Hi Hanes & Kiltaglassan
Good morning from a cold, wet southern NSW.
The map site was excellent, thank you both. It always amazes me that there is more than one way to solve a problem. I didn't think of old maps but was pretty sure someone on RootsChat could help me. I was able to drill down sufficiently to confirm that Slaght and Cooranassig were basically in the same location.
Hanes - this is still in relation to my NZ research. My husband is descended from 2 separate NZ Sullivan lines - the maternal line from Londonderry which you (and many others) helped me with late last year/earlier this year and the paternal line which is from Kilgarvan. Just when I am sure this particular line were Downey Sullivans, along comes a Cooper Sullivan to upset things. In this instance, I wasn't sure if I was looking at 2 separate Sullivan lines (one from Slaght and one from Cooranassig). Catherine was from Cooranassig when she married but had connections to Mary from Slaght (Catherine's husband was a bpt sponsor to one of Mary's Palmer children). I have now located early baptisms for Mary & Catherine from the same parents, both from Slaght.
Once again, my sincere thanks to everyone for taking the time to help me.
Chris
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