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Graham Williams

CorkAghadown (Cork)

I AM RESEARCHING MY GR/GRANDPARENTS PATRICK SCANNELL c1841 AND MARY CRONIN c1843,THEY WERE MARRIED AT ST,PATRICKS CATHEDRAL CHURCH,SKIBBEREEN ON THE 13th OF FEBRUARY 1859 AND BY 1861 CENSUS UK WERE RESIDENT IN MERTHYR TYDFIL,GLAMORGAN,WALES. I HAVE FAILED TO FIND THEIR BIRTH OR BAPTISMAL DETAILS BUT FAMILY RUMOUR HAS IT THAT ONE OR THE OTHER WAS FROM AGHADOWN,THEIR FIRST BORN CHILD WAS TIMOTHY SCANNELL c1860 BUT I AM NOT SURE IF HE WAS BORN IN IRELAND OR MERTHYR TYDFIL,HE WAS HOWEVER BAPTISED INTO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH IN MERTHYR TYDFIL AS WERE HIS SIBLINGS INCLUDING MY GRANDFATHER JOHN SCANNELL c1873.

ANY HELP IN FINDING THEIR ROOTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

BEST WISHES

GRAHAM RHONDDA,WALES.

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Hi Roger, Unfortunately no,however I have the names of witnesses to the marriage namely Johanna Cronin and Timothy Burke

Thanks for your help

Graham

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Graham:

I would go back to www.irishgenealogy.ie and search the records there. It looks like Cronin was much more common in Aghadown.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Graham,

Might the Patrick Scannell born to Timothy & Ellen Burke of Coolnaclehy and baptised 10 Jul 1836 be a possible candidate? Coolnaclehy is close to Aghadown Parish and it might explain the Burke witness... Yes, his age would be 5 years off, but those errors weren't too uncommon in those days... Coolnaclehy is about 6-7 miles from Aghadown parish (with Abbeystrewery parish in the middle) and ~3 miles north of Skibbereen, so it might be a stretch to have Patrick 'coming from Aghadown'.

Regards

Jerry

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Hi,  I am a descendant from Denis Scanlan/Scannell.  The Skibbereen Heritage Center told me that Denis' parents were Jeremiah (Darby) Scanell and Biddy Cronin.  Denis had a brother Patrick (1829 born in Rath) and a sister Ellen (1830 born in Rath)  near Baltmore in Cork.  I lost track of Pat and Ellen, but Denis and his wife Margaret Hegarty move to Aghadown, Hollyhill.  The births of most of their children were registered in the distict of Tullagh.  Not sure if this is the same family.  -Annie

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One more thing that I was told by the The Skibbereen Heritage Center  - he names Scannell and Scanlan were interchangable.  I struggles for awhile witht he same dilema.  -Annie

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I have heard of a Denis Scanlan...known as Den Scanlan...who lived in Hollyhill, Aughadown in the early part of the twentieth century. He was a well-known stonemason.

Tim

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