I forgot to add Adelaide. Please review the categories and if your data fits one of the categories you can submit it yourself and our File Manager Christina will process from there. Thanks again.........and good day all. Don Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: <roscommon-request@rootsweb.com> To: <roscommon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: ROSCOMMON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 46 > > > DIGEST IN MIME FORMAT > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: new database (award100genbox@optonline.net) > 2. Byron and Kenny, Castlerea (twkinney@comcast.net) > 3. Advice - McCormack / Waldron (Dave Lillico) > 4. Re: Advice - McCormack / Waldron (MK Douglas) > 5. Re: Advice - McCormack / Waldron (Patricia O'Shea) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:33:03 +0000 (GMT) > From: award100genbox@optonline.net > Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] new database > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <e666f4407ad6.4690cb6f@optonline.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Thank you for advising members of this list of the Roscommon database. I > have, over the years, collected data from the review of films from LDS at > a local Family History Center. Of course, I only have family names. > Would any of this data be useful for this database? > > Adelaide > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Donal O'Kelly > Date: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:54 pm > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] new database > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > >> New emigration database files for Roscommon have been added. >> >> Find them at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ >> >> Next will soon be added entitled criminal removals, those >> transported for >> crimes. >> >> Read them and if you have additional data material to add, >> please feel free >> to do so. >> >> Thank you all for coming and for contributing research materials >> which are >> free to read by anyone on the internet whom are looking for >> their Irish >> ancestors...... >> >> Admin >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:51:12 +0000 > From: twkinney@comcast.net > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Byron and Kenny, Castlerea > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <070820071151.28840.4690CFB00001CFE4000070A82207000953970A02020705999B@comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > I am looking for Malachi Byron who married Bridget Kenny in 1848-50 at > Castlerea. They arrived in US shortly after and lived in CT, and settled > in PA by 1860. > Thanks > Donna Kinney > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 13:35:30 +0100 > From: "Dave Lillico" <dave@lilli.co.uk> > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > To: <roscommon@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <005c01c7c15c$78c8dc50$6a5a94f0$@co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi All > > > > I am just starting on the road of discovery into my family from Roscommon > and thought it prudent to ask you guys about some of the pitfalls and > issues > you have faced along your journey's? > > Not much point re-inventing the wheel. As data seems so hard to come by I > presume you guys have found alternative data sources and ways of tracking > people back, any advice on where good sources are would > > be a great help. Is it just the LDS or do you have to visit and get into > Church records. Are the vital records index worth investing in? > > Anything else I should be aware of? Emmigration? Famine? Migration through > the counties? > > > > Anyway, any response is a good response, thanks in advance and good luck > to > all. > > > > Dave > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 07:20:14 -0700 (PDT) > From: MK Douglas <rkdoug2000@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <441899.74437.qm@web84101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi, Dave, and welcome. First of all, start with what you know and go > back. What years and cuntries are we talking about for starters? Tell us > what you know and someone will have some suggetions for you. It can be an > exciting if at times frustrating journey. > > Kathleen > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:49:01 +1200 > From: "Patricia O'Shea" <pkoshea@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > To: <roscommon@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <009001c7c1ba$8fd75440$0301010a@pata1142ce242e> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Don't forget the Leitrim-Roscommon website which has some excellent > resources: > > http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml > > Cheers, Patsy - New Zealand. > > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > > >> Hi All > >> I am just starting on the road of discovery into my family from Roscommon >> and thought it prudent to ask you guys about some of the pitfalls and >> issues >> you have faced along your journey's? >> >> Not much point re-inventing the wheel. As data seems so hard to come by I >> presume you guys have found alternative data sources and ways of tracking >> people back, any advice on where good sources are would >> >> be a great help. Is it just the LDS or do you have to visit and get into >> Church records. Are the vital records index worth investing in? >> >> Anything else I should be aware of? Emmigration? Famine? Migration >> through >> the counties? > >> Anyway, any response is a good response, thanks in advance and good luck >> to >> all. >> Dave >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ROSCOMMON list administrator, send an email to > ROSCOMMON-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ROSCOMMON mailing list, send an email to > ROSCOMMON@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ROSCOMMON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 46 > **************************************** > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/890 - Release Date: 7/7/2007 > 3:26 PM > >

