Thanks Barbara! It was worth a try I suppose. One never knows but that they might strike it lucky and find someone else looking for the same families. Marriage between the Coakley, Minihane and Leary families seems to have been the way to go in the Bantry area back in the early to mid 1800's. I guess I will have to contact the Parish Priest, once again, and see if he will co-operate and send me a few marriage and Baptism certificates. Now that Mary Burke, his sacristan, has given up the job, he might not have the time himself to do the research. Strangely enough my job here in Townsville is with the Diocesan Archives and part of it is to locate and sent out copies of these events when requested by people who were baptised or married in this area. Some times I think I would love to go across to Ireland once again and offer my services to some of the Priests to help people like us doing research. Wouldn't that be a hoot! Best wishes Peggy in Townsville, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Barb Bouchey To: countycork@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:32 AM Subject: Re: [CO CORK] [CO CORK] Cronin, Coakley, Minihane and Leary Peggy - I have many Minihanes in my family tree. However, there are from around Skibbereen and Baltimore - a little east of where you're looking. If we go way back, of course all these Minihanes would be related - but there's no way of going back 300-400 years. Most of the Minihanes from west of Skibbereen seem to be from the Schull and Goleen areas. Barbara in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Peggy - I agree totally. I've thought about the same thing. Just volunteering to do anything to get the records in west Co Cork available to the world. While doing research in Dublin over the years, I've accumulated almost 100 pages of BMD info and put it in one document. Although I remain concentrated on the area around Skibbereen and Baltimore, there are some entries for folks west of there - especially Minihanes. Here's the link to this document: www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives go to Cork then to Church records then to Information on various surnames Hopefully you will find some helpful information. Please let me know if you make any connections. Barbara in St. Louis, Missouri USA On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Peggy <pegleg2@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Thanks Barbara! It was worth a try I suppose. One never knows but that > they might strike it lucky and find someone else looking for the same > families. Marriage between the Coakley, Minihane and Leary families seems > to have been the way to go in the Bantry area back in the early to mid > 1800's. > > I guess I will have to contact the Parish Priest, once again, and see if he > will co-operate and send me a few marriage and Baptism certificates. Now > that Mary Burke, his sacristan, has given up the job, he might not have the > time himself to do the research. Strangely enough my job here in Townsville > is with the Diocesan Archives and part of it is to locate and sent out > copies of these events when requested by people who were baptised or married > in this area. Some times I think I would love to go across to Ireland once > again and offer my services to some of the Priests to help people like us > doing research. Wouldn't that be a hoot! > > Best wishes > > Peggy in Townsville, Australia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Barb Bouchey > To: countycork@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:32 AM > Subject: Re: [CO CORK] [CO CORK] Cronin, Coakley, Minihane and Leary > > > Peggy - I have many Minihanes in my family tree. However, there are from > around Skibbereen and Baltimore - a little east of where you're looking. > If > we go way back, of course all these Minihanes would be related - but > there's > no way of going back 300-400 years. Most of the Minihanes from west of > Skibbereen seem to be from the Schull and Goleen areas. > > Barbara in St. Louis, Missouri, USA > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >