In homage to DeWitt Gurnell, the kindly senior gentleman who taught me to play fife (similar to a tin whistle) and march in his Drum and Fife Corps back in my hometown of Rhinebeck NY, I did a bit of Googling and can provide some leads for your research. Since your Stenson and Gurnell lines held property, there should also be good data (even a marriage settlement) in the Registry of Deeds, Henrietta St, Dublin, although the only online resource for that is an ongoing indexing project that by currently has nothing for those surnames, and also wills, for which there are several publications (by compilers Vicars, Phillimore, Eustace) to consult although many pre-1922 wills now only exist in abstracted form at best. Newspapers can be a fertile source of biographical data, and some articles do appear online, although more can be found in these indexes (which actually provide content in abstracted form) for the pre-1825 era:
Rosemary ffolliott - on microfiche
"Index to Biographical Notices Collected from Newspapers, Principally Relating to Cork and Kerry, 1756-1827"
"Index to Biographical Notices in the Newspapers of Limerick, Ennis, Clonmel and Waterford, 1758-1821."
availability: in Dublin (either the Genealogical Office or the National Library) or check for a location near you, via this:
WorldCat
http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
To get a definite birth date for your Trinity College graduate and find other family members who also attended (for the years 1593-1846), you can consult this person heavily involved in IGP projects to bring online Irish data:
Christina Hunt
Ninah@carolina.rr.com
'02posting
has access to Alumni Dublineses on film
"You can mainly learn the father of the person. You could look for a brother who became a Churchman for instance. It doesn't have to be your own ancestor. I got it to look up a brother.
An example entry:
DELANY, Edmund, Pen. (Mr. Scraggs),
Oct. 16 1820, aged 14; R.C. s. of William, Generosus; b. Tipperary .B.A. Vern.
1825 M.A. Nov. 1832."
On this Forum, Paddy Casey has discussed vestry books as a resource:
Kilnasoolagh vestry book
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtop ... stry#p2901
My response posting to Paddy's posting lists some Church of Ireland resouces, and here is a standard work that I always recommend:
John Grenham, available at
http://books.google.com/books?id=ATRlo0 ... &q&f=false
Forum member M. McNamara posted about the Church of Ireland location in Sixmilebridge, which he called the Kilfinaghty parish church.
My quick Googling with key terms brought up some items that seem on point.
Deaths, June 1823
On Friday last, aged 34 years, at Ballyquin, near Broadford, in the County
of Clare, the Rev. Mr. STENSON, P.P. of Newmarket-on-Fergus.
http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Galway/1823/JUN.html
The screenshots shown below are from:
Inchiquin papers p. 74
http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/143_Inchiquin.pdf
The Other Clare, vol. 5 on flax production connection
http://www.duchasnasionna.eu/other_clare/vol_5.pdf
1852 firearm license
http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issu ... 9/page.pdf
Since my family was from this general area, please report back and let us know what more you find.
Sharon Carberry
USA
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