It is important to give descendants of Kerry ancestors a picture of what life was like when your grandparents or great/great grandparents emigrated, from the county in the nineteenth century: Travel: For most of the nineteenth century, travel in County Kerry was walking or by horse or donkey & car. A person walking will […]
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Kerry Ancestors in U.S. Census records.
In response to my blog of 7th January Kerry Church Records Missing, one of my readers – John Patrick Sullivan commented and also added his own valuable observations on U.S. Federal Census records. I would always advise readers searching for their Kerry ancestors ‘Start your search at home’ ‘At Home’ means where your ancestor immigrated […]
Kerry Church Records ‘missing'(2)
Following on my post last week on Kerry Church Records ‘missing’, I got a number of very interesting and helpful comments. In case you have not seen them I am re-publishing two of them over the next couple of weeks. To-day you will see Jim Ryan’s comments on another aspect of what’s ‘missing’ […]
Kerry Church Records ‘missing’
My blog on Kerry Births and Marriage Records is the blog most clicked on over the years. One of the biggest frustrations that my readers report is the ‘brick wall’ one hits when you just cannot find any details of a baptism or marriage of your ancestor. He/she just appears to not exist at all. […]
Kerry Landholders 1876
Here are the names and addresses of every landholder in Kerry in 1876 who had at least one acre. This is a really interesting list of those who owned rather than those who tenanted Kerry land at the end of the nineteenth century. The main fact that strikes me when I read down the names […]
Emigrant Ship from Dingle 1847
This is a record newly come to light, thanks to Dr Conor Brosnan’s research. Dingle Historical Society hosted an illustrated talk on The Great Famine in the Dingle Peninsula delivered by Dr Brosnan, in the Skellig Hotel, Dingle on 13th August last. To a packed house of more than 300 people, Dr Brosnan gave a […]
Kerry to Denver & Back to Co. Kerry
From Denver County to County Kerry: An American Adoptee Explores Her Irish Roots (Part I) I first met Marsi in 2017 when at Lorna Moloney Clans & Surnames Conference in Nenagh. Lorna asked me if I could give any help to one of the groups who was exploring her probable Irish ancestry. As one […]
O’Sullivan-Glannie Kerry
I get a lot of email queries asking about different branches of the O’Sullivan (Sullivan) families in Kerry. See an earlier blog with an overall summary. Today I have a first-hand account of a number of the O’Sullivan branch names from the Kilgarvan area and their home locations from Sean O’Sullivan of Tuosist. The […]
Fitzmaurices, Lords of Kerry, Barons of ...
The Fitzmaurice family were established in Kerry c.1235. Next Sunday 28 April 2019, Lixnaw Heritage & Historical Group are holding a conference, examining the history of this important clan. I am currently researching and writing a book provisionally titled The Fall of The Fitzmaurices: The Demise of Kerry’s First Family, and I will be one […]
Kerry Land & Tenant Rentals
Ancestor Network.ie Very few Kerry Estate or Kerry Tenant Rentals have been digitised but details of some are available in various archives. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Kerry became predominantly owned by English landlords and by Anglo-Irish families who were granted land in return for various services. These lands or estates were typically divided […]