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Donegal / Re: Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Friday 11 September 09 06:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

The Irish line is very difficult to trace, even with living relatives who are still in the original homestead!
I don't have any info on that side of the family sorry, but the people on this website are very helpful :-)
Good luck

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Donegal / Re: Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Friday 21 August 09 09:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mary,

Do you know who your grandparents were?
So you and Thelochman are obviously related... you are his Aunt? And Marvin and Thelochman must be cousins.
Do you know each other already?

And more importantly (for me  ;)) do any of you know any further back?
Anne do you know who your grandparents were?
My family were in Carndonagh and still are... what about yours?
I have checked the Griffins Valuation and we are not on it, so maybe we aquired it after this date.
Jules

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Donegal / Re: Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Sunday 19 October 08 08:38 BST (UK)  »
Yes I think we are related...
The story I got from the family still there was that there were brothers McElhinney;

Jimmy the Meen (James of the Meenahoner), Gerry the Bunnarar (don't know what that means and neither did the family, or how to spell it) and Dan the Loch. That during the time when the English landlords were doing all sorts of nasty stuff in Ireland the McElhinney's were working the property of a Landlord; Gerry was a gamekeeper, Dan tended the loch and Jimmy cut turf for fuel for the estate. Aparently they were all gifted a small piece of land for long service and the family said it was unusual for Irish Catholics to be given such things at the time.

James McElhinney (Jimmy the Meen) is my Great Great Grandfather (I was born in 1978 just to give some perspective), his children were born between 1876 and 1886 from the info I have.

So if you had a William the Loch as a grandfather maybe he was Dan the Loch's son? Do you have a date for the marriage to Ethne Davenport? Do you know the name of your Gt grandad?

Yes, we should get in touch. I could send you a Gedcom of what I have if you want. Feel free to email me on

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 but my wedding is in 3 months so I don't have alot of time currently for family history stuff!
Julia

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Donegal / Re: Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Friday 03 October 08 05:47 BST (UK)  »
Agnes thank you so much.
Thanks to some very fragile family links I was able to travel last year to Carondonagh and stayed with the Grandson of Philip McElhinney (who you found...). I was surprised to find they were as emotional about the "family coming home" as we were about being there. We even visited the Meenahoner, and house where my "uncle" still lives which James and Mary built all that time ago. It made my father cry, as he thinks of himself as Irish but had never been...let alone to find the family and see the homested that his grandfather had talked about when he was a boy.

I am descended from William who aparently left Ireland at 18.
He arrived in NZ in 1908 and started our family line. This year we had a 100 year celebration and three of my distant cousins from Philips line came over - it was fab!

What is most surprising is that the family there know very little about where else the family has gone - there are McElhinneys all around but prob the family links have been lost because they were all living in the same area - so you have given me more information than they could!!!
As I was there for a short time of only 5 days, I made the most of meeting those that were there so didn't make it to the Library.
Thank you so much.
Julia

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Donegal / Re: Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Tuesday 30 September 08 06:02 BST (UK)  »
You are wonderful!
Thank you so much... there is not very much out there by all accounts!

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Donegal / Re: Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Wednesday 11 July 07 12:53 BST (UK)  »
I had a look on the NZ weblink you gave me, using the spelling I use for my name (McElhinney) and got 39 hits - at least some of them I know are rellys but I haven't investigated yet.
Thanks for that.
I am starting to get the impression that my Irish side is going to be difficult if not impossible to do much more with.
I would love to have a look on the 1901 and 1911 census but all the links I have found to the Donagh Parish/ Carndonagh are missing. I think the website might be being upgraded so it might just require some patience until it's back up again.
Jules

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Donegal / Re: McElhinney/McElhaney - Fern Look Up
« on: Tuesday 10 July 07 15:12 BST (UK)  »
wow wow wow   :-* how did you do that?

Are you allowed to reveal your sources?
Thanks!

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Donegal / Donagh/Carndonagh Parish Records McElhinney
« on: Monday 09 July 07 17:00 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for info on James McElhinney (the Meen - of Meenahoner, Carndonagh) who married Mary Dougherty.

I don't have dates but I know their son William was born on the farm at Meenahoner circa 1890 and left for NZ with his brother John in 1908. The family thinks John stopped in Oz but his line is "missing".

I would like a marriage record (they were Catholic), Griffiths Valuation info or anything anyone can find.
Any suggestions as to where I should be looking my research would be most most appreciated!

I know that James (Jimmy's) brothers were Dan (the Loch) and Gerry (the Bunnerer) and from speaking to the family it would appear that James and Dan were Gamekeepers - one on the land one by the loch. The land was given/purchased by the family at some point and they sold Turf from the land.
A second cousin (or futher away) still lives on the family farm but none of the rellys who still live there know anything about the family history so I'm starting with very little.
There are a number of McElhinney family's in the area who are not directly related (or the link has been forgotten).
Any help would be wonderful. Julia

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Donegal / Re: McElhinney/McElhaney - Fern Look Up
« on: Monday 09 July 07 15:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi, although I'm not adding anything to Kandddad's origininal post I am interested about McElhinney's in Donegal myself and wanted to know how Mary got the civil registration?
I am Julia McElhinney, grt granddaughter of William McElhinney who emigratted to NZ in 1908 from Carndonagh Co. Donegal and I haven't found any records for him yet (nb. 100year anniversary party next year in NZ if anyone interested...)

His father was Jimmy (James) McElhinney who was known as Jimmy the meen (mean by name not by nature) as he lived on a farm next to the Meenahoner stream (spelling?).
His brothers were Dan (the Loch) and Gerry (the Bunnerer).

James married Mary Dougherty and their children were Margaret, Ann, Mary, William (moved to NZ), John (moved to Oz), Sarah and Kathleen.
I have no more info than this and would love to find out where the rest of the family went and go back a bit further with the members I do have. I don't have any ages, dates of birth or official documents - which I would love.
Any suggestions?
Jules

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