Geography and Divisions - . Ireland is and was divided into a number of different divisions depending on the reason. When people have a name, a townland, a county they immediately focus in on that one area, forgetting all others and refusing at times to accept any information from any other area, they sometimes ignore possible relatives because of this. We have thirty two counties on the Island of Ireland There are four Provinces. Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connaught. Each of these is divided into a number of counties. While there are nine counties in the Province of Ulster, only six of these are British, hence we say the six counties. These are: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. Ulster:- Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry (Derry),Monaghan and Tyrone Leinster: Carlow, Dublin, Longford, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois (Queen's/Leix), Louth, Meath, Offaly (King's), Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow Munster: Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford, Connaught: Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo. Each of these provinces is further subdivided into a number of administrative areas. Ireland is divided into Baronies, Religious Dioceses, Roman Catholic and Protestant which do not follow county lines. Civil parishes, Roman Catholic Parishes, and Protestant Parishes. Protestant Parishes pretty much follow the outline of Civil parishes, Roman Catholic Parishes do not. Roman Catholic Parish boundaries may cross over the boundaries of other counties. We have four Ecclesiastical Provinces, made up of a number of Dioceses these are Armagh; Dublin; Cashel and Tuam. Dioceses of the Established Church in Ireland Armagh 1. Ardagh 2. Clogher 3. Armagh 4. Dromore 5. Down 6. Connor 7. Newry & Mourne 8. Kilmore 9. Derry 10. Raphoe Cashel 1. Ardfert & Aghadoe 2. Cashel 3. Cloyne 4. Cork 5. Emly 6. Killaloe 7. Kilfenora 8. Lismore 9. Ross 10. Waterford Dublin 1. Dublin 2. Ferns 3. Kildare 4. Leighlin 5. Ossory Tuam 1. Achonry 2. Clonfert 3. Elphin 4. Kilalla 5. Kilmacduagh 6. Tuam

