Cahill/Kelly family of Calverstown Little

[Mr J T Arthur]

James Cahill was well read but only worked as a coke drawer or brick works attached to the pits, was constantly on the move and all 9 children were said to be born in a different homes though some in the same pit village. You won't find him in many Durham census returns as he used his alternative name of Carrol most of the time even signed it on his marriage certificate in 1860 but the corresponding church marriage register has his correct name Cahill entered. That is how I believe I missed the Butler family in the the church registers they lived in Spennymoor and in the Catholic parish of Tudhoe which I consulted long before I realised the Butler family had been in Durham between census returns, remember pondering over the name Carl but never noted it as if I saw a George Butler and a Marcella Carl at that stage I would never have dreamed it was James's family. It is a long story I doubt if I have touched for at least 10 years now.

[Kiltaglassan]

Just putting up some links for others to see-

At the time of the Primary Valuation (1852) the family were at Calverstown Little, near Ballymount in the civil parish of Davidstown.....

https://www.townlands.ie/kildare/narragh-reban-east/davidstown/ballyshannon/calverstown-little/

Thomas Cahill, born circa 1841, succeeded his father at family home, married widow Catherine Nolan nee Brophy of Kilrush at Suncroft catholic chapel in 1886, no children, died Calverstown Little 1901.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1886/10836/5952920.pdf
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1901/05726/4616013.pdf

1901 census
Residents of a house 9 in Calverstown Little (Ballyshannon, Kildare).
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kildare/Ballyshannon/Calverstown_Little/1434455/

Marcella Cahill, born? (before 1843) married George Butler of Ballymount at Crookstown catholic chapel in 1864.

Married in Saints Mary & Lawrence? RC Church, Baltinglass R.D.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1864/11609/8273530.pdf

I have George marrying a lady with the surname Brassington in Louth then moving to Dublin I thnk he dies in the 1930s.....

Is this the marriage in 1910?
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1910/09982/5630182.pdf
George is a groom living in Drogheda.

1911 census
Residents of a house 8 in Balgatheran (St. Peter's (part of), Louth).
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Louth/St__Peter_s__part_of_/Balgatheran/572387/

KG

[PJB]

Kiltaglassan Thank you for the information I will go through them but I think I already have researched those links


Mr J T Arthur

I wonder why James Cahill used the name Carrol research is almost impossible when that happens. I also wonder why James Cahill returned from the USA, I would be interested in reasons if you know them.

I need to look at Catherine Kate Butler b 06 Nov 1915 in Kidare today, her father John Butler born 05 Jul 1880 in French Fuze (son of George Butler and his second wife Catherine Gorman) on Catherine Kate Butlers birth certificate he is listed as a soldier, Johns wife is given as Bridget Connors. On Catherine Kate Butlers marriage certificate she is listed as Living in Hybla and John's occupation is Labourer. Now I have the trunk of the tree I need to spread the net a little wider and see if John and Bridget had any other children.

Unlike YDNA, Autosomal DNA is passed down through the male and female side, even though I have a connection with the Butler surname that may be a red Herring and the Autosomal DNA could have been passed down to me  from a Cahill, Curran or Broughan etc.