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Cork / Re: Hourihane Family West Cork
« on: Thursday 02 February 12 16:42 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: pondjumper on Thursday 02 February 12 16:19 GMT (UK)
Quote from: skibbgirl on Thursday 02 February 12 15:53 GMT (UK)
Sounds like you need a primer on geography.  I would find it impossible to navigate records without knowing geography.

Administrative divisions

Cork Civil Parishes

FTDNA has the best database, with a lot of active DNA projects.  There is no monthly subscription, unlike 23andme.  FTDNA periodically offers a good sale.  The last sale ended early this year. (I make no money off of DNA kits.)

Stories about origins fall somewhere in the realm of myth and legend.  Perhaps they have a grain of truth.  Anybody who claims they have worked out a family tree back to Adam and Eve is spinning a tale, as far as I'm concerned.
Not a primer on geography.  A primer on Irish terminology. I have been using the link to church records since my last post and see that it has something to do with Catholic parish areas.

I know where Skibbereen is and that it is in County Cork.  I thought that was a good place to start.  I am also Canadian Indian and know that my maternal grandmother came from the Sokoki village which was part of the Abenaki tribe in Quebec, Canada. My geography knowledge is just fine for a beginner of Irish roots., thank you.

I'm sure I'll do fine with all of the resources you have shown  me .  Good luck and Be Well...


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Cork / Re: Hourihane Family West Cork
« on: Thursday 02 February 12 16:19 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: skibbgirl on Thursday 02 February 12 15:53 GMT (UK)
Sounds like you need a primer on geography.  I would find it impossible to navigate records without knowing geography.

Administrative divisions

Cork Civil Parishes

FTDNA has the best database, with a lot of active DNA projects.  There is no monthly subscription, unlike 23andme.  FTDNA periodically offers a good sale.  The last sale ended early this year. (I make no money off of DNA kits.)

Stories about origins fall somewhere in the realm of myth and legend.  Perhaps they have a grain of truth.  Anybody who claims they have worked out a family tree back to Adam and Eve is spinning a tale, as far as I'm concerned.

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Cork / Re: Hourihane Family West Cork
« on: Thursday 02 February 12 15:36 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Cousin, for all of your good advice.  What is "Caheragh"?  The name of a parish? A cheiftain tribe?

I plan to ask my brother to take the DNA test through another company. Parents, etc, have all passed away.

I found the web page regarding the Hourihane roots very interesting.  Traced us all the way back to Adam and Eve! It seems to say that the Flynn/Flinn name was also a part of our line.

My grandmother, whose ancestry I know very little about, was Rose M or Rose Anne Flynn.
  According to the U.S. Federal Census of 1920, her dob was abt 1885. She arrived in the USA 1901. 

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Cork / Re: Hourihane Family West Cork
« on: Tuesday 31 January 12 18:53 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: skibbgirl on Sunday 29 January 12 20:26 GMT (UK)
pondjumper, are you trying to locate your ancestor?  What is your grandfather's birth date?

irishgenealogy.ie will probably have your grandfather's baptism record online, and if he was born after 1863 there should be a birth record in civil registration.

Here is one possible such baptism record:
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/71af020075280



Thank You for the website.  This information is exactly what was given to me via oral history by my father.Now to explore more about William Hourihane, (also my father's name).  I saw the posting about names like Hourihane starting with the leter K.  That would make it seem very similar to middle eastern names such as "Khouri".  I have also been told by people who I have met from Turkey that Hourihane is very common surname in that country.  Makes me think that the Spanish invasion of the Moors to southern Ireland (Cork) might have been brought to Ireland that way.  It is my understanding that Hourihane is the root name from which Hogan, Horton, hanrahan, etc swas derived.

But thank you very much for the website.  I have been thinking about asking my brother (William) to do a DNA trace since it can only be done via father to son in tracing the paternal origin.But I am very keen on locating the ancestry of William and Ms. Sullivan which the website indicates were my greatgrandparents.




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Isle of Man / Re: flynn
« on: Monday 30 January 12 18:02 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Sunday 29 January 12 11:16 GMT (UK)
What's the connection to Isle of Man and exactly what sort of information are you looking for?

Also, my grandmother said one of her uncle's was a banker, and one taught Gaelic at Trinity College, even though the language was officially barred from usage at the time.





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Isle of Man / Re: flynn
« on: Monday 30 January 12 17:58 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Sunday 29 January 12 11:16 GMT (UK)
What's the connection to Isle of Man and exactly what sort of information are you looking for?

My grandmother was Bridgit Rose Flynn. 
Her father's family owned something like a manor house on the southern side of the Isle of Man. It  was reportedly confiscated by the U. K.  at the time of WW I in order to serrve as a lookout point for enemy vessels.

When my grandmother's father died, prior to 1900, his parents evicted her mother and the children from their home since she was only a servant before marrying their son.

I would like to one day visit her birth home.

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Isle of Man / flynn
« on: Sunday 29 January 12 10:15 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for information about my greatgrandfather, John Flynn, circa 1850 - 1880.  He married a servant girl and had three children: John, Nora, and Rose.  Soon after he died in Chicago, Illinois when bringing some of his sheep to market.

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Cork / Re: Hourihane Family West Cork
« on: Sunday 29 January 12 10:01 GMT (UK)  »
My Greatgrandfather was William Hourihane who lived in Skibbereen in the mid 1800's.  He had at least two sons who emigrated to the United States.  One returned to Skibbereen, and the other son, my grandfather Cornelius, remained  in Massachusetts.

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Cork / Re: Hourihane Family West Cork
« on: Sunday 29 January 12 09:55 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: hourihane on Tuesday 25 October 05 13:11 BST (UK)
Hi
  Iv'e been trying to trace were in West Cork my G-Grandfather John Hourihane b1831 in Cork came from but without much success. I visited Skibbereen in August 2004 but was unable to find out anything.  I send email to anyone on the Internet with the name Hourihane most reply but cannot help. I have also sent out 26 self-addressed envelopes to Hourihane addresses in west cork, which I found in the local phone book but only received 4 replies. They kept saying in the letters that the Hourihane family was a small group of family’s but it seems strange to me that no one has any ancestors who moved to Newport S.Wales.Can anyone think of any other way I can find information about my family?
                       


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