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Kerry / Re: CLIFFORD FAMILY FROM CARCHIVEEN
« on: Wednesday 16 June 10 15:08 BST (UK)  »
Linda,

Your Thomas Sigerson and my Thomas Segerson could very well be the same person! At the very least I know they are closely related because they are both from Dungeagan.

What year would you estimate your Thomas to have been born? Mine was born about 1792 and died around 1848.

I have visited Ireland only once in 2005. Unfortunately it was with a tour group of Girl Scouts and most of the adults on the tour has visited Ireland before so they skipped the Ring of Kerry. When we got to Killarney and I realized how close I was to Ballinskelligs I rented a car but only got as far as Killorglin. I was handling driving on the left side of the road until I came on a crew working on the road and scrapped a road grader!

That trip sparked my interest in my Irish family history so when I do get to Ballinskelligs I will really appreciate it. I am attaching a picture of my mother's cousin Kate Segerson taken when she visited the "Sigerson Castle" back in the 1930's.

Mary

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Kerry / Re: CLIFFORD FAMILY FROM CARCHIVEEN
« on: Saturday 29 May 10 15:45 BST (UK)  »
In my excitement I forgot to attach the Ballinskelligs Castle website:

http://ballinskelligscastle.com/fundraising.html

Mary

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Kerry / Re: CLIFFORD FAMILY FROM CARCHIVEEN
« on: Saturday 29 May 10 15:44 BST (UK)  »
Linda,

What a trill it is to connect with a real, live Ballinskelligs Sigerson!
Did anyone in your family previously own the Sigerson's Arms Hotel? That building is supposedly where my great, great grandfather, Thomas Sigerson was born. He was reported to be a "hedge row" school teacher and died in 1849 in Dungeagan.

I just found the following web site on the Ballinskelligs Castle. Our family has always claimed it as the Sigerson Castle but this is the first time I have seen verification that it was occupied by the Sigerson family in the early 17th century.

I have to believe that your grandfather James and my gggrandfather Thomas come from the same linage. Do you know James' father and grandfather's names?

Thanks for responding!

Mary

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Kerry / Re: CLIFFORD FAMILY FROM CARCHIVEEN
« on: Friday 28 May 10 22:34 BST (UK)  »
Ginger, Brendan, and All,

I just happened to stumble onto this RootsChat when I Googled "Sigerson's Arms Hotel" and would love to share what information I have about the Sigerson (or as we spell it Segerson) family in Ireland. I am especially interested in making the connection between Sigerson Clifford and my family since discovering his poems and stories on my one visit to Ireland from Atlanta, Georgia, USA a few years ago. Tim Dennehy's musical versions of his poems, "Between the Mountains and the Sea", is one of my all time favorite CDs.

My great grandmother's maiden name was Ellen Segerson and she was born near Ballinskelligs around 1835 to Thomas and Ellen (Cary) Segerson. Her brother, Christopher had gone to the United States to study for the priesthood and when their father died around 1849 her mother, sisters and other brother joined him in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C.

Christopher Segerson did not join the priesthood but raised a family in Georgetown and is buried at Holy Rood Cemetery. One of his grandsons, Christopher Segerson Tenley, gathered a lot of family history from his mother and on visits with Sigerson family members in Dublin and County Kerry. I have copies of letters he wrote to my Aunt Virginia when she was planing to visit Ireland back in the 1960's. They are a store house of Sigerson history!

Our Irish Sigersons are descendants of the Viking Sigur Earl of the Oarkney Islands, who fought and lost to the Irish King, Brian Boru at the battle of Clontaf in 1014. We are also related to Dr. George Sigerson, physician and scholar of Irish literature, who was the father of  the poet Dora Sigerson Shorter. And on top of that we are related to Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, as his grandmother (or great grandmother) was a Sigerson.

Would you be interested in copies of Christopher Tenley's letters? I have been planning to transcrib them for my cousins and could post copies if you are interested.

Mary

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