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Richardsons of Aghaboe Parish

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Hello. My grandmother's ancestors were Robert Richardson and Ruth Lark from Aghaboe Parish, Laois County. They emigrated to Huron County, Ontario around 1849. They were Church of Ireland/England possibly, but became Methodistat some point. They came as a family of 9 via New Orleans. I can find no source documents for their origination in Laois County, other than obituaries, family recordsand passenger lists. I can find a Griffith's Valuation citation for a Joseph Richardson, a tenant of one John Lyster, from Grangemore townland. However, since the valuation was taken on or after 1849, my family's emigration, I can't determine if this is a relation.

I am planning on passing through Laois county, this October, around the 23rd. I am also interested in visiting the Rathbeagh area of nearby Kilkenny County to see the Disney homelands as well. Perhaps coincidently,the Richardsons and the Disneys met up in Huron County after emigration, but their homelands were quite close by in Ireland.

Can anyonepoint me to any potential research sources while I am there this October?

Thanks.

Mike Miles

mcmiles@hotmail.ca

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The Church of Ireland Parish of Aghaboe is listed under is alternate name of Aghavoe on the latest RCB Parish list (Sept. 2019), unfortunately it appears that the historic registers were among those lost during the event of the Civil War - the details noted are as follows : "..2 volumes of parish registers, comprising baptiems 1816-1877, marriages 1817-1844 and burials 1816-1876, were destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office in 1922...."

The Primary Valuation for Aghaboe was dated 26th October 1850, so likely the associated final valuation would have taken place within a few months of this date. The entiies for the townland also show an Edward Richardson leasing a similar property to Joseph.

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Thanks.  That would explain my brickwall.

Mike

mcmiles@hotmail.ca

Hello Michael,

I have checked a record known as the Tithe Applotments Books. These record were compiled in the 1820s. They were used to levy tax on certain types of farmland. I found a Robert Richardson listed as having two portions of land in the townlands of Grangebeg and Maghernaskeagh (Bushfield) in Parish of Aghaboe.. When Griffith's Valuation for these townlands is checked, the name has disappeared, which ties in with your story that they had emigrated by the time of the Valuation. In all probability this may be your Robert Richardson.

http://www.nationalarchives.ie

Paddy,

ballyadams@irelandxo.com

 

 

 

Ballyadams Laois

The above article about Walt Disney is from the local paper -The Kilkenny People- as you can see It mentions the Richardson connection. 

Regards,

Paddy.

Ballyadams Laois

Thanks.  I will look into the Tithe Applotment Books.

mcmiles@hotmail.ca

Michael:

I am descended from my great great grandfather John Richardson, the youngest son of Richard and Ruth, and his wife Elizabeth Churchill.  Their daughter Elizabeth (who I met as a young child) married John McCormick.  John Richardson emigrated with the family from Liverpool, arriving at New Orleans, and eventually got to Huron County by passage up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River and Cincinnati, likely by steamboat.  They lived in Butler County, Ohio for at least a year, recorded in the 1850 US Census.  They then proceeded up the Miami River, down the Maumee River to Lake Erie, and probably by water to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, and Huron County.  Ca. 1879, he and his family emigrated to the United States, briefly to Saint Clair county, Michigan, and then to West Branch, Ogemaw county, Michigan.  My father Hugh, born in 1917, summered at the farm and remembered John and his son Garnet very fondly.  

I'm hoping to visit Aghaboe next year (2025) and am interested if you encountered any related Richardsons in the area.  I hope you see this, or that any persons  reading this might comment.  

Michael McCormick

mikemcc57@hotm…

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