Irish Geography People tend to pen their ancestors in, they have a townland name, a parish name, a county name and no matter what is said to them they will focus on that one place name. It wasn't until I began to look at maps for other countries that I understood this. If I take a map of America and look at that, the states, they all have nice straight boundaries. Then, within states, the roads are straight, organised, hardly a space which looks unoccupied to my Irish mind. If I look at a map of Ireland and our counties, they're all over the place, no such thing as a straight line, they blend together, meander into one another. Not only can one county look like there are bits of it in another county, but part of a county can lie between two counties. There is no fixed definite shape or pattern to Irish counties. As if this wasn't bad enough, counties are further subdivided, we have Baronies, Religious Dioceses which spread over a few counties, Catholic and Protestant Boundaries for somewhere of the same name not being in the same place, the Religious Dioceses are subdivided into Religious Parishes, we have civil parishes, we have towns and townlands. We also have names for houses or farms. There are Poor Law Unions, legal divisions. The numbers of religious parishes may have changed over the years, increasing or decreasing depending on how many parishioners there were in an area, depending on whether or not there were religious in the area to serve that parish. One thing I have noticed over the years, is that people don't realise the size of the area they are dealing with. Take for example a map of Ireland, compare it to a map of the States. As an Irish person, regardless of the key telling me what distance is equal to a mile, I still tend to relate the two maps in one way or another. I once told someone that a place was only a little bit away from where they were, relatively speaking. It turned out that the friend laughed at the good of it, told me he would buy me a map and that the two places were 600 miles apart. I think Irish, the searchers from outside Ireland will generally tend to think in a manner which will suit their country. I think small, they generally think big. There will be a few who manage to get over that mental hurdle, and who will comprehend the size differences, but not many. The first thing searchers have to do is think 'small', think Irish, and always remember that here in this country for any small town or village there will be a core number of people who are descended from those who left. Twenty or thirty years ago, when someone moved in to any town or village, they were 'blow-in's'. They still are today, but not as noticeable this isn 't, because we move around more often, work brings us from place to place. Today, fewer will leave their home town permanently, they will travel home at the weekends, they will commute to wherever they work. The towns and villages are not dying as they did in the past, their populations are not necessarily shrinking like they did in the past, and so it is harder to find that original 'core' group of families. To go back through the genealogical information on any core group of families in any town or village it will be found that each of these families is related to the other in some way, somehow. You need to become familiar with our geography. For any county that you have a townland name for, you need to check out the various division names associated with that place. This you can do by visiting one of the townland sites available on the net. e.g. www.SeanRuad.com These really show you nothing, tell you little other than to give you more place names to be concerned with. However, then you can also visit various sites available which 'sell' Ordnance Survey maps for Ireland. Each county is broken up into a number of divisions. Each county has a number of OS maps associated with it. These do not necessarily cover only the one county, there may be information or bits of three or four counties on a map. The maps themselves are not indexed so it is necessary for you to go through them square by square looking for the townland/placename in which you have an interest. While the maps are not indexed, there are indices available at some of the sites and using these you can find out which map you actually need. These maps are relatively cheap. People ask about copies of original OS maps which can be bought from the Irish OS office, containing great detail and dating from the mid 1800's, showing the layout of the land, houses on it etc. These are expensive, but nice to have and look at. However, I don't recommend that you go out and buy any of these until you have positively identified the area in which you are interested using the cheaper, smaller OS maps. One of the problems encountered with townland names is that any county may have had three or four townlands of the same name. This makes it hard to decide exactly where you should be interested in for definite. With the aid of these maps, you can judge the size of townlands, the closest local market town, the locations of churches and graveyards in the area. You still have to find and work your way through any records which would be available for that area, but you can make the journey smaller by concentrating initially on the biggest townland. Some of our townlands are no more than the size of a field. If you have a place name and there is only one of that name occurring in a county, then you treat this as the centre point on a dart board. The Bulls Eye so to speak. Remember our geography, the way counties sit together, mix in with one another. You work your way round that area, making the circle bigger and bigger as your search goes on, as time passes, taking into account any places in those rings which are found in other counties. Remember this, they were not penned in, just because someone said they came from this place or that place, doesn't mean that the closest church for their religion was actually found in that parish. You could live in one parish and the closest church could be in another parish, another county, but sit in the field next door. How many of us would walk miles and miles to our Parish church if we had another church 5 minute's walk down the road? Think small, simple, easy, shortest route.

