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Mayo / Re: Brookhill Flour Mill
« on: Friday 15 January 21 23:50 GMT (UK) »
Scraboman,
i just reread your note about having Thomas and Michael Connolly as ancestors. I think this is what my ancestor Thomas McEnelly wrote about when he said McEnelly was recorded as Connolly.
Thomas was a kid that dropped out of school in 8th grade, worked as a bellhop, ended up in America's Foreign Service, and was a Consul in Dublin during WWII. He wrote an autobiography. I would say I am probably related to your wife's Connollys based upon his research. The attached is from his autobiography.
After dinner, I inspected the register of the parish to ascertain information on the birth of my
father. I found that he was born in the month of May 1840 and baptized in the
name of Patrick Henry Cunnella; his sister Johanna in the name of Kennella,
and his brothers Tom, Mike and Jim, Connelly. I asked father Brett how I
happened to have the name of McEnelly when my father was baptized with the name Cunnella.
He told me it often happened that
Irish names were corrupted by the neighbors of a family who shortened them for easy
pronunciation, and advised me to pursue my inquiry by examining earlier records.
This I did, and in the eighteenth century I found the named spelled as I spell it today.
The book is "The Life of Thomas McEnelly - His Life in His Words". I got it off Amazon but I also have an early draft online if you would like me to send it to you.
Mike
i just reread your note about having Thomas and Michael Connolly as ancestors. I think this is what my ancestor Thomas McEnelly wrote about when he said McEnelly was recorded as Connolly.
Thomas was a kid that dropped out of school in 8th grade, worked as a bellhop, ended up in America's Foreign Service, and was a Consul in Dublin during WWII. He wrote an autobiography. I would say I am probably related to your wife's Connollys based upon his research. The attached is from his autobiography.
After dinner, I inspected the register of the parish to ascertain information on the birth of my
father. I found that he was born in the month of May 1840 and baptized in the
name of Patrick Henry Cunnella; his sister Johanna in the name of Kennella,
and his brothers Tom, Mike and Jim, Connelly. I asked father Brett how I
happened to have the name of McEnelly when my father was baptized with the name Cunnella.
He told me it often happened that
Irish names were corrupted by the neighbors of a family who shortened them for easy
pronunciation, and advised me to pursue my inquiry by examining earlier records.
This I did, and in the eighteenth century I found the named spelled as I spell it today.
The book is "The Life of Thomas McEnelly - His Life in His Words". I got it off Amazon but I also have an early draft online if you would like me to send it to you.
Mike