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Cahaley, Cahala family in Ireland

RoscommonArdcarn (Roscommon)

Our family name is pronounced Ca-hail'-ey  in Southern Indiana on down to Georgia and South Carolina. In te North of North America, it is pronounced Ca-hail'- A . It is told two brothers came from Ireland and worked the ships until they earned ther permanent passage to America. I know of James Cahallens who married Rachel Howel (sic) in 1761 in Salem, New Jersey. He was a Yeoman on his Bond for marriage, and we believe there was another brother, George or John. George lived in New York, and John lived in central N.J. Census always mentioned IRELAND. My DNA is 96% Ireland/ British Isles. Further family lore says they came from an area in the Caha mountain in Southern Ireland. If anayone can lend a hand, please let us know. We are visiting Ireland in 2014 and I'd love to visit the place of my ancestors. I am Don and I am 62.

Thank you. d_cahala@yahoo.com

dcahala

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Hi Don,

I searched baptisms/births on www.rootsireland.ie for Cahala & Cahallens with no luck.

However, I got 2 matches for Cahaley - Peter 1845 & John 1847 both in Cavan. These are the only Cahaley baptisms/births records on the site. There are no marriage or death records.

I went through the Cavan parishes and found that both John and Peter's baptisms were in Drumgoon R C parish.

The Tithe Applotments 1823-37 had no Cahaleys nor did Griffiths Valuation 1848-64 or the current online Irish phone book.

My suggestion is to purchase 1 of the Cahaley records on rootsireland which would give you parents' names. You could then search for the parents' marriage and this would give you their parents' names and their parish/county.

As well or instead you could post your above message again on this site with Cavan instead of Roscommon in the title. 

Col Cafferky 

 

ColCaffIrelandXO Volunteer

Greetings, Col Cafferky-

And thank you for your input and research for my family. My wife and I apreciate your effort and kind words very much. It has been such a struggle, all these years, and IrelandXO may be the blessing we need to find my family once and for all. Cavan is then my next stop. Since we are planning to visit IRE for two weeks next year, it would be thrilling to walk on the same soil my family once did.

And thank you for being a member of IrelandXO. It is a worthy project for people like myself.

 

Best regards, Don Cahala

Greenfield, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

dcahala

Since we visited in 2014, we spoke with many people from Galway to Dublin and down through the Ring. The first reply from most was "Cahil" or "MacAhilley", MacAhilley, if contracted a bit, is very close to the pronunciation we found in the South. In Southern Indiana they say "Kuh-Hail-ey" so they too it a bit further. I'd like someone with DNA conncetions to contact us.I took two Ancestry DNA tests a while back, so perhaps a scientific connection could be had if IRELANXO is doing that.  If anyone can reply affirmatively to this, please do so. Much appreciated!

dcahala

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