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g. gleeson
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hi there ,
sorry i have taken so long to reply.
i have spoken with my father and got some information from him .
1. he knew of a Eugene Gleeson that lived in fedamore at the back of the hurling pitch in a small house. he farmed a few cattle .Eugene 's parents also lived there.
2. my fathers - father was stephen gleeson as was his father , not william as i said earlier. my grandfather stephen played handball and was all ireland winner.he also played alot of hurling for fedamore.
3.my father also tells me that one of his family has done an extensive family tree .the next time i am in limerick i will be able to check off names against those mentioned by others .
4.For the person that has not been to fedamore since 1953 there is a web site called "google earth", you pay $20 for the year and can zoom in on any place on earth.for example , if you type fedamore , satellites in space focus in on fedamore. by using the scroll up and down on you mouse you can further zoom in , so much so that you can pick out cars and cattle in field and roads.It is a fun way to see place from a birds eye view.Fedamore has not changed much over the years compared to other places.I hope this could be of some help to you.
best wish to all for now,
gerard
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wyndham
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Good evening, Gerard.
Eugene Gleeson used to farm at Boolavoord, Fedamore but due to ill health had to retire and went to live in a small house in the village at the back of the hurling pitch.
His father, James, died in May 1927 and his mother, Ellen, in 1932.
I am very interested in the family tree you refer to as will be Maresa who has also posted on this topic.
Funny enough I have looked at Fedamore on Google a number of times.
Keep in touch.
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boolavoord
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If any out there have knowledge of the Kelly's from Boolavoord, please contact me. I was in Fedamore in 1994, 1997 and 2004 poking around. In 1997, I met the pleasant priest in Fedamore, whose name escapes me now. I couldn't find any headstones of Kellys in Fedamore. In 1997, it looked liked the Catholic cemetary in Fedamore had been subject to grave robbing. I remember broken tombs with visible bones. Sad.
There are many Gleesons in Fedamore, and they've been there a long time. I doubt many Gleesons from Fedamore are not related, distantly. I read with interest Wynham's reference to one Johanna Gleeson. Though not an uncommon name, I wonder whether it was passed down the same line as the Johanna Gleeson who married Cornelius Kelly in 1848 before emigrating to Illinois. Those are my immigrant ancestors, both born in Boolavoord. Interestingly, these two, though certainly from Boolavoord, were married nearby in Monister. I believe Johanna's father was Thomas Gleeson, but I couldn't confirm that.
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Kelly, McDermott, Connolly, McKune, Etchingham, Quane
Boolavoord, Fedamore, County Limerick
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wyndham
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In the 1911 cenus, a Denis Kelly, aged 77, pensioner is shown living at Boolavoord, Fedamore with James and Ellen Gleeson. All I know is that he is related to these Gleesons.
Whether he is one of your Kellys I would not know.
If you look at local records for this period you will see their are 2 separate Gleeson families livng next door to each other in Boolavoord but as far as I am aware they were not related!
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