Clare Past Forum

G'day Murph,
Thanks for the suggestion.
The photo is printed directly from a glass plate negative. The name is scratched into the emulsion which means that unless the photgrapher is smart enough to do mirror writing it will be backwards when printed.
Re the buttons, they are on the correct side for ...

Photo of Mary Beard (nee Warrant) taken about 1877 at about age 44. It was taken about the time of the death of her daughter Florence.
Mary is shown dressed in mourning clothes; sadness and sorrow are etched into her face.

Hello Again,
I think I may have tracked down my Warrant family. There is only one reference to the "Warrant" surame in the Reports and Returns Relating to Evictions in the Kilrush Union (1847-1849) George Warrant and his family were evicted from their holding "On the Lands of Cree, Kilmacduane ...

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, we have nothing of her past, she married a convict and as a result we have three generations of people hiding the past. Who her parents were or even the correct spelling of her surname is unsure. The transcriptions of the shipping list have only just appeared ...

Hello,

I recently discovered that my great-grandmother was among a shipload of Irish orphans transported to Van Diemen’s Land in 1851 aboard the ship “Beula”. She fell pregnant to my great-grandfather, William Edward Beard, a Convict from London in about May of 1853. They were married on 9 January ...