"SammyM" wrote:- > Jeff, > Have you seen this :- > > http://www.sleepycatphotography.co.uk/page26.htm ? > > > SammyM

: Dennis Ahern wrote: : The http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor link from the Irish Times : newspaper website no longer works. Does anyone know if it has moved, or : gone away for good? I believe this was the site originally set up by John : Grenham. : : -dja When I clicked on the URL you provided the following URL came up for me. http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/ Is this the one you are looking for? Cheers Rachel Alliston Lake Macquarie, Australia

A Chairde, Please find below the link to a copy of the October issue of "Ireland's Genealogical Gazette" - the monthly newsletter of the Genealogical Society of Ireland in pdf format. http://www.familyhistory.ie/docs/genie/Ireland%27s%20Genealogical%20Gazette%20-%20October2008%20PDF.pdf Should you have any difficulty in accessing the Gazette in that format, please click on www.familyhistory.ie under "Gazette" Featured in this issue:- + Lest We Forget - What Do We Commemorate? + Irish America - Spoiled for Choice + Georgian Dublin (a review) + What's in a Placename? + Late News (re. 1926 Census) + Society Publications on CD + James Scannell Reports... ++ Remains Date to the Famine ++ Statue to Irish Balloonist ++ Protestant Missions in Connemara ++ World War 1 Soldiers Remembered ++ Artefacts Destroyed ++ Clock Gets Face Lift + Précis of the September Lecture + GSI Lecture Programme + Membership of the Genealogical Society + Diary Dates + Members' Interests + Henry Matthews, RIP + A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers (a review) + An Daonchartlann (Society's Archive) Regards, Michael Merrigan General Secretary Genealogical Society of Ireland

Dennis Ahern wrote: > The http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor link from the Irish Times > newspaper website no longer works. Does anyone know if it has moved, or > gone away for good? I believe this was the site originally set up by John > Grenham. > > -dja > > Still works for me.

The http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor link from the Irish Times newspaper website no longer works. Does anyone know if it has moved, or gone away for good? I believe this was the site originally set up by John Grenham. -dja

>From The Cork Examiner, 1 June 1865 - MAIL NEWS. GIBRALTAR, MAY 26TH.--The steamers Morocco and Italian, from Liverpool, arrived here yesterday. Exchange and freights unaltered. The Ripon, with a heavy portion of the Calcutta and China mails, arrived at Southampton yesterday. The mails left for London at 11.35 a.m. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The Ulster American Society will host the Northern Ireland Film Festival at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Nov. 7th & 8th to showcase positive, forward-looking films made in or about Northern Ireland. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased on-line at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/40151. (Seating is limited and tickets will not be sold at the door.) For more information, please visit http://www.ulsteramerican.org, email [email protected], or call +1 (866) 452-3472. Film festival ticket holders are automatically entered into a prize drawing! Grand Prize: A free trip for two to Northern Ireland courtesy of Continental Airlines and Tourism Ireland. First Prize: Belleek Pottery gifts courtesy of Belleek Pottery and Tourism Ireland. Second Prize: Burning Bridget Cleary CDs; Kerrygold butter and cheese gift baskets; On Eagle’s Wing DVDs; Saint Patrick Centre family memberships; and Rick Steves' Europe DVDs.

The Ulster American Society will host the Northern Ireland Film Festival at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Nov. 7th & 8th to showcase positive, forward-looking films made in or about Northern Ireland. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased on-line at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/40151. (Seating is limited and tickets will not be sold at the door.) For more information, please visit http://www.ulsteramerican.org, email [email protected], or call +1 (866) 452-3472. Film festival ticket holders are automatically entered into a prize drawing! Grand Prize: A free trip for two to Northern Ireland courtesy of Continental Airlines and Tourism Ireland. First Prize: Belleek Pottery gifts courtesy of Belleek Pottery and Tourism Ireland. Second Prize: Burning Bridget Cleary CDs; Kerrygold butter and cheese gift baskets; On Eagle’s Wing DVDs; Saint Patrick Centre family memberships; and Rick Steves' Europe DVDs.

"Jeff" wrote in message :- > Looking for someone with local knowledge. > > I remember hiking into Galbolly about 40 years ago and then hiking further > to Lake Galbolly. > > I'll be visiting again next year but, forty years on, I doubt my ability > to hike that far (as I recall I took a direct route off an OS map rather > than following a trail that existed, since my destination was the trout > filled lake rather than the village) > > I can't recall it's proximity to the road and whether it is reasonably > accessible. > > Googling produced a lot of fascinating info about the village but nothuing > useful in the way of maps. Jeff. I have finally found the location. (I have passed by many times but on a "lower" road. I never knew there was a "deserted" hamlet there.) The nearest main roads are:- (1) The A43, running from Ballymena to Glenariff, (via Martinstown). (2) The A2 - main Antrim Coast road. There seem to be some "minor" roads close by , but I would not know how assessable they would be by car. If you open "Google Maps". Type in 55.053628, -5.981425 in the "search" box. This will give you the location of the hamlet and also the roads / paths close by. (Unfortunately Google Earth is not clear for this area.) SammyM

Another one Jeff :- http://www.antrimhistory.net/content.php?cid=277 I'm getting closer to where it is <smile> SammyM

Jeff, Have you seen this :- http://www.sleepycatphotography.co.uk/page26.htm ? SammyM

Jeff, Apologies - I have found mention of it on Google. "Galbolly - Co. Antrim" I'll have a further look at my maps. SammyM On 09/10/2008 19:22, SammyM wrote: > On 09/10/2008 16:18, Jeff wrote: > > >> I remember hiking into Galbolly about 40 years ago and then hiking >> further to Lake Galbolly. > > Jeff, > I don't know of a "Galbolly" anywhere. > > There is a "Galbally" but it is in Co.Tyrone -(and there is also one in > Co. Limerick. > > Can you be more specific. > > SammyM

