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Cork / Re: Sealy Family, County Cork, Ireland
« on: Monday 31 October 16 14:11 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Frazerworld on Monday 31 October 16 13:19 GMT (UK)
Apologies and correction to my last post. Richard Sealy's son Edward was my wife's grandfather. Edward served his time in the RIC mostly around Donegal and Leitrim (Richard, great grandfather, also in the RIC served his time mostly in Tipperary and Kilkenny). On retirement Edward and his wife, Annie O'Rourke, ran a guest house in Co Leitrim. In January 1930 he and his eldest son Richard Gordon (Dick) emigrated to the States where his brothers worked in or owned an Iron Foundry in Joliet, Illinoise. His original intention was to bring the rest of his family over when he had settled in. He returned sometime in 1932 in the middle of the Great Depression and died in 1933 in his early fifties. My wife's mother's name was Agnes Patricia Sealy. His relatives in Joliet seemed to have changed the spelling of their name to Seeley.
On the New York passener emigration list, Edward and Richard were listed as going to stay with a Thomas Sealy at Jackson Street, Joliet.

Criostoir1971, we would like to persue any connection with you and your ancestors. It sounds interesting and would love to hear more from you.

Pat

Pat,

Thanks for the reply – my maternal great great grandfather was William Sealy/Seeley, a brother of Edward’s who lived in Joliet. It sounds like Edward and his son Richard were going to stay with Thomas Sealy, Edward’s Irish-born nephew and son of his eldest brother John (b. 1863). Thomas was the only family member in Joliet who retained the Sealy spelling. If you’d like to email me, my email is criostoir1971 at yahoo dot com .

- Chris

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Cork / Re: Sealy Family, County Cork, Ireland
« on: Wednesday 26 October 16 18:49 BST (UK)  »
PM sent. Your wife and I appear to be related. Most of Richard Sealy's children - with wife Catherine Berry - emigrated and ended up in the area around Joliet, Illinois.

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Tipperary / Re: Fitzpatricks in the Royal Irish Constabulary
« on: Tuesday 25 November 14 23:30 GMT (UK)  »
Ireland, The Royal Irish Constabulary 1816-1921

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6087

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Tipperary / Re: Seeley's in Tipperary?
« on: Wednesday 21 May 14 14:11 BST (UK)  »
Well, with a little guidance from a rootschat moderator, I was able to find the records I was looking for. The Seeley's I'm researching originally spelled their surname Sealy in Ireland. For some reason, most (but not all) adopted the Seeley spelling once they immigrated to America. They descend from Richard Sealy, a RIC officer raised in a Church of Ireland family from Dingle, County Kerry. He married Catherine Barry (multiple variations in surname spelling recorded), a Roman Catholic from Danesfort, County Kilkenny. RIC records show Richard served in Kilkenny and Tipperary, and returned to Kerry in retirement. They raised their children in the Catholic Church, and several emigrated in the late 1800's.


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Tipperary / Re: Seeley's in Tipperary?
« on: Wednesday 05 March 14 14:13 GMT (UK)  »
Yeah, it's not cheap. I'd be willing to go that route if there was evidence of any variation of Seeley in Tipperary in it's database, but haven't found any yet.

Interesting that the same record is indexed under Scealy on ancestry.co.uk.

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Tipperary / Re: Seeley's in Tipperary?
« on: Wednesday 05 March 14 13:27 GMT (UK)  »
You are correct - I meant to type Anne Walsh, and that is indeed the right family. Anne is documented in her son William's marriage record in Joliet as being born in Kilkenny. Did you happen to find that on rootsireland.ie or a different site? I have yet to dive too deeply into the rootsireland website yet. In any event, thank you for finding reference.

John Sealy/Seeley had at least 3 brothers who emigrated with him - Richard, Edward and William. I haven't been able to find anything other than U.S. census records of the first two, but William (married Mary Doyle in America) has been documented as being "born and educated" in Tipperary. I haven't been able to find any record of any Seeley/Sealy in Tipperary.

Their father's name was John, unsure about mother's name.








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Tipperary / Re: Seeley's in Tipperary?
« on: Wednesday 05 March 14 00:35 GMT (UK)  »
Yeah, I've seen those - they aren't the Seeley's/Sealy's I'm looking for. For example, the oldest Seeley I've found in Joliet is John Joseph, born on Jan. 15, 1863 in Tipperary, who's wife was named Mary Walsh. They had at least 12 children, with 3 born in Ireland: Thomas in 1885, Richard Joseph in 1887, and Martin in 1888... And John Joseph had 3 brothers who also emigrated: William, Edward and Richard.

I've been able to find quite a few Seeley's in Joliet who are from Tipperary, but *very* few in Ireland itself, whether it's civil birth records, Griffith's Valuation, or Tithe Applotment Books.

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Tipperary / Seeley's in Tipperary?
« on: Tuesday 04 March 14 23:16 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching the Seeley family, which came from Tipperary in the late 1800's and settled in Joliet, Illinois, just south of Chicago. Almost every source I've come across shows *no* Seeley's living in Tipperary in the mid-late 1800's. Death certificates and parish records in America record Tipperary as their home, but I'm having no luck finding any trace of them in Irish records. The name itself is English, but they were Catholic and married Catholics (Doyles, Walshes, etc.), and had large families. In the 1901 Irish census, only *1* Seeley is listed outside of Ulster, and very few in total. Am I safe to assume the spelling likely changed when they arrived in America, and does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed from here?

Many thanks in advance!

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