Dennis Ford - Genealogical Troves: Volume Two

ALSO BY DENNIS FORD Fiction Red Star Land sman Things Dont Ad d Up The Watc hman Tracks that Lead to Joy Humor / Belles Lettres Thinking About Everyt hing Miles of Thou ghts My Favorite W ords Family History / Genealogy Eight Generat ions Genealogical Ja unts Genealogical Mus ings Genealogical Troves ~ Volume One Psychology Lectures on Theories of Lear ning Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume One Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume Two Genealogical
TROVES VOLUME TWO DENNIS FORD GENEALOGICAL TROVES VOLUME TWO Copyright 2020 Dennis Ford. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. iUniverse 1663 Liberty Drive Bloomington, IN 47403 www.iuniverse.com 844-349-9409 Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them. Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery Getty Images. ISBN: 978-1-6632-1314-3 (sc) ISBN: 978-1-6632-1315-0 (e) iUniverse rev. date: 11/13/2020 The cover photograph is of the cliffs at the beach in Ballybunion To the people of the past, that we remember them Contents This book was to be the second of two volumes pertaining to my Irish surnames and ancestral villages. Owing to the large amount of genealogical records extracted, this book is now, with Gods permission, the second of three volumes. It includes predominantly 19 th Century records concerning: ~ Griffin families residing in the vicinity of Ballybunion and Listowel in County Kerry. ~ Connell (OConnell) families residing in the vicinity of Ballybunion and Listowel.

Roman Catholic parish registers are available on-line at www.registers.nli.ie . The records terminate circa 1880. (When I was visiting the Family History Library in Manhattan years ago, microfilm records for some parishes continued into the 20 th Century.) The records are searchable by event and date, not by surname. The legibility of the records, which are in PDF format, varies greatly. Some of the registers are in Latin. The pages are not always in chronological orderevents in the same month and year could appear in different places in the register, depending on which priest wrote the records.

I elected to include only the month and year of individual records. Civil records of births, deaths and marriages are available at www.irishgenealogy.ie . The records continue from 1864 into the 1950s. They are searchable by name, year and civil registration district. (The latter facilitates searches, but is not required.) The website is periodically updated. In addition, the website contains select Roman Catholic records searchable by name, year and parish.

Luckily for the Griffin and Connell surnames, records for North Kerry parishes are available on the website. Census records for 1901 and 1911 are available at www.census.nationalarchives.ie . The records are searchable by surname and townland. Images of the census forms can be downloaded and printed. Land records are available on-line at the Valuation Office at www.irish-geneaography.com/valuation-office . The records are searchable by surname and county.

For North Kerry, these records slightly predate Griffiths Valuation. There are a number of websites pertaining to the Tithe Applotment books and to Griffiths Valuation. The website of the National Archives of Ireland contains a number of interesting databases, including a Calendar of Wills that can be searched by surname, county and date of death. All records in Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Two need to be verified. There may be errors in transcription. Informants may have provided inaccurate details.

Priests and civil registrars may have erred in recording events. Researchers who digitized the records may have made errors. Shamefully, I may have erred in copying names and dates. Dates of births and deaths in civil records should be considered approximations of the actual events. Since families had several months to report events, it sometimes happens that dates in civil records do not correspond with dates in the church registers. Irish babies are found to be baptized before they are reported as born, a situation no less amazing than the Mormon practice of baptizing deceased people.

Ages in civil death records should be considered approximations of the actual ages. Frequently, informants only had estimates of the decedents actual ages. Family records in Genealogical Troves ~ Volume Two should be considered incompletethis is especially the case with older records. Baptisms and marriages that occurred before the commencement of church registers are permanently lost. Deaths and burials were not recorded by the churches included in this volume. Illegibility of handwriting in the parish registers may have resulted in overlooked records or in erroneous interpretations of names and dates.

Pages may be missing from the extant registerschunks of pages appear to be missing in some registers. Families may not have reported events to the civil authorities. Errors of transcription may have occurred. Family records are in chronological order from the first occurrence of names in parish books or civil records. The names of witnesses and godparents are in parentheses. Question marks are used to indicate uncertainties in transcribing names, dates and townlands.

Records for Griffin families include Listowel, Ballylongford and Ballybunion church records and civil records in the Listowel Union. Griffin records derive from a few contiguous civil parishes in North Kerry. Connell records are more widely dispersed geographically. Records for Connell families are separated into individual sections for Listowel, Ballylongford and Ballybunion parishes. The Listowel parish books included records for a diverse number of civil parishes, including Lixnaw, Duagh, Murher and others. Church records are combined with civil records for each family.

Readers are advised to review all sections for the Connell surname, since couples may have married in one parish and raised their children in a different parish. Both Connell and OConnell occur in church and civil records. There is little consistency, although OConnell became more frequent in later years. So as not to encumber the text with copious apostrophes, Connell is used throughout. Lastly, a few records pertaining to surnames and townlands contained in Genealogical Troves ~ Volume One are at the conclusion of this volume. These records were found after Volume One was published.

Griffin Families in the Vicinity of Ballybunion and List owel Listowel, Ballylongford & Ballybunion Parish Books, 1804 1901 Valuation Office - House & Tenure books, 1848 - 1850 National Archives of Ireland Calendar of Wills, 1875 - 1910 Civil records of marriages and baptisms commence in 1864 Civil record of deaths in the Listowel Union, 1871 1910 [images available on-line] Connell Families in the Vicinity of Ballybunion and List owel Listowel Parish Books, 1802 1901 Ballylongford Parish Books, 1823 1897 Ballybunion Parish Books, 1831 - 1901 Valuation Office - House & Tenure books, 1848 1852 National Archives of Ireland Calendar of Wills, 1858 - 1900 Civil records of marriages and baptisms commence in 1864 Civil record of deaths in the Listowel Union, 1871 1901 [images available on-line]