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Hello, looking for KELLY and WALSH ancestors from Terryglass

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Hello from New Jersey, USA!     I am looking for ancestors of my great-grandfather Daniel KELLY (b June 1861 Gurteen Terryglass; father William KELLY, mother Honor(a) WALSH.   Daniel emigrated approx 1882 to the US, settled and lived the balance of his life in Trenton, NJ.   Family lore suggests that Daniel's emigration was due to, shall we say, "trouble with the law."    After about 8 years in Trenton, Daniel met and married Mary Ann Cooperr.    He worked in the factory, and she worked in the dining room, of the Roebling Wire Works of Trenton (Roebling of Brooklyn Bridge fame).   Mary came from Cloghan, Co. Offaly.   Daniel and Mary did not know of, and had never met, one another in Ireland, but, as a young woman, she and her employer came upon a grieving mother on the road from Cloghan to  Nenagh,in tears because her youngest son had to leave the country and go to America.   Mary herself emigrated 7 years later, and without understanding the connection, met that young son and married him!!  

Daniel's parents, William KELLY and Honor(a) Walsh, married February 2, 1845 in Terryglass.   Their children:  John (b 1846), Mary (b 1848), Patrick (1851), Bridget (1854), and Daniel (1861).  

I would be grateful for any older records about Daniel's father or mother, or about any of his siblings.

I visited Terryglass in 1999 with my mother and niece.  It is a lovely peaceful town.  

THANK YOU!

 

Ann Cantwell-Sweeney

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Hi Ann

I am delighted you are researching your family. Unfortunately I have no information for you.  However, I have posted your query on the Terryglass Community Facebook page and asked people to post any information they might have there.  You might like to 'like' the page to check if there are any responses to your query.  You are also welcome to post any new queries there and I will share them to the main timeline.

Good luck with your research.

Claire Ni Fhearghail

Drominagh Wood

Terryglass

https://www.facebook.com/TerryglassCommunity?ref=hl

IrelandXO member

Hi Ann

Think we may have discovered a link and living relative of Kelly family and now just working out how to make initial contact possibly by letter/mail ,

Will have some more info in the next few days and am just adding a link taken from inscription on headstone in Borrisokane graveyard which is approx four miles away from the area in question not really sure at the moment about this but the first names are very simiiar to your family names have a look see what you think.

http://historicgraves.com/borrisokane-c-i/tn-bksm-029/grave

Will be in contact shortly.

Regards

Bill Ryan Ireland Reaching Out

Terryglass55IrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Ann

To add to my previous post I note that from the !901 census of Ireland that there were a Cooper family still living in the Cloghan area of Co Offaly and am sending you that link.

Just to add that there really were only two census results released to the public in Ireland !901 and 1911

Also that Offally was previously known as The Kings County.

Will also follow up on this link .

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/King_s_Co_/Cloghan/Cortullagh_or_Grove/1460340/

Regards Bill Ryan Ireland Reaching Out

Terryglass55IrelandXO Volunteer

Dear Bill:  I can't thank you enough.  Speed and great detail!   The headstone does indeed look promising.  And I would be thrilled to connect with a living Kelly relative.   I have some notes from an 1960s trip taken by my grandmother and great aunt (Kitty Kelly Sweeney and May Kelly Ludlow of Trenton, NJ, daughters of Daniel Kelly b 1861 Terryglass) to the Terryglass/Nenagh area.   I'll check those., but do recall a "Counsin Bridgt."     My mailing address is below.  

Thanks for the link to the 1901 Roobert Cooper -- he is a brother to my great grandmother Mary Cooper Kelly.  In fact, I have a good sense of the Coopers of Cloghan - 3 of them came to Trenton, NJ; (John J., who was still in Cloghan with his mother in the 1901 census, and thereafter emigrated), Rose (married Michael Brown in trenton), and my great-grandmother Mary Ann Cooper Kelly).  Several of their siblings stayed in Kings/Offaly - Bridget (1853-?) married a Patrick Coughlin (their son Paddy moved to Trenton); the Robert (1859-?) you identified, who married Bridget Conrahy of Galway; and Kate (1869-1949) married a James Melaphy, who died ~1895, and then married a Bernard Loonam (they settled in Athlone).   

I don't know who cme up wth the "Ireland Reaching Out" concept, but it is brilliant!  I hope to return to your beautiful part f the world in the next few years, but for now I feel so much more connected.   The Kellys I knew were warm, sociable, hard-working, funny, and  proud of their Irish roots.  

Another question: when I visited Terryglass in 1999, we visited the VERY old church along the water which is now a bookshop I believe.  It has a marvelous old cemetery.   I'm sorry to say we didnt take a proper tour.  If you have a link to the history of that old church I would be so grateful.

If you're aware of any North Tipp folks whose ancestr=ors emigrated to Trenton, NJ, I'd love to help them out.   

 

All the best

Ann

Ann Cantwell-Sweeney

477 Walton Road

Maplewood, New Jersey 07040

U.S.A. 

anncantwellsweeney

Hi Ann

Hope to speak to relative of Kellys tonight lets hope we got this right.

Do you have email address mine is ryanbill68@gmail.com

Regarding Terryglass am sending you link to Terryglass graveyard and when I looked at it just now I notice that there are some Kellys with similar first names to your family Daniel and John ? worth having a look at anyway could be a previous generation as this graveyard is very old and is approx six miles from other graveyard I sent you link to in Borrisokane

Quite a few of my own Mums  family Hogans and Heenans rest here too.

http://historicgraves.com/graveyard/terryglass-old-cemetery/tn-tygs

Regards Bill Ryan Ireland Reaching Out

 

 

 

Terryglass55IrelandXO Volunteer

Hi, Bill.    My email is sweeney.ann@gmail.com.  I look forward to checking that grave link when I get to a proper computer; thank you for the link.    And I certainly look forward to any potential living relatives.   By the way, one of the most beloved Priests in Trenton, NJ in the early 1900s was a Thaddeus Hogan.    I can look up his history if the forename sounds familiar.

 

best, and continued thanks! 

 

ann

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