Now we're talking, it looks like the Irish National Archives have recognized that "transcriptions are not the way to go and they have just come out with a new CD which has actual documents for all of the Counties of Ireland for the period from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. For $30 US or so, this might be a very sound investment. Much cheaper than a flight to Dublin. =================== =================== http://www.eneclann.ie/pub-8-tour.asp Using Counties in Time Documents and commentaries from the National Archives of Ireland This CD-ROM brings together the rich archival heritage at the National Archives, with histories of each county in Ireland, photographs and etchings from other cultural institutions, and a variety of other resources for researching Irish history. As a consequence this publication is both an essential introduction to the archival holdings at the National Archives, and also an excellent educational resource for the study of Irish history from a uniquely local perspective. The CD contains many elements which are explained below. 1. The Records There are 31 classes of records at the National Archives on this CD-ROM. An example has been chosen for each county, and this CD contains both a scanned image of the record as well as a transcript of those items which can be hard to read. For example the following image is of a letter among the Relief Commission Papers concerning the impact of the Famine in Ballyuskill, Co. Laois. Some documents contain photographs as well. For example the Fenian photograph series was one of the earliest use of photography by the police in Europe. 2. Transcripts This CD also contains a full transcript of the item to help users with paleography. For example the following image is of a transcript of the Famine letter which appears above: 3. County Histories This CD contains a history of all 32 counties in Ireland. Each county history is between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, and traces the county from the sixteenth to the late twentieth century. These are illustrated with drawings, etchings and photographs provided by several cultural institutions in Ireland. For example, the following two images were kindly provided by the National Library and National Museum. 4. Timeline The CD-ROM contains a detailed timeline of events in Irish history since the early sixteenth century. Major events also link to pop-up screens with extensive information. 5. Other resources There are many other utilities on this CD-ROM including a detailed glossary of terms, a guide to using records for historical research, as well as an extensive introduction to the National Archives, its records and function. Item # CD6 Price: €25.00 or US$29.95 (plus postage & packing) Library/Network editions contact us for price. ISBN 0-9540750-0-5 System Requirements PC: Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, SE, ME, 2000, XP or higher. PC: Minimum IBM compatible Pentium II or higher Mac: Power Macintosh 16Mb of available RAM Mac: Apple system software version 7 or later. Browser: Internet Explorer ver. 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0; Netscape 4.7, 6.0 Software Development by: Lendac Data Systems Ltd. Publishing Platform: HTML, Flash v Also check out http://www.irishorigins.com/ For some interesting FREE databases including Griffiths Valuation!!!! Access 300 name records from Griffiths for $10 US. And they plan to have names from a database of 100,000 Irish Wills soon. ===================== ===================== Ray Marshall Minneapolis

My relatives left Dungarvan, County Waterford from Cork. Have you looked at the Ellis Island site? great information ! Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Gough To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: [WAT] Immigration points Can anyone tell me where the ships most often left waterford county and/or city bound for america in 1866. are there ship's records that can be searched? Thanks. ******************************************* Patricia A. Gough Secretary Penfield Public Library 1985 Baird Road Penfield, NY 14526 585-340-8720 ext. 4007 "Housework, if done properly, will kill you." -- Erma Bombeck

Does anyone have connections with Barry or Coffey/Coffee families from Waterford City or Harbour (specifically Cheekpoint). Also looking for Whelan/Phelan connections the in same area. Thanks. Carolyn Greenwood

Kathleen at [email protected] writes: << I wondered if anyone knew what the nearest decent-sized town would have been relative to Ballymuddy, where people would have traded and bought necessities? >> Kathleen, I'd vote for Tallow. There's a straight road (by Irish standards), heading west from the church in Ballymuddy which puts you in Tallow in 4 miles. Lismore is also a possibility, but it's about 6 or 7 miles.......you have to go over to the Camphire Bridge to cross the River Bride. Villierstown would have been the nearest town of all to Ballymuddy, but it would have required a boat ride across the Blackwater. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

Probably Lismore. Regards, Brendan Jones. > Hello, List, > parish (Kilwatermoy Civil Parish). > > I wondered if anyone knew what the nearest decent-sized town would have been > relative to Ballymuddy, where people would have traded and bought > necessities? > > Kathleen Hogan Manuel > > > > ==== WATERFORD Mailing List ==== > ** Civil Registration began in Ireland in 1864, before that you will have to access parish registers. See http://community.webtv.net/mpetzolt2/helpfulhints for how to use Civil Registration records ** > > >

Hello, List, I believe my great grandmother came from the townland of Ballymuddy in Knockanore parish (Kilwatermoy Civil Parish). I wondered if anyone knew what the nearest decent-sized town would have been relative to Ballymuddy, where people would have traded and bought necessities? Kathleen Hogan Manuel

