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Nerney/Narrey/Neary - variants there of - 7x great grandparents Hugh Nerney Mary McGuire

I am searching for a 1749 Elphin Census lookup to break a brick wall on my paternal line. I found the master index, which lists my family under NARREY on Page 226 and KEARNEY on Page 231 inside the Kilglass Parish block. Unfortunately, my file only contains the index and lacks the main data pages.Could anyone with access to the full book or Findmypast look up the household details for those two pages? I am trying to find the first names of these householders.For context, my 7x great-grandfather was Hugh Nerney (born c.1765), and the family later farmed in Dooslattagh townland. Women who married into this direct paternal line in the following generations include Mary McGuire (born c.1765) and Elizabeth O'Neil (born c.1787). If anyone has matching data or images for these households, I would be incredibly grateful. Thank you so much from Perth, WA!

MeganAnn

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The 1749 Elphin Census only records the name of the head (sometimes 2 main adults) of household, usually just surname and initial, religious denomination, occupation and location (townland) plus a breakdown of the numbers of people in the household. There's a free search for parts of this census on the Leitrim-Roscommon homepage, a search of this for the surname Kearney shows two results a T. & P. Kearney both at 'Tibohin' townland, papists (i.e. Catholic) and labourers.

A check on FindMyPast show a number of results for Kearney and variants, however none that I can see relate to Kilglass parish, see below for an example of the detail for one of these results...

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