Hi Heywood,
Before I sign off on this thread, I want to thank you again. That name Crosdell was a large key.
In a small DNA match circle, I have been in touch with two people, a Croasdell and another guy. This other guy's grandfather was in Artane Industrial School and he has no idea of his grandfather's prehistory. He was quite excited to find a DNA match (3rd cousins). We know we are linked through the young boy in Artane and his parentage. He has been over from abroad to meet with me, but we reached a blank wall, really, with too many possibilities and not enough information.
However, now, given the size of the DNA circle, and the fact that the three of us are now matched (the Croasdell is a distant relation, but it is the name that matters, an unusual name), I can narrow the other guy's family link down to this Kennedy family, and the three children, one of whom is my great grandfather.
Where on earth did you unearth that information? I took a look through the NLI registers and it is slow, painstaking work.
I noticed that an Ellen Crosdell died a spinster in Portumna in 1910. If that is our girl, that narrows it even further. After her death, an Edward Crosdell (in the 1911 census) was in the same street, possibly the same house. I am working on the assumption that he was a son of James, since I know all of my own g grandfather's tree (at least that part of it that has been acknowledged. I do have a question mark - the mother of the man in Artane gave her name as Mary Martin, which could have been an alias. We just don't know yet.)
All ongoing work. However, thank you again - that Crosdell link is gold dust!
Gerry
