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Very interesting, Sharon. You list two more name variants: Verlan, Varlin. You note St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Darien CT: copied Nov. 21, 1934, 6088 Connell, Mary E. Keating , his wife, born Co. Clare, Ireland, May 15, 1854, died June 22, 1900. Now, in the Tubber baptisms of 1838 Honora Keating a...

Thanks very much for this large amount of grist to the family history mill, Sharon. Things are beginning to fit together. There are/were two Howard families in Tubber, the Howards of the townland of Coolbaun/Coolbane and the Howards of the village of Moyrhee/Myrhee etc etc in the townland of Shanbal...

My great-great-grandfather Denis Howard and his family lived in the village of Moyrhee in the townland of Shanballysallagh, in Tubber*, Co.Clare. Our Moyrhee Howard family was related to the Verlins who lived in two nearby townlands. Denis Howard's sister Elizabeth married John Verlin. I've just bee...

Mary,

See http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Brigdale

Paddy

Mary, Have you already trawled the masses of information on these family names in the databases on the Clare County Library ? If not, just go to http://www.clarelibrary.ie and click on Search this Website (down at the bottom) and, in the second box down, enter "Brigdall OR Brigdale" and hit Search. ...

Fran, Here's a tip if you are not finding much in the old archives: work both forwards and backwards. It's been my experience that if early records appear to be lacking it is worth trying to locate family members who may be still living in Clare (i.e. who didn't emigrate in the 19th century) so that...

Fran,

Have you checked out the Ryan/Bunratty entries on the Clare County Library website at http://www.clarelibrary.ie ? Just go to that site, click on "Search this site" and type in Ryan AND Bunratty and hit Enter. There is quite a long list.

Happy hunting !

Paddy

Be advised that a large dataset of Clare-Australasia emigrants has just been published on the Clare County Library website at http://www.clarelibrary.ie (just click on What's New). The dataset is made up of contributions sent to the http://www.clare-diaspora.org website in 2005 and updated by some o...

Most research on the Irish and Clare diaspora concentrates on emigration to the Antipodes or the United States. However, significant numbers emigrated to South America and the Society for Irish Latin American Studies has a most remarkable website at http://www.irishargentine.org/ which is well worth...

The Teampall na deirca graveyard is a rural burial site located 10 yards southeast of the Tubber-Ruan road opposite Blakemount House. The graves surround, and are located within, the ruins of the Teampall na deirca (Church of Alms). The GPS coordinates are N52.97475, W008.91127. On the Irish OS map ...

Lynn, Just to get a basic idea of where you have already looked, have your searched the resources of the Clare County Library at http://www.clarelibrary.ie ? For example, I see that in the Clare tithe records of the parish of Kilmurry-Ibrickan of 1825 there is a Michael Griffy listed in the townland...

This still has me stumped, Sharon. All I get is a little snippet of a scanned image and nowhere on the page can I find any possiblity of gettng to other pages. I've tried it with IE instead of Firefox. Same result.

Paddy

Sharon,

I followed your instructions precisely - I think - but cannot get to the images you mention, just a couple of clips from a page. Could you give me some more leads, please ?

Paddy

Sharon, Thank you for this extensive selection of Clare literature. A check of the Library Prism catalogue (go to http://www.clarelibrary.ie/index.htm and click on Catalogue) shows that several - or possibly most - of these books are indeed in the Library's possession so locally resident library mem...

More information on the Terry Alts in Clare in the EPPI (Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922) website at http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/home

Entering "(Terry Alts) Clare" (without the inverted commas) into the Search box throws up 8 entries.

Paddy