CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY MARCH TALK

From: Clara Hoyne

Clare Roots Society will host its next talk on Thursday 15 March 2012 at the Civic Rooms, Drumbiggle at 8 pm. The title of the talk is

"Researching the Irish in mid nineteenth-century New Zealand" and will be given by Dr Ciara Breathnach, Department of History, University of Limerick.

In 1870 the Irish Times wrote: 'It may surprise those who are interested in watching the course of the waves of emigration from this country to learn that in 1867 there were resident in New Zealand 27,955 Irishmen and Irishwomen, all apparently doing well and pursuing an industrious life'. Despite free passage for women, assisted migration schemes (with very generous terms and conditions), boundless opportunities and an established Irish community, New Zealand as a migrant destination did not manage to gain widespread popularity. This paper focuses on reasons why. Direct migration schemes were initiated in the 1870s but they failed to adequately recruit. The first ship contained Cork workhouse immigrants and this had a disastrous effect on the Irish reputation in Otago. Intrinsically linked to class and sectarian issues, Dr. Breathnach's research points to the various pitfalls associated with transnational and marginal histories, especially when dealing with Catholic and Irish poor.

Dr Breathnach holds a Lectureship at the Department of History, University of Limerick, where she is also Course Director for the MA (History of Family) since 2005. Dr. Breathnach is President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland, and is Principal Investigator of a current IRCHSS award. Her publications include The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923, Poverty and Development in the West of Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 2005); Ciara Breathnach and Catherine Lawless (eds), Visual, material and print culture in nineteenth-century Ireland (Four Courts Press, Dublin and Portland, 2010); Ciara Breathnach (guest editor), Ireland: Church, State and society 1900-1975, The History of the Family: International Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2008. Ciara Breathnach (ed.), Framing the West: images of rural Ireland 1890-1920 (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and Portland, 2007). Ciara Breathnach and Aoife Bhreatnach (eds.), Portraying Irish Travellers: histories and representations (Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, February 2007).

CLARE CHATTER Jan 2012

Courtesy Larry Brennan

Family Bible

The Clare Champion of the 17th November 1954 tells us the following story:

Two family bibles from Ireland, which are nearly 100 years old, were 

examined in the Practice Court, Melbourne, when deciding who should inherit 

an estate now valued at £34,600.

The estate was left by Mrs. Annabella Sharpe, Benalla, Victoria, when she 

died in 1919, without leaving a will. Ever since the authorities have been 

searching for her next-of-kin.

Mrs. Sharpe was born in Ireland in 1836 and went to Australia when she was 

27. After an investigation of claims to the estate from Ireland, the Curator 

of the estates of deceased persons found that Mr. Harry Payne Thompson of 

Killaloe, Co. Clare, was the first cousin of Mrs. Sharpe and her next of 

kin. A summons for the distribution of the estate was taken out by Mr. 

Thompson, and March 31st was fixed as the last day for the lodgment of 

claims. Before the date a claim was made on behalf of Mrs. Gertrude Julia 

Holiday, Ireland, who said that she was a cousin of Mrs. Sharpe.After 

investigation, a decision was made in favour of Mr. Thompson, and a 

certificate has now been issued to that effect. 

CLARE CHATTER

With thanks to Clara

From: "Clara Hoyne" <secretary@clareroots.org>

 

Rolling Back The Years Calendar 2012 issued with the Saturday 7 January 2012 edition of the Irish Independent

February 2012 is headed:

1934 TRANSATLANTIC AIR RACE

The photograph is captioned:

          RACING THE ATLANTIC 1934

"A crowd of people with one of the pilots flying in a special transatlantic race in Co Clare".

It is a shame that the publication of this excellent and very rare 1934 photograph has been spoilt by poor 2012 editing.  

It was not strictly a "special transatlantic race" – it was a record attempt for the first transatlantic flight between New York and Rome.

Both of the pilots, not one of the pilots, are in the photograph:

Lieut Cesare Sabelli (Italy) is shown with a necktie front row third from the left.

Capt George R Pond (USA) is shown wearing aviator's goggles and holding the pipe

They departed Floyd Bennett Field in New York at 7:24 am (local time) on Monday 14 May 1934 for an attempt at the first direct flight from New York to Rome.  The aeroplane was a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker monoplane, named "Leonardo da Vinci" and carrying the serial number NR13137.   Engine trouble off the coast of Ireland forced them to make an emergency landing at 8:25 pm on Tuesday 15 May at Moy near Lahinch, Co Clare.

