Doyle's of Boley

Roger, thank you for your welcome to the site, and THANK YOU SO MUCH for your time and the excellent information you have provided me with, and so quickly! Very kind of you, and much appreciated.

I have researched Peter Doyle's date of birth from a number of sources, and they are nearly all contradictory:-                       In the Canadaian Passenger List of 1872 it gives his age as 25 yrs, so birth 1847; 1881 Census Canada: 37yrs, so birth 1844; 1891 Census 47 years, so birth 1844; 1901 Census gives date of birth given: 17.12.1842 or 1842 (last letter unclear on Census) age stated as 59 yrs; 1911 Census 72years, so birth1839. No wonder I'm confused!!

Do you or anyone reading this have and suggestions of cemeteries and graveyards for this area where I may, possibly,  be able to find resting places for my family if I visit Ireland? I hope to as soon as I can get together a list of places to visit!

Peter Doyle married a Elizabeth Lee. Her father was William Lee, a miner. Her mother is given on Roots Ireland - Church Marriage Transcription-  as Joanna Stringer. Maria Lee was a witness, as was William Lee (her father, brother, cousin?). On this listing there was a transcription error where Francis Haskins was named as Francis Askran. I have not been able to find anything anywhere of a Joanna Stringer, so will not know if this has been transcribed correctly until the RC parish registers go online next week. Any ideas of how I can research William Lee further as I have no idea where he and his daughter Elizabeth Lee (my Great, Great Grandmother who married Peter Doyle) lived, or where Eliabeth was born?

Conscious that I am asking a lot, but any help with these brickwalls will be very grateully received.

Very many thanks.

Very many thanks for all your help.

Apologies for using Senior and Junior, have used these for simplicity.

I have been able to find in the Catholic Parish Records for Rathdrum a Baptism for a child with the parents William Lee and Mary/Maria Reid in 1869. From other records I have researched, I have strong reason to belive that this is the son of William Lee (Senior) (and the brother of Elizabeth Lee) as their abode is given as Ballinaclash, and this is where my G.Great Grandmother Elizabeth Lee was living at the time of her marriage, and where her first child was born. The dates tally within 2 years. I have found a marriage entry for a William Lee and Mary/Maria Reid in the Civil Marriage Registration for 18969 Shillelagh.

• Can anyone please tell me which parish I should search under for Shillelagh? I am hoping that if I can find the marriage entry it will confirm or deny William Lee (Jnr) being Elizabeth's brother. It may also give me a clue as to William and Joanna's location.
• I still do not have a clue where to search for William Lee and his wife Joanna Lee nee Stringer. On their daughters marriage certificate it states that he is a miner. Are there any mines in the Ballinaclash area? Any ideas?
• I am planning to visit the Clonmore parish area in October. Could anyone please give me a list of Churchyards/cemeteries I can visit to look for possible headstones?

Thanking you in anticipation. Very many thanks.

Civil Marriage Registration date should read 1869.

My name is Kevin Lee. I am currently writing the social history of the Fitzwilliam Estate. This work includes a large section on assisted famine emigration to Canada. My work has led to close examination of estate rentals and various estate undertaken studies of poverty stricken townlands such as Boleyn. 

By a strange quirk of fate my great grandfather was William Lee of Ballinaclash who married Mary Reid from Kilacloran in the the church of Annacurra in the year 1869. I feel that there is much (as cousins) that we can share.