Searching for ancestors fromCody/Coady family

Susan:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

You posted in the Gowran civil parish page so I presume you have information pointing to that parish. The RC records for that area start in 1809. I searched for all of Co. Kilkenny for Catherine Coady marriage records and there were a number of them but none to someone with the surname Cahill. There were three Catherine Coady (or variant) marriages in Gowran RC parish in early 1800s. Below is a transcription of the 1810 record ( the other records were 1824 and 1825). 

Date of Marriage:23-Dec-1810Parish / District:GOWRAN
County:Co. Kilkenny
Husband WilliamClear
Wife CatherineCoadyAddress:Not Recorded
Not RecordedDenomination:Roman Catholic
Roman CatholicOccupation:

Roger McDonnell

Hello Susan.  My name is Sue Kennedy and I live in Australia.  I have been trying to find Tobias Cody, presumably born around 1790ish in Gowran Kilkenny.  I'm wondering if he is a brother to your ancestor sisters Anastasia and Catherine.  Do you have any more information about these two women?  Would love to know any information you have about this Cody family. I have an intriguing tale for you if we can make a connection.   Many thanks.  Sue Kennedy

Hello Sue.

Thanks for our response regarding our search for information about the Cody/Coady family.  The information I posted in my original note was really everthing we have about the Cody/Coady family.  I don't know if it would be of interest, but we do have the story that Catherine's husband, Patrick Cahill, was involved in the unsuccessful Irish Rebellion of 1798.  He was older than his wife, Catherine,and would have been in his 20's by the year 1798.  I note we came across in one of the archives on Prince Edward Island indicated he was believed to have been the oldest survivor of that Rebellion in that region of Canada.  We are interested in all manner of intriging tales and would welcome adding what you have to the little accumulation we have.

Thanks for writing back Susan.  My tale is absolutely intriguing and one I'm continuing to research, however it only relates to the Cody's.  When I wrote to you I was asking if you knew if Anastasia and Catherine Cody had a brother named Tobias.  If so, my story relates to him.  Born in Kilkenny (I have a lead that takes me to Gowran in particular) in the early 1790's Tobias married a woman named Eleanor Collins in Dublin in 1809 and they worked as servants.  They had a child, Anne, in Dublin in 1812.  In 1815 Eleanor stole a plate from her employer and was transported to New South Wales, arriving in 1818.  Whilst awaiting transportation she was housed in Newgate Prison in Dublin and gave birth to a son on St. Patrick's day 1816, naming him Patrick.  He sailed to the colony with her.  She remarried, Edmund Buckley, also a convict who was then a ticket of leave holder, and who was given a parcel of land west of Sydney.  Young Patrick was well educated and then followed his step father's passion for landholding and cattle.  Both Edmund and Patrick moved south after Eleanor died in 1839, claiming large squatting runs in Victoria.  Patrick eventually settled on 53,000 acres in a place we now know as Seaspray.  He kept a diary of his 28 years living there up til his death, on the front veranda of his homestead, in 1872.  He died unexpectedly and without a will.  As he was an extremely wealthy man a huge worldwide search was conducted to find living relatives who could share in his fortune.  Nine Cody/Coady first cousins were located in Kilkenny, PEI, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New York.  A fascinating story.  My quest is to find Tobias and Eleanor and to do it through those nine living first cousins.  When I saw your post about your two Cody sisters, born about the same time as my Tobias, having moved to Canada, I couldn't help but enquire.  However if you don't know much of the Cody's then maybe I need to keep looking.  I have found parish records for Gowran online and there are quite a few Cahill's mentioned.  If you need reference to that let me know.  You probably already have it.

Thanks Susan,

Sue Kennedy

Hello Susan,  I've written to you before re the Coady's.  I've been re-reading your posts and am writing to you again.  I found a family tree on ancestry.com which talks about Catherine Coady who married Patrick Cahill and ended up on PEI.  The tree is owned by a person called Michael Kelly.  Do you know this person?  The tree is quite comprehensive.  If you don't know Michael Kelly I'll try and send you a link to his tree.  Do you subscribe to ancestry? 

I also have another document that lists Irish people living in PEI before 1846.  It lists Cahill's and Cody's.

I got some interesting information about my Coady's the other day from a US newspaper.  It suggested in the article that my Tobias Coady was the son of David Coady and Catharine McGrath and they had six children, one of them being Tobias.  It was the daughter of another of those six children, Patrick, who received some of Patrick Coady Buckley's estate.  do you remember my story from my last post?  Very interesting, that information is very new to me.  I know there was a Tobias Cody who emigrated from Kilkenny to PEI and married Susan Pennell and they had lots of children.  A theory of mine is that this Tobias was the husband of Eleanor who was transported with baby Patrick to Australia.  I guess husbands left behind after their wives were transported had to make a new life for themselves.

Can send things if you let me know your private email address Susan.

Sue Kennedy (Australia) 

To: Sue Kennedy (Australia)

I thought I posted a reply with new info about the Cody's, but it lookes like none of the content got posted.  If you are willing to correspond by email, we might have better luck.  My email is seephd8606@gmail.com.  Hope to hear from you.....

Susan Howard Erbaugh, Florida, USA