Phonetics It never ceases to amaze me how many times people will ask about a surname which they spell a particular way and who will insist on always and ever seeking out that spelling and that spelling only. If I look through the records in the general Registrar's Office I can see a name being spelled one way in one part of the country over a period of time and I can also see that same surname 'disappear' from an area to be replaced by another name - which I may take to be the same surname but the searcher will not. Most people who do not live in this country will not be able to distinguish the various accents in the country from one another - whereas those of us who live here can tell in many instances where any of us come from when we begin to speak. Personally - I can't tell the difference (much) between an American from the East coast or the West coast..I do recognise that some accents are stonger than others - but to be able to state that any person come from this state or that would be impossible for me. If I look at many states - they're probably as big as Ireland and if I then tell myself how different our accents are from one end of this little country to the other - surely the same differences will be found in other parts of the world in places of the same size as Ireland? Most searchers have a sound of an Irish brogue in their heads, added to by various films on Ireland they have seen with perhaps Maureen O'Hara or other Irish in them. However, we do not speak with those brogues today. I speak Galway Irish, I find Donegal Irish very difficult to understand - primarily because of the accent and the same for Kerry Irish. All that is today. Think back, think to when people may or may not have spoken much English, regardless of what most think, the common misconception is that most the Irish spoke only Irish, that your ancestors so long as they were Catholic, spoke no English. This is wrong and the statistics which remain from the various censuses tell a different story. English was spoken to some degree or another in each county, the people may not have been able to read or write, but they knew how to speak the language, maybe only to understand what was said to them, but they did have English. Think then of these people arriving at various ports in other countries, the person who received them into that country, wrote the information down. They could not speak Irish, they spoke their own form of English. All they could do was write the name down as they heard it, the phonetical sound of it. Look at any ships passenger list and you will see the same names turning up, spelled differently. Go through the official Irish Birth, Marriage and Death records and you will see surnames being written in one form or another, and you can actually see the various spelling being associated with districts. If we could say that the same person was responsible over all those years for taking the information from the informant and writing it down, then we could say that this was just the way that person spelled that name. We can't we don't know for certain, but, what we can assume is that the way this name was spelled back then is associated with the accent of the area, the way the people pronounced it. The same can be said of Parish records in those other countries. The name will have been written phonetically. There are those which are very common and which would not have changed, and the fact that there would have been so many Irish passing through any one place it is possible that these recorders soon became familiar with the names and learned how to script them with one general spelling. Take a Priest from Ireland, he will have been familiar with many names, he would always write the name as he knew how to spell it from home, even this may have been a phonetic error on the original. Never, ever discount anyone with a similar sounding surname from any record you find. Take the information, just add it to your notes and some day you just might find information which ties that person in somewhere in your line. There are 18 letters in the Irish alphabet: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, I, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u. We also 'borrow' the letters j, q, v, w, x, and z in what are known as loan words. We have the basic vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. These may either be short or long, and the difference in the length of a vowel, when one type is exchanged for the other in a word can change the meaning of that word. The following gives some indication of how the vowels are pronounced. Remember that your accent differs again to ours and what you have when you say these words are an approximation, the sound may be somewhat different when spoken by an Irish person. Vowel: English word which contains this vowel as sounded a cat á with fada law e che (rry) é with fada may i shin í with fada mean o done/lot ó with fada more u bus ú with fada cool The vowels combine with each other in a number of ways, for example i and u combining with ia and ua, which sound like eea and ooa. In the middle of words the combinations a(id)h, o(id)h, eidh and eigh also consist of two vowel sounds pronounced like the english eye or my. Also, (e)amh is pronounced like 'ow' in the english cow and how; for some dialects (e)abh, obh, omh, odh, ogh are also pronounced in this way as 'ow'; while in others they are pronounced like a long o sound as in the English more. The combinations umh and ubh are pronounced like a long oo sound as in the English word cool. The combination ao does not represent two sounds. In Ulster and Connaught Irish it is usually pronounced ee; in Munster Irish it sounds like the vowel in the English may; aoi is usually pronounced ee

In 1911 Patrick ROURKE, the son of Stephen ROURKE, married Catherine FURLONG, the daughter of Philip FURLONG. The ROURKES were from Raheenahoon, and the FURLONGS were from what appears to be Barmoney, Co. Wexford. Catherine was born about 1887, and Patrick, who was a widower was born about 1877. In 1921 Patrick died and left behind at least five children that I know of: John, Mary (Polly), Philip, Patrick and Robert. The children seemed to have picked up the "O", making them O'ROURKE. I have only discovered this week, that, according to Griffith's valuation, there was a Mary RORKE living in Raheenahoon sometime between 1848-1864. This may very well be Stephen Rourke's mother. It is also possible that Stephen may have been married to Johanna ROCHE. If anybody can add any further information to this please email me. I would be delighted to here from you. 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

----- Original Message ----- From: peter.cousins <peter.cousins@SoftHome.Net> > Hello Listers, I searched my ordinance maps of Southern Wexford Nu: 76/ 77 but I can not find the following places .Leachestown Co Wexford and Ballalobernagh in Mulrankan Parish Co. Wexford. > Any information on the townlans and the parish Please. > Peter Cousins > ______________________________ IreAtlas site http://www.seanruad.com/ Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns http://www.ferns.ie Church of Ireland Genalogical Searches http://www.creativecom.net/stfinbarres/gene.htm 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

Hi all! I have received a bazillion requests for lookups (okay - about 20!), which I will get to as fast as I can. Bear with me - the Ballindaggin book is 80 pages! I plan to make a list of the names represented so you all can see whether or not I have something you might be interested in. The most common names appear to be Doyle, Murphy and Nolan. It's a published book, so I'm not going to quote large pieces to avoid copyright infringements. The Ballylinen information was taken by my dad, and I'm not honestly sure he recorded the whole graveyard or just a part of it. If it's the whole thing, it's a very small graveyard! I only have a few hours after work each day, so if you don't hear back from me right away, I haven't forgotten you, I'm just going to take them first come, first served. Edel

