Thanks to all of you who have been trying to help me find my Bolger family. All of my Bolgers went to Wisconsin, as far as I know. I'm not sure where or when Edward and his children Michael and Ellen arrived, but Mary Doyle Bolger and the 7 youngest arrived in May of 1848 on the ship "Margaret" at the port of New York. Ann I. So far no definite leads but I feel as if I'm getting closer and I'd appreciate hearing from anyone else with information. Thanks again!

They moved recently (July 1999) the new address is:- Wexford Public Library Selskar House off Redmond Square Wexford Co. Wexford e-mail wexford.library@tinet.ie http://www.wexford.ie Regards Peter Furney Windsor Berks UK Researching the Furney family of Co. Wexford, Cork and Laois > -----Original Message----- > From: Shirley Kirk [mailto:s.kirk@ns.sympatico.ca] > Sent: 15 May 2000 04:23 > To: WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WEX] ADDRESS: WEXFORD COUNTY LIBRARY > > > Would someone be kind enough to pass on the address ot the > Wexford County Library in Co. Wexford. > > Thank you. > > S.Kirk > >

Would someone be kind enough to pass on the address ot the Wexford County Library in Co. Wexford. Thank you. S.Kirk

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There are copies of Brian J. Cantwell, F.R.S.A.I F.I.G.R.S book "Memorials of the Dead." in the following locations Most stones are dated prior to 1880. Genealogical Office Dublin Ireland Irish Genealogical Research Society - London National Library - Dublin Ireland Public Records Office - Dublin Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Dublin Ireland Wexford County Library - Wexford, Irelan ( Celestine is gone now...is anyone helping out for her?) This website contains KEHOE, KEOUGH, etc all spellings for CO WEXFORD http://www.geocities.com/drk4779/cantwell.html Celestine Rafferty of the Wexford County Ireland Library, knew Mr. Cantwell and shares the following: "Re: Cantwell: Well the poor man is supporting a gravestone himself now ;-( He was a wonderful guy - a gentleman of the old school. We got to know him very well when he was gallivanting in the county's graveyards. It was a real labour of love for him. He had just retired when he started in 1979 and he finished up almost ten years later. I don't know how he persevered, considering the conditions he had to endure. The library actually financed the project, gave him travel expenses, secretarial services etc. Brian wasn't a native of the county and he found this to be an obstacle when it came to transcribing unusual names. He did 300 graveyards in Co. Wexford and another 100 or so in Co. Wicklow. In general, he didn't transcribe stones whose first-mentioned date was after 1880. Inevitably, there are many errors and omissions in the ten volumes but it is nevertheless an invaluable source. The work was published privately and was never offered for sale. Copies were lodged with the RSAI (Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland) and the National Library of Ireland. When Brian died, the copyright on his work passed to his son, Ian. Brian was always adamant that his work would not be used by a commercial organisation: he believed that it should be available freely to all. When asked about posting this information to the net Celestine shares: "Can't see that there would be any problem with sharing your research with others. Brian Cantwell would approve! He WANTED to share his work and to use it to help other researchers: he strongly objected to anyone (including himself) profiting from it. Please use the following information for Genealogical purposes only. Thank you. Pamela J. Low Kehoe FAMILY Website - http://www.geocities.com/drk4779 Walworth County Historical Society - http://www.geocities.com/walcohistory Celtic Women International ~ http://www.celticwomen.org

I have Elizabeth BEATTY born 1804 in IR, died 31 July 1888 in Rochester, NY. She married Patrick LOVE in IR, date unknown. Patrick was probably a teacher. Family lore says he was deported from Dublin for teaching Gaelic. They went to Quebec, CAN, where Patrick was a teacher and farmer. I know nothing of the family in IR. Any information would be appreciated. Betty Jackan Tryon, NC

Thank you Dan for information and my friend thinks this is a definite clue as her ancestors came from Kerry. Thanks also to Jane for the great information on Irish traditions. Regards Lorraine Rotorua NZ

