Good to hear from you. I have joined up with your site and have posted a message: it relates to the Fyans family. I don?t hold out much hope for any responses as there has been a lot of research done already. It appears that the family were mainly itinerant or visiting farm workers and, although there were a number of births and marriages, the records in Athenry have been lost. But thank you for the opportunity to put my quest onto another forum where someone might be able to shed a little light on this corner of the family tree.
Best wishes
Brian Millane
P.S. My Millane family are from around Clountra in East Clare ? not far from Limerick city.
Paula Kennedy
Friday 10th Feb 2012, 03:13PMMessage Board Replies
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Hi Brian,
There is a group called Galway Family History West Ltd, who are based in Galway City in Shantalla. They might be able to help you http://www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage/galway-family-histo…; according to one of the census there was a Fyans man in the Royal Irish Constabulary. Would he be a relation of yours?
Ronan Killeen
Thursday 17th May 2012, 02:53PM -
Hi Brian,
There was a Patrick Fyans in Athenry in 1901 who was a sergeant of the Royal Irish Constabulary who lived with his wife, four daughters and 1 son http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Athenry/Athenry/1385589/.
Here are the hardcopies for 1901 census.
Household return http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000825773/
Enumenator's Return (Type of house inhabitants lived in) The house no. 183 seems to be missing for this census.#
House and buildings (Fyan's house no. is 183) http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000825615/.
There dosen't seem to be any Fyans on the 1911 census nor the land valuation which is called Griffith's. RIC men would have been moved around a lot thought. I will look at the Irish Times newspaper archive and see what I can find.
Ronan Killeen
Friday 9th Nov 2012, 02:36PM