The photograph would have been taken in Lahinch on the following day, as the shadows show, and almost certainly outside The Commercial Hotel.

On November 10, 1935, Charles Kingsford-Smith and his co-pilot George R. Pond died trying to set another England-to-Australia flight record. While cruising over the Bay of Bengal during a monsoon, Smithy lost control of his plane and spun into the water. Although rescue parties recovered pieces of the plane, they never found any trace of Smithy or his co-pilot.

George Pond was a member of the famous Ponds Cosmetics family (Pond's Cream etc)

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CLARE JOURNAL:1804

Transcription courtesy of Larry Brennan

Clare Journal: 1804

A short extract :( note spelling left as original article).

On 19th January we are told of the death of Mr. George Crank, at the age of
92. a very abstemious man, who lived principally on vegetables, eating very
little food, and drinking nothing but water and milk from his earliest
years.

26th January: From Corofin the death of Mrs. O' Brien, relict of William O'
Brien of Ranncen, at the age of 102.

The death of Bryan Finucan, son of Francis Finucane, Ennis. M.D.

On February 9, particulara are given of an exlipse of the sun visable in
Ennis.

The marriage is announced on the same date of Mr. James McNamara, Kilmaley,
to Miss Kelly, daughter of Con Kelly, Ballymurtough.

On 15th March at Limerick Azzizes Tobias Delmege was sentenced to death for
killing Fras Enright in a duel.

On March 22nd. John Loughnane advertised for sale the house and tanyard
occupied by himself; the house in Church Street, occupied by James
McDonnell; a store and stables in Shank's Lane, and field in Lifford.

23rd April The stamp office publishes a further notice on April 23 requiring
all persons keeping spaniels, pointers, setting dogs, hounds, or greyhounds;
or those using any gun dogs; nets or engine, for the destruction of game; or
keeping priating presses, or types for qrinting; all retailers of hats, to
take out their annual licesses under penalty.

On the same date Jer O' Connor announces the opening of new Post Office at
Kildysart.

17th May Miss. Ryan informs us of the removal of her educational
establishment to Arthur's Row, Ennis.She promises every attention to the
Morals and Quick Progress of children entrusted to her.

On 21 st May the death of Mrs. Miller of the Postmaster at Sixmilebridge is
reported.

July 12th Pat Halloran of Eanough did not seem to have a help mate in the
literal sense of the word in his wife. We find him publishing the following:
he cautioned the public against his willingness to pay again for promissory
notes previously paid and stolen from his house with the assistance of his
wife. Mrs. Patt was certainly as the Yankee says, playing the game low down.

Another errant wife is found in the person of Margaret Hill otherwise O'
Brien against crediting whom the public are warned by James Hill Coolreagh.

Another on August 30, a Anthony Moore, Lifford published a caution to the
public 'not to credit Hanna Moore, otherwise Nihill, my wife, who has
without cause separated from me, a week only after our marriag, as I
determine not to pay any debts she may have contracted with any person.
Marriage was not always a success in those days, and with poor Anthony its
glamour disappeared with remarkable expedition.

A BIG STEP FROM INCH AROUND THE WORLD

Extract from the Clare Champion...

STORIES and memories of a Clare family's history back to the early 1800s have been carefully woven together by a man who wants to keep it all in the mind's eye. It's a story typical of many Irish families, a continuous line remaining at the homestead, while other strands extend around the world.

