some more places to look for ancestors are
the diocese of the town
archdiocese
Also, lok in the Country Council records. Each county had one. You can also search the
Poor Law Union (who kept fantastic records), the Board of Guardians (also kept great
records.) You will have to know the county in order to search the Poor Laws and Board of
Guardians.
And remember county lines have changed. Just because it's Clare now doesn't mean
it was Clare 200 years ago.
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I am looking for Carmody's who came to the US in the early 1900s. My grandmother,
born in 1921, was born to Mary Carmody in Cambridge, Mass. Mary came from Clare to be
with her brothers Thomas and John who were already in the Boston area. Thomas and John
married Slatterly sisters, also from Clare.
Any information would be appricated.
Thank you,
Michelle Cunha
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Dear Tom,
It appears my last e-mail dissapeared when Ancestry updated on 18 Nov!
It was good to hear from a Carmody elsewhere in the world, and that the spelling
variation helped you. That variation is also what helped me get in contact with Karelle,
who has already written to you. My great grandfather Tom CarmOdy [great name!] and her
great grandfather Patrick CarmAdy were brothers, who when their mother died having twins
in 1850, were sent [with their brothers and sisters] to their Uncle John Carmody to
live. Their father Patrick appears in the records for a few years living in the same
area, but after that we cannot seem to find him or proof of his death. Because of this
family dislocation, neither of us have any oral history of the family handed down, and we
only have the immigrant books for a record of Patrick and John's parents' names.
Their father is definitely John, but Patrick did not give his mother's name, and John
gave her as Bridget Carmody, which could be her married or single name, as the
mothers' names were recorded either w!
ay and
sometim!
es wrongly altogether!
Since Patrick was born in March, 1811 in Kilmurry or Kilmeany, [terrible writing in the
immigrant book],Ennis, Clare and John abt 1812 near Ennis, Clare, I would assume their
father John [a Farmer] was born before 1790 in the same area.
As the Irish had quite strict naming patterns, we could still make a case for some
relationship between us, as Patrick called his second daughter Margaret and one of the
twins was James, both names in your family also.
I definitely think we're related somewhere - maybe some more of our clan will come
out of witness protection and shed light on the matter!
Best Wishes,
Jenny Vines
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