Thank you Adelaide. On the actual database for the time being we are posting data in the categories found on the Roscommon data entry page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ I sounds like your information is associated with family surnames. If so, we can accomodate, with thanks and credit, your information on the RoscommonGenWeb site which is searchable. We try to post every kind of information in hopes a cousin will see something and email us. I just love it. How would you like to move this information, by email attachment, or CD by mail? Or by some other method? Have a great day. Don Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: <roscommon-request@rootsweb.com> To: <roscommon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: ROSCOMMON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 46 > > > DIGEST IN MIME FORMAT > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: new database (award100genbox@optonline.net) > 2. Byron and Kenny, Castlerea (twkinney@comcast.net) > 3. Advice - McCormack / Waldron (Dave Lillico) > 4. Re: Advice - McCormack / Waldron (MK Douglas) > 5. Re: Advice - McCormack / Waldron (Patricia O'Shea) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:33:03 +0000 (GMT) > From: award100genbox@optonline.net > Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] new database > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <e666f4407ad6.4690cb6f@optonline.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Thank you for advising members of this list of the Roscommon database. I > have, over the years, collected data from the review of films from LDS at > a local Family History Center. Of course, I only have family names. > Would any of this data be useful for this database? > > Adelaide > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Donal O'Kelly > Date: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:54 pm > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] new database > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > >> New emigration database files for Roscommon have been added. >> >> Find them at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ >> >> Next will soon be added entitled criminal removals, those >> transported for >> crimes. >> >> Read them and if you have additional data material to add, >> please feel free >> to do so. >> >> Thank you all for coming and for contributing research materials >> which are >> free to read by anyone on the internet whom are looking for >> their Irish >> ancestors...... >> >> Admin >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:51:12 +0000 > From: twkinney@comcast.net > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Byron and Kenny, Castlerea > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <070820071151.28840.4690CFB00001CFE4000070A82207000953970A02020705999B@comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > I am looking for Malachi Byron who married Bridget Kenny in 1848-50 at > Castlerea. They arrived in US shortly after and lived in CT, and settled > in PA by 1860. > Thanks > Donna Kinney > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 13:35:30 +0100 > From: "Dave Lillico" <dave@lilli.co.uk> > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > To: <roscommon@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <005c01c7c15c$78c8dc50$6a5a94f0$@co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi All > > > > I am just starting on the road of discovery into my family from Roscommon > and thought it prudent to ask you guys about some of the pitfalls and > issues > you have faced along your journey's? > > Not much point re-inventing the wheel. As data seems so hard to come by I > presume you guys have found alternative data sources and ways of tracking > people back, any advice on where good sources are would > > be a great help. Is it just the LDS or do you have to visit and get into > Church records. Are the vital records index worth investing in? > > Anything else I should be aware of? Emmigration? Famine? Migration through > the counties? > > > > Anyway, any response is a good response, thanks in advance and good luck > to > all. > > > > Dave > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 07:20:14 -0700 (PDT) > From: MK Douglas <rkdoug2000@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <441899.74437.qm@web84101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi, Dave, and welcome. First of all, start with what you know and go > back. What years and cuntries are we talking about for starters? Tell us > what you know and someone will have some suggetions for you. It can be an > exciting if at times frustrating journey. > > Kathleen > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:49:01 +1200 > From: "Patricia O'Shea" <pkoshea@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > To: <roscommon@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <009001c7c1ba$8fd75440$0301010a@pata1142ce242e> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Don't forget the Leitrim-Roscommon website which has some excellent > resources: > > http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml > > Cheers, Patsy - New Zealand. > > Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Advice - McCormack / Waldron > > >> Hi All > >> I am just starting on the road of discovery into my family from Roscommon >> and thought it prudent to ask you guys about some of the pitfalls and >> issues >> you have faced along your journey's? >> >> Not much point re-inventing the wheel. As data seems so hard to come by I >> presume you guys have found alternative data sources and ways of tracking >> people back, any advice on where good sources are would >> >> be a great help. Is it just the LDS or do you have to visit and get into >> Church records. Are the vital records index worth investing in? >> >> Anything else I should be aware of? Emmigration? Famine? Migration >> through >> the counties? > >> Anyway, any response is a good response, thanks in advance and good luck >> to >> all. >> Dave >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ROSCOMMON list administrator, send an email to > ROSCOMMON-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the ROSCOMMON mailing list, send an email to > ROSCOMMON@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ROSCOMMON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 46 > **************************************** > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/890 - Release Date: 7/7/2007 > 3:26 PM > >

If there is any way you can get to Ireland, look at the land records. I saw them about 20 years ago in Dublin and they not only had owners but also occupiers. And when somebody died, it was crossed out and a new name inserted. Should still be available.

