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by pwaldron
Tue May 12, 2015 1:05 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Clare Past Forum Emigration List Project (1892-1924)
Replies: 14
Views: 90991

Re: Clare Past Forum Emigration List Project (1892-1924)

That was quick! Many thanks.
by pwaldron
Wed May 06, 2015 2:15 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Clare Past Forum Emigration List Project (1892-1924)
Replies: 14
Views: 90991

Re: Clare Past Forum Emigration List Project (1892-1924)

There were two people working on Killard parish (Doonbeg) over two years ago but there is still nothing for this parish on the website. Is the work still ongoing or have the results gone astray somewhere? Or did both stop thinking that the other was continuing?
by pwaldron
Sun May 03, 2015 3:35 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: niece/nephew = grandchild ?
Replies: 45
Views: 153037

Re: niece/nephew = grandchild ?

A Kerry example:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/p ... re/272838/

Mary and Annie Teresa Woulfe were both granddaughters of the head of household Ellen Woulfe, but are both described as niece on the handwritten return; one has been mistranscribed as "Aunt"!
by pwaldron
Fri May 01, 2015 11:16 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: niece/nephew = grandchild ?
Replies: 45
Views: 153037

Re: niece/nephew = grandchild ?

Another example: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Knocknagore/Carrowblock_More/1080175/ Norah Hanrahan, described as niece of Margaret Connell, was her granddaughter, born in Jersey City, NJ on 18 Nov 1886 to Michael Hanrahan and Annie (O')Connell and baptized Honora Hanrahan o...
by pwaldron
Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:25 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Replies: 51
Views: 128713

Re: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick

Thanks a million, Jimbo. As you say, the funeral report provides almost as many questions as answers! Women did not attend funerals in those days, as you can see from the fact that all the mourners listed are male! Michael Quinlivan, the Killeens, Christopher Kelly and Fr. Browne are probably all co...
by pwaldron
Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:54 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: niece/nephew = grandchild ?
Replies: 45
Views: 153037

Re: niece/nephew = grandchild ?

For completeness, here's an example of a nephew wrongly described as a son, in a household where the head indicates that he is a bigamist. One of his so-called wives must be his sister-in-law, and the order of the entries suggests that his so-called son is far more likely to be his nephew: http://ww...
by pwaldron
Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:34 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Replies: 51
Views: 128713

Re: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick

Thanks, PJ. I've sent Marian a facebook message.
by pwaldron
Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:10 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Quinlivan of Ballyroughan
Replies: 13
Views: 82805

Re: Quinlivan of Ballyroughan

More on the Quinlivans and the Grogan family at
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtop ... f=1&t=6623
by pwaldron
Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:08 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Replies: 51
Views: 128713

Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick

I have discussed the Quinlivan family extensively in this forum and with many of the descendants over the years, e.g. http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1697 and http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3873 I noticed over the years that Fr. Laurence Browne (whose mother ...
by pwaldron
Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:11 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Genealogy Madigan Family from Moyadda Beg & More
Replies: 4
Views: 14704

Re: Genealogy Madigan Family from Moyadda Beg & More

Roger This looks like the marriage of one of your greatgrandfather's younger half-sisters: 1884 24th January (CJ). Marriage: Grogan and Madigan: At the Roman Catholic Church Kilrush, on the 19th inst.,by the Very Rev. Dr. Dinan,P.P.,V.G. John Grogan,eldest son of Mr. Daniel Grogan,Derha, to Kate thi...
by pwaldron
Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:26 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: niece/nephew = grandchild ?
Replies: 45
Views: 153037

Re: niece/nephew = grandchild ?

murf wondered back on Christmas Eve whether there was a gender bias either in the numbers of children living with uncles, aunts or grandparents or in the usage of wrong English terminology to describe these relationships. I thought it might be time to do a count of the examples above, and so far the...
by pwaldron
Mon Apr 06, 2015 12:13 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: niece/nephew = grandchild ?
Replies: 45
Views: 153037

Re: niece/nephew = grandchild ?

Another example: Given the age gap of 56 years between head of household Mary Ryan (60) and her "niece" Mary Walsh (4) at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Killard/Glascloon/1080111/ in 1901, I was immediately suspicious that the child was a granddaughter of Mary Ryan née O'Keef...
by pwaldron
Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:24 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Please help us locate Clare descendants we could meet there
Replies: 19
Views: 47667

Re: Please help us locate Clare descendants we could meet th

Way back in 2010, Paddy Casey announced in this thread that he had started a new thread about what he defined as The Great Microfilming, but didn't include a hyperlink - the new thread is at
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtop ... f=1&t=1769
by pwaldron
Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: niece/nephew = grandchild ?
Replies: 45
Views: 153037

Re: niece/nephew = grandchild ?

Another example - a girl with the same name and same implied birth year and from the same townland as the previous example, although their relationship at best is distant: In Glascloon in 1901, Bridget Whelan (3) was a niece of James Foran, Sr. (65) and James Foran, Jr. (27) was also in the househol...