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Dear Mary, Page Page No: No: 33 Journal of the Central Coast Family History Society Inc. A LETTER TO MARY from Karys Fearon I would love to know about you and your family but unfortunately the Irish Catholic records are limited and what remains is not freely accessible. Added to the difficulty is the variety of ways to spell your name! Tyrrell seems fairly straight forward but there are variations such as Tyrell, Tyrrell, Tyrall, Turrel, Turrell, Tarrell, Tarel, Terril and even Tynnel and Tyzzell! I know you were born in Edenderry as stated in the church record for your wedding to Thomas Donegan on 6 th November, 1837. You had a brother Edward who married Rose Davy on 5 th August 1844 and Thomas was a witness. We assume this was your husband but the record spells his name differently. The spelling variations apply to the Donegan name also! In this particular entry the spelling is Donacon but on other records in the same register have Donehan, Donghan, Doonahan, Doonican, Dounigan, Dunican, Doneghan, Dunnegan, Donahon. Thomas had possible siblings named Rohy, Bess and Mary appearing in the register as sponsors. The comment is made in Ireland by everyone that this is not an Irish name but Scottish. I do have access to photos of church records which have helped enormously from both Edenderry and Daingean in County Offaly where you were born. (Of course, you knew the county was called Kings then and Daingean was Philipstown but with the south separating from Northern Ireland, all connection with England was quickly changed!) These photos were taken during personal visits by my husband Jon and me in 2008 and my sister Maureen and husband Peter in 2010. When looking at these records the variation in spelling is very obvious and several witnesses with the same surname give the suggestion that they may be your siblings or Thomas’s or at least a relative. The Muster – August ugust 2012 2012
The Muster – August 20 2012 20 2012 12 Journal of the Central Coast Family History Society Inc. Your children, those born in Edenderry, were James, 1838, Susan, 1840, Peter 1841, Mary Maria, my great grandmother, 1844 who died in Australia in 1930, William 1845 and Thomas 1851. Then you all moved to Philipstown (Daingean) where Elizabeth was born in 1854 and Ann and Ellen in 1858. I wonder if Ann and Ellen were only baptised in 1858 for convenience or was it because they were really twins? Somewhere during those years two other children were born, Daniel and Kathleen. There are gaps in the spaces between your children allowing for either these two to fit in or where you may have had miscarriages or pregnancy losses that were not recorded in the church registers. By 1845 you had at least five children and perhaps Daniel and Kathleen were born between William in 1845 and Thomas in 1851. These were the years of the incredible blight, a fungal disease affecting the potato crops all over Ireland that impacted heavily on the whole country. Famine and disease were rife with devastating hardship to say the least and huge loss of life. The blight was present all across Europe though it was only in Ireland that its consequences were so drastic. Although the potato constituted a very important component of the Irish diet it was not the only source of nutrition available in the Irish countryside. It was the continued, and even increased, exportation of corn during the famine years that intensified the consequences. You did well to survive those years although we can’t imagine living with no food, no contraception and nothing in the way of medical care or wisdom. These too were the years when vast numbers of the Irish emigrated to Liverpool, Glasgow, United States of America and even as far away as Australia. How many of your children died, were sick or sent away to other places we do not know. Did any end up in the Work Houses later and what were the circumstances that led to at least Kathleen and Mary Maria emigrating? Assuming you were born around 1811, and given that you died of Bronchitis and were recorded as 69 on the death records supplied from Tullamore Historical Centre, you were well into your 40s when you had the last three recorded female births. The twin pregnancy is therefore not unusual when conceived at the end of one’s fertile years. Of your children, I do know that Mary Maria was sent to Australia in 1864, Daniel moved to Cork (city or County?) and worked as a jeweller, Kathleen emigrated to America and William remained single and carried on Thomas’s boot-making business in Daingean after you both had died. In my own research, I have not found any records of either Daniel or Kathleen Page No: 34 34 34
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