Hi All I am just starting on the road of discovery into my family from Roscommon and thought it prudent to ask you guys about some of the pitfalls and issues you have faced along your journey's? Not much point re-inventing the wheel. As data seems so hard to come by I presume you guys have found alternative data sources and ways of tracking people back, any advice on where good sources are would be a great help. Is it just the LDS or do you have to visit and get into Church records. Are the vital records index worth investing in? Anything else I should be aware of? Emmigration? Famine? Migration through the counties? Anyway, any response is a good response, thanks in advance and good luck to all. Dave

I am looking for Malachi Byron who married Bridget Kenny in 1848-50 at Castlerea. They arrived in US shortly after and lived in CT, and settled in PA by 1860. Thanks Donna Kinney

Thank you for advising members of this list of the Roscommon database. I have, over the years, collected data from the review of films from LDS at a local Family History Center. Of course, I only have family names. Would any of this data be useful for this database? Adelaide ----- Original Message ----- From: Donal O'Kelly Date: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:54 pm Subject: [ROSCOMMON] new database To: roscommon@rootsweb.com > New emigration database files for Roscommon have been added. > > Find them at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ > > Next will soon be added entitled criminal removals, those > transported for > crimes. > > Read them and if you have additional data material to add, > please feel free > to do so. > > Thank you all for coming and for contributing research materials > which are > free to read by anyone on the internet whom are looking for > their Irish > ancestors...... > > Admin > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi, Dave, and welcome. First of all, start with what you know and go back. What years and cuntries are we talking about for starters? Tell us what you know and someone will have some suggetions for you. It can be an exciting if at times frustrating journey. Kathleen

I have a Michael born Roscommon circa 1829 recorded as BYRNE (1851), BYRN (1853), BEIRN (1861 and 1901), O'BEIRNE (1871), BIRNE (1872) and BEIRNE (1873 and 1891). I can't find him in the 1881 Census. Any connection, Patty? In 1851 Michael's birthplace is recorded as 'Ireland Lathrain'*, in 1871 as 'Ireland Roscommon' and in other instances simply as 'Ireland'. * I can't find any reference to a Lathrain. The word is written quite clearly except that as the 'i' isn't dotted there is a possibility that it could be Lathram. If so, could it be a corrupted spelling of Leitrim perhaps? Michael's marriage to Sarah formerly Ewings, born Wetherall is my major brick wall. In 1851 he is living at Crown Street, Botchergate aged 22 and married to Sarah aged 19 but try as I might, I have been unable to find where and when the marriage occurred. I've scoured the Civil Registration Index from 1844 (when Sarah would have been 12) to 1852 but can't identify either of them (or I missed them), likewise with the IGI. Assuming Michael and Sarah were married in Carlisle and also that they were married in a Catholic Church, which Church would it be? If anyone has access to those Parish Records and could check them for me I would be most grateful. It's possible of course that Michael was not a Catholic but I think it unlikely. Geo. Looking for Roscommon O'Beirnes.

New emigration database files for Roscommon have been added. Find them at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ Next will soon be added entitled criminal removals, those transported for crimes. Read them and if you have additional data material to add, please feel free to do so. Thank you all for coming and for contributing research materials which are free to read by anyone on the internet whom are looking for their Irish ancestors...... Admin

Hello Michael - if you don't already have it there is this reference in the Griffith's Valuations for Roscommon County Laurence KANE renting a house and small garden from George Digby in Drumdaff townland, Kilbride parish, Ballintober Barony. Also a Laurence KANE in nearby Leitrim. I guess you have tried the Leitrim-Roscommon website? Could be a connection? Cheers, Patsy - New Zealand. Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Michael Duncan Cain > My Grandfather a Michael Duncan Cain was born in Roscommon in c1838 and > was > a Coach Harness Maker. His Father was a Lawrence Cain. Michael came to > England in about 1855 and joined the Army in Birmingham. Has anybody come > across this family in their research? > > Michael Cain >>

