| Genealogy - Family history
studies. |
| This will be where people can submit queries
or family history information for inclusion on the website.The links to
Mayo and Galway
genealogical sources contain information relating to census , census subtitutes
, books , journals and estate records. |
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| Genealogy record for the Egan family from Shrule and Brackloon |
| Genealogy record for the Carty family from Brackloon |
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| Genealogy guestbook. |
| You may add a comment or query relating to family
history issues here and hopefully somebody will be able to assist in your
enquiry . |
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Entries with subject of Hello |  | John R. Diaz | | Honolulu, Hawaii - USA | | My mother's family Keelaghan/Kelleghan/Kellaghan has lived in Delvin Parish, County Westmeath since my g-g-gfather William Keleghan (b. ???) married Judith Cavanaugh in 1809. His son was William Keelaghan (b.1813-Delvin Parish) married Marcella Carolan 19 July 1845-My g-father John Keelaghan (b. 16Dec 1851-Delvin Parish) married Mary Murray (b.1864-Coole,C.Westmeath)24Feb1889-I have names and addresses of all my grand parents decendants, but know nothing about the siblings of Christopher K. or his son William's siblings. Also, Where did Christopher come from? Perhaps, Monaghan or Armagh? I wish I knew and some one could help me. I plan on visiting Shrule when I get to Ireland in May. I am in contact with a Patrick Kelleghan who's family is from Shrule (he lives in Australia) and he put me in touch with this web site and I think it is wonderful. Aloha from Hawaii John Diaz | | | | John R. Diaz
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| | Derek Clulow | | Derby, Derbyshire , UK | | Its good to see a site for Shrule, I visited briefly in 1999 during my honeymoon with my wife Kirston, to see what all the fuss was about. My mother had reminisced for the last 20 years about Shrule and yes 'Craddocks'is exactly how it was described. On behalf of my mother (Bridget Nolan)I would like to hear from anyone who knew my family, who had all left Shrule by the late 50's. Grandfather - Thomas Nolan Grandmother - Kate Nolan Children - Frank, Mary, Bridget, Anne, Patsy & Martina | | | | Derek Clulow
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| | Richard Davin | | | I'm new at computers! The Davin listed are distant relativesof mine. My grandfather Richard Davin came from Brackloon as well as my great grandfather John Davin. John Davin was married to Mary Corbett in Shrule on Aug. 22, 1857 at St Joseph RCC. His father name was James Davin who married Mary Halloran. I don't know much about John Davin as I've been told he was married 2 times. His wife Mary Corbett died May 14, 1879 at age 45 and had children up to 1878. John, I'm told had other children from another. My 3rd cousin John (his name also) news in Brackloon now. I have much more info. Any other Info. you could give me would be appreciated. Thank You Richard Davin | | | | Richard Davin
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| | Leo Hannan | | Spain | | My uncle Martin born in Ireland & his brother my Grandfather Thomas born in England both Named Hannan married two sisters named Sharkey(Shearkey) from Shrule( I think)any idea how I can trace them. I'm new to this genealogy stuff.
Thanks in anticipation
Leo Hannan | | | | | Leo Hannan
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| | rachael skerritt | | leicester | | hi im 15 and i want to find out about my family name | | | | | rachael skerritt
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| | Shannon Thomas | | San Francisco | | My family is from Kilcommon mostly the towns of Cloonanaff & Frenchgrove. Other than Lynskey, the surnames are Roache and Canney (may be Carey)
Any Lynksys, email me! I will be visiting Mayo in April | | | | | Shannon Thomas
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| | Isabella toraldo di Francia | | Florence, Italy | | I am looking for informations
and relatives in Ireland of the branch of the Walsh - Sweeney of Ballycurrin Demesne:
Thomas Sweeney, married to Julia Walsh born county Galway (maybe 1841), was head of a hosehold composed by four people in Ballycurrin Demesne, County Mayo, according to the 1901 census.
Ballycurrin Demesne was in the parish of Shrule under the barony of Kilmaine.
Thomas had a son: Michael Sweeney (27 years old at the time), and John (24). The third son Patrick Sweeney, born May 18 1877 or 1871 (my husband's great grandfather) does not appear as living in Ireland at the time. He had probably left already for the United States and ended up in Johnstown New York. Patrick may have had another brother, Thomas, who arrived with him in the States but they lost track of each other. Patrick Sweeney, in Ireland or in the States, married Anna Jennings, born 1876 in County Cork, daughter of Richard Jennings and Nora Mullroe.They had a son Edward Sweeney who lived in Johnstown N:Y: and married Dorothy Passero. Edward was the grandfather of my husband Paul Blanchard. I am Italian and we are presently living in Florence Italy.We would be very grateful to receive any information and to find out if there are any relatives Sweeney, Walsh, Jennings, Mullroe, of this family, still living in Ireland.
