McCarthy/Reidy Ancestors Askeaton

We are arriving in Askeaton late Sunday 13th September and we have 2 nights there, before going to Cobh Harbour for a night. We are meeting someone locally having contacted them through your message board.

Our McCarthy-Reidy Ancestors:

This is the only thing we can find out about the family - this is all that was on the shipping list which stated “Natives of Co Limerick”

Michael McCarthy was 30 & Eliza Reidy his wife was 27, Michael was a gardener, and as most of the passengers on

the “Aliquis” were from the Shanagolden area, we often wondered if Michael was a gardener in that area.

People who have done research for me are quite sure they were Catholics early on, probably married as, but possibly changed to Protestant during later 1820’s.

The children on shipping list 1839 Australia , Mary 13, Thomas 12, Cath 9, Ellen 6.

Regards

Judy McCartney