Unpublished MA (History and Local Studies), University of Limerick, 1999. As always, click on the photos to see them as a larger view. You may live here, have visited here or maybe are tracing ancestors who left long ago. Hello, I have been doing research on my family and am fairly certain some information I am looking for would be in parish records from 1800 to 1843. The view from the former O'Brien land at Ballykelly on a typically "soft' Irish day in March. The American with glasses is not a relation.
Their chaps look as woolly as the dog in the featured image. it was through her family’s refreshment rooms in Charters Towers. When I was looking at the names yesterday I realised a number of these immigrants arrived on ships whose names started with the letter H. So here’s to them…name of ship (year) [number of east Clare people on board]. Time was when the northern approach to Hastings was equally beautiful, driving through native bush of banksias.
Broadford (County Clare) Message Board. On the other side of the Pacific, two other Aussie cousins were being welcomed by the American branches as they commenced their WWII Air Force service.
Map updates are paused. Reset zoom. On our last visit the people at the Visitor Centre were very helpful and tried to put me in touch with the local historian who wasn’t available. School days, school days, good old golden rule days! James and Maria had two sons Edmond (1842) and John (1845, Broadford, Clare).
What did you find (or not find)? Staring proud across the road from Backrow were the kirk, school and kirkyard…only a few steps to the venue for all life’s major events…and no escaping the minister’s eye. I was so tempted to focus on one of my easy ancestral places in England or Scotland where I know there are lots of sources, but in the end I knew I had to bite the bullet and look at Broadford in east County Clare. However Honora’s children were, and are, part of the great Irish diaspora with some moving to the States and some moving to Australia. Share your knowledge of this community and connect with people
Convoluted conversations in churches and cemeteries in my poor German as I tried to learn more about my family. Week 10: Genealogy Roadtrips. Valuation maps which can be annotated with residents in the Griffith Valuation. Don’t ask me why so many came to Herston, because I really don’t know, but as a result of the numbers, we ended up with Dutch priests for a number of years. Could I link all the Broadford families under a hypothetical set of pseudo-parents, called for example, Male Broadford and Female Broadford?
descended from it all over the world. I am pleased when readers enjoy something I've shared, and love hearing your comments. The memories here focus on my Kunkel/O’Brien ancestry but I could list just as many for other ancestral families of mine, or my husband’s. We drove in constant fog from our B&B wondering whether this was all we’d see after travelling half way round the world.
The indexes are now also on Ancestry, I’ve just discovered. It does however include parents’ names, whether they were alive or dead at the time of migration and relatives in the colony. Most of the time there was a small spa-sized pool near the rocks which made the perfect spot for lolling around, unless you were mad keen to get into the surf, which swimming across the creek first, or wading, carefully avoiding the oyster-shelled rocks. I have few actual historical documents though my family archive holds many copies of historic documents from archives or registry offices. You might imagine that finding “Mary O’Brien from County Clare” would have been nigh on impossible without some substantive clue.
Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog, in conjunction with Geneabloggers, has a new series of weekly blogging prompts for 2012 and the theme is 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy. [ii] O’Brien, P. Broadford. I was intrigued that Marie was the only woman wearing gloves as I’d have expected the to be de rigeur in this era. Showing results in neighboring cities.
We drove in constant fog from our B&B wondering whether this was all we’d see after travelling half way round the world.
If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. In any case, we’re sure to have lots to share and are delighted to welcome you. What did the trip mean to you and your family? The NLI only has records beginning in 1844. Without them I’d never have been able to trace “Mary O’Brien from County Clare” or George Kunkel from Bavaria. On the first visit, decades ago, Broadford was shrouded in fog, and the general response to my enquiries was “it’s up there” pointing into the hilly distance. Map updates are paused. Zoom in to see updated info. At the time it was looking a little run-down in parts but had substantial enough outbuildings and large fields. The Sydney siblings, Nora, Kevin and Marie with their aunty Nellie (in the hat). My theme is a genealogical travelogue or a travel genealogue (I’m not sure which). Learning about the place through genie-visits with the Kunkels’ granddaughter in Toowoomba and finding out about their life on the farm and much family history. I’ve heard the Melvins also had railway refreshment rooms but I’ve found no evidence whatsoever of that, so I’m assuming it was probably a furphy, albeit a credible one. Updating Map... Return to Map . This graph gives a fairly good idea of the impact of the Famine in the Parish of Kilseily where Broadford is situated. (Have I mentioned that my daughters have adverse memories of Queensland cemeteries with dry crackling grass and high temperatures?). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Every now and then I have another dabble then give up in frustration. B is for Backrow farmhouse in the parish of Bothkennar in Stirlingshire (Scotland). I visited Broadford first with my mother and daughter in the late 1980s. This H post reminds me that I’ve still not followed this up….the “to do” list is growing with each letter.
The documents I have to work with are: Do you have any thoughts on how I can link these up? Protestations in German that we’d come from Australia fell on deaf ears, as had letters sent before and after the visit. A visit in the church and a prayer to my 2x great grandmother to plead our case – as we walked out the church door, the fog lifted like a blind rising. On reflection it seems possible these photos were probably taken by the street photographers that have been the topic of blog posts lately…it just hadn’t occurred to me…we do tend to assume that cameras were as readily available then as they are today. How they came to meet I don’t know, but I’ve always assumed (yes, I know!) My ultimate goal is not to do a One Place Study per se. When I saw this topic I ran a mental scan of the genealogy trips I’ve done over the past 26 years.
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