Jean: Thanks to you for filling us in on a great deal of our heritage. Mary

I bumped into this website today and thought I'd pass it on, you put your surname in the search box and get a ton of links: http://www.genealogybuff.com/index.html Some end at Ancestry.com but most are free. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

I have updated this website by adding/updating the follow town(land) webpages: Nymphsfield, Ballina, Cong, Swineford, Turlough, Keeloges, Westport, Dringeen Eighter, Dringeen Middle, Dringeen Oughter, Lanmore, Caheredmond, Ardacarha, Ballinlag, Barleynhill, Bohamore, Carroward, Carrowastle, Carrowgowan, Carrowkeel, Carrowmore, Carrowntleva, Gortnasillagh, Lisgormin, Lismiraun, Lissaniska, Listrisnan, Rathrowan, Rathslevin, Shanaghy, Sraheens, Tawnaghaknaff, Toocananagh, Toonomin, Treanfohanaun, Ballindell East, Ballindell West, Ballindine East, Ballindine North, Ballindine West, Ballyglass (Crossboyne CP), Ballyhankeen, Branraduff, Brookhill, Burris, Caltragh, Carrowbeg, Carrowbeg East, Carrowbeg West, Carrowconor, Carrowlena, Carrowmarley, Carrowmore (Crossboyne), Carrownlough, Carrownskehaun, Carrowsteelaun, Castlemagarrett North, Castlemagarretpark New, Castlemagarretpark Old, Castlereagh, Cloonbonniff, Cloonmore, Commons, Coolmakean, Coolroe, Crossboyne, Curraghadooey, Derry, Drumady, Drummin East, Drummin North, Drummin South, Drummin West, Esker East, Esker North, Esker South, Farmhill, Garryduff Middle, Garryduff North, Garryduff South, Garryduff West, Gortanierin, Gortgrave, Greenan, Guardhousepark, Heath, Killeen, Killeenrevagh, Kilmacanelly, Kilscohagh, Knockananeel, Lawaus, Leedaun, Lisduff, Lugalisheen North, Lugalisheen South, Mayfield, Meelick, Millbrook, Newtown North, Newtown South, Pollaniska, Pollnasillagh, Roosky, Rosskybeg, Rushbrook East, Rushbrook West, Scardaun East, Scardaun West, Seefin, Skehavaud, Treengarve, Woodstock. I have updated the Bohola Civil Parish webpage and added the Crossboyne Civil Parish webpage. Each CP has links to all the townlands in the parish. If you have surnames, records, links and/or pictures for any town(land) that you would like to see added to the website, email me off list and I will include them with my next update in September when I plan to add a new civil parish plus would like to open the Records section of the website. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

SNIPPET: The "Boston Evening Transcript," 26 Feb 1847 contained this announcement: "CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE STARVING POOR OF IRELAND. The subscribers will deem it a grateful duty to be employed gratuitously by their fellow citizens in receiving for the benefit of the distressed in Ireland, donations in provisions or money, and the smallest sum will be accepted. The provisions will be stored and shipped with the greatest possible economy and despatch, and be distributed in Ireland through our respective agents in that distressed country, in such manner as the donors may desire. Persons in the interior wishing to contribute can address their donations to the undersigned, who will cheerfully give any information in their power. Shipments will be made as often as a few barrels can be collected or the means of purchasing. Our recent letters state that Americans never know the distress that prevails in Ireland; that entire families are found dead from starvation, and that in! many cases a few barrels of bread stuffs would have saved hundreds from death. In confirmation of the entire failure of the crops, it is stated that throughout Ireland at the best hotels not a potato is seen upon the tables. HARNDEN & CO, 120 State st, and Court ste., N.B. Persons in any of the ports of the United States wishing to send provisions direct can ship them to Harnden & Co., Liverpool, who will follow their instructions."

