Carrigg Family History

[bevlyall]

My name is Bev Whittlesea & I live in Victor Harbor, South Australia.
Together with my husband, Lyall, we have been researching Family History for several years.
My earliest-known forebears on my father's side of the family are the Carriggs.
Patrick Carrigg, born about 1821 married Joanna O'Connor born about 1820.
They emigrated to South Australia, sailing from Plymouth UK on the 'Joseph Somes' in 1850 from Lissey, Co. Clare, Ireland. with two children - Michael Joseph Carrigg aged 4 and Mary Carrigg aged under 1.
The family settled at Auburn, near Clare, South Australia & more children were born.
Patrick & Joanna both died in South Australia, as did Michael, my great grand-father.
This is all I know of their Irish roots and this was obtained from the Ships List.
I have endeavoured to find some information about them from Parish Records through 'Find my Past' and Ancestry.com.au but to no avail.
I would be grateful for any information which can help me to discover more about my Irish heritage.
- Bev Whittlesea

[Paddy Casey]

Bev,

You don't say whether you have trawled the Clare Library site (http://www.clarelibrary.ie). That is a (if not the) prime source of info on Clare places and genealogy. Search there for Carrigg and all the name variants (Carrig, Carrick, etc.).

Regarding the place Lissey, you might have difficulty locating "your" Lissey. 'Lis' is the Irish word for a ringfort. County Clare is dotted with ringforts so there are numerous places with the prefix 'Lis' (and variants) to their names (e.g. Lissycasey, Liseene, Liseene....). See, for example, http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... hovall.htm. Add to this the possibility that the name of "your" Lissey could have become corrupted as it travelled to and through Australia by word of mouth so look into all the possible variants as you search in http://www.clarelibrary.ie.

Because your Carriggs left Clare in 1850 and because there is not a lot of Irish genealogy information prior to that date online (unless your family were of the horse-and-carriage or wigs-and-stethoscopes set) you might become discouraged. Don't be. Apart from anything else, some of the family may have remained in Ireland/Clare and be listed in, for example, the Griffith's Valuation of ca. 1855 or the later censuses. Heck, there may even be a descendant of one of them in the Eircom phonebook at http://www.eircomphonebook.ie !

Paddy

[mcreed]

Bev, the "Combined list of surnames which occur in the 1901 Census of Population of County Clare, the Griffith's Valuation 1855 of County Clare, and the Tithe Applotment Books (1820s-1840s) for County Clare, including the number of occurences for each surname collected in each source" on the Clare Library site at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... mbined.htm lists variant spellings of Carrigg (Carig, Carigg, Carriag, Carrick, Carrig, Carrige, Carrigge, and Carriggy) and the Townlands Index at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... nland4.htm lists Lissyline, Lissylisheen, Lissyneillan and Lissyvurriheen. There is also the village of Lissycasey of course - http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... illage.htm.

Interestingly, graveyard inscriptions for (a) Lissycasey graveyard include both Carrigs and O'Connors, although most of the dates are modern. This may well be a new graveyard. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... veyard.htm

Regards,
Mike

[mick o]

carrigg family in ennistymon Clare.
hello bev the following information on a carrigg family from ennistymon may be of interest.
on the Clare library website genealogy page
go to CBS ennistymon school register page 1857-1885 1926-1929.
surname index.
ahern- carty.
a long list on the carrigg names on the surname page.
the carrigg bar a well bar in ennistymon. now re named.

regards Michael oloughlin.

[Paddy Casey]

Re. the placename 'Lissey', and just in case your Lissey wasn't in Clare, you can spend an instructive evening browsing http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/1442 ... ges/373315 from page 660 onwards for places in Ireland beginning with 'Lis'.

Paddy

[miriam scahill]

Hi Bev - Your Carriggs may have come from area called Lissycasey - various spellings. This area is in Parish of Clondegad - and to see lots of info go to the Clare Library site - Genealogy page - Research Support - Civil Parish Index and then select 'CLONDEGAD' - Griffith Valuations of 1855 and Tithes of 1825 or so. Baptisms for this parish started in 1854 - and the Parish Priest is at Ballynacally, Ennis, Co. Clare. There are many families of Carrigg/Carrig in the area of West Clare - i.e. in Parishes of Kilrush and Kilmacduane (which is about 6 miles from Kilrush). Killimer is about 3 miles from Kilrush. The name means ROCK in Irish. Miriam.