From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [COTIPPERARY] Let's try a rollcall -- Keefe, Berkery, Lillis, Callanan, Tobin, Commerford Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:39:30 -0400 Thanks for calling us out, Janet! Owen Keefe, son of Thomas Keefe of Ballyrobin, Kilcornin parish (mother unknown) married Bridget Bircury/Berkery, daughter of John Berkery of Longstone, Lattin/Cullen parish (mother unknown) in Longstone in 1869. Their son William Keefe was born in 1876 and follows his older brother Thomas to Torrington Connecticut in 1899. John Lillis (parents unknown) married Julia Bircury/Berkery (parents unknown) in 1859 in Longstone, Lattin/Cullen parish. Their daughter Julia was born in 1878 and followed her sisters Mary, Bridget, and Honora to Troy New York and then went to Torrington to marry William Keefe (now O'Keefe). Their daughter Bridget was my grandmother. The two main mysteries for this part of my family are whether and how Bridget and Julia Berkery were related - the name Berkery is uncommon enough and both were from Longstone - and so how closely related were my great-grandparents? The second is what happened to the family who did not emigrate. A priest named Father Brian Callanan was a cousin who came to visit when I was young (he was about my parents ages so would be in his 70's now). He was a missionary in the Phillipines and eventually left the priesthood. I would love to be able to find him. Michael Tobin (parents unknown) married Bridget Commerford, daughter of Nicholas Commerford and Mary Dee, married in Ballyneale about 1848. Their son Michael was born in 1848. The whole family (Commerfords included) emigrated soon after Michael was born to the Albany NY area. The only remaining question for this branch of my family were Michael Tobin's parents. Any thoughts would be welcome! Kathleen > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:15:52 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [COTIPPERARY] Let's try a rollcall > > I've let the list get quiet while Rootsweb got its house back in order > again, but it is TOO darn quiet. Let's try a rollcall and see what > happens. Tell us who you are looking for now, your brickwall, your > latest success, your questions, or whatever else my be on your mind, > genealogically speaking only. [If you are getting more mail than you > would like, write me directly and I can put you on "no mail" for a > while and you can read the mail from the archives.] > > A huge sports complex and casino has been approved for No. Tipp in Two > Mile Borris, although the State law has to be changed first to allow > casino betting. There will be a monster size hotel there as well. This > should be interesting. > > The Queen has been here and President Obama has been here; both visits > were exciting, and we seem to have a small revival of the "troubles" > in No. Ireland at the moment, which I hope is just a symptom of the > economic downturn and nothing else. > > Janet > > > Please remember to "snip" short the message to which you are replying and check the subject line. If you are on Digest mode, a reply to an individual message will repeat the entire digest unless you "snip" it, and the subject will be the Digest ID unless you change it, please. > > All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message