SNIPPET: In the book mentioned below, there is a panoramic view of the Catholic middle class - a social stratum that has until now received little attention. In 1802, Daniel O'CONNELL, the Co. Kerry barrister who became known as the "liberator" for his work toward Catholic emancipation, secretly married a distant cousin, Mary O'CONNELL of Tralee. By doing so he jeopardized his inheritance, but forged a bond that would last until Mary's death in 1836. In 1998, "The World of Mary O'Connell 1778-1836," by Erin I. BISHOP was published. This biography of Mary O'CONNELL examines letters between the two as well as other family correspondence to provide a fascinating study of social and domestic life in early 19th century Ireland -- dealing with love, marriage, motherhood, family, sickness and health and religion. Mary is viewed in her own right, as a person and as a woman, rather than with the usual view of how Daniel O'CONNELL perceived her or how she affected his life. Her story helps to fill a gap in the history of women in Ireland. Perhaps you can locate a copy if the subject interests you.

Donnelly-3d inst. Mary wife of Patrick Donnelly and daughter of Bridget and late Michael McCullaugh, of county Tyrone, Ireland. Relatives and friends , also B V M Sodality and League of Sacred Heart of St Edwards invited to funeral. Wed 8:30 a.m. son-in laws- residence. Thomas Nilon, 2704 N 5th st. Solman high mass. St Edward's 10 a.m. Interment Holy Sepulchre. searching-for ancestors GEIGER-Veach-Allen-Barnett-CARROLL -GEARIN-KANE-SMITH-MOYLAN DONAHUE-BURNS-Fowler-Fahey

