Do you need help in Athy, Co Kildare

[emilyrose]

HI Damsel - is there any good B&B's in Athy as I may stay for a couple of days there when I get the time to visit or is there an hotel in the town.

Regards

emilyrose

[Celtic Damsel]

http://www.carlton.ie/abbeyhotel.html and  http://www.clanardcourt.ie/
Those are the two hotels in the town both very nice, there are dozens of good B&B's if you need numbers for them let me know, I have a couple of photos I took this evening while out walking of St Vincents Hospital for you if you give me an email address, it was built in 1843 its a lovely old building though it used to be the old Workhouse/Poor house originally so I would'nt think it was a very nice place to be in those days, regards Damsel

[Celtic Damsel]

I need help finding Wynne's buried in Athy and around the 1865 to 1869 period. The family was COI and were wife and children of Robert Wynne, Esq. An address on a letter of this time period was Grangemellon, Athy. You mentioned having a list of burials for St. John's cemetery. Perhaps they are there. Thanks for looking. Marilyn

Hi Again Marilyn, I forgot to say if you do get an idea where they are buried let me know and I will get photos of the graves if you want, regards Damsel

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi Chris, just to let you know I am not forgetting about you I have just been so up to my eyes with study and assignments being handed in that I really hav'nt had time to bless myself !! I will put together the little you do have and head down to look at the records round about Thursday next week  when I take an hour or so off study and let you know if I come up with anything, I'm not sure the Dolly connection will yield much information however but I would take offence to Christopher alluding to the fact that you might have had a Nag in the family tree !! giggles

Hi Damsel

I have been speaking with my Mother in law. She says that Bridget died in Blackrock so you won't find her death in Athy. But Michael did die in Athy and the brother. She also told me that Michael had a shop in Athy. She thinks Gerry was born in Athy. One thing she knows which may not help is that they had a horse called dolly!

Thanks
for your help

Chris

[Celtic Damsel]

Damsel

My Mother in Law has added she thinks the brothers name was Harry. He was definitately training to be apriest.

As for Dolly, I think she had to work for her food, possilbly pulling a cart or trap.

i am away for the next week so if you post I will reply when I return.

Many thanks

Chris

Hi again Chris, just a quickie to again let you know I am not forgetting that promise to go and check the records for you, I have been so bogged down with study that I hav'nt had a minute at all to go down as I know if I do I will be there for hours on end to search thourely, my final exam is next Tuesday morning early TG !!! so I will be once again free after that and will go down I promise next week, regards Damsel

[caswellm]

Question:  When someone died in the middle 1800's, would the family transport the bodies to another county for burial?  In this case, the Wynne's had family buried in Stabannan Cemetery, County Louth.  But Robert Wynne and family were living in Grangemellon, Athy, Co. Kildare when his wife and several children died.

You gave me the telephone # for the COI but do you have an address or email address for this Church? I find communication so much easier when in print.

Thank you again,   Marilyn

[Celtic Damsel]

Hi It's unlikely, but not of course impossible that if they lived in Athy they would have been sent to Louth for burial,it is quite a long way away but then again maybe if there was a famly plot there in Louth. one famlily member or so may have been taken there.
I would say though that they are more likely buried here in Athy.
here is the contact details for the church here in the town 
The Revd C.P. Jeffers - Incumbent
The Rectory
Church Road
Athy
Co Kildare
(059) 8631446
(059) 8631490
but for a more comprehensive search the web address I gave you is the central library for all of the COI records in Churchtown in Dublin, hope this helps, regards Damsel

[caswellm]

I will give your suggestions a try......thanks again.  Marilyn

[Celtic Damsel]

Damsel

My Mother in Law has added she thinks the brothers name was Harry. He was definitately training to be apriest.

As for Dolly, I think she had to work for her food, possilbly pulling a cart or trap.

i am away for the next week so if you post I will reply when I return.

Many thanks

Chris

Hi Chris, I am off to look at those burial records today so if I come up with anything for you I will post later , regards Damsel