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Carlow / Hello Tom!
« on: Friday 12 March 10 19:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tom, My name is Julia Kirwan, and my husband Steve is related to your sister Margaret's husband, Eamon.  I recently had the pleasure of meeting Eamon and Margaret, and came away with a copy of The Wexford War Dead, which I have found absolutely fascinating although also very very sad.
I'm very interested in family history, and my mother and I have traced our relatives back to the 16th century here in England.  Margaret and Eamon were really helpful with filling in some gaps on the Irish family tree, and I've just written to Margaret again, to ask more questions!  I wish she did computers - email would be so much easier than snail mail!
Thanks to the biopics etc I've found about you and your family, I can now add another branch to the tree!
Congratulations again on the book - a fantastic achievement - what's next?
Kind regards
Julia Kirwan

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Wexford / Re: Bolger from Ferns
« on: Wednesday 10 February 10 19:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for this timely information, Dara.  I'll probably just stick to Wexford on this trip.  Julia

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Wexford / Re: Bolger from Ferns
« on: Tuesday 09 February 10 15:42 GMT (UK)  »
Mick - thanks for info re. david bolger - will follow this up when in Wexford later this week.

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Wexford / Re: Bolger from Ferns
« on: Tuesday 09 February 10 15:40 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: gormangenealogy on Monday 08 February 10 22:17 GMT (UK)
I have a photograph (1944) of a James Bolger who married an Ellen Donoghue any connection.
They were both from Wexford
  Hi, do you know whereabouts in Wexford? - or when they married?  Any more info would be gratefully received.  I'm off to Wexford on Friday to try to get some more leads.  Many thanks, Julia

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Wexford / Re: Bolger from Ferns
« on: Saturday 09 January 10 18:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Ger - this looks like it could well be my family!

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Wexford / Re: Bolger from Ferns
« on: Friday 11 December 09 17:48 GMT (UK)  »
Kebholes, I don't have birth cert for James Bolger c 1827, as GRO records don't go back this far.  I have birth cert for Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bolger, and father's name is given as Joe on cert.  Re. Joseph B who married Sarah Ryan - mcert says just Joseph, with father's name James.  I don't know when Bridget Bridie got married, or where.

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Wexford / Re: Ballyoughter cemetery records
« on: Saturday 03 October 09 18:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Niamh - I'd love to see the census records you have for 1901 - they may indeed help me, although the link to Co. Laois is quite weak.  Are you able to post or email them?  I don't know why Nan Bolger and her husband moved to Mountrath from Wexford - perhaps because there were Kirwans there already that they knew of through Nan's sister Lizzie's husband - Stephen Kirwan? (or maybe because her husband McGrath had family there.  The tree as far as I have it is on the Ancestry site - if you let me know your email address I can send you a link so you can view it - there is a load of other stuff apart from Breens and Kirwans on there - over 1,000 all in all!, but you should be able to see what I have on Kirwans and Breens.  Is your tree on Ancestry?  I'd really be interested in seeing it too. Best wishes
Julia

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Wexford / Re: Ballyoughter cemetery records
« on: Saturday 03 October 09 08:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi Niamh.  I think most of my Breens were Wexford born and bred - I don't have knowledge of any outside there.  On the Kirwan side, the only connection I have to Co. Laois is an Anne Bolger (known as Nan), who lived in Milltown, Wexford, but who married and moved to Mountrath.  She was the sister of Lizzie Bolger, who married Stephen Kirwan, my husband's grandfather. I believe Nan married a Paddy McMahon.  I believe one of Stephen Kirwan's  children, a Michael Kirwan, may have gone to live with Nan and her family.  Let me know if this rings any bells.

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Wexford / Re: Furlongs of Milltown
« on: Monday 10 August 09 20:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi - Glad to be of assistance.  I'm also in England (West Sussex), so often struggle to get info easily.  These people are all my husband's relatives.  The arrival of the 1911 census and the LDS site are my main sources of info.  I'm looking when I can, but let me know if you have any luck with a marriage for William Furlong and Anne Tracey - I'm not sure if it is Tracey or Lacey - as Luimneach pointed out John Furlong's birth record has Tracey, but Sarah's record on LDS says Lacey!  I have a copy of Sarah's birth cert  and it's really difficult to tell if it's Lacey or Tracey - and the aunt's surname (who was present at the birth) seems to read Lacy (without the e)!  very confusing!  I have put all the stuff I have on my husband's family on the Ancestry.co.uk site - Kirwan family tree, which I'm happy to share with you.
I'd be interested to hear what became of your grandmother and her sisters, orphaned at a young age.
Best wishes, Julia

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