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The 1911 Census of Ireland
Family Post Cards
Callan Family Updates
Tipperary's Children
Scene from Main Street in Clogheen, Tipperary, Ireland
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There is good news for family researchers of Irish ancestry. As of October 2009, the National Archives of Ireland has established a website for the purpose of researching family history. The archival records for the 1911 census detailing the families and individuals as well as comprehensive information of the towns and dwellings they inhabited. The 1901 census is scheduled to be released online sometime in the middle of 2010, and I will keep you up to date on my findings as soon as they become available.
Census material is very important in family
research because it allows the researcher to effectively keep track of the life
death cycle as well providing movement of family members from one place to the
next. It also helps to establish the existence of persons heretofore
unknown or unverified as in the case of Kate Sullivan. There are two links
associated with each name. The first is the actual image of the census sheet,
and the second link is the transcript of that image. If you find it
difficult to read the actual image, the transcript will be a great help.
You will need Adobe Reader in order to view the census image, and you can
download it here.
http://get.adobe.com/reader/
I would like to encourage all of you to share what
information you have so I can make this an interesting venture for everyone.
If you would like me to help with a search of family ancestry I would be glad to
help. Please send your requests and suggestions to
tippwebmaster@yahoo.com
Overview Main Street, Clogheen, County Tipperary
For
the overview of Clogheen I included the link below because I found many of the
names that are linked one way or another in our family history. Family
friends and probably relations in some cases are listed up and down Main Street,
as well as Cockpit Lane, and Shanrahan. Names that appear in various
records include: Gorman, Hanrahan, Dwyer, and Mulcahy. Beginning in the
1870's there was a mass exodus from the village of Clogheen, with somewhere
between 10 and twenty percent of the population emigrating to England,
Australia, and North America. I have been able to trace some of that
movement through the popular online services.
Paul Sullivan - Main Street, Clogheen, County
Tipperary.
Starting with Paul Sullivan, my grandfather
Christopher’s oldest brother. He lives alone in a boarding house numbered
77 on Main Street in Clogheen. He is the father of five children, none of
whom live in the town of their birth. Margaret, the oldest, is living in
County Mayo and William has emigrated to America.
Paul Sullivan, the oldest child of William and
Margaret Sullivan, lives alone on Main Street, Clogheen near his brother
William’s family. He is an unemployed Slater. His age as it appears
on the census lists him as 64 which I believe is a mistake because his birth
record has him born in 1850 which would make him at least two years younger.
His children have all left for England or America, and I am hoping that the 1901
Irish Census will shed some more light on some of the details. I do not
have a date for his passing, but I have been told that it was not long after
this census was taken, that he moved to England, died, and was buried there.
The postcard to the right was sent to Paul's sister Mary Sullivan Fleming in
1908 by Margaret Sullivan. The card says: "The house on the opposite side
is where My Father lives". Many thanks to Maureen Miller for her enormous
help in reconstructing our family history.
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Transcript
Margaret Sullivan and John Lyons -
Larganboy, West (Bekan, County Mayo)
Margaret
Sullivan Lyons, Paul’s daughter, came to Philadelphia in 1900 and lived and
worked there for
10
years before meeting John Lyons. They moved back to county Mayo Ireland in
1910, to be married and raise a family, living with the family of John Lyons.
Margaret did return to Clogheen in 1908 to visit her father. Her Uncle Charles
from Quincy, Paul’s brother, also accompanied her. On the return trip to
Quincy, Paul’s son William Paul joined Charles. The Ireland Census of 1911
shows Margaret and John Lyons living in Larganboy, County Mayo. I have
some postcards and letters written to the Fleming family which have been a
valuable source of information relating to the Sullivan family. Thanks to
Marlene Faherty for the photographs of her grandparents.
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William Sullivan - Main Street, Clogheen, County
Tipperary
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William Sullivan lives with his family at house 81
not far from his brother Paul. He is a slater (roofer that works
with slate tiles) and plasterer (when walls and ceilings were made with wood
strips called lath and covered with plaster). In his case it was more
likely that he was a plasterer of ceilings, since that was the common practice
in England and Ireland. He and Catherine have been married for 20 years,
and five children with one deceased.
I also noted that Margaret, the only daughter,
reads and writes both Irish and English. There seems to be a pattern in
many Irish households, where the oldest daughter is taught the traditional
language in order to insure it's survival. Thank you to Catherine Smith
for sending this photo of her grandfather William, taken sometime around 1938.