Thanks Judy: I tried your suggestion and did come up with one Brisbane in So. Carolina in 1850. I will try and run with that lead. Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JUDYSPHIL@aol.com> To: <IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:40 PM Subject: [Irish-American] Brisbane > If you have ancestry.com, you can put in just the first name and it will > kick out all the people with that name. It works well with uncommon names. Of > course, you can't put in JOHN and expect to get anywhere. Judy > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > >

Since I cannot locate Brisbane himself, I can't locate his mother, but thanks for the idea of the mother's maiden name. Could be. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenys Pearson" <glenys.pearson@btinternet.com> To: <IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:07 PM Subject: RE: [Irish-American] Name Search > Brisbane was possibly mother's or grandmother's surname before marriage. > > Glenys > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > >

Thanks for the hint, Teresa, I will give it a try. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Purnergee@aol.com> To: <IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Name Search > My thinking on seeing Brisbane as a first name is that it could be a > nickname or a name given to someone from Australia. Maybe doing a search of Irish > immigrants to Australia could bring another clue. > Teresa > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > >

Yes, from what I've read of the famines, the Quakers went to great lengths to help our people during those years. Their aid might have relieved the suffering even more if the Brits hadn't put up a range of obstacles to the delivery and distribution of foodstuffs. And the Brits wonder why the Irish feel such antipathy toward them? Ha! G. Alexander

Added Note: "The Great Hunger" tapestry is an embroidered work of some 77 panels conveying insights and experiences of the Quakers (Society of Friends) during three and a half centuries. The tapestry was begun in 1981. Over 4,000 Quakers in ten countries have worked on it and it has been displayed in Ireland, Britain and the United States, per 1998 #2 issue of "Irish Roots" magazine published in Cork. As mentioned previously, that particular issue of the magazine has panel E8 on its cover.

My thinking on seeing Brisbane as a first name is that it could be a nickname or a name given to someone from Australia. Maybe doing a search of Irish immigrants to Australia could bring another clue. Teresa

SNIPPET: According to Noel KISSANE in "The Irish Famine: A Documentary History," relief received from America and other countries resulted from the coverage by the press. He contends that once publicised there was a spontaneous reaction that resulted in widespread organised and privatised efforts toward family relief. Accounts that appeared in the "Boston Evening Transcript," the (VT) "Caledonia," and the "Washington DC Daily National Intelligencer" as well as other national and international newspapers certainly support this conclusion. As expected, only sporadic reports were published during the first year of the famine. Coverage picked up by 1846, but American relief efforts were insufficient. An October 30, 1846 letter from a resident of County Roscommon, sent to a fellow Roscommon-born citizen in Washington D. C., was published in the Nov 11, 1846 "Intelligencer." The writer reported: "For the last month there was no importation of Indian meal, and the people congregate in hundreds and thousands, break into mills and bakers' shops, and force away all the meal and bread they can lay hold of; the military and police are called out to protect the property of those persons, and in many places lives were lost." .... I am astonished that the Americans, mixed with Irish as they are, never manifested the least sympathy for us in our present deplorable condition, more especially as in India the Irish there entered into the matter very cordially, and made up a considerable sum in Calcutta, say 11,000 pounds, towards the relief of the poor Irish ... and they are still adding to it their contributions monthly ." By 1847 the full horror of the famine became a reality to ! American readers with increasing frequency, graphic reports were published in the pages of newspapers. The June 26, 1847 "Caledonia" reported statistics about famine deaths in Cork. During the previous week there were 277 famine victims interred in the Matthew Cemetery, including 67 in one day; 90 deaths occurred in the workhouse. Heartrending letters from Ireland were widely published in many U. S. newspapers, including one addressed to the ladies of America by the Irish authoress Maria EDGEWORTH of Co. Longford. Of note -- Quakers began to arrive in Ireland in the mid-17th century as Cromwellian settlers, and some authorities estimate that by 1690 their numbers were somewhere between 5,000 and 9,000. They are best remembered for their relief work during the Great Famine. They collected, in today's terms, over 11 million pounds and used it to finance several carefully thought out schemes, some to bring immediate help to the starving, others with an eye to the longer term. All aid was dispensed without regard to the denomination of the recipients. To this day the people of Ireland have not forgotten that 'the Quakers fed us in the Famine.' -- Excerpts, "Irish Roots" magazine pub. Cork (1998 #2) The cover of that issue shows panel E8 of "The Great Hunger" Quaker tapestry.

