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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:27:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks, Donna and Rich. I am glad that my experience encourages you. One reason I am making “finds,” I suspect, is that I have been able to trace my family to specific localities in Ireland where local history and local records then become so relevant. They also may be very detailed about local events and people. Therein are thousands of stories of struggle and change. And web sites like TIGS’ allow the sharing of knowledge and enable people of similar interests to find each other – that’s how Tom Lawrence found my Michael Dunn story and has now given me new leads: I will look into the Aylmers, the management of their properties, and my family’s relationships to them. Similarly, now that I know Owen McNally lived and died in West Warwick I will focus on its local history. I already have seen a constellation of people with my surnames there and am starting to try to connect them.

Mary Lee



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CONGRATULATIONS, MARY!! Those are both two awesome stories and very
nspiring to the rest of us! So happy for you!
Donna
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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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