There are a few Gough families living in the Ring area of Waterford. Donnchadh Gough is a founder of the Trad group Dana, and is the son of the owners of Mooney's Pub in Ring. Try googling "Gough Waterford" and you will find a lot of references to this name in Waterford. Check this site out: http://www.clan-mcgough.com/origin_of_name.htm

I decided to start off 2004 by once again joining some mailing lists in the hopes of finding some connections with my ancestors from Waterford. Anyone with connections to BRADLEY, NASH and GADSDEN, please write!! Also, anyone with knowledge of the meat packing industry in Waterford in the late 1700's to mid 1800's or there abouts, I am interested. Would love to find out more about a shipwreck off Waterford in 1835 too. Hope to hear from you, Judy in Maryland

Happy New Year listers, I am researching the following families and hope to connect with some cousins. John Walsh b. abt 1850; m. Mary Murphy b. abt. same. They lived in Lismore. Children included: *Michael Joseph m Catherine Morrissey >BOS John J. m.? ; had 2 children *Patrick Joseph m Alice Brown >BOS Thomas F. m Mary O'Brien; 2 children Johanna m. Jack McGrath >ENG; 4 children James ? Mary m. Richard Doran; 4 children Dan d. in Ireland Ned ? I believe 2 children are missing. *Two brothers Patrick and Michael came to Boston, MA and raised families there. I believe most of the rest remained in Ireland; one to England. Are these folks familiar to anyone. I would like to know the parents of John Walsh and Mary Murphy. And any other family members of the siblings. Dan was buried in St. Mary's where they were all baptized. TIA Judy Walsh Gillon Norton, MA, USA Also researching BROWN(E), May you have a peaceful and Christ filled holiday season. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003

My great grandmother was Johanna Gough. She was married to Patrick Mulvey and died at Smoorbeg, Kill County Waterford in 1883 age 48. She may have had a brother Maurice. I do not know who her parents were. She married my great grandfather in Kill. They lived for a while nearby in Dunhill, then moved up to Smoor (which is quite close ). I am fairly sure she is buried at Dunhill. Luke

I have updated the Parish History Books webpages with over 50 more books, many with lookup volunteers. If you submitted a book please check your entry for accuracy. If you find mistakes, please email me off list. You will notice that I have redesigned the site and broken the original webpage into four webpages because of the size. They are still arranged in alphabetic order of counties. You can access the webpages at the url below my name. At my homepage, you will find a navigation bar at the top, under Ireland, click on Ireland Books and this will take you to a webpage for the Ireland Books Discussion Mailing List. At the bottom of that page, you will find links for the Parish History Books. (If your browser, does not use the navigation bars, there is a work around, just click on "click here") The Parish History Books are something I didn't know existed until my first trip to Ireland in 1999. I was pleasantly surprised to find them because not only did they include the history of the area, some listed the censuses, the Griffith's Valuation and/or the Tithes for the parish. When I started this site a couple of years ago, people started volunteering to do lookups in the books since many are out of print. Now, people are starting to submit books relating to the country in general and not to one particular parish or area. If you have a book that is not listed, some counties are pretty sparse in listings, use the convenient form at the bottom of the webpage. It is your choice, of course, on whether you care to volunteer to do lookups in the book. Also, if you have a book that is listed without a lookup volunteer and you would like to volunteer, please email me off list and I'll be sure to add you on my next revision. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com Professional Genealogy Research All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002

Hi, I am searching for the parish/town in Waterford where my husband's great grandfather, John Edward Gough, was born in 1849. I know that he came from Waterford....but I don't know if it was the County or the City! He immigrated to the US in 1866. He had a sister (aunt? Cousin?), Anastasia who immigrated about the same time as he did. Any information on GOUGHs in Waterford that any of you have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and Happy New Year! Pat ******************************************* Patricia A. Gough Secretary Penfield Public Library 1985 Baird Road Penfield, NY 14526 585-340-8720 ext. 4007 "Housework, if done properly, will kill you." -- Erma Bombeck -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Hogan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WAT] griffiths for Knockanore Hello, list, Does anyone have any idea what year the Griffiths Valuation of Knockanore Parish in Waterford County was done? Thanks! Kathleen Hogan Manuel ==== WATERFORD Mailing List ==== ** To unsubscribe from the list send unsubscribe to [email protected] or [email protected] if you are on digest mode**

Hello, list, Does anyone have any idea what year the Griffiths Valuation of Knockanore Parish in Waterford County was done? Thanks! Kathleen Hogan Manuel