Leachestown is just north of Tacumshin Lake. If you can find Ballycogly on your map, it's the next townland east. I didn't find Ballalobernagh, but I did find Ballylibernagh, which is a couple of miles east and south of Mulrankin. Unfortunately, until I find my Ordnance Survey map of the area, that's the best I can tell you. Edel ----- Original Message ----- From: peter.cousins <peter.cousins@SoftHome.Net> To: <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 2:38 AM Subject: [WEX] Townlands in Wexford. > Hello Listers, I searched my ordinance maps of Southern Wexford Nu: 76/ 77 but I can not find the following places .Leachestown Co Wexford and Ballalobernagh in Mulrankan Parish Co. Wexford. > > Any information on the townlans and the parish Please. > > Thank you > > Peter Cousins > > Ormskirk England > > > Also Researching. > Quinn, Wexford > Cobbeldick , Devon. > Guswell,Devon. England > Hoey Ireland / Devon > Mahoney, Ireland / Devon. > Kirwan , Ireland, England, > > ______________________________

Peter I would love to connect in Co. Carlow with Kehoe's. Please take a look at my KEHOE website to find a link. Pam Kehoe Wisconsin FAMILY Website - http://www.geocities.com/drk4779 Walworth County Historical Society - http://www.geocities.com/walcohistory Celtic Women International ~ http://www.celticwomen.org

Hello Listers, I searched my ordinance maps of Southern Wexford Nu: 76/ 77 but I can not find the following places .Leachestown Co Wexford and Ballalobernagh in Mulrankan Parish Co. Wexford. Any information on the townlans and the parish Please. Thank you Peter Cousins Ormskirk England Also Researching. Quinn, Wexford Cobbeldick , Devon. Guswell,Devon. England Hoey Ireland / Devon Mahoney, Ireland / Devon. Kirwan , Ireland, England,

Do you show anything for FENLON or FITZSIMONS/FITZSIMMONS? Thanks for you help. Joan Lacy Fitzsimmons in NJ

I quote from "Irish Records sources for Family & Local History" by James Ryan Only a few wills survived the PRO fire, but further wills and copies have since been obtained and form the current NAI collection. Further information from the same book: County Wexford is mainly in the diocese of Ferns, with two parishes in Dublin and one in Leighlin. Abstracts Abstracts of Ferns Wills from Philips Manuscripts (surnames A-S for period 16661-1826) NAI; SLC film 101027 Indexes Ferns (1601-1858, badly mutilated) up to 1800 published by Philimore. The NAI has a copy (1603-1838) for F-V, with unproved wills 1616-1842 for W only. NAI 1A 4 (16). A reconstructed copy of the index for 1800-57 (complied by Ian Cantwell) is complete for F-T and fifty percent complete for the rest. This is also available in the NAI. Co. Wexford Wills. GO Ms.685 and SLC film 100158. Ferns Administration bonds (1694-1845) NAI or SLC film 100962 Leighlin Administration bonds (1694-1845) NAI or SLC film 100963 Leighlin Wills (1652-1858) NAI or SLC film 100916 SLC = Salt Lake City. NAI = National Archives of Ireland, Bishop Street, Dublin 8 Tel: 01 4092300 Fax: 01 4092333 Internet http://www.kst.dit.ie/nat_arch/ (Note lower line between nat and arch) So you are very unlikely to find the will (I have never found any of mine) only an index to show it existed. - (Unless some one can prove me wrong)! Regards Peter Furney Windsor Berks UK Researching Furney in Laois, Wexford, Cork, Ulster and Dublin > -----Original Message----- > From: peter.cousins [mailto:peter.cousins@SoftHome.Net] > Sent: 21 April 2000 19:06 > To: WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WEX] Obtain Wexford Wills > > > Hello Listers, I have just come across the following list > of COUSINS Wills (snip)

