Clare Past Forum

I have no more information on the family. I am still looking but so far negative results. If you think info about the family that I have might help you I will be glad to share. I realize to some extent that is the age old how do I ask for something when I don't know what you have. The majority of ...

Hi Paddy
Oh Yes! I remember you and several others on this list quite well. You and Sharon both were helping me with my O'Brien effort, which is still ongoing.
Right now I have gotten sidetracked with some of my wife's ancestors--McCaw fm Newton Stewart in Scotland. He was a surgeon in the British ...

Good Evening
I know I am not in England nor Scotland but I am in a library. I hope one of you folks can help me on some abbreviations on UK Records

From the book Scots on the Chesapeake (1607 - 1830) compiled by David Dobson 1992.

James McCaw of Newton-Stewart, Wigtownshire is listed. He was a ...

Good Evening All
If you find these numbers astounding then you should find a copy of one of the two books I asked about the other day.
"The Great Irish Potato Famine" by James S Donnelly, Jr. Copyright 2001, Sutton Publishing.
The ISBN 0-7509-2632-5
Doug

Good Morning All
I am in the process of reading two books on the Famine Time. I would appreciate feedback from any of you who have read these as to quality of the book, accuracy, bias, etc.
Thanks in advance

1st The Famine Ships;The irish Exodus to America by Edward Laxton 1996

2nd The Great Irish ...

Thanks Paddy
These look very interesting.
Doug Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL

Good Evening Sharon
I would like to add another Clare born Civil War Soldier
Thomas O'Brien, son of Mathew O'Brien and Mary Scully, was baptised December 4 1837 and his sponsors were Martin O'Dea and Bridget Hogan. Thomas was a Confederate soldier in the 42nd Virginia Infantry, Co.C known as Buford ...

Let's try again. I keep getting bounced to the log in screen. I have been trying to post this since before Thanksgiving.
Sharon
Thanks so much for this effort. One of the things we found in the County Clare Library was a CD of the Boston Pilot Newspaper. It appears to be the ads from the paper ...

Sharon
Thanks for your recommendation. We are going to the bookshop tomorrow.
Doug Burnett
Satellite Beach FL
Presently in Limerick Ireland

Good Morning Sharon-at least in Florida it is morning
Thanks so much for this info. I am now trying to find a site which I have access to which has this newspaper as part of its database.
The James O'Brien sounds very promising and I am hoping the newspaper ad may contain more information.
The ...

Good Evening John
We just got back to FLorida from a short vacation. Did some Square Dancing in North Carolina and then a weeks worth of research in Tennessee. We had a productive week working on my wife's family. I have to get that sorted out and then get back to working on my Irish connection so I ...

Good Morning Paddy
I have not found any new info on the library website. I was hoping that since the report is almost 10 years old that maybe new information had surfaced and someone could provide a direction to continue to search. We are going to be in Dublin the first week in NOV and plan on going ...

I am looking for information on one Mathew O’Brien and his wife Mary Scully. Mathew emigrated to America sometime after September 1839 and I believe before 1 June 1840. Subsequent to his emigration and before the rest of the family could join him Mary died.
Based on a research report we received ...