Hello Peter, Thanks for the advice! On the Wales 1911 census both Jeremiah and Hanora had Kenmare listed as birthplace, and early on in my search I did focus on the town of Kenmare. But after finding no good matches, I'm thinking that it could be the parish of Kenmare, with its many townlands, that they may be referring to in the 1911 Census. Also, I have regularly been checking the Irish parishes website trying different combinations of parents names and birth years to see if anything looks promising. while I have several possibilities for each it's hard to say which one it might be without a townland. Thank again, -Heather

Hi Heather, The one big clue is that he was a miner, there were copper mines in Alihies on the Beara Peninsula. We used to have a person on this list who was an expert on mining in Ireland and Wales, he wrote a book on it. The small ships used to deliver coal to Castletownbere from Wales, the agents from the mines in Wales used to come over to Beara recruiting, the miners used to get free passage on the coal ships to act as ballast. A lot of the miners who lived in Beara were the same miners who ended up leaving Wales and emigrating to the US. Riobaird O'Dwyer is the world expert on the Sullivan's from Beara, he has donated all his research to Boston University. The Sullivans all had nicknames, when you discover the nickname you discover your Sullivans. Somewhere online is a 1821 parish census for the area. Brendan On 14 Oct 2013, at 14:23, Heather Hundt wrote: > Hello Peter, > > Thanks for the advice! On the Wales 1911 census both Jeremiah and > Hanora had Kenmare listed as birthplace, and early on in my search I > did focus on the town of Kenmare. But after finding no good > matches, I'm thinking that it could be the parish of Kenmare, with > its many townlands, that they may be referring to in the 1911 > Census. Also, I have regularly been checking the Irish parishes > website trying different combinations of parents names and birth > years to see if anything looks promising. while I have several > possibilities for each it's hard to say which one it might be > without a townland. > > Thank again, > -Heather > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email > to IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with > the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to > reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her > contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message