If anyone's interested, I have transcriptions of the headstones from the Ballindaggin and Ballylinen graveyards. (Don't know why it hasn't occurred to me before to offer!) Edel Codd, CA Researching: Codd, Fardy, Doyle, Roche, Power, Morris, Fling, Murray, Walsh/Welsh in Co. Wexford; Ashe, Brosnan, Mannix, Flaherty, Murphy, Deane, Griffin, Kennedy, and Mansfield in Co. Kerry; and branches of sundry in the USA

I believe the Co. Wexford wills for that period were destroyed. Only the index is left. Someone else may have other information. Edel Codd, CA Researching: Codd, Fardy, Doyle, Roche, Power, Morris, Fling, Murray, Walsh/Welsh in Co. Wexford; Ashe, Brosnan, Mannix, Flaherty, Murphy, Deane, Griffin, Kennedy, and Mansfield in Co. Kerry; and branches of sundry in the USA ----- Original Message ----- From: peter.cousins <peter.cousins@SoftHome.Net> To: <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:06 AM Subject: [WEX] Obtain Wexford Wills > Hello Listers, I have just come across the following list of COUSINS Wills > > Cossins John Ballalobernagh,Mulrankan Parish Co. Wexford 1761 > > Cousins Elizabeth Leachestown Co Wexford 1744 > > Cousins James Leachestown Co Wexford 1741 > > How can I obtain copies of these will. Can I do on line and pay buy credit card. > > Thank you > > Peter Cousins > > > Also Researching. > Quinn, Wexford > Cobbeldick , Devon. > Guswell,Devon. England > Hoey Ireland / Devon > Mahoney, Ireland / Devon. > Kirwan , Ireland, England, >

Hello Listers, I have just come across the following list of COUSINS Wills Cossins John Ballalobernagh,Mulrankan Parish Co. Wexford 1761 Cousins Elizabeth Leachestown Co Wexford 1744 Cousins James Leachestown Co Wexford 1741 How can I obtain copies of these will. Can I do on line and pay buy credit card. Thank you Peter Cousins Also Researching. Quinn, Wexford Cobbeldick , Devon. Guswell,Devon. England Hoey Ireland / Devon Mahoney, Ireland / Devon. Kirwan , Ireland, England,

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------785224EF0EFC0044EB9AAB66 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------785224EF0EFC0044EB9AAB66 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <38CC62D2.B9DCD7C3@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:38:58 -0800 From: Shirley Kirk <s.kirk@ns.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: s.kirk@ns.sympatico.ca Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-SYMPA (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wexford <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: SURNAME HAMILTON Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am interested in obtaining information about Catherine Hamilton who was born poss. in New Ross,Co. Wexford,Ireland. She married Richard Dinn on 10 Feb 1782 in the parish of Cushinstown. Witnessed by Timothy Murphy and Michael Conolly. Catherine Hamilton died 11 May 1827 in New Ross, Co. Wexford,Ireland. The information about her death was found in the parish records of St. Mary's Church,New Ross Parish, Diocese of Ferns, Co. Wexford. Any information regarding the above would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Shirley Kirk Nova Scotia, Canada --------------785224EF0EFC0044EB9AAB66--

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------96B38AE34D64A91A6B70211D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------96B38AE34D64A91A6B70211D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <38BB4B3D.50F626EA@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:29:49 -0800 From: Shirley Kirk <s.kirk@ns.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: s.kirk@ns.sympatico.ca Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-SYMPA (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wexford <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: DINN/DENN Researchers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would be interested in communicating with anyone who is researching the above surname. Or, secondly, maybe someone you know is researching the above surname. My gggrandfather was born in New Ross,Co. Wexford,Ireland 6 Sep 1791 to Richard Dinn and Catherine Hamilton. Michael was a blacksmith and emigrated to Halifax,Nova Scotia and then after his marriage to Catherine Finn 3 Sep 1829 in Halifax they moved to Saint John,New Brunswick,Canada. It was here they raised their family - children - Richard John,b.1832,Mary Anne b. 1834, Martin b. 1837, Bridget b. 1839, Catherine Dinn (twins) 1839, Elizabeth, b. 1841, Hugh Michael , b. 1843, James b. 1848, James Patrick 1850. Any help regarding the above would be greatly appreciated. I have research on this family to the present generation. Shirley Kirk Nova Scotia,Canada --------------96B38AE34D64A91A6B70211D--

