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The author of this website states: "The Mescall family scattered, sometime between 1850 and 1870, to Canada (Quebec & Nova Scotia), USA (Chicago & Arkansas) and Australia, with my great-grandparents returning from Nova Scotia to Kilrush in 1880" http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Ejohnbquigley/GenealogyPa...

Paddy, I am very sorry that I missed seeing your question, although I do have my settings made so that I receive an alert about replies to any postings I make. However, no harm done as, to my knowledge, there is no list on-or-offline in which soldiers and sailors are identified as to a Clare origin....

All are 1880 census listings, starting with the most obvious and descending into guesses. Western Mound, Macoupin, Illinois Ralph WOLF 66 IRE Farmer Mary Wife 80 IRE The 6-year-old who arrived with only his brother James-- Raymond, Champaign, Illinois Jerry GORMAN S 36 IRE Farmer Kitty GORMAN Mother...

Here is attempted follow-up on a passenger from the May 1849 Lady Harvey arrival, because the personal name Terrence is quite unique in Clare. This can serve as a primer on how U.S. censustakers record a family, because we see in each census listing inconsistencies which become less important when a...

A Kilrush sailing is described in this biography from a Minnesota local history book: "McInnery, Patrick M., (page 958) merchant, Lake City, is a native of Mount Rivers, County Clare, Ireland, and was born in 1822. His early boyhood was spent on a farm, after which he received a classical education,...

Easter greetings to forum members. I know that this is a place to post about Clare's history, but some of its history were Clare men who left for Canada and the U.S., who once again were united in the Union forces involved in the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s. Thus you will see Clare-type surnams on t...