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Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Two great research developments: Monaghan,Kildare
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 11:35:51 -0400 (EDT)
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I want to fill you in on developments in two of my research areas: first, my Owen McNally who went from southern County Monaghan to Rhode Island and about whom I messaged on this list in June (after searching for decades we had just found a record about him in a database of historical RI cemeteries) and, second, Michael Dunn who emigrated from Kildare to Troy.
I returned from a research trip to Rhode Island last night. I had contacted the West Warwick church whose information in that cemeteries database listed Owen's grave and gave the date he died, his age, and his homeplace in Amatris parish, Monaghan. I wanted to know the source of the information. It turned out the information came from a database provided by a researcher who had made it his avocation to record data from numerous cemeteries in RI.
My contact at St. Mary's also told me that several years earlier, a parishioner had reported a gravestone found in a woods near the cemetery; the name on the stone was OWEN McNALLY. After we talked, cemetery officials retrieved that gravestone; it was in two pieces but the inscription was quite legible and was the source of the information about when Owen died, his age, and his home parish. I took several photos of the stone yesterday. Cemetery officials have researched its original location and will soon move the stone to its rightful place over my ggggrandfather who, the stone says, was born in 1807. She showed us the place where it will lie in future. Owen was one of the first to be buried in that cemetery. We are extremely fortunate that a marker was placed over him. So far as we know now, it is the only written record of his presence in the U.S. apart from the listing of his death in the mortality schedule of the 1850 census, which I discovered in summer 2010.
Now for Michael Dunn who came to Troy,
While on the trip to RI, I received the following email about a historic famine memorial in Kildare:
Dear Mary,
i read with great interest your article on the Michael Dunn and the Troy
rish. I have been doing research into the Tower on the Hill of Allen in
o. Kildare ireland, and a Patrick Dunn (who I believe was a nephew of Michael
nd travelled to New york) is one of those whose name is inscribed on the
teps of the tower. Perhaps you might like to take a look at my work and
ee what you think:
The book of photographs:
http://www.blurb.com/books/2514774
More info:
ttp://www.tom-lawrence.net/Site/Texts.html
I'd be intrigued to read what you think?
Very best
Tom
I have since written back to Tom Lawrence, who is a "sound ecologist" at a university in Dublin. I told him I recognize many of
the surnames and place names and believe he may be right that Patrick is a relative. He sent me a photo of Patrick's name on the step.
He found the story of my Michael Dunn because it is available on the TIGS web site under the Dunn name. So thanks very much,
TIGS. Again you are such a great help! I did not know about "Aylmer's Folly" or his reputation as a landlord until I received this
message from Tom Lawrence. But I would love to know, as would Tom, if any of you also can make a connection to it.
I hope these amazing developments will encourage all of you in your research. And, by this posting, I notify other Dunn
and Clinton researchers here re this development.
Best, Mary Lee
PS I hope Tom's links work when this is posted.
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