Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

mickmackey1

The 'i' threw me off aswell. I've looked up the Limerick placenames beginning 'Clo' in a couple of sources but no match with the i included. But if it's a stray then Clooncommons looks a real possibility.

oceanclub

Both findmypast and NLI only have Murroe church marriage records up to 1882; I wonder if RootsIreland have later (so they have a complete list of what they have anywhere handy?)

EDIT: Ah yes, it turns out:  http://www.rootsireland.ie/limerick-genealogy/limerick-roman-catholic/

srmf5

The civil record on Roots Ireland records his address as Clouncommons while the church record has it recorded as Knocknagorteeny.

oceanclub

srmf5 wrote: »

The civil record on Roots Ireland records his address as Clouncommons while the church record has it recorded as Knocknagorteeny.

Thanks, appreciate that!

P.

pedroeibar1

Sorry Oceanclub I was away and could not access my 'stuff'.

I’ve done some research on families from that locality for the period of 1830’s to the Famine. It was very disturbed, lots of serious crime and also evictions. Cloon usually is described as ‘Cloon & Lacka’ but also as ‘Cloon and Commons’. I’ve never seen it run together as Clooncommons.

Sir John de Burgho was the head landlord of the area; he was a descendant of the Red Earl of Ulster. Various ‘middlemen’ went bankrupt due to non-payment of rent and much of the land in it and surrounding townlands was sold in the Encumbered Estates Courts. I'm having difficulty posting an image but will try again later

yaledo

Hi all

I need help with the wife's name in the entry highlighted in yellow
This is from Marriages in Moycullen in 1807

I think it says:
7| John Bane (?) ? Walsh Gortiloghlin

pinkypinky

Joan Walsh. The next word looks more like a P than a G.

yaledo

pinkypinky wrote: »

Joan Walsh. The next word looks more like a P than a G.

Joan Walsh makes sense, go raibh maith agat.

I'm 99.99% sure Gortiloghlin is the placename - though I see what you mean about the letter looking like a 'P'.

oceanclub

Hi there,

Would love if anyone could make out what appears to be a note at the end of this baptism record:

"30th Bridget of Matt Leary & Maria Creaton (N/O)
Michael Corbett & Ann Malone (Newport)"

Looks like "Late of..." something? with a few names or placenames.

P.

P. Breathnach

I can't decipher very much of it, but I think it is not a note on the baptism of Bridget Leary, but another entry shoehorned in: "Patt of ? ? & Julia Birdy Sps. Patt & ? Burke ?".

Hermy

P. Breathnach wrote: »

...I think it is not a note on the baptism of Bridget Leary, but another entry shoehorned in...

Agree with that.

Perhaps "Patt of Laurence ??? and Julia Burke..."

oceanclub

Thanks, that makes sense. I've sometimes seen someone's marriage appended to their baptism but this is not the case here.

P.

pedroeibar1

Agree with Hermy - it is another baptism . The remainder is Sps. Patr & Maggie Burke. The last bit could be a placename/their address.

RebelButtMunch

Hi
I'm looking for a Surname deciphered please .

On the attachment it's the third one down in the middle column

It looks like Formerly; Bouice /Growuce...

Any help appreciated.
Thanks

spurious

Bridget Lyster formerly Cronin?

mickmackey1

Agreed, Cronin. The 'n' in Waldron, immediately below, looks similar.

RebelButtMunch

Great stuff. Thanks folks.

tabbey

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Hi
I'm looking for a Surname deciphered please .

On the attachment it's the third one down in the middle column

It looks like Formerly; Bouice /Growuce...

Any help appreciated.
Thanks

Cronin

oceanclub

Looking for the address here, which would have been a Court in Dun Laoghaire. Looks like "Price's"? However, that name doesn't appear in this book which lists the names of now gone courts in DL: "Conditions of the Poor in Kingstown 1850-70" (PDF available via Google)

P.

Vetch

oceanclub wrote: »

Looking for the address here, which would have been a Court in Dun Laoghaire. Looks like "Price's"? However, that name doesn't appear in this book which lists the names of now gone courts in DL: "Conditions of the Poor in Kingstown 1850-70" (PDF available via Google)

P.

It does look like Prices. Is it possible to see the rest of the page?

murfi59

Hi
Could it be Vines?
K

tabbey

Pim's Court?

Water John

Could it be Pius, after the Pope?

tabbey

Water John wrote: »

Could it be Pius, after the Pope?

Courts were named after the person who owned them.

No court in Kingstown / DunLaoghaire was owned by any pope.

oceanclub

tabbey wrote: »

Pim's Court?

I think that's right, there's was a Pim's Court alright :

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Kingstown/Pims_Court/

P.

DamoRed

What a fantastic resource! You may be able to help me with this...




In the 5th line from the top, the entry is George of George Molyneux Bríd? Carty Sp Jno? Blay? Magt ????

Interestingly, 3 lines down, listed as a sponsor, is a similar looking name as the last name on that entry, where it looks like Clary.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give.

Edit. I inserted the incorrect image link for BB use

pinkypinky

I'd say the last bit is Margt (short for Margaret) Connor
Jno is John or Jonathan

Biddy is written on another line and the B looks similar to the mother's first name but it's blurry. Brid's a good guess but I don't see an R.

DamoRed

Thanks, PinkyPinky. As you're of the same view that it is B + id, was it common for Bid to be used as a shortened form of Biddy/Bridget, as Bríd is??

Given that they're not family names for further searching, the sponsors' names don't actually matter all that much.

mickmackey1

I think the last name might be 'Ennis' if that dot over what looks like an 'i' is real.

Agree with the others; Carty, John, some form of Bridget and Clary (colloquial Cleary).

Jellybaby1

I'm getting a Margaret Francis or Ennis. (Sorry if this sounds like a seance!)