Hi Note your seeking MCGUANE ancestors. Have a McGuane married to O'REILLY Sydney NSW. Any connection? Kay Northern Rivers NSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niel & Heather" <nhbrain@alphalink.com.au> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] IRL-CLARE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 114 > Dear List, > > In reply to the question what do non Clare residents want from a > convention > in 2007. > > I would love to come, meet all of you, and listen to your wisdom, then be > pointed in the way of the huge repository of records relating to my dear > Meere and McGuane ancestors. > > Then I can die happy. > > Heather Brain > Melbourne, Vic. A > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <irl-clare-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 7:03 PM > Subject: IRL-CLARE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 114 > > >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Kilkee, County Clare (Chris Goopy) >> 2. British Police Force in Ireland (Janet Haggart) >> 3. Re: Convention 2007? (Ellen Crehan) >> 4. Re: Clare Journal 1907 MUNGOVAN, REIDY, KERIN, DOOHAN >> (Judith Mason) >> 5. Re: British Police Force in Ireland (Patrick Casey) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:52:32 +1000 >> From: Chris Goopy <cgoopy@optusnet.com.au> >> Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Kilkee, County Clare >> To: irl-clare@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <4560E030.6010701@optusnet.com.au> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> >> Thanks for all the links, Larry... I have bookmarked the lot and will >> visit Co Clare via them as soon as time permits. :-) >> >> Chris >> >> >> Larry Brennan wrote: >>> Visit Kilkee at: >>> http://www.kilkee.ie/ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:04:21 +1100 >> From: Janet Haggart <angel70@bigpond.net.au> >> Subject: [IRL-CLARE] British Police Force in Ireland >> To: irl-clare@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <4560F105.2050007@bigpond.net.au> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Hello Listers >> >> I am seeking information regarding Irishmen who worked for the British >> constabulary around 1900. I run a family history group for U3A in >> Australia and one of the members is descended from one of these people. >> He was her grandfather and she was told by her late father that he and >> his brothers were sent to Australia to escape from people who may have >> harmed them because of their father's association with the British >> constabulary. I would be very grateful for any information about >> Irishmen in the British police force. >> >> Many thanks in advance >> Jan Haggart >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:59:42 +1100 >> From: "Ellen Crehan" <ellencrehan@bigpond.com> >> Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Convention 2007? >> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <000901c70c3f$2a1d8880$0100000a@vic.bigpond.net.au> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Greetings All, >> >> I echo the sentiments of Chris on the above subject .... >> I just hope the echo reaches to Ireland in my lifetime. >> >> Cheers, >> Ellen >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris Goopy" <cgoopy@optusnet.com.au> >> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 9:45 AM >> Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Convention 2007? >> >> >>> >>> Thanks, Jeanne. >>> >>> Let's hope it can happen in one form or another. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> Jeanne Foley Dwyer wrote: >>> > Hi, Chris and all other listers who have enquired about this topic in >> the last few weeks: >>> > >>> > As of now, there is just not enough local support (interest in helping >> to organise expressed by those researchers who live in Co. Clare) to move >> forward with the idea of a seminar/conference/convention for 2007. The >> interest among the subscribers of this list has been more than >> sufficient, >> however, and by that I am encouraged that some day this project will >> happen. >>> > >>> > Further, I heartily encourage discussion on-list about this topic, >>> > i.e. >> what non-Clare residents would want out of such a gathering. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Jeanne >>> > (on behalf of the would-be organisers >>> > of Clare Family History Seminar 2007) >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:25:16 -0800 (PST) >> From: Judith Mason <judith.mason@ameritech.net> >> Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Clare Journal 1907 MUNGOVAN, REIDY, KERIN, >> DOOHAN >> To: irl-clare@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <20061120052516.17713.qmail@web80606.mail.yahoo.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >> >> Catherine, >> >> Re Mungovan, does any of the following look familar to you? >> >> Margaret Mungovan godparent to Michael Mason son of Mathew Mason & >> Johanna/Judith Boland >> Shannakyle 10/4/1859 >> >> Mary Mungovan godparent to Patrick Kelly son of Patrick Kelly & Johanna >> Mason (sister to Matthew above) >> Shannakyle 9/7/1853 >> >> Judie Mason >> Chicago >> >> >> Catherine Eystad <cadybeth@gmail.com> wrote: >> Extracts from the Newspapers of Co Clare Ireland >> >> >> Published in the Kilmaley Parish Magazine with permission from the "Clare >> Champion" and the Ennis County Library >> >> >> Clare Journal Monday, February 11, 1907 >> >> >> *Kilmaley Farmer's Tragic End Killed by Fall From Horse* >> >> >> John MUNGOVAN of Kanturk met with his death at Slieveloughane, near >> Kilmaley, under most tragic circumstances by a fall from his horse. He >> had >> been at a funeral from Ennis on that day, of a Mrs. KELLY, Kilmaley and >> was >> returning hom on horseback accompanied by his father in law Daniel REIDY >> when about a half mile from his home the deceased's horse seems to have >> taken fright causing Reidy's horse to gallop on in front. It would appear >> that poor MUNGOVAN was then thrown by the restive horse and, it is >> believed, >> to have been killed on the spot. There was no eye witness of the tragic >> event. >> >> An inquiry was held on Monday by Mr. F.F. CULLINAN, solicitor. Coroner, >> Mr >> T. DOOHAN being the foreman of the jury. >> >> Daniel REIDY of Glaun, who was the first witness examined, gave evidence >> to >> the fact that he knew the deceased who was his son in law. The deceased, >> who >> was about forty years of age, was a farmer. He had seen him last alive >> about >> six o'clock on Saturday night, having met him at the funeral of Mrs >> KEANE, >> which came from Ennis. They came from Kilmaley Cross, both being riding >> on >> horses. >> >> When they got about half mile from the deceased's place the horse on >> which >> the deceased was riding got some fright and commenced to gallop which set >> witness' horse also off. He then got in front of the deceased and was not >> able to stop his horse until he went for about a half mile. Witness then >> walked home. He was told where the body was found and that place would b >> quite close to where the horse became frightened. >> >> Michael KERIN, Slieveloughane, stated that he knew the deceased. He >> remembered Michael and John DOOHAN being at his father's house on >> Saturday >> night at about half past nine o'clock. After leaving the house, they came >> back again and said that there was a horse in McINERNEY's field. >> >> Witness went out to see what horse was there. He then saw a saddle on the >> horse which he recognised as belonging to the deceased. They caught the >> horse and they found the bridle broken as was also the girth of the >> saddle. >> Having taken the horse out they made a search and after some time they >> found >> the body of the decease who was partly lying on his face close to the >> ditch >> of the field in which the horse had been, just at the cross. The >> deceased's >> shoulder was partly against the fence. As far as witness could see, the >> man >> was dead but the body was not cold. They took him into witness' father's >> house and there put him before the fire but he never showed any signs of >> life. They sent for the priest. >> >> Dr T. KILLEEN, medical officer of Killaniv, gave evidence of his having >> examined the body of the deceased. There was a contused wound on the >> right >> side of his face and dislocation of the cervical vertebrae which was the >> cause of death. Those injuries would be caused by falling off a horse. >> >> The jury returned a verdict that John MUNGOVAN was accidentally killed on >> Saturday, the second of February, by falling off a horse which he was >> riding. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:47:07 +0100 >> From: "Patrick Casey" <pcasey@compuserve.com> >> Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] British Police Force in Ireland >> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <000001c70c6f$b2ec6b10$6401a8c0@HPLAPTOP01> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> Jan, >> >> People who aided, or were suspected of aiding, the English authorities >> were >> sometimes emigrated (my use of this form of the verb is deliberate) to >> Australasia under a procedure known as Protection of Crown Witnesses. I >> mentioned this some time back on this List. I've made a few attempts to >> find out more about this procedure as I was trying to trace a family >> named >> Ryan which was transferred from Clare to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) >> because >> their lives were in danger. For some time a police guard had lived in a >> little hut next to their house to ensure their safety. There is obviously >> quite a bit of documentation on the 19th century Crown Witness procedure >> in >> the English archives in Kew. I found references to it online but have not >> been able to visit Kew to find out more. Nor have I been able to find >> records of their arrivals at the Australasian end. Maybe the records have >> been lost but it is also possible that their arrivals were kept secret to >> maintain their anonymities, i.e. that records were deliberately not kept. >> I >> also wondered whether there were any records of financial assistance >> offered >> to these people but have not turned anything up. >> >> I have no idea whether this translocation was forcible or voluntary or >> something in-between, e.g. whether there was some kind of judicial >> process. >> >> P?draig (the Paddy that was) >> >> P.S. The British police force was called the RIC. P(tPtw) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com] >> On Behalf Of Janet Haggart >> Sent: 20 November 2006 01:04 >> To: irl-clare@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [IRL-CLARE] British Police Force in Ireland >> >> >> >> Hello Listers >> >> I am seeking information regarding Irishmen who worked for the British >> constabulary around 1900. I run a family history group for U3A in >> Australia and one of the members is descended from one of these people. >> He was her grandfather and she was told by her late father that he and >> his brothers were sent to Australia to escape from people who may have >> harmed them because of their father's association with the British >> constabulary. I would be very grateful for any information about >> Irishmen in the British police force. >> >> Many thanks in advance >> Jan Haggart >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the IRL-CLARE list administrator, send an email to >> IRL-CLARE-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the IRL-CLARE mailing list, send an email to >> IRL-CLARE@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-CLARE-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 IRL-CLARE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 114 >> ***************************************** >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.7/538 - Release Date: >> 18/11/2006 >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >