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Subject: [NF-ROOTS] Re: NFLD-ROOTS-D Digest V01 #537
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:28:28 EDT


<< My Meehan Ancestors dated back to 1815 when they settled in Point La
Haye, St.Mary's Bay. Daniel was the first then he had Sisters Theresa, Ellen,
Elizabeth, and brothers John, Martin and William that I am aware of. I don't
know what part of Ireland they came from but it was Ireland.
Joan keating >>


Here are a couple of URL's that may help, Joan. Your Meehans could be
connected to ours who came out from Cooloo Farm, Mylough, near Mt. Belew,
Galway. I've visited there twice and the current Meehans said there are only
two groups of Meehan families of which they are aware -- and both are in the
same area of County Galway. These originally may have come from County Sligo
to Galway.

Certainly, with such a community of them in Point La Haye, it shouldn't be
too difficult to determine where in Ireland they came from. Anyway, try these
provided by Dave MacLeod:

http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_045_1.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/h/Michael-Patrick-Cahill/

>From this FTM WEB SITE:

And so begins the History of Michael Cahill of Country Tipperrary, Ireland.

Whether due to Religious Emancipation or land confiscated due to British
rule; hard times in Ireland forced him to leave his native Ireland to seek
his fortune in a new land. He arrived in St.John's, Newfoundland about 1824.
It was there that he met a girl Judith Tobin from Point La Haye, St. Mary's
Bay. Her Irish roots may have been a factor in the two families knowing of
each other in Ireland and been introduced once he arrived in Newfoundland. On
May 10 1826 he married Judith at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist in St.
John's. Shortly after Michael and Judith made there way to Point La Haye, St.
Mary's Bay were as a fisherman and a farmer he began the foundation of the
present day Clan of Cahill's. The old homestead of Cahill's still exists
today at Point La Haye, St. Mary's; other pockets of this same Michael
ancestor are also found in St. John's, Mount Pearl; Torbay, and Chamberlains,
Newfoundland; Halifax , Nova Scotia ; Calgary, Alberta Canada; others have
settled in Massachusetts and Florida, USA.

I just put Point La Haye into GOOGLE.COM and got all kinds of hits. I didn't
know where it was. I do now. :o))

Hold fast!

Dave

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