Looking for information on Maley

Re Mary from French wark (?) there?s a Frenchlawn and a Frenchpark in Roscommon. Named after the French family, whose home was in Roscommon, made famous by William Percy French the poet, painter and song writer. He wrote the Mountains of Mourne, Abdul Abulbul Emir, Slattery?s mounted foot etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_French

Hi Ian & Elwyn
Lovely song Mountains of Mourne!
I've had quite a search for James & Mary - not too successful I'm afraid!
The closest match for James on www.rootsireland.ie/ is:
Name: James Omally Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1832
Date of Baptism: 22-Feb-1832
Address: Not Recorded Parish/District: LOUGHREA
Gender: County Co. Galway
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Father: O Mally Michael Mother: Concannon Elizabeth
Occupation: Not Recorded
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1: O Shaughnessy Thomas
Loughrea is a few miles up the road from the Kil parishes.
Mary was just as elusive - the search involved trying all letters of the alphabet for the surname but nothing came up for French Park R C or Civil parishes.
This was the closest:
Mary McGee Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1835
Date of Baptism: 11-Nov-1111
Address: Not Recorded Parish/District: CROGHAN
Gender: Female County Co. Roscommon
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Father: John McGee Mother: Brigid McDermott
Occupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1: Michael Quinn Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2: Winifred Haly
Croghan looks not too far from French Park
There are 8 Maleys in the 1821 Irish Census (free online
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/)
Galway records aren't included in the 1831, 41 or 51 censuses!!
There are also 9 in the Tithe Applotments 1826-33 (free http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/)
No Maleys in either parish in Griffiths Valuation 1848-64.
I tried other translations of Kiltolock as in the English Census & got a James Malley 1822 TURLOUGH , Mayo??!!
Col

Hi

Thanks for the responses, some good information, The Children of the two that I am trying to trace, consistantly kept the name James in the family through the generations.

I will dig further and see if there is any other information around to see what there story was upon their arrival into England. Interestingly they came to live 5 miles from where I live now.

Hi

Thanks for the responses, some good information, The Children of the two that I am trying to trace, consistantly kept the name James in the family through the generations.

I will dig further and see if there is any other information around to see what there story was upon their arrival into England. Interestingly they came to live 5 miles from where I live now.

Hi Ian, i think we we have common ancestry: James Maley born ‘Kiltolock’ and Mary born ‘French Park’ according to 1861 census. Their son James was my great grandfather. Who are you descended from? Kind regards, Helen.