Happy New Year to all. We have added nine articles to the museum site www.dungarvanmuseum.org this week. Thanks to the museum volunteers Ursula Ansell, Marc Sullivan & Eileen Fraher Sullivan, Kathleen Paton and Joanne Connors Parandjuk (among others) for all of their hard work. These volunteers and others like them are members of the museum scanning project. You can find out more details about this project on the homepage of the museum web site at www.dungarvanmuseum.org. Thanks in particular to Mrs. E. M. P. Beecher Cantillon from Tallow for allowing the Museum to reprint online her booklet on the history of Tallow. Yours Willie and Martin Whelan 1. 8 New Articles Placed on the Web Site 2. Museum Scanning Project 3. Museum News 4. Help Dungarvan Museum <----New Years Resolution Opportunity :) 5. Contact Us 1. New Website Articles ============================================== The following articles can be accessed by clicking on the latest article links on the home page www.dungarvanmuseum.org. Alternatively Click on ONLINE BOOKS & MEMOIRS on the home page and then ARDMORE JOURNAL or TALLOW : AN OUTLINE HISTORY. Tallow : An Outline History A brief [30 page] history of Tallow originally published in booklet form. It contains information on Lisfenney Castle, The Carmelite Monastery, the townlands of Tallow, famous Tallow people, sports and a mid 19th century directory of Tallow residents. This directory will be of particular interest to Genealogists. I need to track down the name of the directory so if any list member recognises the directory let me know. Shipping Losses Off Ardmore 1914 - 1918 During the First World War seventeen ships were torpedoed and sunk off Ardmore in the period February 1917 to September 1918 with the loss of over 100 lives. Farrangarrett Farm House Complex Ardmore This ruined farm house is believed to sit on the site of the ancient monastery of Saint Declan. Fr. O'Donnell's Well The story of Fr. O'Donnell's Well and how J.P. Rahilly decided to make it the Irish Lourdes. St. Declan's Pattern Abstract of thesis describing the origin and development of the Pattern of Saint Declan. Submitted to the Free University of Amsterdam for a master's degree in cultural Anthropology. Ansons At Ardmore Lady Clodagh Anson was the 'Welcome Lady' to the down-and-outs of London in the 1930s. Her epitaph at Ardmore reads; 'She never failed to help those in trouble'. In this article you can read about their holidays in Ardmore in the early 20th century. Magdalen King-Hall Magdalen King-Hall is best remembered in Ardmore as the author of 'How Small A Part Of Time' a novel based on life at Ardo House (now known as 'McKenna's'), England, and the continent during the French Revolution, another novel on the 'Life And Death Of The Wicked Lady Skelton' was subsequently made into a film, The wicked Lady, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason. Phantoms Of The Sea Phantom or ghost vessels, be they boats or ships, relate to tragic events at sea. They may appear beforehand as a warning or afterwards as a commemoration of the loss. The Loss Of The SS Ary On Tuesday 18th February 1947 eleven sailors were laid to rest in Ardmore cemetery, following the loss of the steamship Ary. ============================================== 2. Museum Scanning Project ============================================== Thanks to all who have participated in the scanning project. As can be seen from the large quantity of articles that we are publishing at the moment the scanning project has been a great success. At the moment most of the articles being scanned are from the Ardmore journals, in the new year we will have material of more general Waterford interest. Could any volunteers who haven't returned the articles we sent them please get in touch. Don't worry if you haven't the time to do them or found them too difficult to do. We are conscious that you are all volunteers and are doing the museum a favour. We just need to plan the completion of this round of scanning. If you are interested in joining this program please contact William Whelan at 086 2748377 Email: [email protected] or leave your details into Dungarvan Museum, St. Augustine Street, Dungarvan. ============================================== 3. Museum News ============================================== More film footage of Dungarvan in the 40's and 60's will shortly (in the next week) be published on the museum web site. The annual second hand book sale over the weekend of the Friday 7th, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of November raised over 700 Euros for Dungarvan Museum. ============================================== 4. Help The Museum ============================================== Dungarvan Museum is a voluntary organisation and we rely on unpaid volunteers to keep our museum going. Loads of different projects remain to be done, you could make it your New Years resolution to help preserve the history of your area / ancestral homeland. As can be seen from the rapid expansion of this web site volunteers can make a difference. Without the scanning project we would still be producing 1 article per month. At the moment as a result of the efforts of our scanning volunteers (living on three different continents) we are averaging 8 new articles per month. Information on how you can help Dungarvan Museum can be found on our home page www.dungarvanmuseum.org We are committed to preserving the history of all County Waterford (not just Dungarvan). ============================================== 5. Contacting The Museum ============================================== All general queries can be directed to the museum at [email protected] If you have a comment or complaint about the web site you can contact [email protected] We are delighted to get all feedback, positive or negative. We endeavor to act on all suggestions that we get but please bear in mind that we are a voluntary organisation and it can take some time to answer queries. Deise Design - Web Site Design & Internet Consultancy www.deisedesign.com 086 2748377

