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Hello Tom;
Just read your post as follows:
Hello Claire!
My name is Thomas (Tom) Carmody and my father and his father's name was Thomas. My
grandfather's mother was from County Clare and her name was Margaret. I need to do
some more research from my end and find out more information. I do understand from my aunt
Adele Carmody that the name Michael was my grandfather's dad. could this be the same
that you have documented?
Please keep in touch and I look forward to hearing from you. By the way...Margaret came
from County Clare as a widow and settled in Berdan, IL. which is outside of Carrollton,
IL, which is where my family has resided for over 100 years.
God bless,
Tom Carmody
I don't know if there is a Carmody connection, but here it goes.
James Charles Carmody, born between 1825-30 in County Clare, migrated to NY in 1850-51 and
remained in the area. I have never been able to find any of his siblings, but he has to
have had anywhere from 5 to 10 of them. That seems to be the norm.
His father, John Carmody, born approx. 1780ish, never migrated (as far as I know) and was
married to a woman named Margaret.
John's father may have also been named John, born approx. 1730s, who was married to
Anne Hogan.
Do any of these names, or dates, connect with you Tree?
The interesting thing about Margaret Carmody is a blurb I found in the Clare Library, as
follows:
Poverty Before the Famine, County Clare 1835
Introduction
Under the dry and official title of The First Report from His Majesty's Commissioners
for Inquiring into the Condition of the Poorer Classes in Ireland comes an enormous amount
of opinion, reminiscence and description of life by ordinary Irish people in the early
nineteenth century. This book presents the section of that long document which deals with
county Clare. It is rare to be able to listen to the voices of people anywhere in the past
with the clarity that this report allows and it is particularly rare for the 'hidden
Ireland' before the Famine. Here, however, was an occasion in the 1830s, when a wide
variety of people in eight parishes in Clare gathered in a courthouse, a hotel or even in
the open air to offer their views on poverty and the social action which was, or could be,
taken to deal with it.
Margaret Carmody, a middle-aged woman, whom the Assistant Commissioners met begging,
accompanied by three children on foot, whilst she carried two infants on her back, stated,
"that she never asked anybody for as much as a potato until about three years ago; up
to that time her husband held a farm in Kilmurry, of M'Mahon, but he gave it up, and
took of another about 10 acres, which at first had been vacated; but the first night they
entered on it the Terryalts came, and after beating him in a dreadful manner and breaking
one of his arms, they swore him to surrender the farm; he was then unable to get back his
first farm, and since then they have had nothing to live on but charity." They
afterwards met her husband, who was begging on the same road with two more children, and
he confirmed her story, by giving the same account.
QUESTION: Is this our Margaret????
Regards,
Tom Carmody