I have some births and a marriage with names of witnesses from the Bantry area from 1862-1879--my families are Sullivan and Connor. I'd be happy to share information if you would care to share. M. W. Sullivan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reg Volk" <regvolk1@uniserve.com> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Researching again. Can't stay away from it !! > Riobard > > Gad you were running up and down the village! I wish you many more years > of > the same. If only Ireland had more dedicated researchers like you! I did > try the email for the researcher you sent me re the Bantry/Cork area. > Thanks very much-unfortunately -no response. > Do you know if she is still around? > > On a cheerful note, I was in your neck of the woods the last two weeks of > July but decided not to bother you as you have lots of enquiries > anyway--more to come now? > And my family does not seem to be from your area. A couple of '31st > cousins' did help me with research at Bantry-getting close now but NOT > 100%! > Need to find some records specific to the 1860's for that area which seems > very difficult. > > Anywise, glad you are back at it. If the tourists/genealogists bother you > too much > Just take them on a run through town!! > > CHEERS-Reg (O'Regan) Volk-Canada > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Riobard O'Dwyer > Sent: August 18, 2008 8:21 AM > To: beara@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BEARA] Researching again. Can't stay away from it !! > > This should be of some help to those of Beara ancestry who are "lost to > the > world" trying to find out who their ancestors were. Just to let newcomers > to > the List know that even though my hair is going grey after circa 50 years > of > research (although I'll be getting a new haircut tomorrow), hopefully > there > will be another few years in me before I kick the bucket !! After that > you > will have a bit of a job endeavouring to trace those you may be able to > trace easier now. Anyhow, over to you. Hope you are keeping well. > Thankfully, I'm feeling o.k. again. I was running up and down the village > the day before I got the "virus" that flattened me temporarily. But, > thankfully, I'm on the gallop again ---- ready for the next Olympic > Games. > ----- Riobard. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Riobard O'Dwyer > To: Riobard O'Dwyer > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 6:13 PM > Subject: Necessary background information re. genealogical queries. > > > Having received a considerable number of genealogical queries > over the years about many parts of Ireland, I would like to emphasise that > I > research ONLY the genealogical ancestries of the Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork > (South-West);- ADRIGOLE Parish, ALLIHIES (Copper Mines) Parish (including > DURSEY ISLAND), BERE ISLAND Parish, CASTLETOWNBERE Parish, EYERIES Parish > (including INISFERNARD ISLAND), and GLENGARRIFF Parish (which also > includes > the various townlands of the BONANE area, Co. Kerry ----- situated between > Glengarriff and Kenmare (on the Kenmare, Co. Kerry, side of the tunnel). > The address to which you can write is:- > Riobard O'Dwyer (Genealogist). > Eyeries Village, > Beara Peninsula, > Co. Cork, > Ireland, > or you can email me at:- > Beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net > ONLY if you feel reasonably sure that your ancestors were from any one of > the above Parishes. > When forwarding queries to me, what you need to send are > certain basic things that might help track down the particular family you > are trying to find ----- especially here in Beara (sometimes known in the > olden days as Berehaven) where not alone are you dealing with surnames, > but > with several Branch-Names of a number of those surnames. In the majority > of > cases in the olden days it was with Branch-Names ONLY that children were > put > into the Parish Records. For instance, there are approximately 80 > different > Sullivan/O'Sullivan Branch-Names in the Beara Peninsula, and if you > weren't > aware of what they were, you may as well be searching through the Amazon > Jungle, or looking for a needle in a haystack for your O'Sullivan, if that > ancestor was not put into the Parish Records originally under the > Sullivan/O'Sullivan surname as such. At times a researcher may find a > family > in about four or five different townlands within a Parish, or sometimes in > a > few different Parishes! > , because in the olden days tenants were switched around from townland to > townland or from Parish to Parish by order of the Landlord or his Agent; > or > a Tradesman looking for work might move around in similar fashion. > Vagueness of information sent with the queries is practically > impossible to deal with, e.g. "My grandmother Mary Harrington came from > some > part of County Cork"; "My grandfather Patrick O'Sullivan threw stones into > Bantry Bay"; "Remember I wrote to you 12 years ago about my > greatgreatgrandfather John O'Shea (giving no further information as to > which > one of several hundred John O'Sheas was the man in question)". > At times, people would have the idea that their ancestors > were > married in Beara before they emigrated to the States, whereas it turns out > that they married in the States after emigrating. At times, also, people > think that the first child of their ancestors was born in Beara before the > parents emigrated to the States, etc., but further research might indicate > that the parents were married in Beara alright, but the first child was > actually born in the States, etc., shortly after the parents had > emigrated. > Several people have the idea that their ancestor was born in > Castletownbere, > but often that is only a guide to the fact of their ancestor having been > born in SOME part of the Beara Peninsula. > Many people don't do enough research on their own first (from > marriage records, birth/baptismal records, obituaries, etc.) before coming > to a genealogist looking for further-back data. Many people do no prior > research ---- but arrive at a genealogist's door expecting him to perform > miracles at the drop of a hat, and giving him practically nothing to go > on. > Sometimes the "ages" or "years of birth" they would have for their > ancestors > would prove later (after alot of needlessly wasted time) to be years off > the > mark. > The vitally necessary basic information to send with your > query > to a genealogist would be the name and approx. date of birth of the > ancestor; the Christian name of the father and the MAIDEN name of the > mother; the name of the ancestral parish in Beara, and better still (if > you > have it) the townland within that parish; the MAIDEN name and approx. date > of birth of the ancestor's wife (and any basic details on her parents ---- > in case they also may have come from some part of the Beara Peninsula); to > what part of the States or elsewhere did the ancestor emigrate, or in what > part settle down; names and approx. dates of birth of ancestor's siblings, > and any bit of information on them (marriage or otherwise), and especially > if any sibling settled down in the home farm, or nearby, in Beara (and who > he/she married). > The reason for all this type of necessary preparatory > information is:- if a link can be made (for example) between the States, > etc. and a particular part of the Beara Peninsula, then (when the ancestry > is all sorted out) people can at least visit the home area of their > ancestors (even if those families are long gone from the area which, > unfortunately, due to emigration, or eviction, was often the case); or, if > they are lucky, be able to see and stand inside even the ruins of their > ancestral home ---- and I have seen many tears of understandably emotional > joy shed on such occasions; or, if luckier still, be able to eventually > contact and visit relatives in the Beara Peninsula (organised family > reunions of relatives from many parts of the world of Beara ancestry are > becoming more and more popular); and even if they are not in a position to > travel, they would still be able to contact by letter, email, phone, etc., > relatives all over the world, because of all the pl! > aces in Ireland, our ancestors from Beara must have sailed "the seven > seas" > and travelled to every continent on God's earth. Still out there must be > thousands who may yet be lucky enough to find the little link that would > make the all-important connection to the beautiful, scenic Beara Peninsula > --- and to their ancestral home. The wheel at last would have travelled > the > full circle. > ----- > Riobard. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message