Hi Sharon,
Thank you for delving into your files and taking so much trouble. That information will be helpful to anyone researching Rogers from Feakle. And I can see from the will made by Bartholomew Rogers that Margaret Rogers, who married James McNamara of Maherabaun, must have been related to Bartholomew (the topic of Thomas McNamara, the missing Civil War soldier, touches on the Magherabaun McNamaras - I had failed to find the civil record of that marriage, but it seems now that Margaret was from Liss). I am not sure, however, that John Rogers and Mary Collins (Anna’s parents) are from that Liss family of Rogers. According to the piece on Francis O’Neill (above), John and Mary Rogers and their family were living in Normal, Illinois, when Francis O’Neill visited them about 1870. They had emigrated about 1866-69.
This 1880 census shows Francis, aged 32, Annie aged 31, Julia aged 2, and Annie’s mother, Mary, aged 63, living in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. So it appears that John Rogers had died by then:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXNV-8H1
Since I made my posting yesterday, I’ve been reading bits and pieces online and found that Francis O’Neill retired in 1905 and then made a six week visit to Ireland in 1906, before publishing
The Dance Music of Ireland, 1001 Gems, in 1907. First he went to his old home in Co. Cork, and then he came to Feakle. O’Neill writes about this visit in his own notes. But I don’t know if he mentions where he stayed in Feakle. Nicholas Carolan has written a biography,
A Harvest Saved: Francis O’Neill and Irish Music in Chicago, and maybe Carolan has more detail (I haven’t read the book). While O’Neill was in Feakle, he continued to collect tunes, and Johnny Allen, “from beyond Feakle”, is mentioned in his notes as someone he got some tunes from. It seems, however, that O’Neill was disheartened by his visit; the old uilleann pipe players and flute players of his youth were gone and were replaced by concertina and tin whistle players: see The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History Volume I, by Dan M Worrall (go to page 217):
https://books.google.ie/books?id=1-thWE ... ll&f=false
One of the tunes O’Neill got during his visit to Feakle is called The Maid of Feakle:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Ma ... akle_(The).
The following is an aside (from O’Neill and the Rogers family): As I was reading the piece by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (above), I was distracted by the mention of another musician, a Paddy Poole, from Tulla, who lived in Chicago for some years before returning to Ireland in the 1920s. Ó hAllmhuráin says that he was there in the late 19th century, but I think that he only went there in 1903. It was this piece on Vincent Griffin that led me to decide that Patrick Poole was Patrick Powell, and to come to the conclusion that he was still alive when Vincent was in his teens in the mid 1940s:
Vincent Griffin, Ayle, born 1932:
https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/wp-conte ... SDL338.pdf. A Patrick Powell died in 1949, in Tulla, a bachelor, aged 70; informant: Michael Tubridy, nephew:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 196733.pdf. Patrick’s sister Mary, who was a school teacher in the workhouse, had married John Tubridy in 1901, and the record shows that her father was John Powell, shopkeeper:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 757352.pdf
The Tulla baptism records show the first few children of John Powell and Honora Conway and Mary is among them. Patrick is not among them as he was born in 1881 (after the 1880 cut-off point):
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 035548.pdf.
Patrick is still living at home in 1901, but I think he is the Patrick who, according to Tom McDowell’s list, emigrated (going to his brother Thomas in Chicago) in 1903:
https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/cocla ... grants.htm.
When Honora Powell died in 1935, in Tulla, the informant was her son Patrick Powell:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 301113.pdf . I believe this is Patrick returned from Chicago.
And, as an aside from an aside, I think these Powells, shopkeepers in Tulla, were the people who employed Andrew McNamara as a car driver, as discovered by Jimbo – see page 29 of “Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree”:
Andrew McNamara, son of Patrick McNamara and Ellen McMahon, who was baptized in April 1877, was not living with his family in the 1901 Irish census. On 9 March 1896, Andrew McNamara, born in Tulla, age 19 years and 0 months, enlisted at Ennis with the Clare Artillery as a gunner for a period of six years. His occupation had been "car driver" and he was working for "John Powell" of Tulla Town when he enlisted in 1896. Several promotions followed. In the 1901 Irish census, I reckon Andrew McNamara was reported with only the initials "A. M.", born in County Clare, "laborer", age 20 (census takers are less accurate than the military?), stationed at the Duncannon Fort in County Wexford:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/p ... n/1797992/
https://www.visitwexford.ie/directory/duncannon-fort-2/
Sheila