McLaughlin/Cash

Ann:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

I will alert our Rahan parish liaison that you posted a message.

Roger McDonnell

Dear Ann

Have you heard back from Rahan yet?

Clare Doyle

Genealogy Support 

Hello Clare,

No, I have not heard anything from Rahan.  Thanks for checking in.

Ann

Hello Ann

My name is Geraldine and I am the Parish contact for Rahan.  Clare put me in contact with you.  

Sorry for not seeing your message earlier.  Anyhow

I have gone through the Rahan marriage records from 1826 until 1838 and I could find no McLaughlin and Cash marriage.  Now some of the records are very faded and difficult to make out.  I will go through them again tomorrow night.  

Julia might not have been from Rahan so the marriage might have been in another parish.  They might have lived in Rahan after marriage.

Attached is the Griffith Valuation for Offaly showing all the Cash families in Offaly c1848 to 1864 - none in Rahan.

I have also searched the Tithe Applotment Books and for Cash.  (They were compiled between 1823 and 1837 in order to determine the amount which occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland)

There is one Martin Cash in Cloghan Co Offaly in 1823.

 I will go through Cloghan marriage records tomorrow to search marriage records or Cash.

The reason I am searching for Cash and not McLaughlin is that Cash is not a common name in Offaly where McLaughlin and McLoughlin is very common.  There are a few families of McLoughlins living in Rahan.  

Do you have a copy of the Baptism record I could see please.  

I will be back to you as soon as possible.

Geraldine

Thanks Geraldine, appreciate it!

Clare

Genealogy Support 

Hello again Ann

Found John's baptism record on the Rahan registry.  John was christened in Rahan on the 6th November 1836.  Parents are James McLoghlin and Julia Cashin.  Godparents are John Larkin and Mary Bolton.  (file attached)

James baptised in Rahan 21st December 1838.  Mother is down as Julia Cash this time.

Godparents Peter Connelly and Catherine Larkin

Hope these are of some help.  Will keep looking for the Marriage record

Ann

Dont know if you have this but I think I might have found the marriage record for a Martin Cash and Bridget Egan in Novermber 1798.

Geraldine

Hello Geraldine,

Thank you so very much for all your help.  I will try to summarize what I know.  Using rootsireland, the only marriage I found searching for James McLaughlin and Julia (Judith/Joanna/J) Cash was on 28 July 1826 in Banagher.

Also using those names for search criteria I came up with the following names for possible children:

Mary, 1828, Ferbane

Andrew, 1832, Rahan

John, 1836, Rahan

James, 1838, Rahan

Bridget, 1840, Banagher

Ann, 1842, Banagher

Julia, 1844, Banagher

Joseph, 1845, Banagher

It would seem odd that a couple would have married in Banagher in 1826 and didn't have children until 1840 (Bridget) so it seems like the full set of children may be from the one couple?  John, born 1836, would be my great great grandfather.  We knew he had a brother James and a sister Mary.  However, the birth date for Mary we had was around 1834, which would fit.  I had guessed that Andrew was also their son as Andrew was the name of James McLaughlin's father.  And Andrew may have died young or not emigrated with the family?

I will attach the record I have of Julia Cash McLaughlin's arrival in America with children James, John, and Mary.  If all the children are theirs, then Bridget, Ann, Julia, and Joseph may all not have survived infancy? 

Since I posted this, I've been getting some help from a group of friends who have come up with a Catherine McLaughlin who also appears to have been a daughter of James & Julia.  She, however, was in America in 1849 when she married Michael Bulger.  On a later census, James, Julia, John, and James McLaughlin are living with Catherine, her husband, and their children.

Thank you for the information on John and James's births.  The Connolly godparent really stood out.

When Julia Cash McLaughlin died in Massachusetts in 1880, her son filed in probate court to take care of her estate.  He posted a $600 bond, and two other men signed as well - John Bonner (husband of her daughter Mary) and a man named Connolly.  That was the first time I had seen that name associated with the McLaughlin.  So I think the Connolly godparent fits in somehow.

No, I did not ever find a marriage record for Martin Cash and Bridget Egan!  I would love to see a copy of that as well!!

Very exciting and I thank you so much for all your efforts!!  Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide that may help.

Ann

Hello Ann

Delighted to be able to help.