My husbands gggrandfather was a Rev. Frederick Beatty, who was a brother to David Beatty, of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, ( who was a grandfather to Earl David Beatty). Is there anywhere in Wexford that I can obtain a pedigree of the whole Beatty family? There is a lot out there on Earl David Beatty's family, but it doesn't seem to extend to his great uncles and aunts. Thanks for any help, Jenny Bakken, Kamloops, B.C. Canada

I often find myself answering questions on traditions in Ireland. The following is an exerpt from a book on Irish Folk Custom and Belief by Seán Ó Súilleabháin HUMAN LIFE The idea of the existence of some kind of soul in human beings is found among even the most primitive peoples. The soul (as distinct from the life-force) was regarded as some kind of concrete entity, capable of moving about independently of the body to which it belonged, and of assuming different shapes at will. In Ireland, for example, there are traces of the belief that the souls of emigrants who had died abroad returned to their native land in the form of seagulls or in a sea-mist. Such ideas were, of their nature, pre-Christian. Dreams and hallucinations among early peoples seem to have given rise to the belief that the soul (or whatever it was) could move about of its own accord. In dreams, we appear to see people and to speak to them, and they converse with us-it does not matter that some of them are already dead. Nowadays, we awake, knowing that it was only a dream. But early man, relying on the evidence of his senses, believed that it all had really happened. Thus there arose the idea that part of oneself could leave the body in sleep, meet its counterparts and associate with them, returning later to the body. A common story in Ireland and elsewhere tells how an old man, accompanied by a young boy, went out into a field one fine day; the old man lay down and was soon fast asleep; the boy then saw a butterfly emerge from the old man's mouth and fly off towards a ruin in the bottom of the field; after a while, the butterfly returned and re-entered the old man's mouth; he immediately woke up and told the boy that he had dreamt that he had gone into that same ruin and there found hidden treasure; they both went immediately to the ruin and found the treasure at the place indicated in the dream. >From the type of belief which underlies the foregoing story- that the soul (butterfly, in this case) can leave the body when it sleeps-it is but a natural step to the belief that the souls of the dead can also move about. This came to he tied up with the idea of ghosts and the human fear of them, as they could sometimes be malignant. Other ideas concerned the human blood, the breath, and the body's shadow, which were also associated with the life or soul. Also, in folktales, we meet with the motif of the giant's soul (life) being outside of his body, hidden in an egg. So too, the human life-index might he bound up with such a thing as a tree, which was planted when the person was born; when the tree began to fail and die, so too would the person. Folk belief was never very clear naturally, about what appearance the soul had, in itself. It was, however, believed that it entered the body at birth through loigín an bhaithis (the skull-cleft) and left by the same exit at death. It was believed that souls were so small that two of them could converse while doing their purgatory at either side of a leaf; so also they could congregate in great numbers on the rafters of houses. It was also said that a dead person should not he keened over for two hours after death lest the sleeping dogs of the Devil be roused along the path which the departed soul had to follow. All over the world there is a traditional objection to unauthorised intrusions on certain occasions. For examples men should not intrude where women are working, and vice versa. There are many stories told to explain how certain castles came to be left unfinished: the builders had refused to complete the building after they had seen a woman stop to observe them at work. Then there is the story left unfinished by Cúchulainn when he discovered that a woman had been smuggled in to a forge to listen to him, against his orders. Refrence has already been made to the aversion men had to meeting a red haired woman, or one who wore a red garment, while on their way to fish or to the fair. A whistling woman or a crowing hen usually brought bad luck. An echo of the biblical story of Samson is to be found in the rule that a woman should not cut a boys hair nor should she draw water from certain holy wells. It was said that if the gift of poetry descended upon a woman it would end with her - she could not hand it on to her sons. In the field of folk medicine, some remedies had to be applied by a man to a woman, others by a woman to a man. Finally, when they came to die, men were said to meet Death quietly, while women resisted it (deire fir a shuan,deire mná á faire féin suas). Conception and childbirth have always been regardede as crucial points in human life, and so were hedged about with a great many beliefs and customs. It was said that sterility could be overcome by sleeping in the old remains popularly known as "beds of Diarmaid and Gráinne". Conception could be prevented if an enemy tied a knot in a handkerchief at the time of marriage; no child would be born to that couple until the knot was loosed. A pregnant woman had to avoid meeting a hare, if possible otherwise her child would be born with a hare-lip (séanas); this could be prevented, however, if the woman on meting the hare tore the hem of her garment, thereby transferring the blemish to it. A tear in the ear of the hare, ifit could be caught, also acted as a preventative. Neither should a pregnant woman enter a graveyard lest she turn her foot on a grave; this would cause her child to be horn with a clubfoot (cam reilge). She should not remain in a house while a corpse was being placed in the coffin, nor act as sponsor to a bride. If she visited a forge, however, she was always asked to blow the bellows to bring luck to the smith.

