Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

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Suzie_Australia
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Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by Suzie_Australia » Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:58 am

Greetings from Phillip Island, Australia. Researching my family history and have landed back in County Clare - where exactly I'm not sure as yet.

Anyway, my great-great grandfather Michael John Enright (b 1838 Clare) and his wife Ann Enright nee Cusack (b 1837 Clare) married in Clare Ireland 1858 and travelled to Australia in 1859 about the ship "Escort" with their son.

Their son Patrick was born in Clare but died at sea whilst travelling to Australia on 17 May 1859.

Michael and his wife Anne (nee Cusack) settled in South Australia where they had another son named after his father, Michael John Enright (b 1860 Adelaide; d 1929 Adelaide).

The purpose of my entry is to see if anyone has come across the Enright/Cusack family. I have managed to find two Michael Enrights - one from Drumcliff, Ennis and the other from The Strand, Kilrush. I obtained this information from Griffiths Valuation.

Any tips or suggestions that anyone could offer me would be greatly appreciated. Kindest regards, Suzanne

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by Paddy Casey » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:57 pm

Suzanne,

Welcome to the forum.

If this is all the information you have then you can work on probabilities using the 5-mile rule which says that the vast majority of marriages in rural Ireland in the 19th century took place between people who lived 5 miles or less apart. So you can take the Griffiths Valuation data tabulated on the Clare Library site at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... iffith.htm and look for Enrights and Cusacks who lived close together.

If you copy-and-paste the Library Griffiths listings for Enright and Cusack into a spreadsheet and sort them on the Parish column you quickly see the matches.

Take the example of Kilrush. You get a spreadsheet like this. See the connections ?
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Now go ahead and do the same for other parishes. You'll end up with several pairs of Enrights/Cusacks who could be yours.

Paddy

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by Suzie_Australia » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:10 am

Dear Paddy,

Thank you for your welcome and reply to my query. I will do exactly what you suggest - sometimes we (I) need to think "outside the square" and a quick copy and paste into a spreadsheet will certainly help.

Once again, thank you and I will let you know how I go.

Regards,

Suzanne

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by miriam scahill » Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:58 pm

Hello Suzie - some info which might be of help to finding your Clare connections. First of all Michael J Enright would have been a teenager when the Griffith Valuations were done in 1852/55 - so it would be his father's name on same.
Log on to http://www.clarelibrary.ie - and open Genealogy - down at bottom right hand side of page - Donated Material - Emigration Records Clare/Australia - collated by Paddy Casey!! - there are the following details:
Mary Cusack from Corrofin married Patrick Haverty in 1858;
Daniel O Neill/ AKA Cusack, Kilrush, married Bridget Enright in 1850.
Also under Donated Material - Baptisms/Marriages - there is a project by Joanne Mitchell for McKnights/O Neill/Cusacks - showing all Bapt. Records for Cusacks, Kilrush - but there is no info on Anne born 1837 - However there is a Maryanne B 1837 (who had a sister Mary) and a Joanne also born in 1837.
Perhaps you should get in touch with Joanne Mitchell in Australia.
Re area called 'The Strand, Kilrush' on Griffith Vals. - this would have been an area along the shore/creek before the present dock at Marina was built - by the time the Census of 1901 was done - part of it was called Merchants Quay - with only two families at 'The Strand' - e.g. The Railway Station - Owen O Donnell, Railway Agent (would be called Station Master now) and the Mahony Family.
There is a photo in the Lawrence Collection on Clare Library showing the Railway Station with a low-lying house next to it - which was a result of the land being raised for the railway which was built on land owned by Mahony family.
God Bless, Miriam.

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by Suzie_Australia » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:20 am

Dear Miriam

Thanks for your advice and tips. I will certainly get in touch with Joanne here in Australia. Slowly but surely we break down the "brickwalls". Again, thank you. Suzanne

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by jenrightr » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:30 pm

I am also inquiring re Enright/Cusack families from County Clare. Our ancestors were Michael Enright b. @1805-07 and Mary Cusack b. @1804, who immigrated to Quebec Canada in the early 1830s. They settled in Frampton, Dorcester, Quebec. Their children were: Michael Enright b. ?, Patrick Enright b. @1832-34, Hannah (Anna) Enright b. @1835, Mary Agnes Margaret "Bridget" Enright b. @1842. The oldest were perhaps born in Ireland, but we have the birth records of the youngest born in Frampton.

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by Suzie_Australia » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:08 am

Hello
Nice to hear there is someone else researching Enrights & Cusacks. You don't happen to know from where in County Clare they originated from? I have discovered Enrights & Cusacks on Griffiths Valuation but can't ascertain for sure. When I get home from work I will send you through the details that I found.

My Michael Enright emigrated to Australia but the one you have found may be the father of my Michael.

Regards,
Suzanne

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by Dawnie » Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:27 am

My ggggg-grandparents were Mary Enright b abt 1760 Co Clare and Daniel Kenny b abt 1760, son of Donal Kenny? The Kenny's were from Sixmilebridge. Mary and Daniel's grandchildren from their eldest son John Daniel and his wife Mary White all migrated to South Australia in the 1840-50's. John Daniel had died prior to his children's departure from Ireland as it stated they had left their widowed mother behind.

Some surnames in my line are Enright, Kenny, White, Manning, Ryan, Mean(e)y. I believe they lived in close proximity to each other! I know the Manning family lived in Fortwilliam, Sixmilebridge and the Kenny's I mentioned previous. The others I am not sure on. I know the children of Margaret Ryan and Michael Mean(e)y were baptised in RC Cratloe in the 1830's as was Mary Enright's grandchildren.

There must have been Cusack's living in the Warooka district in South Australia in the 1850's, as many localities were named after the Irish, Cusack's being one of them.

Cheers
Dawnie

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by lauramarchese » Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:42 pm

Very interesting that someone else has noted Enright/Cusack in Canada. My second great grandparents, Timothy Cusack and Mary Enright raise their family in the Holland Landing area of Ontario. Their are children; John (only child born in US), Mary Ann, Ellen, Daniel, Michael and William. Ellen is my great grandmother and she married Thomas Gray and moved to Boston, Mass about 1897,to raise their family. There is a listing for a John son of Timothy and Mary Enright Cusack for 6 June 1866 in the United States. Given that Ellen and her husband, Thomas Emmet Gray, move to Boston, I wonder if Ellen's brother, John was born in the Boston Mass area. From what I can tell Timothy and Mary (Enright) Cusack are living in the United States when John, their eldest is born (1866).

Ellen is the only child of Timothy and Mary that moves to US as an adult to live. The remaining children remain in Ontario.

In 1871, Timothy and Mary are found in St Patrick's Ward, West Toronto with Mary's parents Daniel and Mary (Cosgrove?) Enwright.

Would love to touch base

Laura

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Re: Enright and Cusack Families from County Clare

Post by CWBAYER » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:08 pm

Laura,
Are you certain William Cusack--son of Timothy Cusack--never came to the U.S.? My grandfather, Clarence (named for the County Clare) Cusack's father was William Cusack born in 1880. He married a French Canadian, Florence Gladus (probably Gladieux from Peace River), and lived in upstate New York. They came from Canada. Later, he lived in Brooklyn--separated from Florence who remained in Schenectady and who ran an inn in Ballston Spa. Clarence's father William's birth date matches that of William Cusack, son of Timothy. (My middle name, William, came from my great grandfather, William.)
Chris

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