Thank you for your reply, I will try and find "genes reunited" and see if anything there for me. Possibly this Patrick Carmody is a grand or great grandson of the one I am hoping to find info about. On Sep 25, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Neil & Jan Hearn wrote: > Dear Pat, > I've had a look on Genes Reunited and there are 29 > Carmodys there many of them born around the area you are searching in. > One is a Patrick CARMODY, born in 1937 in West Drayton.You could save > yourself a lot of time and money by contacting the tree owners. > > Best of luck, > Jan > in sunny Queensland > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Lewis" <carmodyp@bellsouth.net> > To: "county cork" <irl-cork@rootsweb.com>; "rootsweb.com > middlesex_county_uk" <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 7:47 AM > Subject: [MDX] Looking for help > > >> My great grandparents came from West Cork, town unknown but possibly >> near Kilbrin or Liscarroll areas. I have the names of the great >> grandparents who because of the famines in 1850's made their way over >> to England ( Middlesex area) for work. My great grand father, Denis >> Mulcahy was a agricultural labourer/farmer, according to British >> census of 1871-1901. >> At some point in time during the 1880's a cousin/nephew of Denis, made >> his way over from Kilbrin. He was Patrick Carmody to stay in same area >> as my great grandparents. >> Denis and wife, Johanna had 4 children, Patrick, Johanna/Annie, John, >> and Denis. Only John made it to the USA, became a citizen and joined >> the US Army, then married a widow, Nora Mulcahy Sullivan, from >> Kanturk, >> Cork. >> I know that the other 3 children stayed in Middlesex area, Patrick >> was >> a guard at asylum in W. Drayton,and stayed single, Annie married a >> John >> Carter, Denis joined the Metropolitan Police, also stayed single. I >> have managed to trace thru the Carter family, some info as to family >> but no one knows exactly where in Cork, the parents Johanna and Denis >> Carmody came from to be able to trace back any info, in over 40 years >> of tracking. >> >> I am now trying to concentrate on the cousin Patrick Carmody of >> Kilbrin >> , he married a Norah Healy about 1887 near Uxbridge, I think. They >> worked and lived at St. Mary's Orpahange, last known to be a farm hand >> there . Together, they had 11 children, among them a Michael, Thomas, >> Hannah, Margaret, Andrew, Ellen, Kate, Norah, and probably a Mary. ( >> That's all the names I could find). >> I am hoping to find a descendent of one of the children who might have >> some family info/lore of the Carmody family. >> If anyone knows someone by the last name Carmody, please pass this on. >> I am hoping some kind soul would make a copy of the current telephone >> directory of Middlesex , and mail me a copy, so I could possibly >> snail >> mail the people and see IF they would have any knowledge of these >> illusive Carmody's from the past. >> I would gladly pay charges of copy and snail mailing. >> I am clutching at straws here, I know, but after all the years and >> money spent I can only try one more time. >> I live in Florida, USA. >> I have tried the 192.com site but it would cost a small fortune for >> site listings to join for the info they have. I could probably fly >> over >> and stay a day or so and make copy myself, with the costs of >> Ancestry, >> 192.com and others. >> >> Thank you for any help you can give. >> >> I never got to know my grandparents as they died before I was born. My >> Father knew little about the family when I finally got to be with him >> as an adult my having grown up in RC homes.I would love to know some >> info of the family before I meet them face to face someday (LOL). >> >> ************************************** >> Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** >> superfluous old messages in replies. >> >> List Admin can be contacted at: Middlesex_County_UK-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Middlesex_County_UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >