Hi Jo in Australia - Your most reliable information would come from the place your grandmother lived and died in Australia. Perhaps there is a will or some detailed death notices. Since spelling on early Irish records is suspect, and ages were sometimes "guessed at," it would be very hard (but not impossible) to pin down a match in Ireland. Check out this website: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm Do you know if she married in Ireland or in Australia and when? Age at marriage? What sort of documentation do you have? What else does it say, a particular parish? Do you know approximate date she emigrated? Circumstances? Other family members emigrated? Do you have another family-connected surname? Long-shot: There were some MORGAN Sponsored Clare people in Victoria, Australia on one webpage but the ages didn't match. Morgan Margaret, 16, Co Clare, 146, 27 Nov 1856, Jessie Munn, Morgan Charles. Morgan William, 22, Co Clare, 146, 27 Nov 1856, Jessie Munn, Morgan Charles. Title: Selection of Clare people sponsored in Victoria, Australia Type of Material: Sponsored Immigration Records Dates: 1843 to 1857 Places: County Clare; Australia Source: PRO in Melbourne, Victoria. Victorian Sponsored Immigration Index 1856 to 1858 Nominee Order. Fiche 0001, Stand 7, Book 14A There was a page at that website with Ennis residents in the 1830s - some REEDYs but I didn't see your other surnames. Interesting in that your grandmother's middle name is ENNIS; since that is not her parents' surname, would that be a location name? ENNIS is a rare surname, and there was only one ENNIS household in Co. Clare during the Primary Valuation, per data at www.ireland.com/ancestor on the surname search engine. (If her middle name actually was a surname of importance to the family, that could help to narrow down a more precise location in Clare. An unusual first or middle name (usually that of a son) can be mother's maiden name or other surname of importance to the family, and I have seen that more often than a "locale-type" given name (?topographical). Per that website, REIDY is certainly a Clare surname with that particular spelling, although there are many variations. The table below shows the number of Reidy households in each county in the Primary Valuation property survey of 1848-64. Clare 93 Cork 6 Cork city 3 Down 1 Galway 4 Kerry 34 Limerick 45 Mayo 3 Tipperary 14 Wicklow 1 SURNAME DICTIONARY/ SLOINNTE NA h-EIREANN Mecredy Very rare: Dublin, Belfast. Ir. Mac Riada. See Mac Cready. Ready rare: Dublin. See Reidy. Reidy numerous: mainly N Munster. Ir. Ó Riada, perhaps from riad, trained. A sept of Dál gCas on the Tipperary side of L Derg, they were displaced after the Invasion but remained in Clare. MIF. Variants and all-Ireland totals - SURNAME TOTAL Cready 5 Creedy 2 McCready 144 McCredy 8 McCreedy 47 McGready 6 Mecredy 3 Ready 300 Reedy 23 Reidey 4 Reidy 204 Riedy 5 Variants not listed in the household survey. SURNAME MacRedy Readdy Ó Riada The website surname search & second surname search verifies that both REIDY and MORGAN households were found in the same parish in a handful of counties to include Co. Clare during the Primary Valuation. You might check that out. Interesting to note that there is an Ennis townland in Co. Monaghan, as well. I believe that Ennis, Clare, had another name in the mists of time (may have begun with In or Drom or Dru?) Ennis was also a PLU (Poor Law Union, nearest large town/reg. district) to many small townlands 1850s and prior. Please read about Ennis history on the web and see what you come up with. There is an IreAtlas (all-Ireland townland search engine for 1851) at the Leitrim-Roscommon website, but all I could find was a list of townlands in Co. Clare that had Ennis as their PLU, not a listing for Ennis townland or Ennis T. (town), even using the "begins with" search. Resources for their descendants in Ireland might include: www.familysearch.org Jean ---- Original Message ----- From: "Jo" <joko@tadaust.org.au> To: <IRELAND@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:08 AM Subject: [IRELAND] Morgans of Clare > Hi all, I'm new to Irish research and basically lost. My Great Great > Grandmother Margaret Ennis Morgan, was born 1838 Ennis, Clare, Ireland, to > Michael Morgan and Mary Reidy. She died in 1881 in Rutherglen Victoria > Australia and is buried with her husband William Henry Warren > (Cornishman). > Can anyone let me know the first steps I should take to finding out about > her birth, and her family? With Kindest Regards >      >     > Jo Ko MBA > Melbourne Australia > joko@tadaust.org.au