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| | David Jeffries | | New Zealand | | Wonderful site to discover. I'm looking for Grandmother Mary Lynskey 1876-1944 who died in NZ but was from your town. | | | | | David Jeffries
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| Search for your ancestors. |
| There is an ancestor
search page which allows you to search Griffith's Valuation (1855) as
well as baptism and marriage records (1833 to 1899). There is also a
placename search page which allows you to find a local placename and
its details . There are maps available for each civil parish aswell as parish
location maps for Mayo and Galway
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| There are two ways to search for genealogical
or family history data on the site . The first is to use the ancestor search
page and look for a name. The other option is to search for a placename
and when you view the townland record for this place you will have the option
of viewing all the records in the database for that place. EG you can view
all records from the Tithe Applotments (1830's) , Griffith's Valuation (1850's)
or the 1901 census for a townland and any records which do not have a definite
townland will be available as an option on the Civil Parish details page..
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| Therefore if you wanted to view the records from
the Tithe Applotments database for the Civil Parish of Shrule you would
do so in the following manner : |
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Search for Shrule in the placenames search page. |
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Select the Civil Parish of Shrule from the list of matching entries. |
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The page returned will give all details of the Civil Parish of Shrule
including a list of official townland names. |
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Select the view records from this parish where the location is unknown
. This gives all records for the parish where the placename in the
records is no longer used and it's location is now unknown. |
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The rest of the records are available under the official townland
detail pages . So if you want all the tithe applotment records for
Dalgan Demesne , select it from the townland list . |
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In the townland detail page for Dalgan Demesne select the View All
option for tithe applotments . |
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| Obviously if you wanted all the records for Shrule you
could systematically go to each townland and select all records BUT
if you want a copy of the Griffiths or Tithe applotment records for
a parish just email me and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet
or text file - which ever is required . |
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| Acknowledgements |
| Fr.Michael Crosby P.P. for typing
in baptism , marriage and death records and his ongoing work computerising
the Shrule parish records and preserving the heritage of the area. |
| Michael Carroll and Joe Lalley
for access to their
Lalley.com database of Griffiths Valuation and 1901 census information from Killursa
and Headford DED's. |
| Robert Dooley for the 1796 Flax
Growers List . |
| M.Johnson , J. Doherty , E.Finnerty
, J.Muldoon , S.Ryan , T.Moran and hopefully lots more ... who have sent
photographs to the site. |
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| General information
pages. |
| Here follows some general information
relating to family history and Irish records available to the public . Most
of the material is sourced from the internet and links to the original sites
are included . The information is summarised so a visit to the relevant
sites is worthwhile if you are interested |
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| Genealogical information. |
| Records of many kinds have been kept in Ireland since the
Middle Ages. Unfortunately fire, carelessness and theft have caused the
loss and destruction of much of this material. |
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| Many records of the Court of Chancery were lost
by fire in 1304. In the mid 1530s, records maintained in Dublin Castle became
so subject to pilfering that they were moved to the more secure Bermingham
Tower, which then became the main repository of Irish records; unfortunately
it burned down in 1758 with the loss of many documents. Other records had
already been lost in 1711 when another fire, this time in the Customs House,
destroyed books belonging to the Surveyor General. |
| The creation of the Commission of Public Records
in 1810 made provision for the systematic collation and archiving of national
records. |
| The Public Record Office was opened in 1867 and
from then until around 1922, the Office was the centre for the collection
and cataloguing of national records. Unfortunately, this building suffered
devastating damage during the Civil War in 1922 and many records were destroyed,
in particular the nineteenth century census returns, Church of Ireland parish
records and the enormous collection of original wills. In the years following
this loss, great efforts were made to unearth substitutes and many of the
gaps can now be filled through the use of secondary material collections
- partial transcripts or abstracts, researchers' notes, census substitutes
etc. In 1988, the Public Record Office was amalgamated with the State Paper
Office and renamed the National Archives of Ireland. In 1992, it moved from
its old home in the grounds of the Four Courts to new custom-bulit premises
in Bishop Street |
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| One further factor also needs to be borne in
mind by any genealogical researcher. Northern Ireland was established in
1921 and the Irish Free State in 1922. Some of the records concerning the
six counties, which were previously held in Dublin, were moved to the North
- so a researcher may have to follow such records, although copies of most
of the records moved can still be found in Dublin. Some anomalies do still
exist, such as the fact that the Census Records covering the six counties
for 1911 are still covered by the 100 year rule North of the border but
these census records including the six counties are freely available in
the South |
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