Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Fahy Family of Kilrush - possibly Carnacalla or Mount Pleasant (Clarefield)  (Read 3949 times)

Offline Alan5

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 27
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Fahy Family of Kilrush - possibly Carnacalla or Mount Pleasant (Clarefield)
« on: Thursday 12 December 13 00:41 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

The New South Wales 1888 death certificate of my g-g grandmother, Margaret O'Neill (nee Fahey) born 1815, who came to Australia in 1838, states her father Patrick Fahy (Fahey?) was a schoolmaster probably near Kilrush in County Clare.  I have found the reference to the 1824 Irish Education Survey which lists a Patrick Fahy, master of a school at Carnacalla.  I also notice that the road from Kilrush to Carnacalla is called Fahy's Road.  The records indicate that my Patrick Fahy was married to Catherine Kelty.

I am just wondering whether anyone knows more about this family or the Fahy families of Carnacalla/Kilrush?

In the shipping records, Margaret says she was a native of Kilrush although the death certificate says she was from Mount Pleasant.  She was a housekeeper so perhaps she worked at Mount Pleasant House in Clarefield.  Does anyone know more about Mount Pleasant House which I believe was occupied by magistrate Joseph Cox, eg approx when it was built?

Thanks
Alan, Sydney Australia

Offline aghadowey

  • RootsChat Honorary
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 51,351
    • View Profile
Re: Fahy Family of Kilrush - possibly Carnacalla or Mount Pleasant (Clarefield)
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 December 13 00:50 GMT (UK) »
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

Offline Alan5

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 27
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Fahy Family of Kilrush - possibly Carnacalla or Mount Pleasant (Clarefield)
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 December 13 01:14 GMT (UK) »
Hi aghadowey,

Thanks for your reply.  I had seen the second reference but not the first so it helps to enlighten me.

There is a photo of the house in use here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=650831674943288&set=pb.389603917732733.-2207520000.1386805346.&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-frc3%2F976436_650831674943288_1353901163_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-ash3%2F944568_650831674943288_1353901163_n.jpg&size=1800%2C1200

What a shame to see it in decline although sadly it is the norm.

Thanks again,
Alan

Offline rathmore

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,022
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Fahy Family of Kilrush - possibly Carnacalla or Mount Pleasant (Clarefield)
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 17 December 13 11:34 GMT (UK) »
http://familysearch.org

Bounty emmigrants 1828-1842

estimated birth 1815 age 23, mother Kate Kelty
ship Amelia Thompson July 1838
gs film no 416872
Digital folder no. 4117084
image no 00717

Offline Alan5

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 27
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Fahy Family of Kilrush - possibly Carnacalla or Mount Pleasant (Clarefield)
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 17 December 13 12:12 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your response rathmore.

I'm aware of the Amelia Thompson records; an undesirable voyage with a death every 3 days on average mainly from typhus.  Another chap jumped overboard with delirium leaving a wife and two children.  After all that they spent 3 weeks in quarantine in Sydney before going ashore.

I'm hoping that someone may know more about the Fahys of the Kilrush area.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Alan5
Pages: [1]