Dear Mike - have been collecting info on sheedy's for 10 years - just about to put up a website on same.. basically 6 bros where transported to NSW 1803 - 1830 for their involvment in the Robert Emmett rebellion and subsequent skirmishes. Sheedys where still involved in same in the Black and Tan war.. The Sheedys often used the alias McNamara or interchanged thier name.. The Sheedys where originally aligned to the McNamara clan.. The Sheedys kept a diary of the United Irishment here in Australia,,, Their families where not allowed to join them as they where exiled but some of the children where sent out for political crimes also.. I am always interested in the fenians...Or Pat Sheedy was supposedly a White Boy - he was arrested at OBriends Bridge in 1845 for attempting to shoot a party of policemen. He was sent to Tasmania for 15 years in 1845 but escaped after 5 years. We have "lost" him from 1851 1854 when he got himself arrested at the Eureka Stockade rebellion - and then hightailed it to the coast of Victoria where he settled as a farmer. I believe he had assistance to escape out of tasmania - the last visit he had to a man called Waycroft or Waycroft or similar just a month before escaping - I have found another absconder also visited this man before "leaving" - and this was around the same era as the young Irelanders. There was a newspaper editor here in Port Fairy in the 1850's who was involved in the YYoung Irelanders... could go on for ever - have no doubt the Sheedy's where continually involved in political upheavals - just they are very elusive to track yours Jenny Fawcett At 07:43 AM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >At 07:57 PM 6/21/98 +1000, you wrote: >>Hey Mike - got any Sheedy's in them Fenians of yours??We have got some in >>the United Irishmen..... >>Jenny Fawcett > >Jenny >Didn't find any in the books I have. The United Irishmen: are we speaking >of '98? The Fenians mostly came from the Young Ireland Movement of 1848. >Although they are all tied together in a path to the Irish Republic. I >checked my library (100) books and also I do not recall seeing Sheedy. But >I will bet there were some, especially if they were in '98. Naturally the >ones mentioned are in the upper areas of power in the movement. Have you >checked Griffith's Valuation for the Name? >Mike > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >The Fianna, where St Patricks's Day is EVERYDAY! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ ***Award Winner*** >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ >Need some help getting started with irc (INTERNET RELAY CHAT)? >Try: http://www.rare.on.ca/users/genealogyforum/index.htm >Please turn off your Stationery, Backrounds & HTML! >Messages to list in plain text only! > > > > >