Charles McCarthy & Emilia Gill of Ennistymon/Liscannor
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:12 pm
Hi All
I'm currently researching my family history and I'm fairly certain that my grandmother's grandfather & grandmother were Charles McCarthy and Emilia Gill. Interestingly my mother had always said that her grand mother's people had opened the first Post Office in what she thought was Liscannor. When I searched familysearch, just about the only match for a Charles & Emilia was a marriage on 4 Feb 1864 in ..... Liscannor ! It might be a complete coincidence but it's all I have to go on at the moment. I have ordered that marriage cert and some birth certs as well, so we'll see. Anyway that marriage record mentioned her father as Edward Gill and his father as Florence McCarthy. I found two entries in Kilmanheen for Florence McCarthy (1820s-1840s Clare Tithe Applotment Books: Surname Index), which again sounds promising. The only detail I can find for an Edward Gill is on familysearch for an 1872 death.
Could anyone shed any light on the Gill and McCarthy families of that time, and the Post Office connection if possible ?
I note there is a book in the National Library called "Introduction to the post offices of County Clare, Ireland
by John Mackey and Tony Cassidy" http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000017141
Thanks
I'm currently researching my family history and I'm fairly certain that my grandmother's grandfather & grandmother were Charles McCarthy and Emilia Gill. Interestingly my mother had always said that her grand mother's people had opened the first Post Office in what she thought was Liscannor. When I searched familysearch, just about the only match for a Charles & Emilia was a marriage on 4 Feb 1864 in ..... Liscannor ! It might be a complete coincidence but it's all I have to go on at the moment. I have ordered that marriage cert and some birth certs as well, so we'll see. Anyway that marriage record mentioned her father as Edward Gill and his father as Florence McCarthy. I found two entries in Kilmanheen for Florence McCarthy (1820s-1840s Clare Tithe Applotment Books: Surname Index), which again sounds promising. The only detail I can find for an Edward Gill is on familysearch for an 1872 death.
Could anyone shed any light on the Gill and McCarthy families of that time, and the Post Office connection if possible ?
I note there is a book in the National Library called "Introduction to the post offices of County Clare, Ireland
by John Mackey and Tony Cassidy" http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000017141
Thanks