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From:
Arthur and Erin Marty
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:26 AM
Hi , I am live in New Zealand. I am researching the area of Ballycorick. I have
a letter written by Carleton Buckley Laming CLERY who had been left a house and
land in Ballycorick. The letter was written in 1932. Carleton Clery was the son
of George Carleton CLERY and his grandfather was Thomas CLERY who lived at
Annemount in County Cork and Ashtongrove Ballingohig in County Cork. I would
love to get in touch with anyone who knew who owned land around Ballycorick that
was left to Carleton CLERY.They may be able to help me with my family history.
It quite possibly a relative, but Carleton doesn't say who in the letter! Great
website and very interesting for an Kiwi with Irish Ancestry. Erin Marty from Te
Awamutu New Zealand. I can be contacted on arthuranderin@clear.net.nz.
Sent:
Monday, May 01, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: death of ballynacally born man
We
write with news of the death in Cambridge, England, on 26 April 2006 of our
father John Joseph Ryan, born in Breaffa, County Clare, to
Martin Ryan and Catherine Ryan (nee Browne) on 7 June 1920.
John grew up on the family farm. His mother died of pneumonia before he
started school. His two elder sisters became nuns and emigrated to
Australia, which left him as a teenager alone on the farm with his
father.
After he had completed his time at the local national school, a legacy
from an aunt allowed him to go on to secondary education at Rockwell
College. After a couple of years work on the farm, he left for England
in the early 1940s. In 1945 he married Mary Cecilia Walsh of Celbridge,
Co Dublin. He qualified as a chartered accountant in the early 1950s.
In 1956 he returned to Ireland to work as chief accountant and company
secretary for AET Ltd (subsequently taken over by GEC, England) in
Dunleer, County Louth, living in Drogheda. They moved to Malahide Co Dublin in
1965. In the second half of the 1960s, he became a
self-employed business consultant, working with smaller manufacturing
businesses all over the country, but particularly in Monaghan and
Armagh. His work for the UN took him to the West Indies and China. His wife died
in 1992. He moved to Cambridge in 2003 to live nearer to his children.
John retained a lifelong interest in Clare. His belongings at death
include two copies of the Ballynacally Lissycasey Parish Magazine, and
a framed photo of the Fergus Gaels hurling team (including himself)
after a match, taken around 1940. On one trip to Clare in the 1990s he was
pleased to trace his mother's grave but disappointed to find that the public
records that would might have allowed him to draw his family tree had been lost
during the Civil War.
We send this information in memory of our father, in the hope that it
will interest Clare people.
His death notice will be published in the Irish Independent on Tuesday 2 May.
With very best wishes
Paul Ryan and Maureen El-Hadi (nee Ryan)
From:
kaynkev
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:24 AM
Subject: Christmas Greetings
I would like to wish everyone involved in the weekly publication of the Parish
Bulletin on the Internet, A Holy, Peaceful and Joyous Christmas and may God
bring you many blessings in the New Year.
Living on the other side of the world I enjoy logging on each week - so many
names are familiar, although it
was over 120 years ago that my ancestors left the village for this distant
shore, never to return to their homeland.
It is true, you can take the Irish out of Ireland but you can't take the Irish
out of the people (and their descendants).
Sincerely,
Kay in God's Country in the Beautiful Clarence Valley of New South Wales,
Australia
(from McMahon; O Reilly; Duffy and O Connor Lines)