SNIPPET: "It's different when a parent dies. It's natural progression. You know that some day it will happen. You grieve. Then you carry on. But a sibling is different You are woven from the same fabric, inextricably bound, your lives are intertwined. Siblings are part of each other. You carry this always... I have no premonitions of trouble when the phone rings. I'm at the sink, peeling potatoes and half-listening to the Gay Byrne Show. From my big picture window I have an untrammelled view of Knocknarea, fabled mountain grave of the mighty warrior Queen Maeve. The insistent cricket chirp of the phone demands an answer. I wipe my wet hands on my apron and lift the receiver.... A sob answers (my hello). I hear more crying in the background. Uneasiness takes hold. 'Hello.' I hear my voice, so buoyant a few seconds ago, now sharp with fear. My sister doesn't give her name. 'Liam is dead,' she sobs. Like that. Bald. Final. Liam is dead. 'He fell ill at work....' I notice disgustedly that the telephone table badly needs dusting, the umbrella plant on the worn mat has to be watered. Already the edges of the leaves are yellowing... Through the glass panel of the door I see the blurred purple of the rhododendron. My mother gave it to me as a slip when I moved here. Mother... I sob now. Mother has been dead for over a decade but I still miss her. But Liam? He was alive a week ago. He was here. He danced and sang and got mouldy at our nephew's wedding, the first time that all of us siblings had been together at one time in 30 years... Thank God for the foresight and determination of the business community of Sligo, for building the airport at Strandhill, I think, as the hostess settles me in my seat...Now I know that I will be at my late brother's home in London in a few hours... Beneath me lies legend-soaked Sligo, so beloved of Yeats ... There lies distinctive Benbulben where Finn tracked down his unfaithful wife Grainne and her lover Diarmuid. All great heroes of greater times. 'Liam,' I whisper, 'are you really dead?' Sligo, spread under us a few moments ago rounded and mounded like a voluptuous woman ... is now obscured by clouds. I close my eyes. Is this what death is? I muse. Are people who die still here, out there somewhere but veiled from our sight? Memories of Liam flood over me... I'm eight and Liam is ten. I follow him around like a lapdog. He tolerates me. He rarely gets angry with me, but once he came close to walloping me. I came across himself and his friends smoking turf mould rolled up in newspapers. I insisted on having a go. I was so violently ill that it didn't take Mammy long to get at the reason. We were both punished, but Liam more severely than I. After all, he was a boy and the elder. I tried to make it up to him later by stealing real cigarettes out of Daddy's pocket. Tears fill my eyes. Now we are on our way home, swaying on top of the hay cart, drowsy after a long day working at the hay. One of the farmhands started rough play... He pushed Liam a bit too playfully and off my brother toppled into the dusty road. He lay there dazed, knees grazed and bleeding from the fall on the rough stones. I looked at my brother, hurt and bleeding in the dusty road. I looked at the grinning face of the stupid lout who pushed him. I flew at him, kicking and scratching. He sat on top of the hay grinning foolishly, not daring to hit back. He couldn't hit a girl. Not the Master's daughter anyway. With a final vicious spurt I kicked him as hard as I could... He toppled over the side of the cart. 'Don't ever hurt my brother again,' I screamed. I again lapse into reverie, recalling the alter wine... All the boys were altar boys at a certain stage. I often heard Liam talking about the way they drank the altar wine when the priest's back was turned. Like smoking the turf mould, I had to do it. If Liam did, then I could. But there was a snag. Girls weren't allowed to serve on the altar. Girls weren't allowed inside the altar rails.... But I was sly. Girls might not be allowed to serve, but girls had to tidy up and clean the sacristy. The wine was locked away. But Daddy had the keys, hadn't he? Daddy was the Schoolmaster and he had the keys to everything.... When the coast was clear, I made my move. Daddy was correcting copies in the study. Mammy was out feeding the hens. I pulled a chair over to the mantelpiece and climbed up to get the keys. They were kept hanging on a hook to the right of the Sacred Heart picture....I kept my eyes averted from the heart on fire with love for us.... A moment of panic almost wiped out my quest for the wine when my eye fell on the leather strap that shared the hook with the keys. If Daddy found out what I'd done, I knew I'd feel the sting of that strap. I snatched the key and raced around the house to where Liam was waiting by the rhododendron. We flew with bare feet through the quiet churchyard, up the cool aisle and into the sacristy... The first greedy gulp I took of the wine was disappointing... Now I swallowed the wine, but this time it wasn't so repulsive. When you were thirsty , you drank a mug of water or sometimes lovely buttermilk all at one go. You didn't sip. So we drank as we would any other drink. All in one go. I sat on the floor, propped against the wall. The priest's vestments hanging on the back of the door swayed gently. I turned to Liam. 'Is the window open?' I asked... He giggled. 'You said, 'Ish the windy open?' Indeed this sounded very funny and I giggled, a giggle that turned into hiccups. Now everything seemed to be moving, the walls, the furniture, and even the floor. I saw a pair of black shoes appear in the open door, but for the life of me I couldn't make my head look up.... We're circling over London now. I feel a surge of hatred for this sprawling city... It took you, Liam, going quietly home to you family to rest. You died in an uncaring city alone among millions. No amount of kicking or scratching will help you this time. You won't rise out of the dust laughing and bleeding at the same time. Your body is being prepared for burial somewhere down there. Where is your spirit? ... We were rivals at school, equal in intelligence. Every year the priest came to examine us in religious knowledge. Every year you and I tied for first place.... I bet by now you know the truth about that religious exam.... I did cheat. I often meant to tell you, but somehow never did... You were so full of fun. Remember when you took money from three different fellows to fix me to go to the pictures with them knowing very well that Daddy never allowed us to go to the pictures anyway. And I used to be so proud to be seen with you when you came home from College. You had lovely curls and I had wispy hair. I was so jealous of your green eyes... Remember the agony of going to the rare few dances during the Summer holidays? We badly wanted to go, but we had to endure Daddy driving us there and standing at the bottom of the hall reading until the dance was over. Then College was over, our family drifted in various careers and marriages... 'Liam, do you remember?'" -- Excerpts, Dympna McNamara, "Leitrim Guardian" yearly magazine 1996.