Attached is the marriage record (i hope) of Martin Cash and Bridget Egan in November 1798 in Gallen parish which covers Banagher and Ferbane.  This would be your GG Grandparents?

Its on the right hand side page about the 5th record down - its in Latin.

I could not find any marriage for 1826 for James and Julia in the Banagher records but I will keep looking.  Records are difficult to read and some are very faded.

There are a lot of McLaughlins/McLoughlins and Connollys in Rahan (where I am from - dont live there now).

I have posted your request onto the Rahan page on Facebook also.

I will check the Rahan Cemetery records also.

Have you ever been to Ireland?

I will be in contact over the next few days

Geraldine

Hello Geraldine,

Thanks so much!  Those parish records are quite a challenge to decipher - never mind the Latin.  I'm not sure what it says - November, marriage . . . I see Cash and then Egan and Kelly?  God bless you for taking the time to look through these records for me!

Martin Cash and Bridget Egan would be my 4x great grandparents. Their daughter was Julia Cash who married James McLaughlin. 

I have been to Ireland three wonderful times.  First in 1982 on my honeymoon.  We had an Irish Tourist Board book with a listing of B&Bs, a rented car, and no plan whatsoever.  Amazing trip!  The next time we made it back was 2013 - with our two sons and the girlfriend of the oldest.  Had an absolutely fabulous time.

We went again last year and I did manage a small genealogy side trip.  I had tracked down the cemetery where my gr-gr-gr grandfather Charles O'Reilly was buried in Westmeath. We found his headstone.  And the house the family had lived in back in the early 1800s.  Thrilled to stand where my family had once lived.

Hope I can make the same connection with the McLaughlins and we can make another trip to Ireland.  I have 15 great great grandparents from Ireland.  I am searching 9 different counties, with three unknowns.  Quite a challenge.  But so rewarding when the pieces come together.

Thank you again.  Very much appreciate the help!

Ann

Well Ann if you decide to come to Rahan anytime send me an email and I will try to meet up and show you around

That would be lovely. I very much appreciate your generosity. Is there a way here to privately send you my email rather than through a post?  If not, I will post it and delete the post once you have seen it. Thanks!   Ann.  

geraldinebsmith@gmail.com is my email Ann

Hello Ann

Geraldine here again.

Would this be the Marriage record for John Bonner and Mary McLaughlin in 858

Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States

Eva E. Gagnon in 1887

1887

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Did James and John ever get married and do you have death dates for them.

Hi Geraldine,

Yes, that would be my Mary McLaughlin marrying John Bonner in Blackstone, MA on 13 July 1858.  We're not sure why it's Blackstone, but seems to have to do with scarcity of Catholic clergymen at that time in very Protestant Massachusetts. 

Her brother James did not marry.  He was in the Civil War, returned home, and died at age 31 from 'accidental drowning'.  The record says 'December, 1869' and underneath it is the record for his father, James who died in July 1869 from pneumonia.  I tend to think they got the dates mixed up - pneumonia seems more likely in December and drowning in July.  They also have the wrong town listed.  It would be 'Leicester,' which is on the original, but 'Leominster' is recorded online. 

Her brother John J. McLaughlin married Catherine (Kate) O'Brien - and they are my great great grandparents.  He died 24 APR 1908 of 'accidental burns.'  I haven't been able to find out any more about that.  However, John J. had a daughter Mary McLaughlin who died in a fire in a boarding house that she owned, in 1902 and I've found a front page article about that tragedy.

There was also a brother, Andrew, born 1832 who did not come to America with the family.  I can't find a marriage or death record for him, so don't know if he died young or married and remained in Ireland when the rest of the family emigrated.

If you would like access to my tree on Ancestry, I will email you my username and tree information.

Good to hear from you!

Ann

If you like I will have a look at the family tree - is it on public.  My own email is geraldinebsmith@gmail.com

Thanks Geraldine

Thanks!   My username is:  Sonrisas815.    It is Cooney/Kavanagh family tree

Thanks!   My username is:  Sonrisas815.    It is Cooney/Kavanagh family tree

Thanks!   My username is:  Sonrisas815.    It is Cooney/Kavanagh family tree

Thanks!   My username is:  Sonrisas815.    It is Cooney/Kavanagh family tree

Hello Ann

Geraldine here again.

How are you getting on with the family research.  I never gained access to the tree on ancestry

 I was wondering about DNA - have you done yours