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Roscommon / Re: Cafferkey/Cafferky/Cafferty currasallagh Near Lisacul Ballaghdereen Rosscommon
« on: Saturday 21 December 13 19:32 GMT (UK)  »
Martin,
I received your message of 14 November re. your visit with Nellie and your visit to the grave in Ypres.  I replied immediately, but now I can find no record of my message to you.  Did you receive that message in which I commented on Nellie and John and your family tree?
John Martin Burke

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Roscommon / Re: Cafferkey/Cafferky/Cafferty currasallagh Near Lisacul Ballaghdereen Rosscommon
« on: Saturday 19 October 13 23:56 BST (UK)  »
Dear Cafferkey,
It is exciting to know that we are related.  My grandmother Catherine Cafferkey O'Connor was the daughter of John Cafferkey and Mary McGreal, and the sister of Martin ( and Michael and John and Mary Ann).  My family records tell me that Martin married Kate Moran and that they had at least three children ( Mary Ann, John and Nellie).  My family and I visited Nellie at her home in Briarfield (Lisacul) some years ago.  When we got to her house, she opened the door and I made the mistake of saying, "Mrs. Cafferkey ?"  She bristled a bit and corrected me by saying that she was, "MISS Cafferkey".  But she invited us in and immediately offered us a "taste" of Irish hospitality.  Nellie and my mother (Elizabeth) had always been very close, so Neliie was very happy to meet me and my wife and children.  We exchanged Christmas cards and letters for several years afterwards, but then her letters stopped.  I feared that she had passed on.  But a recent visit from some additional Irish family assured me that she was still alive and well and in a nursing home.
I live in Des Plaines, Illinois, and I hope that we get a chance to meet some day.
John Burke     

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Roscommon / Re: Cafferkey/Cafferky/Cafferty currasallagh Near Lisacul Ballaghdereen Rosscommon
« on: Friday 06 September 13 23:31 BST (UK)  »
What a pleasant surprise.  Your very prompt response has filled in many details of the Cafferkey side of my family tree. 
Thank you.
John Martin Burke

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Roscommon / Re: Cafferkey/Cafferky/Cafferty currasallagh Near Lisacul Ballaghdereen Rosscommon
« on: Friday 06 September 13 17:10 BST (UK)  »
My mother Elizabeth Agnes O'Connor Burke was one of nine children born to John O'Connor (1872-1952) and Catherine Cafferkey (1885=1975) in Lisacul.  All nine are now deceased, the last, Rita Dolan of Lisacul passing in 2011.  (Rita still has family living in Lisacul.)
From a family tree provided by my late mother, I know the following:
Catherine Cafferkey was one of five children of John Cafferkey (1834-?) and Mary McGreal (1835-?).  The five were Michael, John (killed in WWI), Martin, Mary Ann and Catherine (my grandmother).
Michael married Mary Brennan and they had John and James.
Martin married Kate Moran and they had ***

I am pleased to know that the Cafferkey line is still strong.

John

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