Hi Diane,
I will try to help you, Clarkes are very plentiful, in this area & I was wondering did you have a townland that they may have come from. On the other hand Curran is not as common & I have seen Curran on the headstones in Moybologue Graveyard, which is about 4 or 5 mile from Bailieborough on the Meath border.
If James Joseph Clarke was born in 1863, you should be able to get his Baptism records, Civil Registeration started in 1864 & if any of his siblings were born after that, I would concentrate on them.
When did or did James Joseph emigrate?
There are 13 James Clarkes in 1901 Census, you can see them here & there may be more, if any variant spellings are looked at
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year=19…
Civil registration records are available from the General Register Office (GRO). These start from 1864. You can access the website here:http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm Or you might try Valuations office in Dublin (http://www.valoff.ie) which will have a record of the land registry from 1855 to modern times. This will assist in seeing what happened to any land the familymay have owned (as it usually passed on to a relation).
You could also try contacting the Cavan Co Library for further assistance.
Cavan Genealogy,
1st floor,
Johnston Central Library,
Farnham Street,
Cavan Town,
County Cavan.
Tel: +353 (0)49 4361094
Fax: +353 (0)49 4331494
Email: cavangenealogy@eircom.net
Regards Carmel O'Callaghan
