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Hello,

I recently discovered that my 3xgreat grandfather was a tenant on land in Mount Blakeney.  Most of what I know about him in Kilbreedy Minor is from Distress and Benevolence on Gertrude Fitzgerald’s Limerick Estate in the 1840s, by Desmond Norton.  His father William was the previous tenant on the land according to t he 1833 Tithe Applotment Book.  His mother was also on the land still, but only listed as Widow Callaghan.  After being moved off theland in 1846, John moved his family to Effin where they sublet from his brother-in-law James Carroll.  After his wife Hanora nee Carroll died (about 1857), he moved the family to Australia where I lost track of him and the rest of the family, other than my gggrandfather Michael Callaghan. 

Any help would be welcome.

 

Kevin Quattrin

Pacifica, CA

kquattrin

Thursday 10th Jun 2021, 01:40PM

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  • Hi Kevin,

    Have you any idea what territory John Callaghan moved to? It is a very common name in the Australian records.

    Attached shows a John Callaghan in 1858 who was recorded as "Cork".  If he had travelled from Queenstown (Cobh) he would be regarded as Cork.

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    Regards,

    McCoy

    Sunday 13th Jun 2021, 05:32PM

  • Thank you, McCoy.  Yes, that travel record is correct.  His five sons and two daughters were on the Bee with John, though his daughter Ellen was listed separately among the single females.  Michael moved to Melbourne by 1860 where he married.  I have several death records from the South Australia Library for a John Callaghan (including one who died in Ballarat in 18460 and was 44), but none turned out to be my John. 

    kquattrin

    Monday 14th Jun 2021, 01:42PM

  • Dear Kquattin

     

    I read with interest what you wrote and it was a very good article. I note that the family moved to Effin and I was wondering if Charlie Callaghan in Effin was part of your family. 

    My interest in the Blakney Estate stems from the fact that I am in contact with a member of the Bleakney Family who presently lives in Anchorage in Canada. I also have a brother living on some of the land that was originally the Blakney Estate.

    Quain, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Sunday 26th Nov 2023, 08:10PM

  • Hello, Quain,

    Thanks for the note.

    As far as I know, Charlie Callaghan was not related to my family, but maybe I just have not found the connection yet.  John Callaghan seems to have had at least one brother, possibly two.  I recently found that John remarried in South Australia and the marriage record named his father as William.   There was a William Callaghan on the ship to South Australia with John and his children in 1858 who was the age of his son William but turned out to not be him.  John's William had gone to America in 1854 to make a new live in Illinois near a Carroll relative.  The guess at this point is that the other William was John's nephew. 

    By the way, there reason the Callaghans moved to Effin was because John's wife Nora was the sister of the four Carroll brothers in Effin, and the right to lease one acre and a house was willed to Nora in 1842 when her father Michael Carroll died. 

    Do you know if or where the house books or land books for Mount Blakeney might be available? 

    Regards,

    Kevin

    kquattrin

    Saturday 16th Mar 2024, 03:04AM

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