Frawley from Pallas Candia

for. reference of others see attached extract from possible Naturalization record, which gives year of arrival as 1855 and place of birth in Co. Limerick.

There are a number or places in Co. Limerick with Pallas at the start but the only one I can see that comes close to sounding like 'Pallas Candia' would be the town of Pallaskenry, which is in Chapelrussell civil parish - see the entry in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1837 for the town.

The Catholic parish for this area was the Parish Union of Kildimo (aka Kildimo & Chapel-Russell/Pallaskenry), which has baptism and marriage records back to 1831.

Based on the year of birth he gave at the time then the best match for his baptism on the 24th August 1839 in Kildimo Catholic Parish - ssee 2nd col. on the left page, father's name James - no mother's name recorded unfortunately (the firstnames are given in Latin).  In the 1830s there were two Catholic chapels in the parish one in Kildimo and the other at Whiteforge.

The next closest match in the parish is a William baptised in 1833, to parents William Frawley and Bridget Meehan.

Thank you so much. I believe that the entry with Bridget Meegan is the most likely. What suggestions do you have? Should I join another parish? When I visited Ireland two years ago, I photocopied phone book records for Frawley and thought of writing to some that seemed most likely. I was not sure how to address a letter using the information given in the phonebook. I used Ancestry.com for my DNA test. Is there a more popular testing site for the Irish?I am willing to pay DNA test costs for a few people that might be relatives.What suggestions do you have for tracking down living relatives in Ireland?

I searched find a grave records for the cemeteries in Pallaskenry and could not find any Frawleys at all

You can share details of your Frawley family on the Ancestor-Database so anyone related can find them in a search - you can link to County Limerick and Chapelrussel civil parish (which includes Pallaskenry). There were a number of Frawley families in the parish around the same time as your William, but no sign of any by the time of the 1901 census - maybe they all emigrated or moved away  ? There's just five Meehans in two households left in the area by 1901..  

Very few Catholic parishes kept death/burial records and many families could not afford headstones, so making it very difficult to locate burials.

You can share your Autosomal DNA results on GEDMatch (Free) to increase the number of people to compare with - some of the other commercial testing website also allow free uploads, e.g. FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA).

There is one entry  for  John Frawley, Pallaskenry,  listed in Griffiths Valuation. On the associated Griffiths Map, the listing is Number. 47, house Number 129, which is on Major Caulfeild’s estate, Copsewood House (now Salesian Secondary School). 

On the present day map, where house 129 stood on the north side of Pallaskenry village, is now the Cluain Mhuire estate, Pallaskenry village.

This maybe a help in locating a Frawley family, Pallaskenry.