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Hi Everyone,

    I am researching my mothers family line. My GGgrandparents were Jeremiah Casey and Catherine Spillane. Jeremiah was born about 1814 and catherine about 1826 somewhere in Ireland, probably Cork county. They were married in Aghadown in 1841 and lived in Knocknaraha. They were Roman Catholic. They had 10 children, 4 were born in Knocknaraha, John, Ellen, Mary, and Catherine. John and Ellen both died as children, Mary and Catherine emigrated with their parents to New Brunswick, Canada about 1849. The family lived in Calais, Maine, USA, where William, Jeremiah Jr. and Patrick were born and then back to New Brunswick where Margaret, Timothy, and Thomas were born. I am descended from Jeremiah Jr. who married Mary Morrison in 1882. Timothy became a priest and later the Bishop of St. John, New Brunswick and finally ArchBishop of VanCouver British Columbia.

    I have been in contact with one of my distant Casey cousins and would like to connect with more.

Thank you,

Bernie FitzMaurice

fitz1959

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Hi Bernie,

I hope more of the Casey family will be in touch with you through our website.

If you would like to search more about your ancestors, you could check for them in the land records called the Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) and the later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64). Griffith's is freely available online at www.askaboutireland.com

I wish you every success in your research!

Kind regards,

Sinead Cooney

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HI

 

I am not a Casey but my family do come from West Cork and while trying to find family trees tied to West Cork I found a William Caseys Genealogy Website which may help, his family is based in Aughadown.  I am unable to copy it but try the following:  www.fastnet.web.ie/wm Casey.

 

Good Luck

 

 

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Hi Duggan101,

Thank you for your reply. William Casey is the cousin in Ireland that I mentioned in my message. I am curious about your family. Are you researching Duggans or Dugans in New Brunswick, Canada or Maine USA. I have seen this name tied to Caseys in these areas. I think that I also remember a Dugan or Duggan family that lived next to my Caseys in Cork county. I am not sure, but I think that I saw this in some record. This sticks in my memory because I have also seen the 2 names connected in New Brunswick and think that there may be some connection to my Caseys.

Bernie

fitz1959

Hi Bernie

Sorry my suggestion was not of more help.  My Mother's family all come from West Cork and the families were big and intermarried all around West Cork. Normally they stayed between Schull and Skibbereen and the townlands in between but the did marry out other townlands and places.  I also have connections back to the Island of ~West Skeam .  There was a lot of emigration to the States and that is something I plan to look into.  The cities of  New York, Boston, Buffalo were def places they would have gone to originally but they would have moved on  plus New Zealand and the UK.

My Cork family tree is fun - depending on how you look at it because my Granmother was a Duggan who married into a Duggan so Duggans of Filemuck, Derreenard, Kielbronogue and Inishbeg are all of interest to me.  My Great,great, great grandfather moved from Kerry to Filemuck and started his family there.  He had seven children and 64 grandchildren!  46 of those were born and raised in the townland of Filemuck!

I saw on William Casey's website the link between the Duggans and the Levis - I know a later generation of Duggan's married into the Levis  family but family rumour has it that the Duggan family had married into that family before but I could not make it work.  It's not to say that it is wrong, there are so many branches to the family it is really hard to track them all.   

If we could help each out that would be great.  I consider my family tree to be like a giant puzzle, you put the bits together and eventually you can piece them together.

 

Mary

 

 

 

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