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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!
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!