Dear all,
This is (I think) my first post to the Mayo Board.
I am in a youth hostel in Mayo with very poor phone signal but am hoping to have a little drive around the “lands of my fathers” before I leave Mayo in 4 days time. I’m trying to use my iPhone but the Griffith valuation maps won’t work.
So:
I have an ancestor called Patrick Kane or Cain or Caine, who was born in about 1810-1816. He once gave his place of birth on the UK Census as Newport Mayo. His marriage certificate gave his father’s name as James.
In 1851 he was a 40 year old widower when he married a 19 year old widow Winifred Lavell, formerly Macnamara from Longford, Mayo. They eventually ended up in Sunderland, but only after their daughter Mary was born, also in 1851. The witness was Honor Cain, whom I have never been able to find again.
The tithe applotments and Griffith Valuation have a Pat cain living in 1832 in Kilmore Cain in Burrishoole Parish. Kilmore seems to be divided up by surname (there is also kilmore Coyne, where the Coynes are and Kilmore Kelly, Kilmore Nolan, etc). They are clearly in Burrishoole parish on the Griffith and Tithe records.
Is his Kilmore different from the Kilmore in Mayo, which doesn’t seem to be in Burrishool parish? It seems to me it is Burrishool parish I should be looking for, since he specified Newport and there is a Pat Cain there (and a James on Griffith). Does anyone know where Kilmore in Burrishoole is, so I could go and have a look at it? Might there be an Irish name?
Also, can anyone find any info on his first marriage (or any others) - I can’t find anything in Liverpool, but he is 40 and a widower, so i assume he might have married in Burrishoole. I have searched on and off for some time but can’t find anything.
I’d be so grateful for your help.
If I end up going to Burrishool I’d be pleased to take photos.
Best wishes,
Clarrie
