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From: "Ted Boyle" <>
Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Problem/Help
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:27:32 -0000
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I'm in West Yorkshire. England.
Ted.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eileen Sarajak" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Problem/Help


> Where are you located? We are searching Limerick and possibly Donegal.
> Eileen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted Boyle" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Problem/Help
>
>
> > Thank you Eileen for your very kind offer.
> > sadly I can't give you any further details about "Grandad" the
information
> > re: his second marriage in the USA, and the fact of his having a
daughter
> > (who became a RC Nun) are just things my mother told me way back in the
> > 1930s, so you will realise from this :- my brickwall is an almost
> impossible
> > structure to breakdown. but with friends like yourself to encourage me I
> > keep "Chipping" away.
> > Before I close can I offer to be of any "Service" to you over here in
UK?
> > Though not very skilled at genealogy I would be very "Willing" or
perhaps
> I
> > could be available in some other way:- I could offer first-hand memory
of
> > "Lifestyle" over here since the early 1920s.
> > And now to finish:- Thanks once again for your message.
> > Cheers! Ted+
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eileen Sarajak" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 7:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Problem/Help
> >
> >
> > > Would be happy to look in Conn for your grandad - but can you give a
few
> > > more first names - his 2nd wife? and their daughter?
> > > Very hard to do lookups with just one family member's name
> > > Eileen in Conn
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ted Boyle" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:06 PM
> > > Subject: [Irish-American] Problem/Help
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thank you Pat for the wonderful suggestion!
> > > > Don't know if this would be practical?
> > > > My "Brick wall" is finding a "Trace" of my grandad ( EUGENE
CALLAGHAN
> > > (Cal) MCCARTHY)
> > > >
> > > > FACTS:-
> > > > The only OFFICIAL facts in my posession are:- his Birth baptismal
> > > certificate date 1st Jan 1858 at St Michael's RC church in Limerick
> City,
> > > and his occupation CARPENTER on my mothers birth certificate dated
1880.
> > > > (no prizes for guessing my age!!)
> > > >
> > > > My mother informed me that he Emigrated to the USA, and that
susequent
> > to
> > > the death of my grandmother in 1906,
> > > > he married his second wife over there and they had a daughter.
> > > > My mother had a youngest sibling DOB 1889 according to 1901 Census
> > > (Ireland) thus he cannot have arrived in the "STATES" until after
1888.
> > > > His name is not recorded in the same Ireland 1901 census.
> > > >
> > > > I do not have any further details; no date, or place of
> > departure/arrival,
> > > or ship etc;- NOTHING.
> > > >
> > > > QUERY:-
> > > > Would it be "Practical" to ask for a census "LOOK UP" from a LISTER
in
> > > each of the "STATES" of the USA say for the year 1900? (or) 1910?
(or)
> > > 1920? as he must be in there somewhere?
> > > > I can remember my mother receiving a letter informing her of his
death
> > in
> > > the late 1920s.
> > > > I realise it is asking for at least FIFTY volunteers, but if he were
> > found
> > > I can assure them it would not be just the finder who would receive my
> > > undying gratitude ,but ALL.
> > > > Thank you for listening and:- a "Fruitful" NEW YEAR to all
> > > > Ted Boyle.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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