Hi Kathleen Dungarvan Museum Society are the Historical Society for West Waterford. Our web site can be found at www.dungarvanmuseum.org If you type in Knockanore into the search box at the top of our web site You will find 8 mentions of Knockanore. The Museum also sells the book "Them Golden Fields I Trod" - In this book written by Francie Murray, he recalls his family history, local characters and social events in the parishes of kilwatermoy, knockanore and glendine in west waterford during the 1930's 1940's. You can find out more information on buying the book on our web site. Yours Willie Whelan Dungarvan Museum Deise Design - Web Site Design & Internet Consultancy www.deisedesign.com 086 2748377

Dear list, Does anyone know of any book or pamphlet that deals with the history of Knockanore Parish in western Waterford, or of the history of western Waterford in general? Or any historical society society focussing on Knockanore Parish? Kathleen Hogan Manuel (AHERN, DUNN)

Hello everyone, I've recently subscribed to this list after discovering that my ggrandmother Bridget Ahern was baptised in 1838 in Knockanore Parish, Co. Waterford. She emigrated to the U.S. where she met and married John Hogan in Columbus Ohio in 1852. She apparently had a brother named Thomas born 1822. Here is the baptismal info: Knockanore Parish HEARN,BRIGID 17 MAR 1828 Father :JOHN Mother : DUNN BRIGID Sponsors :RAVENS JOHN KELLY HELEN Parish : KNOCKANORE Church : KNOCKANORE Priest O'DONNELL JOHN Register :B/1816-1833 P. 123 Addresses TWIN OF MARY. Her recorded siblings AHEARN,THOMAS 21 APR 1822 Father :JOHN Mother : DUNN BRIGID Sponsors :CONNORS DANIEL MURPHY CATHERINE Parish : KNOCKANORE Church : KNOCKANORE Priest AHEARN J. Register :B/1816-1833 P. 82 Addresses HEARN,MARY 17 MAR 1828 Father :JOHN Mother : DUNN BRIGID Sponsors :O'BRIEN DERMOT COUGHLAN CATHERINE Parish : KNOCKANORE Church : KNOCKANORE Priest O'DONNELL J. Register :B/1816-1833 P. 123 Addresses TWIN OF BRIGID. I found a John Ahern in Griffiths in Ballymuddy, Kilwatermoy Civil Parish (of which Knockanore religious parish was a part), Waterford. Listed right next to him was a Mary Dunn. Anybody working on this line, by any chance? Kathleen Hogan Manuel

Hoping for information on ancestors or descendents of WILLIAM PATRICK CARR, born 1821 in Kilkenny, died 1861, married Elizabeth Arthur French in 1848. She was born abt 1827 in Antrim, died 1898. Their children were GEORGE WHITMORE CARR , born 1849 in Dublin, died 1921 in Brooklyn, NY; who married EMILY SMITHERS (1854-1930) in 1873; ( he was my grandfather ); ANNA HAWTHORNE (b 1852 );CHARLOTTE EMILY (b 1853 ); ELIZABETH HAWTHORNE (b 1855 ); MARY MERIDITH(b 1855)- twin of Elizabeth; EDWARD CHARLES (b1856);HENRY GREGORY DUNLOP (b 1858). Also, I received these names in 1970 of some people named CARR. Do you know any of them or anything about them ? EUNICE CARR in Dublin (Leeson Park), EDWARD CARR in New Ross, EDWARD and Eileen in Carr in New Ross. Thank you for your help. Patricia CARR McDonald in FL e-mail [email protected]

I have updated the Parish History Book website with new books and new volunteers. http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/books/parishes.html If you have a book that is not listed, please use the convenient form at the bottom of the webpage to send me the information. If you see a book that you have and want to do volunteer lookups, also use the form. If you are listed as a volunteer and your email address has changed also use the form to let me know and I will change it when I revise the site. If you belong to the following counties' mailing lists, please feel free to pass this message on to their lists because I don't belong to them and they may not know of this website: Donegal, Londonderry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Sligo, Leitrim, Longford, Meath, Louth, Roscommon, Westmeath, Dublin, Kildare, Offaly, Cork, Wexford and Carlow. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com Professional Genealogy Research All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002

Reposting my interests. Francis QUILTY was supposedly born Waterford City c1800, and was convicted in Kilkenny County Assizes in March 1817. Then he was transported to Australia in 1818. I have no information on his background in spite of a 20 year search. I have searched the baptism registers for Wat City, but not Ballybricken and other areas outside the inner city. No other searches have turned up anything. The names Francis and thomas keep turning up in the following generations .. a very tenuous clue indeed. I know there had been a very severe famine around 1816-17 and it is possible he was an orphan, or disowned by his family. He could read and write. Would love to hear from other QUILTYs of that era. Anne Maye in Oz. http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time.