Would anyone have any connections for John Hannon born in Roscommon 18 Apr 1845, emigrated to US circa 1859, followed later by mother, Margaret b circa 1810; and brother, Matthew b circa 1834? Thanks. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Teague<mailto:padre.bruce@gmail.com> To: roscommon@rootsweb.com<mailto:roscommon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 9:13 PM Subject: [ROSCOMMON] Looking For Hannons near Dysak Bertha and Mary Hannon emigrated to Boston before or after 1880 from Roscommen(near Athone) Their mother was a Curley. Thanks. Bruce On 7/4/07, Patty O'Beirne <po610@wowway.com<mailto:po610@wowway.com>> wrote: > > Looking for Roscommon O'Beirnes. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello George, I'm glad you are still there George! You have responded every time I've posted, and I use your energy and enthusiasm for the genealogy hunt when my own starts to wane. I checked that LDS microfilm, along with another one, about 5 years ago; maybe I should give them another go, as the handwritten records can tire one out quickly. I've managed to accumulate quite a few BENSON & variants' records from those two films, plus Griffiths' and other land record lists. What I haven't been able to do is connect them with my James Benson (abt 1834-1917) and his brother John (abt 1830-1910). The church records for Kilronan Parish for the years 1829-1835 don't exist and this would be where their births would be. I have had some contact with some nice current Bensons in the area of Keadue and Ballyfarnon, but they don't have information beyond their own great-grandparents. I've had a few interesting leads, but nothing has connected perfectly with my "puzzle". Take care, George. Ken Benson in Toronto, Canada >From: GWGEHoyt@aol.com >Reply-To: roscommon@rootsweb.com >To: roscommon@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] BENSON & variants, Roscommon... >Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:09:21 EDT > >Ken-- > >I'm still here too, after all these years. > >I wonder if you know about the microfilm that the LDS have for the Keadue >Catholic Church. I don't remember the film number but it was something >like >#1279224. It had baptismal and marriage records that began about 1827. I >don't >know about the church in Ballyfarnon, but I would bet that the Moromon's >would >have it too. And Drumshanbo is not too far away, and may have some >information >for you. > >Also, a few of my Gaffneys crossed the River Feorish, which separates >Kilronan and Ardcarn Civil Parishes, and they married gals from the >Cootehall area. >The Cootehall Church records began in 1843. > >Hope some of this turns out to be helpful to you. > > Best, > > George Hoyt > > >************************************** > See what's >free at http://www.aol.com. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Listers Just thought someone may be interested in the following County Roscommon site giving local cemetery information for various areas.It appears this has only recently been added to the County Council site. For those that are not locals this may give clues to many ancestors burial sites. http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/burialgrounds/search.aspx Cheers Marion( Australia) seeking Madden, Flynn and Kelly in Roscommon _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: WIN new Jeep Compass & Off-Road Adventure with Trading Post! http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etradingpostcompetition%2Ecom%2Eau%2FOffRoadAdventure%2F%3Freferrer%3Dplace83&_t=763756818&_r=hotmail_email_tagline_July07&_m=EXT

Bill, I'm responding to your query, but I'm sure this is a very long shot... Our relative, great, great uncle (or so) THOMAS MULDOWNEY was married in Ardcarn parish in 1850. (to Frances Forry by the way.) They immigrated and settled in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. Frances died about 1856, and Thomas remarried shortly thereafter, ANN BRUEN. I don't know that she was born in Co. Roscommon, only Ireland for sure. Born about 1834, daughter of ANDREW BRUEN. Ann died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919. Her children were Ann (aka Emma), Timothy, Henry, Andrew, Sarah and Joseph Muldowney. Loree Muldowney ----- Original Message ----- From: wmeehan678@aol.com To: roscommon@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:47 AM Subject: [ROSCOMMON] BRUEN - Co. Roscommon, Cartron and Crossna townlands Roscommon Listers: Looking for any info re Thomas or Patrick Bruen, born to John Bruen and Anne Heslin. All born in Ardcarn RC parish: Thomas in 12/1851; Margaret in 7/1854, and Patrick in 1/1857. They were baptized in the RC?chapel in Crossna, J. P. Duigan, parish priest.? Margaret married Dennis Bree in New Haven, CT in Jun 1881. At a dead end re John Bruen/Anne Heslin, and the two sons, Thomas and Patrick. Any information would be helpful. Bill Meehan CT/USA -----Original Message----- From: GWGEHoyt@aol.com To: roscommon@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:09 am Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] BENSON & variants, Roscommon... Ken-- I'm still here too, after all these years. I wonder if you know about the microfilm that the LDS have for the Keadue Catholic Church. I don't remember the film number but it was something like #1279224. It had baptismal and marriage records that began about 1827. I don't know about the church in Ballyfarnon, but I would bet that the Moromon's would have it too. And Drumshanbo is not too far away, and may have some information for you. Also, a few of my Gaffneys crossed the River Feorish, which separates Kilronan and Ardcarn Civil Parishes, and they married gals from the Cootehall area. The Cootehall Church records began in 1843. Hope some of this turns out to be helpful to you. Best, George Hoyt ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.0/887 - Release Date: 7/5/2007 1:55 PM

