Margaret, This is an extremely old submission to the Ancestral Files on the LDS site, from a private submitter. It is not backed up by any hard evidence, no sources cited. It was submitted to the site sometime betwen 1978 and 1991, from a resident of Johannesburg, S. Africa. The younger Michael, born in the 1840-42 time period emigrated to New Zealand and married 2 times while there. His first wife was Ellen O'Neil and his 2nd wife was Ellen Eagar. No identified place of death for his parents, Catherine and Michael. The younger Michael died in 1915 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. I will have to go through boxes, but I do not believe I found any Keyes (or its variants) in the parish during the time of the Tithes and there are none in there during the time of the Primary Valuation. My hunch is that Michael Sr. somehow ties in with the Keyes families you find in either Galbally or Ballingarry civil parishes that are around that Ballylanders area. Ballylanders parish records start relatively soon after young Michael's birth, and I'd have expected to see more children for the couple if they were indeed in this parish. You might try Galbally, as its parish records are considerably older, as are the parish registers for that side of Ballingarry civil parish (Knocklong Catholic parish). If you would like, I can give you a fairly lengthy list of kids for young Michael with his 2 wives, again, all were born in New Zealand. The oldest child, with the Eagar spouse, is the one who wound back up in S. Africa. It appears the rest of the family may have stayed in New Zealand. Let me know if I can help further. Cindy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 3:00 am Subject: IRL-LIMERICK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 274 Also see: ttp://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ oday's Topics: 1. KEYES BALLYLANDERS LIMERICK (Margaret Spearin) 2. Re: McCarthys from Rathkeale look up please help (Julian McCarthy) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 ate: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:01:26 -0000 rom: "Margaret Spearin" <[email protected]> ubject: [IRL-LIMERICK] KEYES BALLYLANDERS LIMERICK o: <[email protected]> essage-ID: <[email protected]> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi list am looking information on Keyes family Ballylanders Limerick. I have Michael eyes born ab 1842 in Ballylanders. His father was MICHAEL KEYES and mother ATHERINE WELSH. have been to see the parish priest in Ballylanders, but his records dont go ack that far and he has no Keyes in his book. If anyone could help with the EYES or WELSH families from that area of County Limerick i would be very rateful Thank you Margaret ------------------------------ Message: 2 ate: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:50:47 -0000 rom: "Julian McCarthy" <[email protected]> ubject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] McCarthys from Rathkeale look up please help o: <[email protected]> c: [email protected] essage-ID: <[email protected]> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Is there anyone out there who can help me by searching birth registers for athkeale. I am trying to find births of McCarthys in Rathkeale back from 1860 specifically ny births to John McCarthy and Mary Mulcahy married in Bruff 1855 but who moved o Rathkeale. Are there any John McCarthys out there in records born circa 1824 in Rathkeale? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated (by me AND my 80 year old dad, who ntil recently knew nothing of his past!). Thanks to all. Julian McCarthy ------------------------------ To contact the IRL-LIMERICK list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the IRL-LIMERICK mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of he mail with no additional text. nd of IRL-LIMERICK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 274 *******************************************