Hello Dublin, This is a call for help from Australia. I am researching my wife's ancestors in Ireland. This is an amazingly tragic story of Thomas Minogue sometime Mannix, who was born in Co. Clare perhaps Scarriff, and his wife Margaret Mary Ann Harriet Hewitt ( Margaret and/or Mary were sometimes used but not always ) who was born in Tipperary both c. 1812, He was a journey-man cabinet maker, who was in love with the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Cleary ).He was sent to Farney Castle to do some repairs on furniture. The folk lore says that because he was catholic and she not there were difficulties regarding marriage. They ran away and married I don't know where. In 1837 they were living in Dublin, perhaps he worked in Queen St. at his trade , they had six children when the plague hit them. When the wife Margaret recovered her husband Thomas and three children were dead. According to Margaret's death certificate, who died in Bendigo Australia, the children were --- James c1833-1837 Patrick c1834-1874. Mary Ann c1835-1885, John c1836-1837. Margaret c1836- ---- ( she may have married Robert Duff 1863 Nenagh Co.Tipperary ) Elizabeth c1837-1837. Thomas appears to have died in May 1837. Margaret obtained work as a matron, through a friend of her father, at Kilmainham Goal outside Dublin. She didn't like the work and took her three children to Wolverhampton England , eventually she and two children, then adults in the 1850s, separately sailed to Australia. Patrick married in Wolverhampton to Sarah Collins of Tipperary ,before sailing to Australia. I would very much like to verify what of this story is true. Can some one please help a couple of Australian descendants of ancestors from Counties Clare, Tipperary, Kilkenny and Westmeath ? Peter and Marie Bergin.