Hi Jan,
Mullane/Milone/Milane/Mullins/Moylan possible spelling variations but only 55 baptisms of Johanna Mullane in Kerry (exact spelling) or where the mother or godmother was Johanna Mullane and only 16 of those before 1860. I have
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?namefm=Johanna&namel=Mullane&exact=true&name2fm=&name2l=&location=&yyfrom=&yyto=&diocese=KERRY+(RC)&parish=¢ury=1800&decade=&sort=&pageSize=100&ddBfrom=&mmBfrom=&yyBfrom=&ddMfrom=&mmMfrom=&yyMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddBto=&mmBto=&yyBto=&ddMto=&mmMto=&yyMto=&ddDto=&mmDto=&yyDto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&event=B&keyword=&submit=Search
75 returns for Honora Mullane
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=Honora&namel=Mullane&exact=true&location=&yyfrom=&yyto=&submit=Search&sort=&pageSize=100&diocese=KERRY+%28RC%29&parish=¢ury=1800&decade=&ddBfrom=&ddMfrom=&ddDfrom=&mmBfrom=&mmMfrom=&mmDfrom=&yyBfrom=&yyMfrom=&yyDfrom=&ddBto=&ddMto=&ddDto=&mmBto=&mmMto=&mmDto=&yyBto=&yyMto=&yyDto=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=&event=B
Only 14 returns for Mullane in Kerry in Griffiths Valuation c 1850
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=11&Submit.y=18&Submit=Submit&familyname=Mullane&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=KERRY&unionname=&parishname=
Can you send me any possible dates you have for the arrival of the Shelly's in Nova Scotia?
Are they showing up in a Census?
Were the children born in Nova Scotia?
So far I am not finding a Shelly/Mullane marriage either in the Kerry Church records or in rootsireland. It begins to look like they may have married elsewhere?
Are there any Mullanes neighbours to the Shelly's?
Possibly baptism records for the children may give us something if any of the godparents are related?
I hope you won't be disheartened Jan and do come back to me with anything else you turn up. I'll do my best to help.
Martine
PS I'm just adding back the earlier research so I can keep it all together below.
There are no families called Shelly or Shelley in Kerry around 1850 according to Griffith's Valuation. There are only 6 returns for that name, all in Co. Laois (Queen's Co.) John, Jeremiah and William.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=20&Submit.y=7&Submit=Submit&familyname=Shelley&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=&unionname=&parishname=
The Church records I sent you list Matthew, Joseph, Edmund, Catherine and Mary with the surname Shelley. Relations of Edward's possibly? (Since the surname pool in Kerry is so small)
I have sometimes seen Edward used interchangeably in Kerry records with Edmund.
The 1901 Census gives no returns for Shelley in Kerry and only 111 in the whole of Ireland.
Thinking about it, probably your best bet is to look for every single record you can find in Nova Scotia
Census Records
Passenger Lists
Land records
Newspaper Announcements/Articles
Wills
Headsones/Cemetary Records..... findagrave.com has 164 returns for Shelley, Canada
Church Records
Close Neighbours who may have travelled from the same place in Ireland
Military Records
Death Certificates which sometimes give a lot of information about a person. I recently found the birth surname of a woman called Mary in her daughter's death certificate. As far as I know it was not recorded in any other existing record.
since one of them may contain further information. My own great uncle Luke Brennan gave his complete address when questioned at Ellis Island about his place of origin! From a quick look at Canadian records for Shelley, you may be slightly hampered in that a number of Shelley families came directly from homes in England to Canada, but again the surname pool is small in comparision to many other Irish names.