Hello List, I apologise if this query is strictly not Wexford but a friend has asked me to see if I can find anything about above word and as she is of Irish descent I thought this would be the best place to ask. Here in NZ one of her ancestors gravestones has at the bottom, Erected by Patrick Corcoran ARDCANAUGHT Is it the name of a place or does the word have another meaning? Regards Lorraine Rotorua NZ

THE FISHERMEN OF WEXFORD There is an old tradition held in Wexford town, That says 'Upon St. Martin's Eve no net shall be let down; N fisherman of Wexford shall, upon that holy day, Set sail or cast a line within the scope of Wexford Bay.' The tongue that framed the order, or the time, no one could tell; And no one ever questioned, but the people kept it well. And never in man's memory was fisher known to leave The little town of Wexford on the good St. Martin's Eve. Alas! alas, for Wexford! once upon that holy day Came a wondrous shoal of herring to the waters of the Bay. The fishers and their families stood out upon the beach, And all day watched with wistful eyes the wealth they might not reach. Such shoal was never seen before, and keen regrets went round - Alas! alas, for Wexford! Hark! what is that grating sound? The boat's keel on the shingle! Mothers! Wives! ye well may grieve! The fishermen of Wexford mean to sail on Martin's Eve! 'Oh, stay ye!' cried the women wild. 'Stay!' cried the men white-haired; 'And dare ye not to do this thing your fathers never dared. No man can thrive who tempts the Lord! 'Away!' they cried,['the Lord Ne'er sent a shoal of fish but as a fisherman's reward!' And scoffingly they said: 'To-night our net shall sweep the Bay, And take the Saint who guards it, should he come across our way!' The keels have touched the water, and the crews are in each boat; And on St. Martin's Eve the Wexford fishers are afloat! 'Oh, Holy Virgin! be their guard!' the weeping women cried; The old men, sad and silent, watched the boats cleave through the tide, As past the farthest headland, past the lighthouse, in a line The fishing-fleet went seaward through the phosphor-lighted brine. Oh, pray, ye wives and mothers! All your prayers they sorely need To save them from the wrath they've roused by their rebellious greed. Oh! white-haired men and little babes, and weeping sweethearts To God to spare the fishermen to-night in Wexford Bay pray The boats have reached good offing, and, as out the nets are thrown, The hearts ashore are chilled to hear the soughing sea-wind's moan. Like to a human heart that loved, and hoped for some return, To find at last but hatred, so the sea-weed seemed to moan. But, ah, the Wexford fishermen! their nets did scarcely sink One inch below the foam, when, lo! the daring boatmen shrink With sudden awe and whitened lips and glaring eyes agape, For breast-high, threatening, from the sea uprose a Human Shape! Beyond them ~ in the moonlight, hand upraised and awful mien, Waving back and pointing landward, breast-high in the sea 'twas seen. Thrice it waved and thrice it pointed - then, with clenched hand upraised, The awful shape went down before the fishers as they gazed! Gleaming whitely through the water, fathoms deep they saw its frown - They saw its white hand clenched above it - sinking slowly down And then there was a rushing 'neath the boats, and every soul Was thrilled with greed: they knew it was the sea-ward going shoal! Defying the dread warning, every face was sternly set, And wildly did they ply the oar, and wildly haul the net. But two boats' crews obeyed the sign - God-fearing men were they - They cut their lines and left their nets, and homeward sped away; But darkly rising sternward did God's wrath in tempest sweep, And they, of all the fishermen, that night escaped the deep. Oh, wives and mothers, sweethearts, sires! well might ye mourn next day; For seventy fishers' corpses strewed the shores of Wexford.Bay!

