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Hi

I am sorry about leaving the dates out!!  Many appologies, I made that entry very late last night, in a hurry, and overlooked the fact that I had not put in birth dates!

The date of birth that I have for Isabella Heany is 1843, which is projected from her Australian death certificate.  Currently the main information that I have on Isabella's origins is that she came to Australia, when she was about 15 or 16, with two other young girlfriends, with whom she had grown up!

Based on the 1901 and 1911 censi, the projected birth dates that I have for Daniel and Patrick Heaney of Ballyscullion are Daniel 1839, and Patrick 1841.

The death certificate for Isabella Heaney in Australia, gives her parents as Patrick Heaney and Catherine McMahon.  I guess that I would project a date of birth for Isabella"s parents as approximately 1805 to 1815, but possibly earlier.

The only reference that i have to Richard and Mary Scullion is the census entry.
Thanks for the marriage reference. 
Is that the main catholic church for Ballyscullion?  I shall be in Dublin in late August and intend to visit the National library and do some searching in the parish registers on film there.

Any assistance or direction would be appreciated.

Regards

Ian

Hi

I am trying to track down the Kealy Family of Gowran.

I am descended from Margaret Kealy who was born in Gowran in Kilkenny in 1847 to Patrick Kealy and Johanna (Judy) O'Meara. 

She had a brother Patrick, and there is a photo of a Richard Kealy who may have been a brother or cousin.  Margaret and her brother Patrick emigrated to Australia and she married a John Fitzpatrick (also born in Gowran) in Victoria in 1870.

I have found a little bit in the Gowran parish records so far, but not a lot.  And have found a  "Wikipedia" reference to Kealy's in Gowran as providing 6 of the 18 Burgesses for the town when the Charter of Incorporation was granted in 1688.

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Ian Gartlan

I am trying to track down information on a gentleman named James Gartlan who I believe was initially from either Killanny or the area around Carrickmacross in Monaghan. 

He was born circa 1741 and died in 1837.  It is alleged that in his early working life that he was a tobacco smuggler in Louth known as Seamus of Drogheda.

Having made his money in the tobacco trade, he later either, set up, or may have extended a possible business of his father’s in malting, and eventually bought another distillery making this his main business.  He married Alice McEvoy before 1800, and bought a country house outside Carrickmacross.

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Ian Gartlan 

Hi Jo

Thank you for that rich response.  I had heard of freebdm but not free reg, it looks brilliant!

James Down was a cousin of Mary Ann.  I am descended from Mary Ann's younger sister.
 
The family were Yeomen and former Mayors of Glastonbury.  Mary Ann’s parents were dead by the time of her marriagein 1827: her mother 1820 and father 1826.  She had an uncle and cousins who went to Buffalo in New York, and a neice and cousins later went Australia; I descend from the niece. There were also cousins in London.  Though searches in those areas have not brought them to light so far, they just up and vanish in the 30’s

There is a Mary Lawrence Baptism at St Johns Glastonbury in the 1790’s, which matches with the Death in the 1830’s. I do not have a baptism for Thomas, but I assume that he is part of the family of Lawrences who appear in the parish registers at that period.  Though this may be something of an assumption.

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Ian

Hi Shane

thank you for the swift and multiple responses to my post.

Bridget appears to have been born circa 1831.

I have a copy of a letter written by her to a granddaughter in approximately 1903.  In that letter she refers to her mother as belonging to the Green Family of Myanna(??) one of the oldest protestant families in the county(?).  She states that her mother married a Catholic and converted to Catholicism and gave up much for her new faith!  A certificate that I have for her somewhere gives her mother as Jane Kelly - I think that it is a death certificate (so the name could be wrong) equally Jane Kelly could still be a member of the Green family!

I think that your suggestion of Myannagh is a very interesting lead!


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