Basil Minihane, now living in Ennis but whose family roots are in Mahonburgh, Inch, has focused much of his research on his maternal ancestry, the O'Tooles from Clare. His father's family hail from Durras in West Cork.
Basil's parents, Elizabeth and Daniel (Frank), left Ireland to find work in England in the late 1930s. They met at Salisbury Hospital, where his dad was a cook and his mother a nurse and married in June 1944.
Though born in London in February 1946, Basil describes himself as a proud Clare man, a Munster man but adds with a smile that it didn't stop him cheering on Leinster when they won the European Heineken Cup.
Basil has lived in Ennis for 16 years and prior to that, for 20 years at Inch but was a regular visitor to the O'Toole household from an early age.
"From childhood, I was returning to Ireland every year, every time to Clare and then to my father's homeplace in County Cork.
"People are asked about their earliest memories and I realised from a photo that for me, I must have been about four-years-old when I said to my uncles, John and Michael, 'Put me up on the horse, put me up on the horse'."
Basil was educated by Salesian priests in Battersea and during school holidays worked in the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, first in the laundry and then as a porter.
It was memories of his summer trips to Clare and meeting his grandfather, Timothy O'Toole and uncles on the farm that prompted Basil to build a family tree.
"Timothy (born August 15, 1881) was a retired farmer, having bought, reared and sold cattle, grew crops, saved hay and brought milk to the creamery in Kilmaley. His eldest son, John, took over management of the homestead at Mahonburgh.
"It was the practice at that time to use the rotation system of managing the fields. Potatoes, cabbages and root vegetables would be grown in a different field each year. It was interesting for me to see this, as I had been learning about this farm practice in my geography lessons in London. To see it applied on a farm in the West of Ireland pleased me," he said.
Timothy (Tim) married Mary Liston from the Ballyalla/Templemaley side of Ennis on July 6, 1910 and they had seven children; Basil's mother was the oldest.
Timothy was the youngest child of Susan O'Toole (born 1840), who was twice married. She married James Daffy on July 16, 1864, and they had four children.
The family had a strong affinity with Gaelic games. In the early years of the GAA, Inch Davitts, mentioned in Ollie Byrnes' Against the Wind, was formed in the Daffy/O'Toole household in 1887. 
The youngest, James junior, born on October 1, 1870 went to New York where he hurled on the streets of Staten Island with other young men from the Banner County. James, who changed his name to Duffy, became a successful businessman and was president of New York GAA in the 1930s and president of the Claremen's Association in 1938.
Some time after James Daffy senior died, Susan married again to John O'Toole. The couple had five children, the youngest being Basil's granddad.
Susan was a daughter of Terence O'Toole and Anne Galvin, who married on June 22, 1836 and had property at Roslevan. Susan died on April 18, 1918 at the age of 77, six years after her granddaughter, Basil's mother Elizabeth Frances, was born on January 12, 1912. The second girl in the family, Mary Ellen, was born in the same year on December 27.
When the girls enrolled at Inch National School, they were listed as Lilly O'Toole and Mary O'Toole on May 21, 1917 and May 22, 1917 (Courtesy Kilmaley Parish Magazine 1996).
"During my teenage years, I heard my mother say, 'I've had a hard life'. It was many years later that I came to understand why. Her mother passed away on February 16, 1949 and mum's sister, Mary Ellen, died in the Coombe Hospital, Dublin on May 21 that same year, aged just 35. Then a brother, John died in a 'flu epidemic in January 1951, aged 35," Basil recalled. 

For the full story, please go to the link

 http://www.clarechampion.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7557:a-big-step-from-inch-around-the-world&catid=73:feature&Itemid=55

CLARE FOLKLORE NEWS: ONLINE NEWSLETTER OF CUIMHNEAMH AN CHLÁIR, ISSUE NUMBER 2

CLARE JOURNAL 1849

IRISH CHATTER

 with thanks to Declan Barron....

Clare Journal 16 Apr 1849
Birth
At Springfield House, Ennis, the lady of P. Fitzsimon, Esq., of a son.
Death
This morning, in Mill Street, at an advanced age., Miss Mary Parsons, sister
of the late B. Parsons.

Clare Journal 23 Apr 1849
Marriage
This morning at Ennis Church, vy the Rev. Charles Ward, Stephen Mossop,
Esq., Surgeon and Apothecary, to Eleanoe, daughter of Mr. John Madgett,
Apothecary to the Ennis Fever Hospital.
Death
On Friday last, in Market Street, Mrs. Rynne, wife of Mr. John Rynne, iron
merchant, deeply regretted.
At Corofin, of cholera, the wife of J. Murray, Sub-Inspector of
Constabulary.

Clare Journal 14 Jun 1849
Marriage
In the First Presbyterian Church, Cootehill, Philip O'Donnell, Esq.,
Provincial Bank, Cavan, youngest son of the late John O'Donnell, Esq., of
Ennis, to Marian, eldest daughter of John McFadden, Esq., Cootehill, senior
Coroner for Cavan.

Clare Journal 23 Jul 1849
Birth
In Church Street, Mrs. James Leech, of a daughter.

Clare Journal 23 Aug 1849
Marriage
Richard Trousdell, Esq., of Kilrush, to Miss E. Jackson, daughter of the
late Captain Jackson of the Clare Militia.
John McKay Esq., Provincial Bank of Ireland, Kilrush, to Rhoda Armstrong,
relict of the late Francis Creagh, Esq., of Kilrush.
Death
At the residence of her son, the Rev. Theobald Butler, Elizabeth, widow of
Theobald Butler, Esq., of F?lmoyne, county Tipperary, and daughter of
Augustine Fitzgerald, Esq., of Toureen, County Clare - ...........
In Kilrush, Miss Mary Anne Hennessy, daughter of Mr. William Hennessy.
At Carahan House., county Clare, George E. Hogan.

