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Topic: Comiskey's In Abbeylara/Granard/Creevy (Read 268 times)
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shanew147
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not sure if you''ve already looked ... but the 1911 census is available at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
There is only one Cornelius Comiskey that I see listed in Longford and he is the right age (31), living with wife Bridget and three children in the townland of Cloghchurnel : http://www.rootschat.com/links/07ee/ Cornelius' brother Terence is living with the family.
Cloghchurnel is about 8km from Abbeylara - see google map : http://www.rootschat.com/links/07ef/
I dont see any good matches for Peter & Elizabeth.
Shane
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Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
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shanew147
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An index (free) to Civil records, which started in 1864, is available at : http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1408347
If you find promising matches on this you can order BMD certs, which will have the full details, from the GRO : http://www.groireland.ie/apply_for_a_cert.htm
It might be work checking for variations is the spelling of the surname on the census - e.g. Comaskey
Some Co. Longford parish records are available on the Irish Family History Foundation pay-website at : http://www.irish-roots.ie/
Shane
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Wilson : Cambridgeshire [Chatteris], Yorkshire [Leeds], Dublin & Australia [Sydney/NSW] | Fitzsimon : Bray, Co. Wicklow & South Co. Dublin
Hayes, Shepherd, Bickerdike, Render, Harper : Yorkshire | Doyle, Dillon, Cantwell, Roach, Clarke : Co. Wicklow
Cathcart, Wilson : Kings Co./Offaly, Dublin City & N. Ireland | Hodges : Bristol, Glos./Bray Co. Wicklow/Dublin City | Nevin : Cork
Sheridan : Dublin City | Kavanagh, Rooney, Clarke, Hughes, May, Monks : North Co. Dublin [Rush/Thomastown]
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Fullam
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hello Sean,
My great great grandmother was Honoria Comiskey, she was recorded as a widow in the Griffiths evalauation of 1852 granard County Longford.
I was over there in 2004 and I was with a very distant relative who said that she knew a man she always thought of as a cousin, he was a Comiskey and they still lived near to Granard in 2004.
I will look up the Griffiths for the family, and the Irish spelling of your surname.
John Fulham,
Liverpool
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Fullam
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Griffiths Valuation of Ireland - Granard, County Longford:
Fullam, Honoria Mullinroe Columbkille Longford widow of Patrick Fullam
Fullam, Patrick Mullinroe Columbkille Longford son of above
Comiskey, Michael Moxham Street,Granard Granard Longford
Commisky, Laurence Aghabrack Granard Longford
Commisky, Patrick Cartron Granard Longford
Commisky, William Cartron Granard Longford
Comiskay, James Toome Columbkille Longford
Comiskay, Peter Kilmore Columbkille Longford
Comiskey, John Cloonagh Columbkille Longford
Comiskey, Owen Cloonagh Columbkille Longford
Comiskey, Rose Cloonagh Columbkille Longford
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Fullam
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I UNDERSTAND AND POSTED INFORMATION IN GOOD FAITH TO ASSIST THE INQUIRER .OK JOHN FULLAM
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Fullam
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Sean,
Yes I do believe we are distant relations on my great great grandmother side.
It was by pure luck I chanced on your posting today, I saw another with a variation of spelling under "C" on the site. I then looked up Longford postings and found a man in New York asking the same question as your self.
I still have relations living in the places you have mentioned, Abbeylara, Granard and Creevy. They had never heard of my family in Liverpool. but I could tell them of people in the 1800's who they had never heard of and farms where they lived.
However, the places to go in Dublin are the National Library in Kildare Street, on the ground floor on the right -hand side you will find a smal genealogy section. Here the people will help you for free they have books of people living at the relevant time of inquiry.
You can then go upstairs to the 1st floor and use the computers and ask to use the archives films of people. (It is free)
Then you can go to the National Archives in Bishop Street, of Aungier Street,
in the old Jacobs biscuit factory. You can join the library for free so take a passport with you to show you are a visitor. Go to the top floor and there are also people there who can help you. They are all very accommodating with the questions. Take a good pair of glasses as the records are very difficult to read.
If you go up to Granard, stay in Michael Houricans Hotel, on Main Street. it is about 30 euros or so, B+B. You can use it as a base as Creevy and Abbeylara are nearby and taxis are reasonable.
If you go into a shop in Main Street called Kitty Drake-Farrell ask her or the supermarket Mc Brians, also the O'hara's pub for information of your family they should give you a fair idea.
You can later take a taxi to Longford town the library is near Tesco and the people there have a collection of records. However beware of "Longford Roots" genealogists, they are very expensive and do not know much.
A very distant cousin of mine in Herefordshire used them they virtually gave him some "Typing" as luck had it a lot of it was useful to me, but usekless to him. I was able to piece it together with other information from other sources.
In Dublin you will pay upto 50 Euro per night but there is an Hostel near the Customs House called Jacobs Inn a clean but basic place.
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Good Luck,
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Fullam
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Sean try this email address for USA:
Fred Jaeger
Send email to (*)
He wrote on the County Longford board..........
Father of Teresa, Annie and Mary who all immigrated to New York, New York, New York, USA from 1905 to 1908. James remained in Ireland. We are trying to locate any relative of James to make a link back to the family that remained in Ireland. We believe that James may have been a widower and all connections to the three daughters were broken. James' wife was Elizabeth Clyne. Any information would be helpful. The surname could also be Commiskey or Comiskey
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Fullam
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Sean,
I only know of my forebear Honoria Comiskey. She was my grandfather grandmother. She lived at the family farm in the 1852 local Griffiths valuation.
The problem is found in the loss of papers due to the IRA destroying the Customs House records in the troubles 1918-1922, and the later destruction during the Civil War of 1922-1923 of the Four Courts.
The beauty however is that your surname is very rare in County Longford and especially around Granard. It like mine very rare, however sadly there was a tradition in Ireland of a mood at that time of a form of death when a emigrant went away. I have a book here and I will look for the surname Comiskey.
When I went to Granard in 2004 nobody accepted me at first, as they had never heard of anybody in England related to them outside of their near relatives. I told them who my grand mother was and they were all amazed, as they had known her family since childhood and were all friends.
My very distant relatives still have a farm in Creevy but , they are eccentric to say the least. Also there is strife in that family has a Fullam did not inherit the Fullam farm but a cousin. of the Fullam who does not like it. I had a right ignorant reception there as It appears to me they thought I was after money.
Yet a another Fullam in Dublin form Granard was very friendly has was one in lives in Essex.
Bridie Maguire she lives in Essex but was born here in Granard, told me that the man Comiskey that she knew was a retired Irish Prison officer. I stayed with some Americans cousins out in Finnea, they live in New York and Connecticut and have their family farm in Finnea. On the Cara road from Granard they pointed to where they said the Comeskey family still live.
The other surnames will be harder to locate as they are several families with the same surname variant spellings Donahoe = Donaghue etc.
I will try to contact the American Comiskey and pass this conversation on.
best regards,
John Liverpool
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