Catherine (Kate) Sullivan – Cockpit Lane,
Clogheen, County Tipperary
I
know very little about Aunt Kate. She is listed as living alone in a
cottage along Cockpit Lane, which is just off Main Street Clogheen.
An old family postcard (at right) showing Main Street as it must have appeared
in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s has notations where William and Kate lived.
I believe it is quite possible that Kate inherited the family property after the
death of her mother Margaret in 1891.
Kate is listed as head of family and housekeeper.
I am not sure what source of income she had, but it seems that she was self
sufficient.
I am not sure of the origin of these postcards, since they were given to me
about thirty years ago by my mother. It's possible that one of my
grandfather Christopher's children visited there, or they came from another
second generation family source.
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Duffy
Overview Reaskmore, County Tyrone
I
included this overview of Reaskmore because many of the family names listed here
figure prominently in the family history of the Duffys including Mallon, Cush
and Lucas. I would like to have more information about my grandmother's
family (Mallon), if anyone has any information. Not found on the census
are any of John Duffy's siblings. According to the International
Genealogical records of the British Isles (Latter Day Saints) John has four
other brothers. The entire listing is as follows: Thomas Duffy b. Co
Tyrone 29 May, 1868, William Duffy b. Co Tyrone 06 Aug, 1870, John b. Dungannon,
Co. Tyrone 26 November, 1872, Terence b. Drumnafern, Co. Tyrone 23 April, 1877,
and Patrick b. Drumnafern, Co Tyrone 21 November, 1879. Not listed in the
records is Michael Duffy. Of all these listed, only John Duffy appears on
the census.
John Duffy - Reaskmore, County Tyrone
Listed are John and Alice Duffy along with three
children, John, James, and Rose. Bridget, my mother was born the following
March. Rose died sometime around her 14th birthday from heart
failure. The picture to the left is one from my mother’s collection of
family photos. My grandparents Alice Duffy and John Duffy, their son James
and possibly daughter Sara. Need help on this one. Love the thatched
roof. At the time of this census, John’s brothers, Terence and Michael
were both living in New York. More on their family connections in the
future.
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Callan
The Callan family and the Duffy family are linked
by the marriage of Elizabeth Callan and Terence Duffy on 6 January,
1918 at Corpus Christi Church Manhattan co. NY, NY. The Marriage
Certificate lists the groom's parents as Daniel Duffy and Bridget Kelly,
and the bride's parents as Luke Callan and Elizabeth Sherry. The bride's
birthplace is listed as Castle Blayney, Monaghan Co. Ireland. The
information I have uncovered needs to be verified, because there are some
inconsistencies.
Luke Callan
Luke Callan is an uncommon name in the Irish Census of 1911. There are only three matches in all of all of Ireland, and only one of the names matches the parameters of the data I have in my family records. The possibility that this is the family of Elizabeth Callan is better than average, but it needs to be verified. Possibly Sharon and Paul Lombardi can supply some bit of information that might be helpful (I would love to have some pictures if you can make some copies). Another curiosity is that a Luke Callan is also listed as a servant along with the John McIlroy family Ballywilliam (Donaghadee Rural, Co. Down). Given that there is only six miles between the two locations, and that the name is an uncommon one, along with the age parameter, I believe that Luke Callan was listed twice. The family link below has Luke Callan in Donaghadee along with the McIlroy family as well as a map showing the road between the two towns.
Elizabeth Callan
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There is another possibility here that is also
better than average cross referenced with information taken from the Ellis
Island Database. There is a ship's manifest from the steamer Cameronia
which lists a Lizzie Callan, seamstress, Castleblayney, Ireland on line
23. All the information seems to fit, and I believe that Paul and Sharon
have this copy as well. Named as a relative in the country of origin is
mother, Bessie Callan Drumlandrick, Co. Monaghan. This is
significant because it omits the father's name, probably because he is deceased.
Also listed in NY is a sister, but that box has been obliterated by notations.
Using this information, I did a search for Bessie Callan on the 1911 census and
found the link for house number 7 Drumlandrick, Monaghan.
Residents of house number 7 in Drumlandrick
(Broomfield, Monaghan)
I think this is the most probable link to the
Callan family in Ireland, but it has one glaring omission. Elizabeth
Callan is not listed in the family census and the only female child is Sara Ann
age 14. I don't think they are one and the same, so are they twin
sisters? And where is Elizabeth? When putting this all together I
deliberately held back on sending this newsletter out so that I could get more
information about the Callan family. It's the best I could do, but it is a
good start. More information will come as I find it.