Lee family

Dear Goldengenes:

Thank you for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the site!

It sounds as if you have done a lot of research.  Would you be willing to share some of your ancestor profiles through our XO Chronicles feature?  You can add as many profiles as you wish.  These profiles are updated weekly and are available to all our members to read.  Many times, there are others who are researching the same family, and it may lead to an opportunity to collaborate and share information.  The link for the XO Chronicles is at the top of the page and below:

https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy

If you have any difficulties, please let me know at:  jhalloranryan@irelandxo.com.

Thank you for your interest in Ireland Reaching Out and the very best of luck to you with your research!

Kind regards,

Jane.

Hi Christine, My name is Brian and I'm from Massachusetts. Not sure if we possibly have a few Lee family relatives in common, or just some coincidental names in common! I've been researching my family tree which lead me to Roscommon. I'll start with the oldest known relative and work my way down.

•(5th Gen) Great, Great, Great Grandfather:
John Gaffney, Cullard Cty, Roscommon.

•(5th Gen) Great, Great, Great Grandmother:
•Maria (Heslin) Gaffney, Cullard Cty, Roscommon

•Great, Great Grandfather:
James Shannon Lee, born April 25th 1867
(Married to)
•Great Great Grandmother:
Brigid G (Gaffney) Lee, born March 25th 1867 in Cullard Cty, Roscommon
*They married in Roscommon on Nov 19th 1889

•Great Grandfather:
Bernard Francis Lee, born Jan 21 1890
Lislea, Keadue Cty Roscommon
*He moved to MA and met/married my Great Grandmother Alice Claire (Mahoney) Lee
She was born April 27th 1893 in Westfield MA

Looks like our family line somehow crosses from James Shannon Lee and Brigid (Gaffney) Lee?

Let me know if any if this makes sense! I'd love to explore and research as much of the family tree and genealogy lines as possible!
Thanks!
Brian
briwlcx1@gmail.com

Although the original post about the Lees of Lislea is now more than 5 years old, I am hoping that he original poster is still following the thread.

I would be interested in joining the mentioned facebook group as I have come to strongly suspect that my 2 x great grandmother Bridget Lee of Cartonavalley, Kilronan was from the Lees who were in Lislea at the time of the Griffiths valuation. Bridget married Mathew Lynch of Cartronavalley in 1842 in Kilronan parish, Mathew was a widower, having previously been married to a Bridget McGirl. Mathew's brother Thomas married another Lee, Honor(ia) in 1835 and I suspect that Bridget and Honor were sisters but since DNA matches who are descendants of Thomas and Honor share Lynch genes too, I cannot tease that connundrum apart, I fear.

I am not sure whether you ever worked out if the family of the respondent to your query was indeed from the same family but just a note on his information for the information of other readers. Cullard (Cuillard in the modern terminology) is not a city, it is a townland. A townland is like the rural equivalent of a block or a few blocks, it is an area smaller than a district and in the case of Cuillard there were a total of 38 residents in 1901 and 31 residents in 1911, so far from a city (even though Americans do tend to use the term city to refer to smaller agglomerations than Europeans would use the term for).

Hoping to hear from some Lee descendants

Bernadette

Hello, I am a descendent of Jane Lee from Kilronan who married Andrew Cassidy of Tullyveane (Leitrim) on May 21 1856. They would have been married in Kilronan of course and I am not sure where I obtained that date. I only have a copy of the Banns from Inishmagrath.

I would love to share more information about the family. There is no Eugene/Owen in Kilronan in Griffith's Valuation but there are several others. No Keenans in the Parish. Thanks for any help. Sharon

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Hello.

My name is Bernard Lee from Cootehall, Co. Roscommon. My father & my grandfather were both also named Bernard Lee. My grandfather and his siblings lived in the Mountallen area of Co. Roscommon close to the Co. Leitrim border until they relocated in about 1918. My grandfather moved to Cootehall and other family members moved to Celbridge, Co. Kikdare abs also, I understand some moved to the U.S.

There is possibly a connection here.

Best regards.

Brian Lee. Email Brianleeros@gmail.com

Hello Bernard. 

Do you mean that he lived in the Townland of Mountallen? What was your grandfather's year of birth? What was his mother's name?

Sharon