Short biographies of Irish Australians, including Clare ones

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Short biographies of Irish Australians, including Clare ones

Post by smcarberry » Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:54 pm

Researching Irish Australians: Directory of Research with Will Abstracts and Gravestone Inscriptions
by Brian Trainor
Ulster Historical Foundation, 1998
http://tinyurl.com/22rtkev

online book description:
"This directory provides short histories of some 5,000 of the Irish who settled in Australia in the last century. Included also are over 500 abstracts of Irish-Australian wills taken from the printed Irish will calendars 1858-1900."

Not all of the pages are online. The author states that 23 Clare families were researched. Here are the ones which result when using "clare" as a key word in the provided search engine:

p. 8 Berkelman/Berckelman

pp. 9,11 Brennan, Considine

p. 10 Carmody

p. 13 Finucane, O'Neil

p. 13 Fitzgerald

p. 17 Kiely

p. 18 Locke

p. 21 McGrath

p. 23 Mulqueeney

p. 24 O'Hare, O'Hehir, McMahon, O'Mara [screenshot, attached]

p. 24 O'Halloran

p. 26 Quinn
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