Surnames common in Britain (A-F) which are used as the anglicized forms of Gaelic Irish surnames include the following. Check your library for surname reference books and/or webpages on this subject for additional surnames. Adrian: O'Dreane Agnew: O'Gnieff Allen: Hallion Badger: Brick Banks: Brohan Barnacle: Coyne Barnes: Berrane Barron: (See Barnes). Battle: Duncahy, MacEncaha Berry: O'Beara Biggins: Biggane Bird: MacAneeny, Heanahan, Heaney. Bishop: MacAnaspie Blake: Blowick Blessing: Mulvanerty Bloomer: Gormley Bonar: Kneafsey Bowen: Bohane, Nevin Bowes: Bogue Boyce: (see Bowes). Bradley: O'Brallaghan Bridgeman: O'Drehitt Broderick: O'Broder Brothers: (See Broderick) Burns: O'Beirne, Birrane, Byrne Byron: (See Burns) Cairns: Kerin, O'Kieran Caldwell: Colvan, Houriskey Canning: O'Cannon, Cunneen Carey: Keary, Kerin, etc. Carpenter: MacAteer Carleton: O'Carolan Carr: MacIlhair, Kerin, etc. Carton: MacCartan Cashman: Kissane Caulfield: MacCalll, Gaffney, MacCarron, Goonan Cawley: MacAuley Chaff: Lohan Clarke: O'Clery Clifford: Cluvane Close: O'Closse Cole: MacCool, Gilhool Coleman: O'Colman Collins: O'Cullane Comber: Kerin, Kerrigan Comyn: MacComin, O'Comin Conway: MacConowe, O'Conowe, Convey, etc. Corbett: Corbane Corby: MacCorboy, O'Corboy Corkell: MacCorkill Cotter: MacCotter Coulter: O'Colter Cox: MacQuilly Craven: Cravane Crawley: MacCraly, Crowley Creed: Creedon Crosbie: MacCrossan Cullington: Collotan Cummings (see Comyn) Cunningham: MacCunnigan, O'Cunnigan Davenport: Donarty Davey: Davin, MacDavitt Davis: (see Davey) Deane: O'Dane, MacDigney Diver: O'Deere Dore: O'Dower Downes: Duane, etc. Drew: O'Drea, MacEdrue Drury (see Drew) Duck: Lohan Duncan: Donegan Dunlop: Dunlevy Dyer: O'Dwyer Early: O'Mulvochory Earner: Seery Eason: MacKee Eivers: Heever, MacKeever Evans: O'Hevine Fane: Feehin Fanning: Fenning, O'Finan Farley: O'Farrelly Farmer: MacScollog Fay: Fee Fennell: O'Finnell Fenton: Feeheny, Feenaghty Ferris: Fergus Field: Fihilly Fielding: (see Field) Finlay: Finnelly Fisher: Bradden Flood: MacAtilla

Hi Cara Thanks for the christening information. I have no idea what religion the family were to be honest. I actually thought the Larvin name was a Jewish name but dont know where I got that from. Where are the details of the christening so I can have a look please. I would like to thank everyone for their help. Carole > From: ireland-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: IRELAND Digest, Vol 4, Issue 50 > To: ireland@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:00:43 -0700 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Thomas Larvin-1825 (Cara_Links) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:47:15 +1100 > From: "Cara_Links" <cracker@hotkey.net.au> > Subject: [IRELAND] Thomas Larvin-1825 > To: <ireland@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <152D3175B99D4EDD9DA95C52DCFC6C9B@Madden> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I found a Thomas Lavin born to a Michael and Honora Hoban in Laughlin > Roscommon 23/1/1825 should he be of any use to you- actually its a > christening and its RC you have not said what religion your family were > Cara > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carole Mason" <caroleamason@hotmail.com> > To: "Ireland Rootsweb" <ireland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:30 PM > Subject: [IRELAND] Thomas Larvin > > > > > > Hi everyone > > > > > > > > What a friendly lot you all are. Thank you so much for all the > > information you have given me. > > > > > > > > The only information I have, so far, is: > > > > > > > > On the 1871 census Thomas was in Birmingham, England but was listed as a > > widower so, unfortunately, I have no idea who his wife was. He has 4 > > children though, but all were born in Birmingham so I dont think that will > > help - until I send for their birth certificates that is. > > > > > > > > I have found the children on the 1881, 1901 and 1911 censuses, but not on > > the 1891 census so, could they have been in Ireland at the time? > > > > > > > > Where can I look for births, marriages, deaths and censuses in Ireland? > > > > > > > > Thank you once again for your help. > > > > > > > > Carole > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search > > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/ > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.24/1954 - Release Date: 02/09/09 > 17:40:00 > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRELAND list administrator, send an email to > IRELAND-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRELAND mailing list, send an email to IRELAND@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRELAND Digest, Vol 4, Issue 50 > ************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/

