Looking for information about the James Groody family from Clough Ossory Castlecomer County Kilkenny. Jamse died before the 1901 census perhaps in 1896. His wife Margaret Brennan Groody died in 1914 leaving her possessions to daughter Kate. Son Michael immigrated to the USA in the 1880s. Settled in Connecticut, married Anne O'Reilly and had 3 sons.
pmmfamilytree:
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I located the civil death record for James and he did die in 1896. You have to sign-in to see the page of records. The James Grrody record is the sixth record. I also located the 1901 and 1911 census records for Margaret and the children living with her. I tried to find the marriage record and did not find it on Roots Ireland. Possibly Margaret was from the neighboring parish of Ballyraggett where marriages start in 1856.
Roger McDonnell
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_retu…
http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kilkenny/Castlecomer/Clogh…
http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kilkenny/Clogh/Clogh/56560…
My great-grandmother was Josephine Groody who married John Sherry in New York City in 1898. According to their marriage certificate, her parents were James Groody and Margaret Brennan. It would be great to connect with the Connecticut branch of the family and compare research.
Maureen Gelber
Victoria, BC
Hello Maureen, I am related through the O'Reilly line and have only researched the lines of Michael Groody (1858-1918). He is of the Connecticut branch and I do have a few contacts for his descendants. I see that you have a tree on ancestry.com and I do also. My research on this line is the O'DONOGHUE/QUINLAN FAMILY TREE. I will reach out to Connecticut but perhaps a quicker route of connection is ancestry.com (only because none of my contacts use Ireland XO no matter how much I suggest it).
Thanks,
Pat
Hello,
I hope that someone is still researching this family. I am descended from James Groody, born 06/01/1887 in Castlecomer. He emigrated to Co. Durham, England with his parents Edward Groody b. 1856 and Catherine Hosey b. 05/04/1862 - Married in Castlecomer in 1882) in about 1903.
Does anyone out there know anything about the Groodys or Hoseys please?
I am also trying to trace the Frayne family who I think emigrated to Prescot, Liverpool, England in the 1840s from Wexford.
Eddie