Hi Julie I have done quite a bit of research and have searched through the O'Callaghans Mills Parish registers for my Dillons, Meany's Clune and Morony families. On the way I took notes of anything that may be of help. This is the only Fitzgerald entry that I have and I thought I would pass on to you. Marriage 21st. October 1838 Edmund O'Brien of Kilkishen to Bridget McMahon of Clonloum Witnesses were Michael Fitzgerald of Cappalaheen and Mary Carney of Lakyle. ( This is the area that my ancestors came from. I took note of this because a Bridget McMahon was a sponsor for Mary Dillon Baptised in 1839. Her parents were Patrick Dillon and Honora Meany. The other sponsor was Matthew Hehir and they lived at Coolistoonan in the Parish of Clonlea. Ernene Smedley -----Original Message----- From: Jeanne Foley Dwyer [mailto:socrates_399@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 1:15 AM To: IRL-CLARE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CLARE] HELP - Margaret Hillary and David Fitzgerald Hi, again, Julie, My apologies for a rather terse and incomplete answer. From the point where I left off, I would pursue the parish records for the townland of Cloghoolia, civil parish of Clonlea. I don't know anything about this area of Clare, as you yourself might not, so here's what I did: Went back to the "genealogy" page and looked at the lower right corner, clicking on "church records". This will open up to a long page that begins with a table of Church of Ireland parishes. If you scroll down, you'll see the RC parishes table. Clonlea's cells instructs one to look at Killuran, which gives the following: Civil Parish: Killuran RC Parish: O'Callaghan's Mills Diocese:KL Earliest Record: b.1.1835; m. 1.1835 Parish Address: The Parish Priest, O'Callaghan's Mills, Co. Clare Regarding the dates, this is very helpful, especially if there was a Hillery/Hillary family in the parish, too. A search of the 1855 Griffith's Val. Surname Index again, using Hellary, Hilary, Hillary, and Hillery doesn't yield one in that parish; however, it's possible that Margaret came from a different parish. If you have any indication of David's birth date, a request for a search of O'Callaghan's Mills' parish records may yield David's parents' names. Now, I'm through. :-) Jeanne Jeanne Foley Dwyer <socrates_399@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi, Julie, A quick look on www.clarelibrary.ie (click on "genealogy", click on 1855 Griffith's Valuation Surname Index, click on "F", click on the right alphabetized range) yields only one David Fitzgerald. I would work on that one for starters. Good luck! Jeanne Jules Harris wrote: Hi All I am trying to find out the birth, marriage, parent details on the above. What I have so far: Margaret Hillary B. 7/06/1836 County Clare M. about 1858 to David Fitzgerald Immigrated to Adelaide, South Australia onboard the Bee in 1858 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ta Julie Perth, Western Australia ==== IRL-CLARE Mailing List ==== If you just want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to IRL-CLARE-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the digest list) IRL-CLARE-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the message body ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ==== IRL-CLARE Mailing List ==== NO VIRUS warnings or topics of any kind relating to this subject to be posted to the list. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. ==== IRL-CLARE Mailing List ==== If you just want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to IRL-CLARE-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the digest list) IRL-CLARE-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the message body. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Julie, You have received very considerate responses from Jeanne and Ernene. I am in awe of their determination to reach out to anyone seeking information on a Clare ancestor. I too have some parish entries to share, because my people were related to the Fitzgeralds. You are the first Fitzgerald descendant, to my knowledge (I've been on this list for over 8 years) to have posted here. So, I am disposed to be helpful, but only to a certain extent at this time. Your posting shows that you have not done the work yet to become knowledgeable on how to do Irish research. So, I will provide the data directly bearing on my ties to the Fitzgeralds and will be ready, once you are actually doing serious research, to share the many record references I have to other Fitzgeralds in Clare. I too would like to learn more about this family, but simply throwing a lot of names, dates, and localities at you, when you have no way of doing more with those, would only take a huge chunk of my time without any useful result. BTW the interrelationships among the East Clare families are even more extensive than the below records indicate. Charting the families is the only way to keep clear on which Bridget and which John belongs to which family in which time period. Fortunately there was in East Clare only one basic Carberry family and one basic Tynan family. There were numerous Connells, Donnellans, Hehirs, and Molonys. The O'Hollarens and Lenahans, so important to my Carberrys, were also quite numerous and evidently fairly well off. John Roche, however, was quite singular in this the civil parish of Clonlea for which Kilkishen was a major town, but not much was written about him although he seems to have been fairly prosperous. I have never seen anything like a Hillary surname in East Clare. Hope to hear from you in the future, Sharon Carberry Georgia USA RC Parish of O'Callaghan Mills (LDS film): Baptisms (surviving records start in 1835) 29 Feb 1835 [leap year ?] Mary, of Peter Carberry and Catherine Tynan, no residence noted [this is the only record of this particular Carberry couple, likely residing in Lakyle as did the other Carberrys of this time] sponsors: Dan Linehan Mary Carney 25 Aug 1838 Michael, of Matthias Hehir and Bridget Carberry, residing Lackyle sponsors: Dennis Linehan Catherine Carberry 28/29 Feb 1839 Johanna, of John Roche and Mary Tynan, Cappalaheen sponsors: Patrick Carberry Margaret Molony 27 Dec 1839 Margaret, of Michael Fitzgerald and Margaret Halloran, residing Cappalaheen sponsors: Patrick Carberry Mary B __n__ty [Bentley?] 6 Feb 1861 Mary, of Martin Tynan and Catherine Fitzgerald, Oatfield sponsors: John Tynan Mary Connell 13 Nov 1864 Margaret, of Martin Tynan and Catherine Fitzgerald, Oatfield sponsors: James Fitzgerald Mary Connell 16? Apr 1874 Edmund, of Pat Duggan and Ellen Fitzgerald, Backfield [also known as Gortadroma] sponsors: Michael & Bridget Donnellan [This Michael might be the son of Thomas, apparent older brother of my Michael, who was deceased as of 1849] One additional background note: There is a Donnellan pedigree from the National Library, Dublin, which has generations down to two sets of children (two successive marriages) of a Donnellan in Clashduff (neighboring Backfield); the older children shown are Cornelius/Connor and Thomas, plus a note of "other issue." Cornelius (who married Mary Doogan) and Thomas appear in O'Callaghan Mills records with a Michael, who is my ancestor and who appears to be one of the unlisted younger ones on the pedigree. After my Michael died, his family was evicted in Dec 1849. His daughter Bridget (about age 13 in 1849) later in life listed Pat and Bridget Duggan as her parents even while she was stating her sister was Catherine Donnellan Carberry, my ancestor, also residing in the same old-age home where the record was made in about 1910. Michael Donnellan's wife was Anne Connell, confirmed in the records of their last child Michael baptised Sep 1837. I have yet to find a Pat and Bridget Duggan, after ten-plus years of research; Anne and son Michael are also still missing after the eviction.] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernene Smedley" <ernene@tpg.com.au> ... > This is the only Fitzgerald entry that I have and I thought I would pass on to you. > > Marriage 21st. October 1838 Edmund O'Brien of Kilkishen to Bridget McMahon of Clonloum > Witnesses were Michael Fitzgerald of Cappalaheen and Mary Carney of Lakyle. ... > > Jules Harris wrote: ... > What I have so far: > Margaret Hillary > > B. 7/06/1836 > > County Clare > M. about 1858 to David Fitzgerald > Immigrated to Adelaide, South Australia onboard the Bee in 1858 ...