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Title: Bridget GREENE from Clare Castle
Post by: steve albin on Friday 19 December 14 02:02 GMT (UK)

Hi Folks,



My gg grandmother, Bridget Greene, was from Clare Castle, Clare Village and married there in 1851.

Could you please tell me if Clare Castle is an actual castle or the name of a suburb?

I have tried to find her DOB but no luck.

Regards
Steve

Title: Re: Bridget GREENE from Clare Castle
Post by: dathai on Friday 19 December 14 07:00 GMT (UK)

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarecastle

Title: Re: Bridget GREENE from Clare Castle
Post by: dathai on Friday 19 December 14 08:06 GMT (UK)

A few possibles for Michael Green or Greene  Co Clare on these

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/index.jsp

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

Title: Re: Bridget GREENE from Clare Castle
Post by: dathai on Friday 19 December 14 08:09 GMT (UK)

For reference related topic
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=486070.0

Title: Re: Bridget GREENE from Clare Castle
Post by: gaffy on Saturday 20 December 14 09:27 GMT (UK)

Quote from: steve albin on Friday 19 December 14 02:02 GMT (UK)

Could you please tell me if Clare Castle is an actual castle or the name of a suburb?

If I'm correctly reading the transcript you posted, his residence was Clare Castle, her residence was Clare Village.

See also here:

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/clarecastle_history.htm

"By 1837 there were three cavalry barracks on the site, affording accommodation for 17 officers and 234 men. This was then the main barracks for the county. At the height of the Terry Alt activities of 1831 there were 317 men and 137 women and children stationed here. The castle continued in use as a barracks until 1921."

Since Francis Heath was a soldier, would that not suggest a possibility he was stationed there?