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Horgan, Fitzgerald & Evans families

KerryClogherbrien (Kerry)

Hi.

One of my ancestors, Johanna (Hannah) Fitzgerald, was baptised in the Clogherbrien parish on 28 Oct 1805.

She married Thomas Horgan, also from Kerry in 1826 and their children were Johanna (1828), Denis, John, Thomas (1835), Catherine (1838 and Daniel (1844) - Daniel was my direct ancestor.

Another ancestor, Thomas Evans,also from Kerry,married Elizabeth Fitzgerald in the Clogherbrien parish on 2 June 1840. His parents were George Evans and Julia Day - her parents were John Fitzgerald and Mary Barton.

The descendants of these families all emigrated to South Australia.

Any information about either the Horgan's, Fitzgerald's or Evans' families would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Jenny

Jenny.Mangan

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Jenny:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

You have done a great job researching your family so I'm nit sure there is much more we can locate. I see that the RC parish is Tralee and we do have a parish liaison in Tralee. I will send her an e-mail to see if she can add any additional information. I added the 1805 baptismal record for the file.

Roger McDonnell

Area - KERRY (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - TRALEE

Baptism of JOANNA FITZGERALD of CLOGHVAKIRKEEN on 28 October 1805

NameJOANNA FITZGERALDDate of Birth28 October 1805 (BASED ON OTHER DATE INFORMATION)AddressCLOGHVAKIRKEENFatherJOHN FITZGERALDMotherJULIA SHEA

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you for the information - I will check my database and see if I have that added already, if not, thanks again!

Jenny.Mangan

Hi Jenny, there is a Fitzgerald family still living in Clogherbrien in 1901

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kerry/Clogherbrien/Clogherbrien/1431137/

including Margaret born about 1850 and Margaret born 1886

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/20c8360491045

daughter of William Fitzgerald and Margaret Ross

But if we go back to 1850 there are several Fitzgeralds listed as holding land in Clogherbrien

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=37&Submit.y=14&Submit=Submit&familyname=Fitzgerald&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=KERRY&unionname=&parishname=CLOGHERBRIEN

so you will have a bit of weeding out to do!

At that time there was the Civil Parish of Clogherbrien which included many townlands incl. Clogherbrien townland and the one one above that Roger found.

This link gives a list of the townlands and may help you to seperate out the different families

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/clogherb.html

You can now search the Civil Records from 1864 FREE OF CHARGE online here which will help you

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

Do let us know what you find...I'm very interested to hear

Warm wishes

Martine

mbrennankerry@…IrelandXO Volunteer
mbrennankerry@…IrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Jenny,

Daniel was also  my direct ancestor. My grandfather was George Joseph Horgan ninth child of Daniel and Julia Horgan (Evans).

My father was Maxwell Horgan and I  live in Perth WA.

Please contact me by email and I may be able to help from this end or vice versa.

cheers

Bob Horgan

bobmin@iinet.net.au

IrelandXO member

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