INNISBOFIN SHEEP SHEARING "Three sheep a day is enough for a woman" half-moon metal gleaming in your hand. Two days ago you almost lost your man - a coronary while fishing. Now your keen eye regards three ewes, legs trussed, twitching on green plastic. We try to help. Eyeball to eyeball with a sheep for the first time, our city hands feel rough ridges of horn and delicacy of ankle holding her steady for your expert cut. Free at last, bald, vulnerable she stumbles on dainty hooves looking prehistoric. Her twin lambs bleat, hesitate then rush for milk. Annointed with oily fleece we prepare to handle two more ewes in deference to your quota for today. -- Eithne Cavanagh, born in Dublin, grew up in Wicklow.

SNIPPET: The Jan-Feb 2001 issue of "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine published in Dublin has a charming story with wonderful photos of Stella (Brassill) WEAVER's sentimental trip back to Co. Kerry, Ireland, after an absence of 60 years. She met her cousin Mikey's widow, Mary BRASSILL, Mary's son Dinny and wife Deirdre and family at Rahela and spent a wonderful afternoon with "pot after pot of tea as brown as bog water," and cobs of Mary's coarse soda bread spread thick with butter and jam. The visit was a very emotionally satisfying one for Stella and son Fran, currently a freelance writer based in Finland. Grey-haired Stella seemed to reflect wistfully on how different life was here in Rahela compared to the hectic existence in Manchester, where she had raised her own family since the 1950s. If only her parents had not been forced by the lack of opportunities in the SW of Ireland to settle permanently in England.... Stella had last come this way in 1939, as a 12-year-old girl evacuated from wartime Liverpool with her mother and sister to her father's former home at Rahela in North Kerry. Although there had been recent changes, Stella was delighted to see that many of the lanes and fields were still bounded by ancient drystone walls or thick fuchsia hedges of crimson flowers, "ripe to be popped open by a new generation of small fingers." Old photos in the article included Stella at age nine with her cousin Kitty, sister Molly, Aunt Lena, Aunt Ruby, her mother Mary, cousins Angela, sisters Pat and Norah behind the house at Rahela. Another was of "Grandfather Tom" with Fran's cousin Danny in Co. Kerry circa 1960. On the straight road to Ballyduff lined by high, dark hedges, the first sight she had recognized was the ancient Round Tower of Rattoo, a slender stone finger pointing up towards heaven from a field of cabbages just off the main road. The only possible entrance appeared to be a narrow window high up in the wall. They took a stroll to look for the house where Fran's "Granddad Tom" was born in 1876. He lived to the age of 92 and somehow managed to keep his rich Kerry accent the whole of his life, although he had left Rahela, and his five brothers and four sisters, to take the King's shilling and travel the world with the British Army in his mid-teens. Fran could still picture the old man with his gnarled walking stick, his pale eyes and trim moustache, sitting in the parlour of the small brick terraced house where he eventually settled, just round the corner from the Liverpool football ground. Stella (Brassill) WEAVER was anxious to see the strand at Kilmore, where the small River Cashen empties itself across the sands into the vast mouth of Shannon. This place held special memories of outings by donkey-cart on warm summer days, sand between the toes and salty, wet hair. They also paid a visit to a "sort of cousin" from some obscure branch of the sprawling family tree, Father Brendan QUILTER, who had spent many years as a priest in Manchester and was apparently the last living link between Stella's family across the water in England and the clans in Ireland. Virtually retired, he spends much of his time in a small cottage behind the dunes at Bann Strand. After lunch they strolled around Ardfert Cathedral, rediscovering amongst the ruins the overgrown graves of Brendan's own grandparents.

