I have followed this thread with interest. Does anyone recognise a community in the MA area from North Kerry, say from Causeway to Listowel? Cheers Rod O'Donoghue -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kathleen Fitzgerald Sent: 10 August 2013 20:31 To: Jeanne Baldwin; IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA Genealogy bank has quite a few years of the Springfield Newspapers on line and continues to add them. The Irish Cultural Center at the Elms College in Chicopee, MA is a very active center. I believe they have a genealogist at least part time that may be a good resource. There are many Irish in the Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, Palmer, Ware and Hartford CT area that either they or their ancestors came from the Dingle area, especially from the west of Dingle. Last Fall the Irish Cultural Center hosted a presentation by the author of The Men of Ventry. It was a great movie and presentation. In June they helped launch the book "From the Great Blasket to America -The Last Memoir by an Islander". It was writen by Dr. Mike Carney who was born on the Blasket Island and immigrated to Springfield, MA. The initial launching was held earlier at the Blasket Center in Dunquin. Kathleen _______________ --------------- 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8673 (20130810) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8673 (20130810) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8673 (20130810) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
Forwarded conversation Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA ------------------------ From: *Jeanne Baldwin* <jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM To: IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com So many people from Kerry settled in the Springfield area. Could anyone suggest some MA resources on-line that could assist me in narrowing down a few options? I know of Hampton and Chicopee as locales. I am looking for people from Ventry who left in the 1880's. Jeanne from CA Researching Lynch, Manning, Dunleavy, Kevane, Fenton and ? _______________ --------------- 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 ---------- From: ** <pegassi@verizon.net> Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:00 PM To: jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com, IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Many Kerry peopled settled in Holyoke as well. The many factories that offered work was very appealing for those willing and able to work. What options are you trying to narrow down? NEHGS is a great source for researching family. Peg Gingras On 08/09/13, Jeanne Baldwin<jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com> wrote: So many people from Kerry settled in the Springfield area. Could anyone suggest some MA resources on-line that could assist me in narrowing down a few options? I know of Hampton and Chicopee as locales. I am looking for people from Ventry who left in the 1880's. Jeanne from CA Researching Lynch, Manning, Dunleavy, Kevane, Fenton and ? _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: [1]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [2]IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. 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Her contact info is at [5]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [6]IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ 2. mailto:IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com 4. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ 5. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ 6. mailto:IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com ---------- From: *sandy stegmayer* <ssteg@verizon.net> Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:26 PM To: pegassi@verizon.net, jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com, IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com I suggest you contact John O'Connor who writes a genealogy column for the Springfield Republican. You can access them on masslive.com. He is also at the Historical Museum which is part of the Springfield Library system. Good luck. Sandy ---------- From: *grammgault* <grammgault@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:05 PM To: sandy stegmayer <ssteg@verizon.net> Cc: IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com There were several Kerry families from the Glenbehy area that lived in Nashua, New Hampshire. Partial list of surnames would include Reardon, Diggins, Shea, Sweeney. ---------- From: *Julie Hu* <mcelroy22000@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:47 PM To: "irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com" <irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com> New London and Willamantic were also great attractions for people from Kerry, especially Caherciveen and Bolus. My grandmother told us that "the mill" paid her way over and "took care" of her (this was in the 1890s). One of my goals is to find the name of the mill and see if it advertised in Kerry and if there are any surviving records of the employees. ________________________________ From: sandy stegmayer <ssteg@verizon.net> To: pegassi@verizon.net; jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com; IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:26 AM ---------- From: *Paul Keroack* <pkeroack@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM To: Julie Hu <mcelroy22000@yahoo.com>, "IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com" < IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com> Julie, The