I am interested in Spillanes from the North Riding section of Tipperary. The name Edward is the most prominent first name found in this family. My research hints at the area around the civil parish of Aghnameadle. A Thomas Spillane/Honora Talbot family were probably evicted from Aghnameadle in the mid 1840's. Thomas and Honora emigrated to England and settled in West Hartlepool, where they changed their name to Spellman. It is possible that my gggrandfather John Spillane, who married Eliza Blackwell in Dunkerrin, Offaly, in 1844, was a brother to Thomas as well as Ned Spillane who married Judy Maher in Dunkerrin in 1833. All three named their oldest son Edward or Edmond, and there were no Spillanes in the area of Dunkerrin at the time of the Tithes. I have wondered if the Ned Spillane who leased 60 acres of land in common with Michael and John Egan, John Brereton and Timothy Maher in the townland of Knockanroger, Borrisnafarney Tipperary, at the time of the Tithes, was the father of Ned, John, or Thomas. NED SPILLANE who married Judy Maher in 1833 had Catherine (sponsors Pat Meara and Mary Meagher); Mary (John Costoloe and Jane Maher); Ellen (Anne Talbot); Edward (John Maher and Margaret Whelan); Patrick (William Gavin and Mary Maher); Tim (Ed Stoney and Mary Bermingham); and Johanna (John and Mary Maher). I can find not trace of this family after the time of Griffith's. THOMAS SPILLANE who married Honora Talbot in 1843 had Edmond (John Pound and Catherine Dalton); John (Catherine and Thomas Pound); Patrick (Nelly Spillane); and Catherine (Edward Rourke and Ellen Fogarty) in Aghnameadle and Mary Ann (Thomas Talbot and Ann Brien);Mary (William and Catherine Corcoran); William (Michael Corcoran and Ann Mary Paige; and Thomas (Thomas Talbot and Maria Gavin) in West Hartlepool. JOHN SPILLANE who married Eliza Blackwell had Edward in 1845 (Ned Spillane and Ann Corboy). Eliza and her son Edward were in Stockport, England, in the mid 1850's. I have not learned whether John died in Ireland, perhaps during the famine, or whether he died in England. I would love to find living descendants of Thomas's or Edward's families.