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Looking for relatives from "Rahinane" Kilcummin migrated to Australia as follows: John 1838, "Fairlie"his mother Mary (Marshall) brother Peter, Peter's wife (Margaret Doherty) & baby son Patrick, and brothers Edmund and Patrick arrived in1858 "Northern Light".Peter& Margaret married Glenflesk, Peter's baptism recorded 1822 Kilcummin. Mary from Killarney wife of Bartholomew ( dec'd).Margaret from Ballydore possibility this is Barraduff? Have letter from a Con Sugrue Address Cornhill Headford PO.Have discovered that Cornhill is English equivalent of Knockanoorroor,(rior) presuming it's a tow land.

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Burragundy9:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

The townland you are looking for is Rahanane in Kilcummin civil parish, Co. Kerry. Apparently, we do not have a parish page for Kilcummin parish in Kerry so I will alert our HQ.

www.irishgenealogy.ie is a free Irish government site which has the Co. Kerry church records. Records for Glenflesk go back to 1821.

Can't help with relatives. Hopefully, someone will see the message and respond. You may also want to consider autosomal DNA testing and finally here is a link to the online Irish phone book https://www.eirphonebook.ie/   You may want to search for possible connections. Make sure you use the Residential TAB. By the way, I could not find Cornhill.

Roger McDonnell

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Thank you. Did people move about in  first half of 1800s? Family always referred to Kilcummin as "home". It seems odd that of a family of 6 children only one baptism is recorded & he was middle child.(Peter Riordan 15thJune 1822). Also his marriage to Margaret ( recorded as Maria) Doherty 15th Jan 1855 at Glenflesk.His shipping record of 1858 lists Kilcommon( sic) as native place.  Their son Patrick baptised Kilcummin 7 th April 1856. His wife Margaret has Ballydore as native place. We think this is Englishshippingclerk interpretation of Barraduff. Cannot find records of Peter's siblings anywhere.

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Hi, my husband is an ancestor of Patrick Reardon, son of Bartholomew and Mary. Patrick married Ellen Barry in Gundagai, NSW Australia.  

Donna

Donpaul75@gmail.com

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