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From: "Cathy Connelly" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Clery/BennettAthanacy
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:51:11 -0500
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hi,
Did your McAuliffes hava a daughter named Ellen, by any chance? My Timothy
Shannahan married three different Ellens- the third was Ellen O'Connor born
1835 at Knockainey, but the first one was Ellen McAuliffe. I know very
little about her except she had one child with Timothy...
Thanks,
Cathy
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> Hi All,
>
> I was very interested in the posts regarding the Clery/Cleary family,
> the Bennett family and Athanacy cemetery. My gggrandmother was Mary
> Cleary who
> married James McAuliffe. Their son Patrick married Anne Cleary, daughter
> of
> Marcus Cleary and Sarah Bennett. All were from the Bulgaden/Kilmallock
> area.
> Sarah Bennett Cleary and many more of the Bulgaden Cleary's are buried at
> Athanacy. There are several large Clery tombstones, including Sarah's,
> erected in
> 1866 after she died in childbirth.
>
> My Cleary' seem to have used both spellings of the name in the nineteenth
> century, though by 1900 most, (like the dept.store cousins) were using
> Clery.
> They pronounced it Clary with a 'long A' like Mary. As Robyn is aware
> through
> our correspondence (before my computer crashed) I don't know who Sarah
> Bennett's parents were but would like to find out more about that family.
>
> I'll take this opportunity to thank Nick for his Kilmallock Church
> inscription as well as all the great info at his website. Robyn is right,
> the
> Bennett's intermarried with the Croker's
> as well as with the Grady's. The Clery's also intermarried with the
> Grady's
> and all the landowning families in the area seem to have married a Meade
> or
> a Carroll or two (vbg)
>
> Erin, the Finn and Clery families appear to have been very entwined as
> well. Mary Clery, born 1855 to Marcus and Sarah (Bennett) Clery and
> sister to
> my great grandmother, married William Finn about 1875.
>
> If I can answer any questions about these families I'd be happy to
> oblige from my little bit of info. I'd would be happy for any
> enlightenment
> anyone can offer about any of them, especially regarding Sarah Bennett.
> Thanks,
> John S
>
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