Author Topic: COMPLETED- "Memoirs of Camac's of County Down" by Frank O'Fisher  (Read 5558 times)

Offline Laird

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 3
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: COMPLETED- "Memoirs of Camac's of County Down" by Frank O'Fisher
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 08 February 12 11:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jean,
I think you may have sent me a p/m about the cammock memoirs which I have not been able to view
only because I didn't know how to retrieve it, then lost it, I think I've got it sorted out so if you would like to resend it I shall try again. I see that do a lot of research is this for your family tree and are you connected with the cammocks.

This is the first time I have used this site so basically don't have a clue,
Best Regards, Richard.   [laird]

Offline Jean Price

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,041
    • View Profile
Re: COMPLETED- "Memoirs of Camac's of County Down" by Frank O'Fisher
« Reply #10 on: Friday 17 February 12 03:45 GMT (UK) »
Hello Richard,

I have copied your message from the NZ Board to this one.
No, I have not sent you a PM - everything is on this thread.

Nor have I heard from the One Name Study Person.

Jean

*Moderator's Note: message posted on NZ board now merged with this topic
Fawcett, Down; Gibson, Ayrshire and Tasmania; James, Cornwall and Victoria Aus; Cox, Northamptonshire, Thomas, Gloucestershire; Albury, Berkshire,

Offline Tim Sylvester

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 2
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: COMPLETED- "Memoirs of Camac's of County Down" by Frank O'Fisher
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 15 May 12 00:13 BST (UK) »
Hi Jean I have not received your email but have discovered this trail through Google and have joined the site so I can reply.
I do indeed have a copy of "Memoir's of the Camac's of Co. Down" which was edited by Frank Owen Fisher. It was commissioned by John Camac (1833-1896) of Philadelphia and La Roche, with whom Fisher seems to have been very close
 The book, was privately published in 1897 by Fisher in England, following its commissioners death. Despite its title, the book deals mostly with the Cammock family of Essex and Lincolnshire, only touching in the final chapters with the Irish family of the above John Camac which he claims to be descended from that those families.
The book does not I am afraid show Elizabeth Camac who married to Peter Reilly and I have no record of this marriage from Irish parish registers though I have seen it mentioned by Reilly researches in the Anglo Celt in 1998.
There is a later book, based on fishers research and published by William Masters Camac of Philadelphia "Memoirs of Camac's of County Down" Wm M Camac, 1913. This gives a good summary of what is in Fishers book and adds some later information on the American family and there intermarriage. It is available from the Family Search website but again does not mention your family.
Cavan is not a County associated with the Camac family in Ireland. Down, Antrim, Louth and Dublin are the areas they lived. The only connection that I can find with Cavan is a marriage between Eliza Marianmissa to Arthur Robert Newburgh of Ballyhaise, county Cavan in 1792. The Newburgh's children changed  there name to Camac Newburgh under the terms of the will of ELiza's father Jacob Camac's.
I hope this answers your query.

Offline Jean Price

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,041
    • View Profile
Re: COMPLETED- "Memoirs of Camac's of County Down" by Frank O'Fisher
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 16 May 12 04:36 BST (UK) »
Hello Tim,

I am glad we finally caught up with each other - I had sent you two emails - many months apart - I wonder if your link on the GOON's page is wrong - but now you have answered me and I can take that book off my list of things to do.
So, back to the drawing board.

Thank you for your lengthy answer.
Jean
Fawcett, Down; Gibson, Ayrshire and Tasmania; James, Cornwall and Victoria Aus; Cox, Northamptonshire, Thomas, Gloucestershire; Albury, Berkshire,