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Harvey family of Monanagh Ennistymon

ClareEnnistymon (Clare)

Hello,

I am seeking some assistance with the family of my 3xgreat grandmother Elizabeth Harvey born about 1800. The family is said to come from Monanagh Ennistymon. Elizabeth married Patrick Rynne and I descend from their daughter Bridget who married James Long.

Elizabeth and Patrick farmed at Cloonanaha in Inagh parish. Patrick was buried in Inagh cemetery in 1868 where his headstone has the spelling Wren. Elizabeth died in 1873.

I understand that Church records are unlikely to exist for the time of Elizabeth's birth and I know that marriage records in Inagh parish don't exist prior to 1850. I am hoping that they may have married in her home parish of Ennistymon and would love to find that record.

I would appreciate any assistance to locate Harvey family records in Ennistymon parish.

Thank you from Australia.

Kind regards,

Michael Barker

 

researcher47

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Michael, as you know you are in an extreme place for records and Ennistymon has the worst I am seeing, on the registers site for RC records https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0621 ;

Assuming Catholic, I ran a search on Roots Ireland and Harvey in not much found in Clare 1790 to 1810, however there is one odd one in 1795 a William Harvey from Wexford (opposite coast coast but we are not in Australia) married a Doro Crosbie, daughter of Dean Crosbie, assume he is a vicar or such like, it is reported in the Clare Journal. Not sure why it would be in a newspaper.

Another nearby but not so close as to be a certainty, there is a marriage of a James Harvey to a Mary Anne Broderick in Loughrea, Galway, he is a Dragoon in the 23rd Regiment.

All other marriages of Harvey are mainly in the north and east of the country. 

You should check the Clare Library Local history section or see if the area has a local history group and there may be some published information as it is an unusual enough name here. As an aside there is a place called Harvey's Point in Donegal.

Also it appears some Harveys in Wexford and Kilkenny got land in the plantations of the 1600, post Cromwell and you can look them up here http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/landowners.php# ;

Good Luck

Pat

St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you Pat. I agree that Harvey is an unusual Irish surname so you would think her family would be easier to trace. She was Catholic and I had thought that I had seen elsewhere that some records for Ennistymon parish pre 1850 had not been microfilmed. I wonder who has access to those records? I might see if I can find an email address for the Parish. I have now found a couple of Harvey families in Griffiths in the right townland in Clare but without more info I can't tell if either are Elizabeth's father or brothers.

The search continues.

Michael

researcher47

John Grenham's website is the best authority on surviving Catholic records, whether microfilmed or otherwise.

He lists Ennistimon as Kilmanaheen at
https://www.johngrenham.com/records/county_church_full.php?county=Clare…
and shows that the unmicrofilmed records run from 1823 to 1870.

As far as I know, all original Catholic parish records are still in the custody of the local clergy.

Moyarta ClareIrelandXO Volunteer

Hello Paddy,   Thank you for the advice that the records are still held by the Parish. I had wondered if the Clare Heritage Centre had a copy.  When the pandemic is more under control I might get a chance to visit and ask myself.

 

All the best, Michael

 

 

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