Clare Past Forum

Hello and thank you for that tip and link to Ballina in Tipperary. I had previously looked there as well as other parts of Ireland but was never sure of anything I found. However, what I had found not actually for a QUILTY but a birth for Honora KIRBY with a father Patrick KIRBY in 1834 in Ballina ...

Hello
Thanks very much for the latest information about my QUILTY. I have been away for a few days so could not reply. To be honest I had pretty much given up on trying to find out whether or not John QUILTY was from Alsace Lorraine because I don't have a surname for him which is French. I have ...

Hi again
The family are definitely RC as both the marriage/baptisms in Ireland and subsequent births in England were all RC. So I guess there will be no way of me finding a father's name for him. Finding J QUILTY was a bit of a fluke really it was only because I saw him living with Patrick KIRBY in ...

Thanks Sharon for your response. Regarding the KIRBY name I have looked at different spellings and in other areas other than Killaloe/Clare. As the information I have regarding this particular family is so meagre even trying different spellings has not been a help. As for my gg grandfather John ...

Hello from a newby to this forum.

I am endeavouring to find some information on my gg grandfather John QUILTY who according to the 1871 Liverpool census was born 1835 in Clare.

My first knowledge of him is 1845 living in Bridge St. Killaloe with Patrick KIRBY then again in 1853 & 1855 still ...