posting, the implication to a reader, as well as my own assumption, would be ...

Hi Sheila, The timing of when the Great Famine ended appears to differ between sources, so I reckon there is no need for you to "atone for saying that the famine was over in 1850". Wikipedia states that it "was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852". If you check th...

Hi Sharon, thanks for the clue that Anne Walker of the 1850 census might have a brother James McNamara in Virginia. Hi Sheila, thanks for the link to the Ireland Reaching Out article on the Tulla Union Workhouse located in Garruragh townland. It clarified for me that "Tulla Union comprised the follo...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for that feedback and especially to the link to the article "Floundering with Valuation Maps" by John Grenham where he stated, "One feature, though, has caused grief to users over the years, the mismatch between the printed records [Griffith Valuation] and the maps that accompan...

Hi Sheila, The two Walker sisters, one of whom ended up in Australia, also reminded me of Anne Walker who was living in the 6th Ward of New York City in the 1850 Census with her young son, Michael Walker, as well as Honora McNamara (age 60) and Eliza McNamara (age 15). "The Bloody Ould Sixth Ward" i...

OBITUARY MR. MACNAMARA. A wave of sincere regret passed over the city this morning when it became known that Mr. Michael Macnamara had passed into eternity. Though pertaining to the staid or quieter side of human nature, it might be said that he took a keen and active interest in all matters concer...