My Grandfather a Michael Duncan Cain was born in Roscommon in c1838 and was a Coach Harness Maker. His Father was a Lawrence Cain. Michael came to England in about 1855 and joined the Army in Birmingham. Has anybody come across this family in their research? Michael Cain

Reposting my interests (yes, I'm still here, after all these years): John and James BENSON, from Keadue village area, either Kilronan or Ardcarn Parishes, Co. Roscommon, came to Canada in the 1850's. James (my great-grandfather) stayed in Ontario, Canada; John ended up in Chicago, IL, USA. I have great deal of info about descendants of these two men, but I'm still trying to connect them with BENSON, BENISON, BENNISON, etc. from the Keadue, Ballyfarnon, and Boyle areas. Ken Benson in summery Toronto, Canada

Roscommon Listers: Looking for any info re Thomas or Patrick Bruen, born to John Bruen and Anne Heslin. All born in Ardcarn RC parish: Thomas in 12/1851; Margaret in 7/1854, and Patrick in 1/1857. They were baptized in the RC?chapel in Crossna, J. P. Duigan, parish priest.? Margaret married Dennis Bree in New Haven, CT in Jun 1881. At a dead end re John Bruen/Anne Heslin, and the two sons, Thomas and Patrick. Any information would be helpful. Bill Meehan CT/USA -----Original Message----- From: GWGEHoyt@aol.com To: roscommon@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:09 am Subject: Re: [ROSCOMMON] BENSON & variants, Roscommon... Ken-- I'm still here too, after all these years. I wonder if you know about the microfilm that the LDS have for the Keadue Catholic Church. I don't remember the film number but it was something like #1279224. It had baptismal and marriage records that began about 1827. I don't know about the church in Ballyfarnon, but I would bet that the Moromon's would have it too. And Drumshanbo is not too far away, and may have some information for you. Also, a few of my Gaffneys crossed the River Feorish, which separates Kilronan and Ardcarn Civil Parishes, and they married gals from the Cootehall area. The Cootehall Church records began in 1843. Hope some of this turns out to be helpful to you. Best, George Hoyt ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Hi Patty, My mother was an O'Beirne, from Kilacloughan, it is about midway between Elphin & Strokestown. Her name was Mary Anne & she was the daughter of Thomas Beirne & Anne McHugh. Happy hunting, From Christine in sunny Finland. Patty O'Beirne wrote: > Looking for Roscommon O'Beirnes. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks Ed, Not sure I'm going to be able to solve this, but thanks very much for the input. Cheers Lorraine On 05/07/2007 4:46 AM, "hagerdonngenealogy@earthlink.net" <hagerdonngenealogy@earthlink.net> wrote: > Spelling wise a possibility would be the Irish Province of Connacht or > Connaught which comprises the Counties Galway > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Galway>, Leitrim > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim>, Mayo > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Mayo>, Roscommon > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Roscommon> and Sligo. Other town > possibilities are Concrete in County Dublin; Cong in County Mayo; Conna > and Connonagh in County Cork; Connahy in County Kilkenny, Connolly in > County Clare and Convoy in County Donegal. > > Ed Hagerty > looking in Roscommon for O'Briens > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROSCOMMON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Ken-- I'm still here too, after all these years. I wonder if you know about the microfilm that the LDS have for the Keadue Catholic Church. I don't remember the film number but it was something like #1279224. It had baptismal and marriage records that began about 1827. I don't know about the church in Ballyfarnon, but I would bet that the Moromon's would have it too. And Drumshanbo is not too far away, and may have some information for you. Also, a few of my Gaffneys crossed the River Feorish, which separates Kilronan and Ardcarn Civil Parishes, and they married gals from the Cootehall area. The Cootehall Church records began in 1843. Hope some of this turns out to be helpful to you. Best, George Hoyt ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.