Hi - my father's parents moved to Liverpool from Wexford in the early 1900s and I am keen to find out something about them. They also brought over with them their own surviving parents and my fathers older brothers and sisters - my father, James O'Neill, was born in Liverpool in 1915. Although my name is O'Neill there is a story in the family that we were named Neill but were obliged to add the O' to show that we were Catholic Irish. The following information might not be directly relevant but is about the sum total of my knowledge of the pre-Liverpool family, all 4 people originated from Wexford and I would appreciate any further information, corrections or even confirmation of my details Great-grandfather - paternal John O'NEILL (seaman, full beard, ) died Wexford (lived in John Street and Modlin Town) pre-1905. Brother Matthew, sister Christine. O'Neill cousins operated 2 coasters, Elsey Annie and James Francis Victor (JFV). Great-grandfather - maternal James SMYTH (seaman, Van Dyk beard,) born 1849, arrived Liverpool 1905 from Wexford, lived with daughter in Latham Street, died in Aspinall Street 1916, buried in Ford Cemetery Liverpool Grandfather paternal Thomas O'NEILL (seaman) 1870s? - 1927 (died in hospital while away at sea (bowel blockage?) buried in John Seely Hospital Memorial Ground, Galveston, TEXAS USA) Grandmother - paternal Bridget (Biddy) O'NEILL nee Smyth 1873 - 1943 (Ford Cemetery). Had 2 sisters, Catherine Macdonald (20 Aspinall Street) and Anastasia Blake (6 Aspinall Street). best regards Dr Terry O'Neill

Hi Listers I am looking for links to Bridget KEHOE and William KEHOE who were brother and sister who came to Tasmania as free settlers in the mid 1850s from CARLOW. It is possible that they were the children of Martin KEHOE and his wife Elizabeth ARKIN/ATKIN from WEXFORD,who along with several of their children were sent out as convicts to Tasmania in the 1840s. I would like to hear from anyone who is researching these names Thank you Peter ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Good Day All, I am reposting my request. My great great grandfather, William Lodge, was born circa 1794 in the County of Wexford, Ireland. He joined the 75th Regiment circa 1820 and, at some stage, ended up in Cape Town, South Africa - date of arrival unknown. He lived in Cape Town, South Africa at least until 1842 or 1843 and, on 15 October 1838, he married Elizabeth Brown who was apparently born in the County of Armagh, Ireland. A relative of his, possibly his father, wrote the following letter in 1841 - >To the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope > >Donard >Sept 20th 1841 > >Sir >Being informed by the war office of London that Wm Lodge who had been >private in the 75 Regt of foot was discharged in the year 1836. I trouble >you with this to ascertain whether he is yet in the Cape of Good Hope in any >situation whatever. By kindly acquainting me with whatever you know of him >you would greatly and for ever oblige. >Sir >Your very humble servt >Francis Lodge > >Might I request of you Sir to direct your letter immediately after receiving >this, according to the following address >Francis Lodge >Shop keeper Donard >Dulavins >Ireland > I do know that Donard is in the County of Wicklow but William Lodge's marriage declaration states he was born in the County of Wexford and I thought I should first look for him in Wexford before moving onto Wicklow. I have looked for William Lodge on the IGI with no success and now find myself appealing to the members of this list for any assistance they may be able to give. Regards, Pat Smith

Hi Just wanting to repost my Wexford Co., Ireland line. My great grandfather Thomas Henry COX was born in Wexford County, Ireland on 27 or 29 Jun 1832. According to family history the family migrated to Canada when Thomas was about 10 or 12 years old. But according to his naturalization papers he sailed from the Port of Liverpool on the 14 of Oct 1852 for the Port of New York. He settled in DeKalb County, Illinois and applied for citizenship. He then went to Kansas and bought property in Calhoun County, Kansas (renamed Jackson). I know this is long but any help I could get trying to find his parents and siblings would be appricated. Melinda __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com