Nancy, By any chance was your Fr.Wm. Gray related to George Gray who married Jane Booker? They were from the Glenhil (SP?) area. Janes Father was an anglican Priest Rev John Booker. Any bells ringing??? Pat Adams researching Booker, Gray, Dermody from Granard,Longford etc.... ----- Original Message ----- From: <ngray.phale@att.net> To: <irl-longford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-LONGFORD] Hughes/Kelagher Marriage Dispensation > Actually Abbeylara does have its own church--or chapel, as it would have > been known during the British period--in addition to the ruined monastery. > One of my distant cousins, Father William Gray, was parish priest there in > the 1890s and must have baptized Rhoda's relative. > > Nancy > -------------- Original message from "David A. Myers" > <davidamyers@mindspring.com>: -------------- > > >> HI Rhoda, >> This is where we both need a map of the Granard area for 1800. >> My family, CREAMER, is from Abbeylara and the records are listed >> under "Granard." >> I have also opened the other parishes listed and I have found >> more family members. >> >> Actually, Abbeylara is only about 3 miles from Granard, and the only >> church I know about in Abbeylara is that "lovely" ruined >> monastery. I suspect that the priest came to Abbeylara for a few >> hours and then recorded the data at Granard (or, perhaps the people >> made a journey to Granard for a marrige or baptism or funeral.) >> David >> >> At 05:24 AM 3/21/2008, you wrote: >> >Hallo David >> > >> >Thanks for the site refererence. Can you tell me if the Granard baptisms >> >include Abbeylara? My Grandmother (Mary Jane Feeney) was baptised in >> >Abbeylara c1892 and I can't see her on the list. (I have a copy of her >> >baptism certificate somewhere). >> > >> >Thank you. >> > >> >Rhoda >> > >> > >> > >> >********************************** >> >Longford Genealogy Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllog/ >> > >> >------------------------------- >> >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >IRL-LONGFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ********************************** >> Longford Genealogy Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllog/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-LONGFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > ********************************** > Longford Genealogy Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllog/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-LONGFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message