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Apologies for reviving an old thread. I am pretty sure that David Barry and Margaret Murphy were my great great grandparents. I haven't been able to go any further back so if you succeeded I would be interested

Hi. I am a member of a history society in Castlehaven in County Cork. We are trying to track down a William Henry who died here in Castlehaven on 20th November 1920 during a typhoid outbreak. We know that he was married and we know that he was the Farm Steward on the Drishane Farm here in the local village, Castletownshend. The owner of this farm at that time was Edith Somerville who was a well-known author and wrote the Irish RM which was also successful as a TV series. Edith mentioned in her diaries that she visited William's widow (whose namewe do not know) a few times up to February 1921 but the widow then disappeared and they did not hear from her again.                     
                                                                                                                                                I found a family tree on Ancestry that listed a William Henry that died in County Sligo on 20th November 1920 (same date). I cannot find a death for a William Henry in Sligo in November 1920 and I am wondering if it might be the same person. There was a William Henry who married Mary Ann Black in 1907 in Dromard and they had one daughter called Marguerita at the time of the 1911 census when they lived in Hazlewood Demesne in Calry. A  son, William, was born in 1916.  When I look at the 1943 wedding certificate of William's daughter, Marguerita, to Thomas Lockhart William's job was described as a Land Steward. We know from the 1911 census that Marguerita was born in England so they did move around. Does this mean anything to anybody. Would it be possible that our Castlehaven William Henry was from County Sligo.

Hi there, came across your post regarding Michael Burchill, your great grandfather. I believe he is my great great grandfather (my Mum's great grandfather). Was he married to a Sarah Hegarty ? If so, my mum's grandmother was their daughter Elizabeth Birchill. Please get in touch if we share this relative. We have many photos of the farm and the family.

Hi. I think that your family is a different Burchill family that came from further west in Schull in County Cork. This may be the baptism record that refers to your relation
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1871/03280/2202049.pdf

Interesting timing as I have been looking at the Burchill side of my family for the first time in a few years. Despite what I have been told I am now 99% sure that the sister of my great gf (Nonie or Norah Leary) married Abraham Burchill and not Samuel.

I have quite a bit on the Leary side but I don't know much more about the Burchill side except what I have been told here. I can see from the census returns that two children Norah and Sam lived in the house with them in 1901 while Ellan and Hannah were also present in 1911. This census notes that Abraham and Norah had 9 children and that 7 of them were still living at this point. I think that we listed 8 here so maybe another died in childbirth. It also means that either Catherine, Mary, Eliza or Abraham had died by 1911

Not much but that is all I know

1901 census: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Castlehaven_South/Gorteenalomane/1156427/
1911 census: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Castlehaven_South/Gorteenalomane/442433/