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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Friday 20 August 10 01:13 BST (UK)  »
Susan, Thank you SO MUCH for this data on the Duffs.  This is wonderful information, and I appreciate the time and effort you put into it.  Michael & Anna Duff were my great-grandparents.  Catherine Duff was my grandmother.  If anyone is interested, Anna & Michael had 3 children in the US (Philadelphia) - William, James, and another Mary, who died in infancy.  Then they went back to Ireland around 1885-86, where the rest of the children were born.  Somewhere on Ancestry.com, I found something that indicated they came to the US in 1876, but I think that's probably wrong.  The more likely scenario is that they married in Feb, 1880, and immediately went to America.  Their names are on the 1880 US Census, living in Philadelphia, and their first child was born there, abt 1882.

I'll be in Ireland in November, and plan to take a day trip to Laois.  Will the parish of Raheen allow me to review the sacramental records myself? Will there be death and burial records, or records that might tell us who Michael and Anna's parents were?  Do you have any other advice for me re what I can/should do while visiting Laois?

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Friday 05 March 10 14:09 GMT (UK)  »
I apologize for posting my email address.  I don't use this site often, and hadn't read the guidelines closely.

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Thursday 04 March 10 22:03 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like RootsChat removed my emil address.  Let me try giving it to you again. (*).  If you're willing to give me your email address, I'll try inviting you to my Anestry.com family tree with that.
Sharon

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Thursday 04 March 10 21:42 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Noland,

Thank you for replying.  My dad will be happy to know there are still Duffs living in Ireland.  I'll reply to Edi separately.  Did you see my posting from last November?  I wondered why I hadn't gotten a reply, but don't like to pester people.  I'd so much like to get Fintan's, Ed's and Ellen's vital info.  I'll check to see if I can post an invitation on Ancestry.com for you without your having to be a member.  An email address may be all that's needed.  You can reach me via email at (*).  I'd like you to see the rest of the family.  I'd seen that Raheen Parish mentioned before, on my Aunt Mary's baptismal record, I think.  I've misplaced it.  Here in the US, your parish is the church you go to.  Is it something else in Ireland?  I remember my dad saying he visited an Aunt in either England or Wales when he was in Europe during WW II.  I wonder if that was Ellen.  Would there be a church there in Coolnacart where I could request Michael and Anna's sacramental records?  Most of what I know about Ireland is from reading Andrew Greeley novels.
Sharon

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Wednesday 03 March 10 23:13 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Edi,

No, I haven't come up with anything in Ireland, except the Ireland Civil Registration Index indicating Anne Grant and Michael Duff's marriage in 1880 in the registration district of Abbyleix.  I had thought they came to the US in 1876, but perhaps not, or maybe they went home to get married in Ireland.  Michael death record is also on the index, same district, in 1930.  I do know they lived in Philadelphia in 1880, and from family lore have learned that they returned to Ireland, probably in the mid to late 1880's.  Several of their children eventually emigrated and settled here.  I've been told that County Laois is pronounced L E E S H.  Is that right? 

Everything I know about the Duffs and their descendants here in the US is on my family tree on Ancestry.com.  I can invite you to view it as a guest if you're interested.  I think I will need your email address for that, or your Ancestry.com user ID, if you're a member.  Let me know if you'd like to view it.
Sharon Dolan

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Tuesday 03 November 09 01:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your reply.  Is Mountrath cemetery the only one in the area?  The family lived in Coolnacart - is that a town?  Is Mountrath a town or district?  I fairly certain my great-grandparents Michael and Anna Grant Duff would be buried in the town where they lived.  Is there a church cemetery there?  Thanks again for the response. 

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 01:42 GMT (UK)  »
Noland,
I saw your reply to my cousin Msshanna, who I have had some contact with via ancestry.com.
If your dad is Michael Duff and Anna Grant's grandson, I would sure be happy to know anything you have about them.  They're my paternal great-grandparents.  This is what I do know (or what's been reported to me):  Michael - born 1844, died Jan 28, 1930 in Coolnacat, Mountrath, Laois/Queens; Anna Grant born abt 1861.  Michael (and Anna?) emigrated to the US in 1876 and lived in Philadelphia.  I don't know the birth order of the children, but William was born in the US in 1881.  They lost an Infant, Mary here in the US too, but I've been unable to locate the cemetery records.  I live in another state now, and hope to visit the cemetery when I'm in Philadelphia again.  The other children were Edward, Ellen, Fintan, James, William, Lawrence, Patrick, Michael, Catherine (my grandmother), and her twin sister Mary, and Joseph.  Several of the children emigrated to the US - all to the Philadelphia area.  I think Ellen and Fintan stayed in Ireland.  Michael enlisted in the US Army during WWI, but died on his way home to the US.  William died in 1933; Patrick died in 1936.  He had twin sons, Gerard and Lawrence.  Gerard became an Augustinian priest, and died in 2007.
Catherine died in 1959 - she was always fibbing about her age, even on her death certificate - someone had to cross out the date of birth.  Mary died in 1985; she missed her twin sister terribly.  Joseph died in 1980. 

I'd be interested in anything you or your dad have on the family.  It would mean a lot to me and my dad, who is now 86.  He was the fifth of 8 children.  There are three left.  Do you have an ancestry.com membership?
Pennsynative

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Laois (Queens) / Re: Duff - any records please
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 01:12 GMT (UK)  »
msshanna,

Kate (Catherine) and Mary didn't come to the US at the same time.  They arrived about three years apart; it must have been hard for them since they were twins.  Their father, Michael Duff arrived in the US about 1876, and returned with his wife Anna to Ireland abt 1884.  I don't know when or where they were married, but they were shown as a married couple in the US 1880 census in Philadelphia. I gleaned some info about them from William Duff's passport application in 1919 when he went home to visit his parents (Michael & Anna).  My dad, (Kate's son) says Michael and Anna returned to Ireland for "reasons of his (Michael's) health".  You and I have been in touch via ancestry.com and you should still be invited to view my tree, which I update periodically.  There are a lot of missings pieces, but a few can be found when you read between the lines.  There's  a photo of William on the passport application.  He definitely looks like a Duff.    I'm trying to figure out how to isolate it and add to my photos.  If you haven't seen it already, Catherine (Kate) and Bernard's wedding photo is on my tree.   I gave my dad a framed copy of the ship manifest with Kate's name along with one or two of her brothers.  Feel free to contact me.  I've added several things to the tree.
Sharon (Kate's granddaughter)

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