Hi guys, Does any one have info regarding Wexford shipping companies? I am trying to find what my grt grt grandfather did pre his marriage, age approx 31 years in 1835. I am slowly begining to think he was a mariner. When he went to Liverpool they ran a pub, and the sign over the door was 3 dolphins. After his death his wife continued with the tavern and as she got older she and her family moved to a house which in previous census's was listed as a mariners agents.Any suggestions please Thanks, Margaret ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

My grandparents,Michael and Catherine O'Brien,resided in St. Mary's (now St. Mary and St. Michael) parish. They were married (1847) and were buried (Michael in 1894 and Catherine circa 1910) in St.Mary's,presumably in the parish cemetary. Brian Cantwell describes this cemetary on page 414 of West County Wexford (he also describes another New Ross cemetary St Stephen's on page 416 ). Woud it be possible for someone who has access to Brian Cantwell's Memorial to look up page(s) 414 and (416) and tell me if the O'Briens are there and describe the setting. Any means of communication is acceptable: post,direct e-mail,private post (I'll refund the postage and the favor) Thanks. Edward O'Brien POBox 101 Marshfield,Ma. USA 02051

"A Farewell to Famine" - ISBN 0 9522029 0 5 (Hardcover) ISBN 0 9519239 1 4 (paperback) The author, Jim Rees lives at #3 Meadows Lane, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. The passenger list in incomplete, according to Mr. Rees.

Ann: "A Farewell to Famine" is about the emigration of one large group of Catholics led by Father Hore to the USA on three ships through the Port of New Orleans in 1850. The ships were the Ticonderoga, the Chasca, and the Loodianah. The group broke up to some degree but there is a settlement in Northeast Iowa with descendents of the group that settled there. There is a Wexford,Iowa. To answer your questions from that book, they have listed on page 134: BOLGER, Edward Age 21 Ship: Ticonderoga Bolger, Michael Age 21 Ship: Ticonderoga On page 136: BULGAR, ELLEN AGE 20 Ship: Ticonderoga Location: Wexford, IA BULGAR, Fanny Age 25 " " " " BULGAR, James Age 27 Ship: Chasca BULGAR, John Age 50 Ship: Ticonderoga Location: Wexford, IA BULGAR, Kate Age 55 " " " " BULGAR, Mary Age 22 " " " " BULGAR, Michael Age 24 " " " " BULGAR, Patt Age 5 " " " " It was quite an odessey and would be well worth your while to get the book. Now I have a favor to ask. If you have passenger lists through the Port of New Orleans for 1850, I would appreciate your checking on my ancestors who came through that year. They embarked from Liverpool. They are: John and Katherine Doyle Gahan Parents, ages unknown, Son: Denis Gahan, age unknown Son: Murtha or Murtagh Gahan, age unknown Son: Paul Gahan Age 12 I hope I have helped you and hope you can help me! Best wishes. Janet Gahan Dragstrem

Always looking for Whittie/Whitty from Wexford. And yes, I understand how common this name was for Wexford. Anyway, I do have documentation for a Catherine Whitty born 1805 in Wexford town area and married to Richard Keating in 1833. She possibly had brother James and nephew Thomas (and yes, we all have the same first names, too but I keep hoping). James was godfather to her son Nicholas and Thomas Whitty was witness to marriage of Catherine (her daughter)Keating and Michael Sinnott in Kilmore R.C. parish in 1853. Your dates are close but your Whitties sound slightly older. Catherine Whitty was married in Wexford Town, R.C. Good luck and maybe the locations will help you and we can get all the Whittys straightened out. Cathy Rossing

