Hi Brendan, Where do you find the lighthouse keeper records online? My great grandfather Patrick Moran was one on Valentia Island and I would be thrilled to find any information on him. Thanks, Joan Sent from my iPad On Aug 22, 2013, at 4:08 AM, "brendan@researchireland.com" <brendan@researchireland.com> wrote: > Hello Mary, > > I carried ot a research project for a lady in Australia, her G grandmother Margaret Sweeny was born in Clifden Galway 1841, daughter of Morgan Sweeny a Coastguard officer. I picked up two children born in Strangford, Co. Down, same parents. She told me I was barking mad. > Coastguard records are now online in large PDF files you can download from the National archives in London. > > Morgan was in Clifden 1841, he was a boatman, the records recorded his transfer to Strangford station, the records also showed that he was from Dunloe, Donegal, that is where he signed on. > > RIC files are available in Dublin City library, the file gives year of birth, place of birth, wife if married, wife's county of birth and all transfer details, date left, pension. > > I believe the lighthouse personnel records are online. > > Brendan > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: "Mary Simpson" <marymcs@talktalk.net> > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:35 AM > To: "Steve Brennan" <steveb@dna.ie> > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Catholic / Protestant marriages > > Steve, > > Oh dear, mea maxima culpa, I meant Flying Columns - watching too many old cop dramas on the goggle box - one cousin was a great friend of Tom Barry. And yes, our family knew nothing about members being in the RIC, and another was a Lighthouse Keeper, off Tory Island and Mayo ( was that as bad as the police? ). > > Mary > > On 21 Aug 2013, at 18:23, Steve Brennan wrote: > >> Hi Mary, >> >> There are indeed a multitude of Sullivans. Probably just aswell they didn't have to do blood tests to marry! >> >> Don't worry, I've come across a couple of RIC members myself in both my own and my wife's families (the shame of it!), although one redeemed himself by resigning and joining the Free State army. Interestingly, no-one had known about it - it was a shady little secret. >> >> Steve. >> >> >> On 21 August 2013 17:42, Mary Simpson wrote: >> Hello Steve, >> >> I have an instance of a man from a staunchly non Catholic background - baptised into the C of I although originally the family were Huguenot, a Francis Dukelow born 1870, Durrus in southwest Cork, who became a Catholic to marry my great aunt Mary Ellen in Wexford Town in 1900. He was a policeman in the RIC, but on the other side of the family we had members of the Flying Squads ... >> >> I also have Kerry Sullivan in my mother's family, a Julia Sullivan, born Minish 1813 to Thomas Sullivan and Gobinet Counihan, originally from Cloghereen, just south of Killarney. Also Sullivans tying in with Sheehans and Shea on another branch of the family from Cloonmore, Castlemaine / Milltown. Trouble is, there are SO many Sullivans! >> >> Mary >> _______________ >> --------------- >> >> 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. 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