Clare Journal 16 Apr 1849
Marriage
In Kilmurry Church, on Tuesday, by the Rev. James Bennett, John Whitestone,
Esq., of Clondigad, to Frances, only child of the late Thomas Lloyd, Esq.,
of Clonkerry.

COME HERE TILL I TELL YA!

Come here till I tell ya!

Memories from the Cuimhneamh an Chláir Archive

 Have you ever wished that you could sit awhile and listen to the stories of the older and wiser ones? Maybe you can't listen to those from your own family, but there still tales to be heard. Visit the site below and listen to what some of these wonderful folks have to share.

 

Hear the voices of some of Clare's oldest citizens, with recollections of a fading way of life in Clare.   

Cuimhneamh an Chláir 

The Clare Oral History and Folklore Group

www.clarememories.ie

Ph: 087 9160373

"When an old man dies, a library burns" - Senegalese Proverb

CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY Drumcliff Stage 2 (Calvary Section)

Clare Roots Society under the direction of John Bradley are about to commence stage 2 (Calvary) of recording the gravestones.

This will entail:

Receiving a map of your section.

Photographing Gravestones:

Transcribing inscriptions to a word document.

Returning to manually recording unreadable headstones.

We need approximately 11 individual (or couples) willing to take on a section of 50 graves approximately. A brief session will take place for all participants prior to commencing. We would hope to have it completed by the end of January. You would carry out the recording at a suitable time to yourself.

Unfortunately Clare County Council have mislaid 10 years of records within this section of the Cemetery so our work will be of immense value to future generations. 

You can view our previous work with regard to Drumcliff at:

 http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/drumcliff_old_graveyard_ennis.htm

Thanking all in advance:

Clara Hoyne.

 N.B. Don't forget the fantastic book on Drumcliff Cemetery is available through the Clare Roots Society as per 

http://clareroots.org/index.php/2011-06-29-19-06-17/publications

 You can read all about it on the above link. It is far more than a list of names...

GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS CLARE CASTLE/ BALLYEA

We often complain about the lack of records for Irish research, but now there is so much being released due to the work of volunteers, as well as some of the paid sites.

As many of you know, I'm involved with Clare Roots Society and am so pleased to be associated with this hard working group. One of the most recent achievements has been the documenting of around 2,000 records from the Clare Castle/Ballyea  churches... see full details below.

This book looks to be going to it's second print, which is fantastic... it sells for €10 plus postage, and was under €5 to post to Australia...

However, to go ahead with the second print, we really need names of those who genuinely would like a copy of the book. If you are one of those, could you please contact Clara Hoyne, secretary of the CRS (Clare Roots Society) at

 Clara  Hoyne <secretary@clareroots.org>

Clara will be able to help you with further details. Perhaps you could also tell Clara where you heard about this book.

Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers

2 November 2011 saw the launch of a book written and compiled by Eric Shaw entitled Clare Castle / Ballyea – The Parish Remembers. In conjunction with Clare Roots Society, Eric has documented all the readable gravestone inscriptions in Clare Abbey, Clare Hill, Killoo, Killone, and Ballyea & Clare Castle Churches. These amount to about 2,000 records, some dating from the late 1600s. The book will help to preserve the inscriptions and to make them available for family history research. It will also help to draw visitors and fits in with development plans to promote the attractions of the Parish.

                                                                           

Appeal for Relatives of Irish War Dead

In a joint appeal between the Commission and The Glasnevin Trust, which is responsible for Ireland’s largest cemetery, in Dublin, relatives of servicemen and women who are buried in the cemetery are being asked to come forward for Remembrance Day.

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CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY CONFERENCE summary

Article in today's Clare Champion.Thank you to Eric Shaw...

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CLARE CHATTER: Table Quiz in aid of Oidhreacht an Chláir

Apologies, you've missed the first one... Chris

From: Clara Hoyne

Over the next three months the Clare heritage Group Oidhreacht an Chláir will be holding three fundraising table quizzes in Miltown Malbay, as follows;

Tuesday 4^th October    - The Westbridge.

Tuesday 8^th November – The Central Hotel

Tuesday 6^th December – Hillery's Bar.

The quizmaster on each occasion will be Michael Gray and each quiz will commence at 9.00pm sharp – all welcome.

