I thought I would join the Heffernan chase... I am looking for information about the family of a Kathleen Heffernan in Tipperary, possibly Thurles. Apart from the fact that my father once took his family on a search for Heffernans in the area (info from a sister who was a teenager at the time and not listening all that carefully), the only details I have are from a cousin who remembers her 'mother telling me that we were descended from five generations of Irish school-teachers, four of them called Catherine/Kathleen. The furthest name she gave me was Kathleen Heffernan, a teacher in County Tipperary. After that (I think) came Katherine Hall (who was presumably a teacher too), then Catherine Burke, then grandmother, then mother herself [who wasn't called either Catherine or Kathleen]'. As to date, Catherine Burke was born c1841/43, probably in Co Tipperary, and her father was called Richard. Both she and her daughter were indeed school teachers despite and throughout raising large families. The family remained, as far as I know, in Ireland throughout the 19th century. Any help/ suggestions would be much appreciated.

Rosemary welcome into the hay stack. In your Heffernan research. Laraine in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Wake" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:30 PM Subject: [IRL-TIP] Heffernans >I thought I would join the Heffernan chase... I am looking for > information about the family of a Kathleen Heffernan in Tipperary, > possibly Thurles. Apart from the fact that my father once took his > family on a search for Heffernans in the area (info from a sister who > was a teenager at the time and not listening all that carefully), the > only details I have are from a cousin who remembers her 'mother > telling me that we were descended from five generations of Irish > school-teachers, four of them called Catherine/Kathleen. The furthest > name she gave me was Kathleen Heffernan, a teacher in County > Tipperary. After that (I think) came Katherine Hall (who was > presumably a teacher too), then Catherine Burke, then grandmother, > then mother herself [who wasn't called either Catherine or Kathleen]'. > > As to date, Catherine Burke was born c1841/43, probably in Co > Tipperary, and her father was called Richard. Both she and her > daughter were indeed school teachers despite and throughout raising > large families. > > The family remained, as far as I know, in Ireland throughout the 19th > century. > > Any help/ suggestions would be much appreciated. > _______________________________________________________ > Griffith's Valuation: http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths.php > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message