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Tipperary / Re: Gleeson's of Nenagh or Dolla?
« on: Wednesday 10 April 13 22:33 BST (UK)  »
A number of families of Gleesons moved to Dungarvan sometime after the Silvermines incident with the intention of boarding a ship for Portugal and then on to the USA. It seems the boat had sailed and the dispersed up the Colligan River and probably down the coast to establish three or four separate families. I am descended from one of those families. Its more than 30 years since I researched the family and would need to refresh again. There is a set of Stained Glass windows in a local church, dedicated to the 'Gleeson's of Colligan', donated by the Gleesons of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, in memory of the family in Ireland which are unique in that the faces on the images of the saints are actually the faces of the family. I believe this is the only set in Irelang. The windows were don by J. Morgan & Sons, New York.  These were installed in the 1880's.

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Tipperary / Gleeson's of Nenagh or Dolla?
« on: Saturday 19 January 13 18:45 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for any info, from North Tipperary, about the dispersal of members of the  Gleeson families, who after the Silvermines Incident in 1641, traveled to Dungarvan in Waterford, with the intention of boarding a vessel to escape to Portugal and on failing to make the vessel, moved up the Colligan River and settled there.

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Waterford / Re: Mary Collender aged 108
« on: Friday 11 January 13 21:07 GMT (UK)  »
I guess who ever done the research at the time found the earlier date and never followed through. Probably didn't expect that there could have been another Mary born.

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Waterford / Re: Mary Collender aged 108
« on: Friday 11 January 13 19:51 GMT (UK)  »
Well I had known her age since early 1980's but I wouldn't say it at the time because it was good enough achievement to reach 104. There's a longer story about the Kelly drowning but probably for another day. I only joined this site today when i accidentally came on your request about Mary Collender.  When I get my thoughts together it might prove useful to fill in some blanks in my own family.

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Waterford / Re: Mary Collender aged 108
« on: Friday 11 January 13 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
My interest in Mary Collender stemd from research I done on my own family in the 1980's. My ancestors are the Kelly family from Knockanore. In the birth records for that time there is another birth, a son Edmund in March 9th. 1868 but I couldn't be sure if it was the same family as the mother's name is Margaret Brien.

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Waterford / Re: Mary Collender aged 108
« on: Friday 11 January 13 17:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Mary Collinder's maiden name was Barron. Her father was James Barron from Knockboy. Her Mother was Mary Brien. There are two birth record's for Mary (Barron) Collinder, one dated 31st July 1877 and another to the same parents for 6th. of March 1882. I believe the first Mary didn't survive and another female child born five years later was given the same name.  That would have been a regular practice at that time. There appears to have been, in total 14 children between 1870 and 1891. Her Grand Mother was Kelly from Killenagh, Knockanore and when Mary's mother was born, in 1845, her Grand Mother's brother, Tom Kelly, and his wife were drowned crossing the Blackwater to the christening.

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