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From: Patricia Sloan <>
Subject: RE: [Cork] Researching CARNEY in County Cork
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:04:53 -0800
In-Reply-To: <000a01c2e967$86d5d860$dd56d63f@gateway2000>


Thank you Bill, for this helpful response.

I have been looking into the LDS microfilm records, and it made me realize
that the surname, CARNEY is probably an Anglicization of Kearney or some
such. Probably the English recruiting sergeant just wrote down the name as
he heard it, just as he did with turning Aughadown into Afferdown, and
Skibbereen into Skillereen. And Thomas Carney as a new recruit wouldn't have
been in much of a position to protest. So things have just escalated in
terms of complexity.

And I hope to find out more about possible siblings. It's hard to know how
many of his family survived the Famine. The story in my family is that
Thomas was forced to leave Ireland after 2 or 3 of the younger children had
died from the effects of malnutrition. What hard times those were.

So I would love to find a way to get to the National library. And by the
time I save up the money, I will hopefully understand enough about Irish
genealogical records to really make good use of my time.

Best wishes,
Pat in Vancouver

-----Original Message-----
From: William P. Fahy [mailto:]
Sent: March 13, 2003 5:41 AM
To: Patricia Sloan;
Subject: Re: [Cork] Researching CARNEY in County Cork

Patricia,
Aughadown or the old spelling Aghadown is a civil & religious parish about 3
miles west
of the town of Skibbereen, Co. Cork. If Catholic you may find his Baptism
records or those of siblings(if he had any) at the National Library in
Dublin on microfilm #POS4775. In that film Baptisms run from June 1822 to
Dec 31, 1880. His parents marriage may also be in it because Marriages run
from October 1822 to Feb 1865. It is even conceivable that siblings
marriages
may be in it, if they did not leave the area.

Bill Fahy


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