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Caoilte, very many thanks for your reponse. I've been sidetracked on other family lines and haven't got back here for a while. I was thinking that 'Killarney' might have been a transcription error but your suggestions have pinpointed more than I expected. Feakle kept cropping up on my radar but didn ...

Very many thanks to you both, Paddy and Mike. I checked out the recommended sites and managed to unscramble some of my confusion. Of course, it just opened up even more doors to me - were MArgaret's parents really deceased, did she have siblings?

Well,something for me to dive into and keep busy ...

Hello all. I hope someone can help me. I am trying to trace my gggranmother's (Margaret McNamara) roots in Ireland but I have never been there which makes it hard for me to appreciate the way boundaries have been formed over the years. What I have read is becoming very confusing, what with all the ...

hello all. i'm really hoping someone can give me some idea on how to progress further on finding out more about my gggrandmother, MArgaret McNamara and her family in Ireland. She was an orphan at the Scarriff workhouse and came to australia in 1850 on the 'Thomas Arbuthnot'. All I know from ...

I am hoping there are records available for orphans entering the Scariff workhouse. My GGgrandmother, margaret mcnamara, was one of the orphans from this workhouse that emigrated to NSW in 1850 as part of the Earl Grey scheme. I only have DOB as 1835 (?) and parents as Mary and Michael McNamara ...