Clare Past Forum

The use of niece/nephew in place of granddaughter/grandson is so common in the census returns that I have long since given up recording new examples.

However, I have now found it for the first time on a death certificate:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns ...

WorldConnect has more information on the Tubridy family.

Given all the question marks about the transcription from the Tubridy vault, it would be nice to see a photograph.

Great work, Sheila.

My article on parish boundaries explains how and when Kilrush and Killimer parishes were united and then separated again:
http://pwaldron.info/ClareAssociation/KilrushPLU.htm

Not only is Annagh an unofficial place name for the area around Cascade Lodge in Lissyneillan and an official townland name for a townland in Kilmurry DED in Cragaknock dispensary district, but there is also an Annagh DED in Milltown Malbay dispensary district, adjoining Kilmurry DED. See this map.

Matthias Kenny's wife was actually a widow and by her first marriage was the mother of the Joseph Coghlan mentioned above, who appears to have obtained a decree against his uncle Patrick O'Kelly for a debt.

In the index to the Kilmurry Ibrickan baptismal register kept in the parish, some person or persons has written in two different colour inks above the children of William Kelly and Cath Kennedy: "Craggaknock" and "Cascade Lodge". Cath Kennedy's nephew James Griffin, born in 1870, wrote a family ...

Hi Dawn

You have a third cousin once removed (descended from Susan Keane's brother Thomas) who is still living in Clare and is anxious to learn more about his Vandeleur cousins. If you pm me your e-mail address, I will pass it on to him.

Col. John Vandeleur who appears as immediate lessor in ...

There is another new discussion of this group of surnames at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/countyc ... 457049903/

A recent query prompted me to return to this thread.

The surname Mannix did not occur in Clare in the Tithe Applotment Books, but there were seven households in Griffith's Valuation, and then just one in 1901 and 1911, in the townland of Drummin:

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy ...

Thanks for that Bob.

I have now realised that the use of niece or nephew to describe a grandchild in 1901 and 1911 was so widespread that it is not worth trying to document every occurence on this thread.

However, I have just come across a literal translation of sean-athair and sean-mháthair that ...

I have been researching a Malone family whose address is given on birth and marriage records as Millpark up to 1895 and I have found them in Kilkerin townland in the censuses of 1901 and 1911. While they could have moved between 1895 and 1901, I think it is more likely that Millpark is a local name ...

Maggie Jane Lynch was double counted in 1911, with her parents in Moveen West and as a "niece" with her maternal grandmother in Furroor Upper.

See
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Moveen/Moveen_West/362983/
and
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Moyarta ...

The Careys described as nephew and niece in Bridget Purtill's household at
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/p ... h/1081779/
were her grandchildren.

Sorry, Bob, I should have avoided the terms "senior" and "junior" when referring to a sequence of more than two generations with the same name. Let's try numbering the generations I, II and III.

Edward Bennett I married Margaret McNamara. I do not know either his father's name or his date of death ...

Here's an unusual mixture from Kerry:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kerry/Banna/Carrahane__Upper/277401/
The household of Timothy and Deborah Griffin includes their "Grand Daughter" Mary Egan (whose parents are in the household) and their two "Nieces" (also granddaughters) Mary ...