I found a Thomas Lavin born to a Michael and Honora Hoban in Laughlin Roscommon 23/1/1825 should he be of any use to you- actually its a christening and its RC you have not said what religion your family were Cara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Mason" <caroleamason@hotmail.com> To: "Ireland Rootsweb" <ireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:30 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Thomas Larvin > > Hi everyone > > > > What a friendly lot you all are. Thank you so much for all the > information you have given me. > > > > The only information I have, so far, is: > > > > On the 1871 census Thomas was in Birmingham, England but was listed as a > widower so, unfortunately, I have no idea who his wife was. He has 4 > children though, but all were born in Birmingham so I dont think that will > help - until I send for their birth certificates that is. > > > > I have found the children on the 1881, 1901 and 1911 censuses, but not on > the 1891 census so, could they have been in Ireland at the time? > > > > Where can I look for births, marriages, deaths and censuses in Ireland? > > > > Thank you once again for your help. > > > > Carole > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.24/1954 - Release Date: 02/09/09 17:40:00

The County Armagh website on Ireland Genealogical Projects has been updated. A webpage for the Keady Civil Parish has been add along with webpages for all the townlands found in the civil parish. Each townland and civil parish website includes links and Family History Library film numbers. Some have records, surname links and pictures. There are now webpages for 17 of the 29 civil parishes and for 536 of the townlands, more than half of the total found in the county. Many new surname links have also been added plus the Keady Civil Parish tithe applotment index. You can find the site at: http://www.igp-web.com/armagh/index.htm -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Carole, I am no relation but I am providing the information which probably needs to be researched with a jaundiced eye. On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Carole Mason <caroleamason@hotmail.com>wrote: > > The only information I have, so far, is: On the 1871 census Thomas was in > Birmingham, England but was listed as a widower so, unfortunately, I have no > idea who his wife was. He has 4 children though, but all were born in > Birmingham so I dont think that will help - until I send for their birth > certificates that is. I found what seems to be your family in the 1851 Census: *1851 England Census* Name: Thomas Lavin Age: 22 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Ann Gender: Male Where born: Ireland Civil Parish: Birmingham Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter County/Island: Warwickshire Country: England Street address: 62 Dale End Occupation: Gen. Lab. Condition as to marriage: Married Disability: None Registration district: Birmingham Sub registration district: St Peter ED, institution, or vessel: 4 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 63 Household Members: Name Age Thomas Lavin 22 (b. Ireland) Ann Lavin 21 (b. Bowley, Staffordshire, England) William Lavin 1 (b. Warwick, Birmingham) Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2054; Folio: 83; Page: 18; GSU roll: 87313. Assuming this is your family and Thomas' wife is Ann here are two marriage possibilities: *England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983* Name: Thomas Larven Year of Registration: 1849 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun District: Birmingham (1837-1924) County: Warwickshire Volume: 16 Page: 400 (click to see others on page) >From same page: Ann Harris 1849 Birmingham (1837-1924) Warwickshire Mary Ann Smith 1849 Birmingham (1837-1924) Warwickshire Source Information: FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983 I cannot find the family in the 1861 Census. As you indicated, Thomas is a widower in 1871. I would surmise Ann may have died in childbirth. Where can I look for births, marriages, deaths and censuses in Ireland? Research in Ireland is very difficult without knowing the townland and county of origin. Civil registration did not begin in Ireland until ca. 1864. Earlier research must be done utilizing church records. _________________________________________________________________ Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi everyone What a friendly lot you all are. Thank you so much for all the information you have given me. The only information I have, so far, is: On the 1871 census Thomas was in Birmingham, England but was listed as a widower so, unfortunately, I have no idea who his wife was. He has 4 children though, but all were born in Birmingham so I dont think that will help - until I send for their birth certificates that is. I have found the children on the 1881, 1901 and 1911 censuses, but not on the 1891 census so, could they have been in Ireland at the time? Where can I look for births, marriages, deaths and censuses in Ireland? Thank you once again for your help. Carole _________________________________________________________________ Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354026/direct/01/