On 09/10/2008 16:18, Jeff wrote: > I remember hiking into Galbolly about 40 years ago and then hiking > further to Lake Galbolly. Jeff, I don't know of a "Galbolly" anywhere. There is a "Galbally" but it is in Co.Tyrone -(and there is also one in Co. Limerick. Can you be more specific. SammyM

Looking for someone with local knowledge. I remember hiking into Galbolly about 40 years ago and then hiking further to Lake Galbolly. I'll be visiting again next year but, forty years on, I doubt my ability to hike that far (as I recall I took a direct route off an OS map rather than following a trail that existed, since my destination was the trout filled lake rather than the village) I can't recall it's proximity to the road and whether it is reasonably accessible. Googling produced a lot of fascinating info about the village but nothuing useful in the way of maps.

Dennis, As "The Chief" has pointed out, the "Ask About Ireland" maps seem to date from 1880's. There are also other problems with them, e.g. map that appears may relate to an area a few miles east or west of the relevant townland, some townlands are just missing, does not have detailed town plans. However on Origins.net you can get maps, which in most cases seem to correspond directly to the reference keys in the published Valuation. They also have in some cases two or three different versions (at different dates) of the same map & the town plans. However the downside is that origins.net is subscription. Also the quality of the graphics is not quite as good as A-A-I. JM "Dennis Ahern" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > The most important point that people seem to be missing is that the > Ordnance Survey maps do not have the identifying keys that match the > reference column on the published pages of Griffith's Valuation. As far as > I know, the only maps that have those keys are the ones available at the > Valuation Office in Dublin. The only thing that is identified on the OS > maps are the townlands themselves, which narrows things down, but you > still have no way of knowing which "house" is the one you are trying to > locate on the map. The version on the askaboutireland website gives a > different number from what is in the published Griffith's. My problem is, > I cannot find this point on their map. > > -dja >

Transcribed from the 29 October 1822 edition of The Strabane Morning Post newspaper, by permission of The British Library: Milford, Oct. 8.--Distressing Shipwreck.--It has blown a very heavy gale since Saturday last. Early on Monday morning a brig was discovered by the people at St. Ann's Light-house, at the entrance of this harbour in distress drifting to leeward, unmanageable, and between eleven and twelve o'clock she came on shore with a tremenduous [sic] crash, mid way between the light-house and West Dale. Six poor fellows, being the master and crew, were seen on deck, and heard crying bitterly for help, but alas! none could be afforded them, and by the first great wave which fell on board, they were emerged in the deep, and as it were in an instant sunk to rise no more.--About 30 casks of butter have been picked up--the casks branded "H. Lucas, Cork." It is conjectured here, that she was called the Britannia, of Bristol, an old vessel employed for many years between that port and Waterford. There were oats on board. ======================

Trans-Atlantic steamers were generally served by tenders at Queenstown/Cobh. It's unlikely, however, that a barque whose passenger manifest says it departed from Tralee in County Kerry, would have originated in Liverpool, unless of course it was carrying some cargo that was to be delivered to Tralee. Keep in mind that many such smaller sailing vessels served mostly as freight transporters and took on passengers as accomodations were available. The number of people listed as passengers is often an indication of size. Smaller vessels often left from smaller ports, but if you look at a map you would see that it is unlikely a passenger vessel bound for America would detour from its route to pick up passengers in Tralee. Also, if the ship had originated in Liverpool, the manifest should read "Liverpool/Tralee". See http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Maps/England_Sea_Routes.html for the major railway and shipping routes in 1900. -dja curraveha <[email protected]> wrote: : Many times passengers were transported from shore to larger ships by : tenders. My mother arrived in the US on a ship which originated in : Liverpool and stopped in Cork (Queenstown) (Cobh). She boarded the tender : and was transported about a mile to the waiting ship which then proceeded to : New York. : <[email protected]> wrote in message : news:[email protected] :> Just to add my 2 cents worth, if it's even worth that much: :> :> In October, 2005, I found my gggrandmother on the Barque Stambone which :> sailed from :> Tralee, Ireland, 6 June, 1851, on the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. :> She is listed as :> age 13, alone! I did not find her aunt, with whom she was supposed to be :> traveling, nor her parents who came after she left. :> :> At the port of New York: "I, John Farrow, Master of the Br Barque :> Stambone, do solemnly, :> sincerely and truly swear that the ..........the said Barque at Tralee, :> from which port said Barque has now arrived............" :> :> Somewhere I have read that the port waters were too shallow for the larger :> ships to sail :> into and so passengers had to take another ship out to where the larger :> ones waited. :> :> The Stambone might have sailed from Liverpool to Tralee - who knows. :> :> Darlene :>

Transcribed from the Morning Chronicle (Halifax, Nova Scotia) newspaper: The death occurred at his home, 22 Cornwallis St. [Halifax], Wednesday evening, of Patrick Donohoe, at the age of seventy years. Deceased was a native of Galway, Ireland, and for many years was an employee of the track and freight departments of the I.C.R., but retired about two years ago on a pension. ============================ Transcriber's note: I.C.R. = Intercolonial Railway of Canada.

Waterford Civil Death records are available online at the Waterford County Library website. "Pat Connors" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > >> - Do you know if there are any existing indexes, or plans for indexing, >> Civil Death records? > > Civil registration of deaths began in Ireland in 1864. They have been > filmed by the Family History Library. Check out this site for information > and film numbers: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/RegDistricts.htm > > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com >