lbergeron@3n.net, You mentioned Nova Scotia. I have these Bergerons. This is from another subscription list: Lucie's is copyrighted and cannot be used for monetary publication. from LucieMC: Bergeron - Bartholémy Bergeron, sometimes called d'Amboise was born in 1664 at Amboise Indre et Loire. He arrived in Acadia (Nova Scotia) in 1685 as a marine volunteer. He was in Quebec until 1690 but relocated again to Acadia circa 1696. A son bearing the same given name as well an members of this family are found settling on the banks of the Mississippi at St. Jacques Louisiana in 1766. From: sewing@cmq.com (guillaume) On the Acadian name site you have certain names which may or may not be from Acadia. Arceneux and Bergeron are certainly from Acadia cf. Le Grande Arraignment du Canada et Quebec. The Authement family is from Martigues, France but they married into the Bourg, Saunier, Faube/Phobst, and Lirette family as soon as they got here. Most if not all their wives were of Acadian Descent. Sincerely, Guillaume Williams Stephen White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes shows the following: Barthelemy BERGERON dit d'Amboise m Genevieve Serreau de Saint-Aubin children Barthelemy b 1696 m Margaurite Dugas Marie c 1698 m. Francois Roy Michel c1700 m. Marie Dugas (d/o Abraham & Marie-Madeleine Landry) & 1747 m. Marie-Jeanne Hebert Augustin c1702 m. Marie Dugas (d/o Claude & Marguerite Bourg) Marie-Anne b Boston 1706 m 1726 Joseph Godin (dit Bellefantaine dit Beauséjour) Anne-Marie b 1709 m Jacques-Philippe Godin (dit Bellefeuille) Does this tie in to anyone you have? These are all the Bergeron's I have. Carol Magee

I am trying to trace my family in Enniscorthy. My father, William Wilson, left Ireland in 1946 to join the RAF. He is the youngest son of Owen Wilson and Mary Carley, 62 Pearse Road. Mary was Owen's 2nd wife, and he was in his 40's when my father was born. My father is still living but only remembers bits and pieces, as his father did not talk much about the family. I hired someone in Ireland to do some legwork, and have discovered that I am also a Murphy and a Boyce on my father's side. I am intrigued by this statement from the researcher: <<This recorded that on 3rd January 1856 Robert (illegitimate) was born to Robert Boyce and Mary Wilson. The child's godmother was recorded as Anne Redmond. The parish registers for Enniscorthy during the 1840s and 1850s is extraordinary. Nearly every third child is recorded as 'illegitimate'. >> (Robert was Owen Wilson's father, i.e. my Great Grandfather). Does anyone have any ideas as to why every 3rd child would be illegitimate? Was there a shortage of priests to marry people, or prohibition on their doing so? A shortage of eligible men? (The Rebellion of 1798 was 60 years earlier, the Great Famine of course was mid to late 1840's, etc.) Or, was this just a matter of people doing what people do, despite the Church taking a dim view of it? Has anyone else encountered this "extraordinary" result when checking birth registries from that time period? Thanks, Bernard Wilson, Los Angeles, California (Researching Wexford families Wilson, Carley, Murphy, O'Brien and, now, I suppose, Boyce)

I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of those who wrote to me with regard to my Irish Ancestral Page. Your very kind remarks were heart-warming. Those of you who requested look-ups, please be patient with me as I am experiencing somewhat of a back log at present. However, I will get back to everybody in due course. Kind regards Philip http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/o/r/o/Philip-J-Orourke/ Also researching: BANFIELD..................................... of Kerry>Cork KEANE........................................... of West Cork DALTON........................................ of Carrick-on-Suir>Kerry COUGHLAN................................... of West Cork O'ROURKE/ROURKE/RORKE..... of Wexford FURLONG...................................... of Wexford O'BRIEN /BRYAN.......................... of Limerick>Kilkenny BRENNAN...................................... of Kilkenny MEEHAN........................................ of Kerry TAFFE............................................. of Kerry FARRELL........................................ of Kilkenny

Joan, Many thanks for your kind remarks. I am glad you enjoyed the site. Best wishes in your search, Regards Philip http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/o/r/o/Philip-J-Orourke/ Also researching: BANFIELD..................................... of Kerry>Cork KEANE........................................... of West Cork DALTON........................................ of Carrick-on-Suir>Kerry COUGHLAN................................... of West Cork O'ROURKE/ROURKE/RORKE..... of Wexford FURLONG...................................... of Wexford O'BRIEN /BRYAN.......................... of Limerick>Kilkenny BRENNAN...................................... of Kilkenny MEEHAN........................................ of Kerry TAFFE............................................. of Kerry FARRELL........................................ of Kilkenny