SUITCASE "Check his belongings" the solicitor said. They were in a suitcase, Twenty-four inches by twenty. Ninety-one years of life Covered a corner of the kitchen table. Everything! Childhood - photographed with mother. Youth - 1932, Galway Championship Football medal. A signet ring - Romance? Middle-age fling - binoculars; a smart pair. Spectacles of age, every lens stronger. Watches that had told each minute of his single life. Letters remindful of events, A Treasury of the Sacred Heart Of contemporaries consigned to clay And a cutting from a newspaper - A poem about loneliness. -- Padraic O'Farrell

The Ireland GenWeb, County Tipperary website has been updated. Moyaliff Civil Parish in the North Riding has been added, along with a townland map and a webpage for each townland. A townland map has now been added to the Aghacrew Civil Parish in the South Riding. This website now has webpages for 1400 townlands and 79 civil parishes. Many of the civil parishes also have townland maps, not to mention Family History Library film numbers and links. If you have records, pictures, surnames and/or links that you would like to add to this site, please contact me off the list. I often see questions on this list and others asking where a townland is located. This site is a good resource. While County Tipperary has over 3,000 townlands, this site has almost half of them online with good information for doing genealogical research. Since I have resigned from the County Coordinator position of Ireland GenWeb, I am hoping to add to this site more frequently. My goal is to have a page for each civil parish and townland. You can find the site at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/~irltip/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Thanks All! I'll search for Doneraile, Co. Cork! -----Original Message----- From: Jean R. <jeanrice@cet.com> To: ireland@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 5:06 pm Subject: Re: [IRELAND] Duneriel, County Cork -- Doneraile Town??? Townland AKA Acres County Barony Civil Parish PLU Province DONERAILE T. xx Cork, E.R. Fermoy Doneraile Mallow Munster Hi Dennis -- You can check out some other townlands for Co. Cork on the all-Ireland IreAtlas search engine at the L-R website. You can "google" Leitrim-Roscommon or try http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml Set the IreAtlas to Cork and do a "begins with" search by justing typing the letter D. You will get back about 400 hits. Doneraile sounds phonetically pretty close to your spelling. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: <den49co@aol.com> To: <ireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:14 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Duneriel, County Cork > My O'Brien family might have come from Duneriel, County Cork. > > What can I find on line??? > > Dennis > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Further to Jean's message - although most of the LARVIN entries in the UK censuses simply list Ireland as birthplace, the majority of the others are from Mayo, Sligo and Roscommon. On the Irish Heritage Centres search site there are only 3 LARVIN references and all are in Co Mayo. I did not see any LARVIN entries in the Griffiths Valuation but there are many LAVINs in the above counties. So hopefully this narrows your search a little to that area of the country. Do you have a wife's name for Thomas? and where he was in 1871? Best wishes, Patsy - New Zealand > Subject: [IRELAND] Thomas Larvin >> I am new to the list and am researching my husband's family of LARVIN's. > >> I have gone back to the 1871 census and find that Thomas Larvin was born >> in 1825 (circa) and was born in Ireland. > >> >> >> I have no idea how to do research in Ireland. Could anyone help please. >> >> >> >> Thank you >> >> >> >> Carole Mason >> >> Now living in France

