My Great Grandparents were: Thomas Donegan who married Marcella O'Shea and had 1 child Michael (age 10 in 1911 census - My Grandfather - Married Margaret "Maggie" Feeney age 3 in 1911) - Kings (Offaly) County Ireland.
Other Great Grandparents were: Thomas Feeney and Bridget Hunt Feeney (Sligo - ages 36 and 41 respectivly in the 1911 census) Lissadill West, Sligo had 3 daughters Mary, Maggie (my grandmother) and Bridget.
I have identifed 1 Great Great Grandparent:
Great Great Grandmother: Margaret Hunt age 76 in 1911 census (Also from Sligo)
Thursday 24th Jan 2013, 04:57PM
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Hello,
I will be in Clonbullogue next Wednesday and will bring your query with me - let's hope we can find something.
Who has the connection to Clonbullogue - that's not clear from your information.
regards
Dolores O'Shea
Ireland XO County Offaly Animator
Friday 25th Jan 2013, 04:19PM -
Clonbullogue ancestors - My Mother was born and raised there, emigrated to the US in 1958
Her father Michael - only child (Born in 1901 - can be found on the census link below)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/King_s_Co_/Bracknagh/D…
was living with his father Thomas (The farthest I can go back in my family tree on the Donegan side) age 49 in 1901 who married Margaret O'Shea (who died shortly after the 1901 census)
If I can somehow go back further than the 49 year old Thomas Donegan (in 1901) - that would be GREAT!
Thomas and his son Michael and his Daugher (my mother) were all born and raised in Kings (Offaly) County, IRE
Friday 25th Jan 2013, 04:48PM -
Land Survery: Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation
There are 32 Donegans in Griffiths Valuation - all the townlands are near to one another and in the vicinity of Clonbullogue so there's a good chance they are your ancestors - if you know where farm land is (still in the family?), the names can be matched to it and you can identify your gt-gt-grandfather:
Another way to go is to contact the Offaly genealogy centre to see if there are any records - please let them know we sent you! The Irish Midlands (Counties Laois & Offaly) Ancestry service can be contacted here:<?xml:namespace prefix = o />
http://www.irishmidlandsancestry.com/content/contact/contact_details.htm
info@offalyhistory.com / Telephone + 353 (0)57 9321421.
Please note theirs is a chargeable service - there is a form on the website to complete and a first search costs ?10.
Friday 25th Jan 2013, 07:13PM -
Headstones in Clonbullogue graveyard;
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Margaret Donegan; Clonbullogue
16/10/1977 (76) (b.1901)
grandson; died in infancy
her son-Thomas
8/3/1985 (62) (b.1923)
her hus-Michael
27/12/1987 (87) (b.1900)
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Patrick Donegan; 72
wife-Elizabeth; 74
his bro-Thomas; 35
erected in 1922 by Michael
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Jack
Thursday 7th Feb 2013, 09:38PM