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Hi I am researching Flanagans from Co Clare and purchased an intestacy of a Michael Flanagan who died in Cairns QLD Australia 14/4/1890 age 52. Information below is from the intestacy and may be of use to someone.

Michael was married to his cousin Anne Healy ( I am not sure how closely related)

Michael Flanagan was the son of Thomas Flanagan ( who possibly died in 1855 )and Margaret Healy ( who possibly died 9 years later )
His siblings
1Elizabeth emmigrated to Australia (SA)
2Mary (emmigrated to Australia (SA) and married to Thomas Byrt (carpenter)
3Kate ( emmigrated to Worcestor Married a ? Gallagher)
4Thomas (emmigrated to Worcestor)
5John emmigrated to Australia approx 1863 with brother in law Daniel O'Connor. Missing presumed dead. Johns wife Ann O'Connor ( Daughter of James O'Connor and Mary Healy born 1838 Liscannor Clohannes Co Clare) Anne emigrated to Springfield followed a short time later by their children 1 Mary (married John Raleigh), 2 Michael, Thomas and Patrick who all lived in Springfield.

I did a quick look at a census database to see where these Flanagan, Gallagher, and Raleigh families might have been in
Worcester and Hampden Counties of Massachusetts. After that I found that Raleigh is an old Ennis name, appearing in
both the Drumcliff Cemetery transcription by the Clare Roots Society on the Library website and in the 1856 Slater's Directory.

An apparent descendant from Springfield MA brought the family full circle in a sense when he went even farther away geographically, to the coast of California, but nonetheless kept the Celtic fire burning with his enthusiastic teaching of Irish authors in his classes; see:
John Raleigh, 1920-2001, English professor UCal at Berkeley, b. Springfield MA
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/s ... aleigh.htm

posted by Sharon Carberry
not related


1900 MA Worcester Co, Town of Sterling [5 miles west of Clinton]
Flanaghan [Flomagau on Heritage Quest version of the census]
Thomas, 47 Ire b.Nov 1852, img'd 1882, naturalized [likely a farmer]
Mary, 43 Ire Dec 1856, img'd 1883, mar'd 13 yrs, 9 children born
M. Theresa, 12 MA
Patrick J., 11 MA
Nellie, 9 MA
James A., 8
Thomas F., 7
Michael, 5 [twin]
Annie, 5
Mamie, 3
Nora, b. May 1900

OR
1900 MA, Worcester Co., Worcester city, 361 Shrewsbury St.
Flannagan
Thomas, 52 Ire b. Dec 1848, img'd 1858, nat'd janitor
Delia, 40 Ire img'd 1872, mar'd 26 yrs, 8 children born, 7 living
Elizabeth, 25 MA seamstress
Michael, 23 plumber
Thomas, 19 machinist
Annie, 16
John, 13
George, 11
Gertrude, 7

1900 MA, Worcester Co., Town of Clinton, 73 West St.
Gallagher
John W., 63 Ire janitor
Catherine G., 58 Ire b. Jan 1842 mar'd 33 yrs, 6 children born, img'd 1860
John B., 31 MA compositor
Thomas H., 29 MA house painter
Ellen F. 27 MA carpet mill, weaver
Mary M., 24 MA carpet mill, weaver
[two youngest children in 1880: Ambrose F. 5, Clement J. 3]

1900 Philippine Islands, Military and Naval Population
Gallagher, Ambrose F. 25 MA, parents: Ire, resides 73 West, Clinton MA (single in marital status)

1900 MA, Worcester Co., Town of Clinton, 33 Forest St.
Gallagher
Clement, 23 MA, parents: Ire, freight handler
Mary A. , 21 MA, mar'd 1 year, one child born
Arthur, b. Sep 1898
same house, next family enumerated has this boarder:
Hollaran, Michael 32 Ire, b. Sep 1867, img'd 1891, laborer, greenhouse (single in marital status)

1900 MA, Hampden Co., Springfield
Releigh [Raleigh in 1910]
John J., 47 MA parents: Ire moulder (iron)
Mary, 38 Ire b. Aug 1861 mar'd 20 yrs, 9 children born/2 living, img'd 1870
Frances M., 12 MA [1910: dressmaker]
James J., 10 MA [1910: chemist, drugstore]

1900 MA, Hampden Co. Holyoke
Flanagan, Mickael 33 Ire, b. Aug 1866, img'd 1870, core maker (single in marital status)

Found in passing. Posting here in case a descendant wants to follow up on collateral lines.

Source:
The Irish People, Their Height, Form, and Strength (1899)
Author: Edmund Ignatius Hogan
Publisher: Sealy, Bryers & Walker
p. 108
an Internet Archives book (online)


posted by Sharon Carberry, not related

Digressing again from the topic of this thread, I now know whom I was trying reach back in the 1990s, before this person met an early end. She too was a jockey from a Carberry family, except her family had gone into the academic field by then, with the renown Cardinal Carberry, Notre Dame president Carberry, and a woman professor. So, that takes her passion for horses as a profession beyond the realm of coincidence in my view. Her Carberry family has been reliably linked to Westmeath, a county whose Carberry families poured out of the country in the mid-1800s and populated Brooklyn, New York.

Just so you know,
Sharon Carberry
of a Westmeath or Tipperary branch (my research goal)


South Bend Tribune 1/5/2000
"Maura Carberry
Feb. 3, 1963 - Jan. 1, 2000
Maura Carberry, 36, of Newark, Del. [Delaware], formerly of South Bend, Ind. [Indiana], died on Saturday, Jan. 1, in a car accident near Fair Hill, Md. [Maryland]
She was a graduate of The Sanford School, Hockessin, Del., and the University of Notre Dame. Maura was employed as a thoroughbred race horse trainer in Chester County, Pa. [Pennsylvania] She was formerly a jockey with more than 100 wins at Delaware Park and other East Coast race tracks.
She is survived by her parents, Dr. James J. Carberry of Princeton, N.J., and Dr. Judith B. Carberry, formerly of Newark; a sister, Alison Carberry Kiene of Poplar Grove, Ill.; and two nephews, Nicholas James Kiene and Damian Lynn Kiene...
Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. today, Jan. 5, in St. Malachi's Roman Catholic Church, St. Malachi Road, Londonderry Township, Pa."