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Maurice Casey Rathkeale family from church records

My Great Grandfather, Maurice Patrick Casey, was a lifelong redident of Rathkeale. Born Feb 28, 1845 and died Nov 17, 1917.

He was married May 24 1870 to Elizabeth Molloney. The marriage certificate states his father was Patrick Casey and his mother was "Mary". Other research seems to indicate her maiden name was Walsh. I searched Irish geneology boards and came across potential brothers and a sister of Maurice, including Anne Casey baptised May 10 1840, James Casey baptised Nov 10 1843, and John Casey baptised Sept 3, 1847. All with Patrick and Mary as parents. ANY CLUES i CAN FOLLOW-UP ON? Would particulary like to locate marriage of Patrick and Mary, or more about these newly discovered relatives.

Enjoying my family search and plan to visit Rathkeale later this year.

Rob Alvey

robalvey1@gmail.com

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Hi Rob:  

 

I have passed your query to a local volunteer who will reply in the next week or so.  

 

If you have any further questions, please let me know.  

Kind regards,

Jane

jhalloranryan@…

Hello Rob

Jane has passed your details to me, I am Jennifer and lok forward to giving you some useful information in due course.

It is amazing just how many Casey families from the Limerick area, have come to our IrelandXo looking for help with their family history and so many who come to visit as a result. However, this is the first that I personally have had from the Rathkeale area:  the school that I often work in is next door to the St. Mary's church and cemetary. By coincidence I will be in the area next week, so please be patient and I will make a visit there during that time - being as you have quite a lot of information already, we might earn more from there before we investigate other avenues.

I will let you know after that what we have so far.

Have a good day

Jennifer Jean

Killeedy1 LimerickIrelandXO Volunteer

Hello Jennifer Jean!  Thank you for your reply!  I very much appreciate your interest. My maternal grandmother was Aileen Casey one of the daughters of Maurice Casey and Elizabeth Moloney (sp?)  The Casey's had a shop on Main Street in Rathkeale, and Maurice had a position a local mailman.  Over the last year, I located a cousin Kate Hennessy in Limerick and have been sharing a bit of info. I plan to visit Limerick and Rathkeale in late July.  There was a Casey bicycle shop on Main and I inherited a photo. A couple of cousins helped ID the 2 men as brothers of my grandmother. It is apparently now an electric shop but still connected to the family.    

I've done some work to build up the family tree, even with tremendous gaps in the records.  Certainly researched the 1901 and 1911 Census records, and have been able to get some info from scanned baptism records of a local catholic church.  I know Maurice's father was Patrick... but still not even sure if Maurice had any brothers or sisters or if they had been from Rathkeale or nearby. 

 

Thanks again for your reply!  Let me know if you discover anything.  Robert Maurice Alvey

I can also be reached at robalvey1@gmail.com.    

 

robalvey1@gmail.com

Hello Rob

Thank you so much for the follow up information, almost as I had found it too. I find that data is being uploaded almost daily now and sites such as My Heritage and Find my Past are gradually catching up on the Irish details. Also the National Library of Ireland is a great source. You have the source of origin which is a great help too.Roots.ie have a brilliant site for older information and many parish records of all denominations so well worth a new look.

Meantime if I come across anything, I will certainly keep you informed - the same as we like to hear of your success too and meantime wish you Good Luck

Jennie Jean

volunteer Killeedy

Killeedy1 LimerickIrelandXO Volunteer

Just as a matter of interest are you absolutely sure of your gt granddad's birth year? I ask because there is five records of baptismals in Rathkeale and each one is for a Maurice Casey with the father as Patrick but different mother names. The Mary Walsy Maurice was baptised on 31./1/1842 and not 1845.  The 28 Feb 1845 baptismal record relates to Patrick and Francis Capley again of Rathkeale

Do you want to have a chat with your cousins to see if this reflects on their knowledge; something is wrong somewhere. 

There is no worry as there is so many families in Rathkeale associated with the Caseys, that you will surely find some information when you do arrive but keep checking out those sites that I said about as they are putting information in every day

Good Luck

Jennifer Jean   killeedy1@irelandxo.com

Killeedy1 LimerickIrelandXO Volunteer

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