following links include the history of the primary mills in Willimantic - the last one is an organization that may have surviving records. I'm not sure if the mills recruited in Kerry, but I did have 19th century Kerry cousins who worked at the thread mill in Willimantic. Some went there from Norwich which also had many mills with Irish workers. Nearby Colchester had a rubber mill which definately recruited in Cahirciveen, but earlier, in the 1850s. New London was not a city with a great number of mills, as it was primarily a port, but it did have some. Paul Keroack http://www.past-inc.org/Willimantic/overall_history.htm http://www.textilehistory.org/WillimanticCottonMills.html http://www.millmuseum.org/ ________________________________ From: Julie Hu <mcelroy22000@yahoo.com> To: "irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com" <irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 9:47 PM ---------- From: *Kathleen Fitzgerald* <sleahead@att.net> Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:30 PM To: Jeanne Baldwin <jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com>, IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Genealogy bank has quite a few years of the Springfield Newspapers on line and continues to add them. The Irish Cultural Center at the Elms College in Chicopee, MA is a very active center. I believe they have a genealogist at least part time that may be a good resource. There are many Irish in the Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, Palmer, Ware and Hartford CT area that either they or their ancestors came from the Dingle area, especially from the west of Dingle. Last Fall the Irish Cultural Center hosted a presentation by the author of The Men of Ventry. It was a great movie and presentation. In June they helped launch the book "From the Great Blasket to America -The Last Memoir by an Islander". It was writen by Dr. Mike Carney who was born on the Blasket Island and immigrated to Springfield, MA. The initial launching was held earlier at the Blasket Center in Dunquin. Kathleen ---------- From: *Rod O'Donoghue* <rod@odonoghue.co.uk> Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 4:36 PM To: Kathleen Fitzgerald <sleahead@att.net>, Jeanne Baldwin < jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com>, IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com I have followed this thread with interest. Does anyone recognise a community in the MA area from North Kerry, say from Causeway to Listowel? Cheers Rod O'Donoghue -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kathleen Fitzgerald Sent: 10 August 2013 20:31 To: Jeanne Baldwin; IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8673 (20130810) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8673 (20130810) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8673 (20130810) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. this is embarrassing...I don't know how to reply to the Kerry list, I hope this gets to you, I will copy in someone I know to be sure. My family, Coakleys, came from Castlegregory; some of them settled in Lawrence MA and Haverhill. My family, which I have found also in the directory for Willimantic, settled in Bridgeport, Ct although my grandfather died in Waterbury, CT and forever we could not find a record. I think his family frowned on the Dennehy colleen, so they embarked in Bridgeport. the Bridgeport post is on ancestry up until the 70's ...it goes as early as 1915? thereabouts anyway, don't hold me to it.
I don't know about MA, but a lot of Listowel & Duagh families passed through or stayed in Pittsburgh. Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2013, at 4:36 PM, "Rod O'Donoghue" <rod@odonoghue.co.uk> wrote: > I have followed this thread with interest. Does anyone recognise a > community in the MA area from North Kerry, say from Causeway to Listowel? > > Cheers > > Rod O'Donoghue > > -----Original Message----- > From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Kathleen Fitzgerald > Sent: 10 August 2013 20:31 > To: Jeanne Baldwin; IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA > > Genealogy bank has quite a few years of the Springfield Newspapers on line > and continues to add them. > The Irish Cultural Center at the Elms College in Chicopee, MA is a very > active center. I believe they have a genealogist at least part time that > may be a good resource. > > There are many Irish in the Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, Palmer, Ware and > Hartford CT area that either they or their ancestors came from the Dingle > area, especially from the west of Dingle. > > Last Fall the Irish Cultural Center hosted a presentation by the author of > The Men of Ventry. It was a great movie and presentation. > > In June they helped launch the book "From the Great Blasket to America > -The Last Memoir by an Islander". It was writen by Dr. Mike Carney who > was born on the Blasket Island and immigrated to Springfield, MA. The > initial launching was held earlier at the Blasket Center in Dunquin. > > > > Kathleen > _______________ > --------------- > > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 8673 (20130810) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 8673 (20130810) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 8673 (20130810) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > _______________ > --------------- > > 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