Circa 1754, Patrick O'Kelly composed a clever but scathing poem called "The Curse of Doneraile" (Cork), when his watch apparently turned up missing there. The poem was widely circulated throughout Ireland and caused a great deal of amusement. To appease O'Kelly, Lady Doneraile presented him with a "watch and seal," in place of the one he "lost," upon receipt of which he wrote "Blessings on Doneraile." BLESSINGS ON DONERAILE How vastly pleasing is my tale I found my watch in Doneraile. My Dublin watch, my chain and seal Were all restored at Doneraile. May fire and brimstone ever fail To hurt or injure Doneraile. May neither friend nor foe assail The splendid town of Doneraile. May lightning never singe the vale That leads to generous Doneraile. May Pompey's fate and old Pharsale Be still reversed at Doneraile. May beef and mutton, lamb and veal Plentyful be at Doneraile. May garlic soup and scurvy kale No palate spoil in Doneraile. May neither frog nor creeping snail Subtract the crops of Doneraile. May Heaven each chosen bliss entail On honest, friendly Doneraile. May Sol and Luna never fail To shed their light on Doneraile. May every soft ambrosial gale Waft heavenly bliss to Doneraile. May every cuckoo, thrush and quail A concert sing in Doneraile. May every post, gazette and mail Glad tidings bring to Doneraile. May no harsh thunder sound a peal To incommode sweet Doneraile. May profit high and speedy sale Enlarge the trade of Doneraile. May fame resound a pleasant tale Of all the joys in Doneraile. May Egypt's plagues forever fail To hurt or injure Doneraile. May frost and snow, and rain and hail No mischief do at Doneraile. May Oscar with his fiery flail Thrash all the foes of Doneraile. May all from Belfast to Kinsale Respect the town of Doneraile, May choisest flour and oatenmeal Be still to spare at Doneraile. May want and woe no joy curtail That's always known in Doneraile. No coffin that grim death can nail May wrap a rogue in Doneraile. There are no thieves to rob and steal Within two leagues of Doneraile. And all the sons of Granuale Can well be proud of Doneraile. May no dire monster, shark or whale Annoy or torture Doneraile. May no disaster e'er assail The bliss and peace of Doneraile. May every transport wont to sail Increase the wealth of Doneraile. May every churn and milking pail O'erflow with cream at Doneraile. May cold and hunger ne'er congeal The good rich blood of Doneraile. May every day new joys reveal To crown the bliss of Doneraile. May every soft ambrosial gale Sweet odours waft to Doneraile. May no corroding ill prevail To damp the joys of Doneraile. May the Inquisition ne'er impale Or hurt a limb from Doneraile. May Sodom's curse forever fail To hurt and injure Doneraile But may each wish and prayer prevail To crown with peace sweet Doneraile.

dONERAILE IS A TOWN IN cO cORK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Phelan" <anne_phelan@eircom.net> To: <ireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [IRELAND] Duneriel, County Cork > Try under Doneraile !Anne in Ireland > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <den49co@aol.com> > To: <ireland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:14 PM > Subject: [IRELAND] Duneriel, County Cork > > >> My O'Brien family might have come from Duneriel, County Cork. >> >> What can I find on line??? >> >> Dennis >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Try under Doneraile !Anne in Ireland ----- Original Message ----- From: <den49co@aol.com> To: <ireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:14 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Duneriel, County Cork > My O'Brien family might have come from Duneriel, County Cork. > > What can I find on line??? > > Dennis > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi everyone, I am new to the list and am researching my husband's family of LARVIN's. I have gone back to the 1871 census and find that Thomas Larvin was born in 1825 (circa) and was born in Ireland. I have no idea how to do research in Ireland. Could anyone help please. Thank you Carole Mason Now living in France _________________________________________________________________ Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/

Hi Jean, What a gem you are! a diamond naturally! Yes, he's my great Uncle Nappy!! and there are 3 generations of Napoleons. One escaped to Notting Hill and lived 'in sin' which was not discovered until after his 'wife' died. I've been lucky to have such unusual names because when I have been to the Record Office in Wigan they are remembered. You've given me lots to think about. Regards Judith Cambs.