Thank you Jeanne, Ernene, Sharon, Catherine and Rob You have given me a couple of places to start. Sharon: I have not done the work yet to become knowledgeable on how to do Irish research because I am a complete beginner at this and have absolutely no idea how or where to start, hence my posting asking direction and help on where to start. All my tries via google have given me nothing and the mailing list was my first step to get info, my next step is gone a family history club in my own state and get some advice from them. Therefore I appreciate any help I get, any small directions given will be used and added to my growing knowledge. Jules Perth, Western Australia ---- Sharon Carberry <sm8carberry@comcast.net> wrote: > 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 > ... > > > > ==== 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. > NO VIRUS warnings 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 >