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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Mayo => Topic started by: Jessica H on Sunday 24 February 19 17:42 GMT (UK)
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Hello!
I've spent years trying to track down ANY information at all on my 3rd great-grandmother, and I'm hoping beyond hope that maybe someone here can help me find even a single piece of real evidence that she even existed.
Here is what I DO know about her:
MAIDEN NAME: MORAN
FIRST NAME: I was told "Nancy Ann", but her name might have actually been Ann or Anne, with "Nancy" as a nickname. I search for records using "Nancy" and "Ann/Anne" because I'm not sure.
FROM: Mayo, Ireland. Based on a letter my great-grandmother wrote in 1910 mentioning going to visit members of Nancy's family in KILDUN, I believe that may be where she's from.
BIRTH YEAR: Because her son (my 2nd great-grandfather) was born in 1849, I believe she was born in the 1820's sometime.
MARRIAGE: She married a Michael WALSH, probably in the mid-to-late 1840's.
CHILDREN: She and Michael Walsh had two children together, my 2nd great-grandfather John Walsh, (born June, 1849,) and a daughter Catherine. (I don't know when she was born, or if she's older or younger than John.)
LIVED IN (Maybe): They may have lived in BALLINROBE or NEALE / CONG.
DEATH AND BURIAL: **The most specific information I have about her is that she died in 1856, and was buried at CONG ABBEY. I only know this because I have a postcard my great-grandmother (John's daughter) sent to her sister when she visited Ireland in 1910, and the postcard shows a photo of Cong Abbey, and on it she wrote: "It is in this Abbey that father's mother's remains are buried. I was at her grave yesterday. She is now lying there for 54 years." (I have searched the online burial records for Cong Abbey, and have not found a Nancy or Ann Walsh that was buried there in 1856 listed, but the online records for the Abbey burials are not complete. I don't know if there are more complete records for Cong Abbey burials anywhere.)
MORAN RELATIONS I KNOW OF: I know that she had a relative in Ireland named "Walter Moran". I've seen a photo of him in an album of old family photos. It is labeled with his name. but no year or specific location, nor a hint of exactly HOW he was related to her. I also have information on some Moran descendants that came to the U.S., and settled in Belmont County, Ohio, and well as a few that settled in New Jersey. I know they are related to her somehow, but again, I don't know EXACTLY how. I've tried to trace them backwards in hopes of eventually stumbling onto the connection, but have not been able to pin it down.
HUSBAND REMARRIAGE: Michael WALSH remarried a woman named Honor GANNON in Feb, 1858. (Their wedding record is from KILMAINE.) They then had several children together...the names I know are Michael, Mary (b 1858), Sabina (b 1866), and Ellen. I think there may have also been a daughter named Honor. I have various records of them listing Ballinrobe and Neale as where they live and where their children were born.
(I have never found any records of my 2nd great-grandfather John's birth, or his sister's birth. The ONLY record I have found from Ireland with John Walsh's name on it is a church record of his marriage to Julia Partlin (spelled "Judy Parlane" on the record) in Ballinrobe in 1872.
MICHAEL/HONOR WALSH BURIAL: I do not know where Michael and Honor Walsh are buried, but I do not believe they were buried at Cong Abbey with Nancy Ann (Moran) Walsh.
Thank you SO SO much to anyone who might be able to give me any help at all finding my poor lost 3x g-grandmother! I am just completely at a loss.
--Jessica H
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Hi Jessica,
Burials could be any where, you would have to search the grave yards.
I always take Wellies and an umbrella.
There are 3 Sabina Walsh ladies one has Edward as the father another has William and the other one doesn't show the image.
Use this site for records after 1864, it's free.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
Maggsie
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Moran KILDUN
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/mayo/photos/tombstones/cong-abbey/target6.html and next two
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The ONLY record I have found from Ireland with John Walsh's name on it is a church record of his marriage to Julia Partlin (spelled "Judy Parlane" on the record) in Ballinrobe in 1872.
--Jessica H
Civil Reg
Marriage results for Partlin of Ballinrobe from 1870 to 1874
No results found.
Marriage results for Parlane of Ballinrobe from 1870 to 1874
No results found.
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Marriage results for Walsh of Ballinrobe from 1870 to 1874 not showing Marriage reg
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Here is a screen capture I have of John Walsh and Julia Partlin's marriage in Ballinrobe in 1872. Their names are on the bottom left, and are a little difficult to read. Her name is spelled "Judy Parlane". ("Judy" was actually her nickname when she was young.)
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I was checking Civil reg for address
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Re the headstone posted by hallmark
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/mayo/photos/tombstones/cong-abbey/target6.html
Margaret and daughter May/Mary died 1926
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1926/04984/4358729.pdf
Mary was 14 and was born 1912 to John and Margaret McGrath
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1912/01478/1601971.pdf
they married in 1910
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1910/09985/5631166.pdf
1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Cong/Kildun_Beg/705047/
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Cong/Kildun_Beg/1577333/
John was born 1870 to James and Margaret Golding
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1870/03318/2215857.pdf
James married Margaret Golding in 1866 he was the son of Pat Moran
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG8F-KQ9
not to be mixed up if researching with an Irish couple in America of similar names
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4MD-ZMD
Walter married Margaret Huddy in 1873 he was also a son of a Pat Moran
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1873/11274/8135000.pdf
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Cong/Creevagh_North/1577211/
the daughter Mary above married Peter Delaney in Richmond,New York in 1910
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2449-YQ7
1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Cong/Creevagh__North/704942/
Walter and Margaret both died 1928 informant was son in law Martin Casey
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1928/04946/4344521.pdf
Martin married dtr Annie 1921
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1921/09220/5335472.pdf
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Do you know if Michael Walsh and Honor Gannon had a daughter Bridget
A Bridget Walsh dtr of Michael married Michael Lynagh 1886
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1886/10838/5956481.pdf
they had a son Pat born 1889
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1889/02470/1917094.pdf
1901 with his gran
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Neale/Caherhemush/1576194/
possibly his parents
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Neale/Ballytrasna/703956/
young Michael above appears to have emigrated in 1923
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGGL-7NP6
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A Pat Grimes married Ellen Walsh dtr Michael 1898
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1898/10420/5794029.pdf
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Neale/Carrowkeel/1576212/
1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Neale/Carrowkeel/704000/
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Hello Jessica,
Just happened to stumble across this. My grandfather's name is Walter 'wattie' Moran originally from Kildun and still living around the Neale. Do you have a picture you could send me of him. I should be able to help you.
Thanks,
Aidan
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Welcome to RootsChat :)
The townlands of Kildun Beg and Kildun More just to the south of Neale village.
https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/kilmaine/cong/cong/kildun-beg/
https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/kilmaine/cong/cong/kildun-more/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3553259#map=13/53.5522/-9.2550