CLARE CHATTER: New Cuimhneamh an Chláir series on Clare FM's

            Over the next six weeks FROM 21ST SEPT., Clare FM will host a special new series, featuring audio samples from the archive of Cuimhneamh an Chláir, the Clare Oral History and Folklore Group.   The series will be broadcast each Wednesday night immediately after the 8.00pm News on Paula Carroll's The West Wind (7.00pm – 9.00pm).  Each week, Cuairteoirí from Cuimhneamh an Chláir will join Paula, with a selection of memories from their interviews with some of Clare's oldest citizens.  Memories will include the West Clare Railway, killing the pig, house dances, turf boats, the Shannon Scheme and much more.   

The series begins this Wednesday September 21^st after the 8.00pm News. 

Bigí ag éisteacht ar FM 96.4 or www.clare.fm

 

Tomás Mac Conmara

Project Co-ordinator,

Cuimhneamh an Chláir 

The Clare Oral History and Folklore Group

www.clarememories.ie

Ph: 087 9160373

"When an old man dies, a library burns" - Senegalese Proverb

CLARE CHATTER -New in IGP Archives

A collection of notices from Christina Hunt IGP Archives...

Thanks to Jennifer Hyatt, we now have two new sets of headstones in the IGP archives for County Clare.

They are Kilnaboy & Kilvoydane, Corofin.
We are working to get them transcribed, but you can browse in the
meantime. Kilvoydane is set up by the main Surname as an aid to
finding names.
If you hold your mouse over the thumbnail images you can see the
filename. Kilnaboy is being transcribed.


Thanks to Jennifer for sharing these photos. We hope you find them helpful.
To take a look go to:
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/
Click on CLARE and then Headstones. 

We now have a transcription of the Kilquane headstones. It was done from the photos. If you want to check out the text, you can do that. http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/clare/photos/tombstones/markers.htm

The link is there on the left side column and also from the main page of the Kilquane photos.
Getting them transcribed means that people can find them from the IGP Archives site search, Google, Mocavo etc.

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We have just added Royal Irish Constabulary men from Clare - 1845.
Quite a few seem to have joined this year.


The names are:
BARRY, Peter
BURKE, Michael
BUTLER, James
BYRON, William
CANNAVAN, Patrick
CARNEY, Martin
CLANCY, Timothy
COLEMAN, Michael
COLEMAN, Michael
COLLINS, Patrick
CONSIDINE, Richard
CONWAY, John
CONWAY, Martin
CONWAY, Michael
COUGHLAN, Patrick
COUGLAN, Patrick
CROTTY, James
CULLINANE, Andrew
DAFFY, Patrick
DOOGAN, John
DOYLE, Martin
DWYER,Patrick
FINNUCAN, John
FITZPATRICK, James
FITZPATRICK, Michael
FITZPATRICK, Timothy
FLANAGAN, John
FLANNAGAN, Michael
FLEMING, Michael
FOLEY, James
FOLEY, Timothy
FOX, Patrick
GRIFFIN, Darby
HAIRE, Michael
HALLERAN, Michael
HALLORAN, Francis
HEANEY, Michael
HINDS. John
HONAN, Mich
HOWE, Thomas
KEANE, Michael
KELLY, James
LAWLER, Timy
LOONEY, William
MAHER, Patrick
MALONE, Thomas
McDONNELL, Charles
McGUIRE, John
MCINERNEY, Michael
McMAHON, Donat (Donald?)
McMAHON, John
McMAHON, Malay (Malachy?)
McMAHON, Michael
McMAHON, Patrick
McMAHON, Terence
McNAMARA William
McNAMARA, Michael
McNAMARA, Patrick
McNAMARA, Patrick
MEE, Samuel
MOLONEY, Patrick
MOONEY, James
MOYLAN, Martin
MULVILLE, Vere
MURPHY, John
MURPHY, Michael
O'CONNOR, Thomas
O'LOUGHLIN, James
O'LOUGHLIN, Michael
O'NEILL, Simon
PERRY, Thomas
PYNE, John
REAN, James
ROCHE, John
RYAN, James
SCANLAN, John
SHALLUE, Patrick
SHEAHAN, Patrick
SHEEHAN, James
SHERIDAN, John
SKEEHAN, Michael
WARD, Martin


If you want to see more about any of these men go to:
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/
Click on CLARE and then Military & Constabulary.

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Jennifer has shared her photos of Dysart Cemetery in the IGP Archives.
You can view this set of photos at:
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/


Click on CLARE and then Headsones


Thanks for sharing these pictures Jennifer!
Christina
IGP Archives

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