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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 11 April 24 19:56 BST (UK) »
In the 1901 census, the husband is apparently in Swinford workhouse.
A son is working as a farm servant.
BRENNANx2 Davidstown/Taghmon,Ballybrennan; COOPER St.Helens;CREAN Raheennaskeagh/Ballywalter;COSGRAVE Castlebridge?;CULLEN Lady's Island;CULLETON Forth Commons;CURRAN Hillbrook, Wic;DOYLE Clonee/Tombrack;FOX Knockbrandon; FURLONG Moortown;HAYESx2 Walsheslough/Wex;McGILL Litter;MORRIS Forth Commons;PIERCE Ladys Island;POTTS Bennettstown;REDMOND Gerry; ROCHEx2 Wex; ROCHFORD Ballysampson/Ballyhit;SHERIDAN Moneydurtlow; SINNOTT Wex;SMYTH Gerry/Oulart;WALSH Kilrane/Wex; WHITE Tagoat area

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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 11 April 24 20:01 BST (UK) »
Tithe Applotment Book
https://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/reels/tab//004587457/004587457_00717.pdf
Pullaghera right next to Cloonfinnae
so looks like a tiny townland taken over by Cloonfinnaun.

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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 11 April 24 20:05 BST (UK) »
Thank you., Wexflyer
Is this the son - John, 14 yrs
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Swineford/Esker/1601080/

Possibility for Death- James Gavin 1905 - informant, wife Mary
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1905/05599/4574147.pdf


Great find Sinann.
So those records seem to be good for the right people.
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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 11 April 24 20:09 BST (UK) »
BRENNANx2 Davidstown/Taghmon,Ballybrennan; COOPER St.Helens;CREAN Raheennaskeagh/Ballywalter;COSGRAVE Castlebridge?;CULLEN Lady's Island;CULLETON Forth Commons;CURRAN Hillbrook, Wic;DOYLE Clonee/Tombrack;FOX Knockbrandon; FURLONG Moortown;HAYESx2 Walsheslough/Wex;McGILL Litter;MORRIS Forth Commons;PIERCE Ladys Island;POTTS Bennettstown;REDMOND Gerry; ROCHEx2 Wex; ROCHFORD Ballysampson/Ballyhit;SHERIDAN Moneydurtlow; SINNOTT Wex;SMYTH Gerry/Oulart;WALSH Kilrane/Wex; WHITE Tagoat area

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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 11 April 24 20:13 BST (UK) »
BRENNANx2 Davidstown/Taghmon,Ballybrennan; COOPER St.Helens;CREAN Raheennaskeagh/Ballywalter;COSGRAVE Castlebridge?;CULLEN Lady's Island;CULLETON Forth Commons;CURRAN Hillbrook, Wic;DOYLE Clonee/Tombrack;FOX Knockbrandon; FURLONG Moortown;HAYESx2 Walsheslough/Wex;McGILL Litter;MORRIS Forth Commons;PIERCE Ladys Island;POTTS Bennettstown;REDMOND Gerry; ROCHEx2 Wex; ROCHFORD Ballysampson/Ballyhit;SHERIDAN Moneydurtlow; SINNOTT Wex;SMYTH Gerry/Oulart;WALSH Kilrane/Wex; WHITE Tagoat area

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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 11 April 24 20:38 BST (UK) »
Harken is in Pullaghera in the Applotment books, and in Griffith's Horken is in Cloonfinnaun with land next to Patrick Kennedy, the names appear a few times in Griffith's, on Land, houses and bog.

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Re: Help with a Swinford Mayo Location
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 11 April 24 21:02 BST (UK) »
Bridget Gavin emigration 1913 - mother Mary Gavin, Swinford. She is going to her cousin, Sarah Farragher, Brooklyn
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNYR-Z68
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