Lee family

Dear Goldengenes:

Thank you for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the site!

It sounds as if you have done a lot of research.  Would you be willing to share some of your ancestor profiles through our XO Chronicles feature?  You can add as many profiles as you wish.  These profiles are updated weekly and are available to all our members to read.  Many times, there are others who are researching the same family, and it may lead to an opportunity to collaborate and share information.  The link for the XO Chronicles is at the top of the page and below:

https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy

If you have any difficulties, please let me know at:  jhalloranryan@irelandxo.com.

Thank you for your interest in Ireland Reaching Out and the very best of luck to you with your research!

Kind regards,

Jane.

Christine:

There are some free online resources that I think will allow you to further research your Lee family in Ireland. You listed a son Jacob of Bernard who was born in 1855. Jacobus is the Latin for James and in the 1901 census there was a James Lee in Tawlaght townland Kilronan civil parish who was living with his wife Ellen and seven children. The 1901 and 1911 census records can be found at cenus.nationalarchives.ie 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Aghafin/Tawl…

www.irishgenealogy.ie  has images of civil birth records from 1864-1916, marriages from 1869-1940 and deaths from 1877-1965. I located an 1881 marriage for a James Lee to an Ellen Gilooly. Father's names are listed on civil marriage records and you can see James' father was Bernard.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…

Looking at death records, James died in 1933 at age 74    His son in law was the informant.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_retu…

All of your records should be in the Boyle registration district so you may want to do some more searching for additional family records.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Roger McDonnell

Hi Christine, My name is Brian and I'm from Massachusetts. Not sure if we possibly have a few Lee family relatives in common, or just some coincidental names in common! I've been researching my family tree which lead me to Roscommon. I'll start with the oldest known relative and work my way down.

•(5th Gen) Great, Great, Great Grandfather:
John Gaffney, Cullard Cty, Roscommon.

•(5th Gen) Great, Great, Great Grandmother:
•Maria (Heslin) Gaffney, Cullard Cty, Roscommon

•Great, Great Grandfather:
James Shannon Lee, born April 25th 1867
(Married to)
•Great Great Grandmother:
Brigid G (Gaffney) Lee, born March 25th 1867 in Cullard Cty, Roscommon
*They married in Roscommon on Nov 19th 1889

•Great Grandfather:
Bernard Francis Lee, born Jan 21 1890
Lislea, Keadue Cty Roscommon
*He moved to MA and met/married my Great Grandmother Alice Claire (Mahoney) Lee
She was born April 27th 1893 in Westfield MA

Looks like our family line somehow crosses from James Shannon Lee and Brigid (Gaffney) Lee?

Let me know if any if this makes sense! I'd love to explore and research as much of the family tree and genealogy lines as possible!
Thanks!
Brian
briwlcx1@gmail.com

Although the original post about the Lees of Lislea is now more than 5 years old, I am hoping that he original poster is still following the thread.

I would be interested in joining the mentioned facebook group as I have come to strongly suspect that my 2 x great grandmother Bridget Lee of Cartonavalley, Kilronan was from the Lees who were in Lislea at the time of the Griffiths valuation. Bridget married Mathew Lynch of Cartronavalley in 1842 in Kilronan parish, Mathew was a widower, having previously been married to a Bridget McGirl. Mathew's brother Thomas married another Lee, Honor(ia) in 1835 and I suspect that Bridget and Honor were sisters but since DNA matches who are descendants of Thomas and Honor share Lynch genes too, I cannot tease that connundrum apart, I fear.

I am not sure whether you ever worked out if the family of the respondent to your query was indeed from the same family but just a note on his information for the information of other readers. Cullard (Cuillard in the modern terminology) is not a city, it is a townland. A townland is like the rural equivalent of a block or a few blocks, it is an area smaller than a district and in the case of Cuillard there were a total of 38 residents in 1901 and 31 residents in 1911, so far from a city (even though Americans do tend to use the term city to refer to smaller agglomerations than Europeans would use the term for).

Hoping to hear from some Lee descendants

Bernadette