> > >Wondering if anyone out there has ever come across the Irish first name of BRISBANE? > It is not mentioned in the book, Irish First Names by Ronan Coghlan. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

Brisbane was possibly mother's or grandmother's surname before marriage. Glenys

If you have ancestry.com, you can put in just the first name and it will kick out all the people with that name. It works well with uncommon names. Of course, you can't put in JOHN and expect to get anywhere. Judy

Wondering if anyone out there has ever come across the Irish first name of BRISBANE? Cannot find him (grandfather) anywhere in Ireland. Could it be Gaelic for some other form of name? Can't find a county, without a name. BRISBANE HOGAN. Thanks for any ideas. Mare Shanahan

Thanx to all who sent me some help. I`ll ck them out. The NYC papers will--hopefully--give family names. Barbara : )

> > >I went to the library today and found my gggfather, John Barrett`s obit in the NY Herald Tribune, but there were no family names listed, altho I did get the name of the church--St. Teresa-- and his pct. #--26. >He was born in Sligo---would they have a paper? > You have his county of birth and obit...I am not sure why you are searching newpapers? to find his parents names? With his county of birth you might be able to get all the info on his family from the County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Centre http://www.irish-roots.net/Sligo.htm -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

I went to the library today and found my gggfather, John Barrett`s obit in the NY Herald Tribune, but there were no family names listed, altho I did get the name of the church--St. Teresa-- and his pct. #--26. He was born in Sligo---would they have a paper? He was a policeman in 1863 and a roundsman in 1884--was that a promotion or what? What papers were there at the time? I tried the Irish American without success. Any suggestions? Thanx, Barbara : ) Irish: ANDERSON, ARMSTRONG, BARRETT, BURKE, BYRNE, CORRIGAN, GALLAGHER, McNALLY, QUINN German: BAUER, BEARE, BEIMANN, BEEKMAN, BEUSCHER, BLANKENMEYER, CASTLE, DECKER, ENGLEHARD/T, FRANK, HELMKEN, HOHLER, HURRINUS, JOHNSON, KELLER, KITTELBERGER, KLAUN, LOW, MILLER/MEULLER/MULLER, RINGEISEN, ROLLMANN, SCHNEIDER, SOFFEL, STERRITT, STRATTON, TRAVER, UMBROLIA, VETTER, WAGNER, WEIGAND, WILLIAMS Polish: BUDARZ, ROMANSKI Spanish: BAEZ, COLON, PEREZ, SANCHEZ

MY DESCENDANTS Having inherited a vigorous mind From my old fathers, I must nourish dreams And leave a woman and a man behind As vigorous of mind, and yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that. And what if my descendants lose the flower Through natural declension of the soul, Through too much business with the passing hour, Through too much play, or marriage with a fool? May this laborious stair and this stark tower Become a roofless ruin that the owl May build in the cracked masonry and cry Her desolation to the desolate sky. The Primum Mobile that fashioned us Has made the very owls in circles move; And I, that count myself most prosperous, Seeing that love and friendship are enough, For an old neighbour's friendship chose the house And decked and altered it for a girl's love, And know whatever flourish and decline These stones remain their monument and mine. -- William Butler Yeats

I have updated the IGP County Limerick website with either new or updated pages for the following town(land)s: Elton, Knockrainy, Limerick City, Bruree, Foynes, Bruff, Rathkeale, Shanagolden and Loughgur. Thanks to Cathy Connelly, many pictures have been add the the pages plus a whole scrapbook page for Knockrainy. http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllim/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton