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Leitrim / Re: Clancy's Carrigallen? Mixed roman cath & church of ireland
« on: Saturday 19 November 16 18:09 GMT (UK)  »
My apologies for the delay in replying to your last post - if you get in touch with Deirdre in Seattle she has my details. We have as much information as you, though I think the Cloonclare connection is a different Clancy family. In Ireland, there are traditional naming schemes - e.g. you might have a lot of Johns and Peters in a Murphy family for example, and there might be a lot of Murphys in Cork, for example - so this makes genealogy very tricky indeed. Local knowledge is what is really needed to get the precision in Irish genealogy.

John William Clancy had a brother called Thomas Ennis Clancy, and his mother was Eliza Jane Clancy (Lilly was called after her it could be assumed). I have done further research online on Irish search engines and FindMyPast through subscription and found further information on the Ennis family - though not very much. Some information is freely available online.

@Gortonboy - thank you very much for all your help in this thread, it really was of great assistance in researching our fragmentary family and well scattered family tree. I am unable to locate him precisely on the Chelsea Army Pensioner records though I am determined and will do it! ;) Also, the very first I completely misread bugler as burglar! I though he was a criminal in my misreading of the text!  ::)

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Leitrim / Re: Clancy's Carrigallen? Mixed roman cath & church of ireland
« on: Monday 25 October 10 12:17 BST (UK)  »
We don't know any information on his siblings, just he had sisters in London. He was buried in London also. Yes that is him alright on the link you posted! :) How strange that he could be a musician / burgler!!!!!!!! We don't know either that he was born in London, though it would make sense as his eldest was born there and he could have possibly met his wife there (she was a teacher) ... that's very interesting now. Do you have much other information on the family? If they are the same?

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Cork / Re: Jeremiah O'callaghan,Mallow 1892-1922
« on: Monday 25 October 10 01:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

My great grandmother was Jullia O'Callaghan and looks like is a sibling of Jeremiah. She married twice & had 8 children. If you'd like more information please contact me. My mother may be of help to you.

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Leitrim / Clancy's Carrigallen? Mixed roman cath & church of ireland
« on: Monday 25 October 10 01:39 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

There has always been a mystery in our family about (my) great grandfather - a John William Clancy. He was born 1860 ish and joined the British Army. His father was a catholic and his mother was a member of the Church of Ireland - all the boys in his family were raised their fathers religion and the girls their mothers. It was said that he was originally from Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim.

He eventually settled in Cork & married my great grandmother, Julia O'Callaghan and had 6 children (in Mallow). As far as we know, he may have had a sister O'Hehir ... and there were people belonging to him in London, where he is buried. Information is sparse about him, we only know he fought in the Boer War and was a soldier in the famous Afghan Kabul to Kandahar of the late 1800s.

Any help or insight into this mysterious ancestor of mine, or his family would be gratefully appreciated. There may be either relatives still about who are either roman catholic or church of ireland. Carrigallen is all we've currently got to go on! :)

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