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Hi -

Not sure if you are Kieran using a different profile name or someone else!

Do you have any dates for any of these names? It would help to tie up the various strands.

I have downloaded all McCormacks in Roscommon from the 1901 and 1911 censuses and will try to make sense of it later. I will concentrate on those in and near Tulsk and see what I come up with.

Patrick

Well there certainly are connections but I'm not clear about what they are! I have Patrick and Hannah (no actual evidence around her name) with children: Mary, Honora, Ann and Jane, plus one other female who married a Brennan. Mary married a Stephen Noonan, Ann married a 1st cousin Bernard Coyne, Jane married a Thomas Connor, and my link Honora married Francis Darcy. Does this provide any clues for other connections?

Kieran -

This looks a possible connection. I find the '-mack' and '-mick' variants are often interchangeable, even now!

Certainly I have a DoB for Patrick McCormack of 1828, married to Catherine nee Flattery. I recently found entries in Griffith's Valuation for Flatterys in Manor, Tulsk, so am able to locate their residences.

I haven't yet found DoB records for your Mary McCormack, only for Anne (1864), Daniel (1867), Thomas (1873) and my grandfather Michael (1871). I do have a picture of Michael, my grandmother and my father in South Africa with a lady identified as 'Kathleen McCormack'. I haven't found any records for her, but perhaps that was not her first name, being possibly Anne or your Mary.

The family story was that my grandfather was the 12th of 13 children. If so, then the eldest would have been born c.1860, barring twins etc. However as I said I haven't yet found DoBs for other McCormack siblings in Tulsk. Perhaps I should look further afield. There are certainly still McCormacks in Tulsk: http://www.irishangus.ie/html/shows_2012.html

TBH, my research into my Irish roots have been rather amateur and undisciplined. No doubt there are plenty of more records to find and connections to be made.

Patrick

Hi mate,

I am wondering if we have the same great (in my case great great) grandfather? Patrick McCormick, born in 1828, Carrowkeel, Tulsk, Ireland. Married to Catherine Flattery, born in 1832 Manor, Tulsk, Ireland. Patrick's daughter Mary E McCormick  married James Brennan in 1885, who gave birth to James Brennan my grandfather. I am wondering if this is the same man, would you happen to know Patrick's or Catherine's previous line? I know that Patrick's father is William McCormick, married to Eleanor Dolan, but that's as far as I can go.

It'll be great to hear back from you.

Cheers,

Kieran Brennan