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I have just started to research my Grandad based on some very scant information - the family moved to the UK in the late 50's when my grandfolks came over to the UK to join my dad and the other sieblings who had all moved to England. I know that the family home was in the Killargue parish and the closest church was St Brigids - Grandad - Bernard Lyons , was born around the 1880's and in the 1901 Census I found a 16 year old Bernard Lyons born in Killarga, Drumahaire , Leitrum - he was one of only two Bernard Lyons' in Leitrum in the 1901 census and the other was too old .......so the age is about right being 16 in 1901 and the other family names Myles ( uncle ), James (my dad) , and Brigid (aunt)  and are all names used in my dads family  so looks scarily co-incidental. All of my dads family of his generation are deceased so we are working with snippets of information handed down by word of mouth. I am not even sure if Grandad was born in Leitrum , I know he got married in the US and then came back to Leitrum but this Census information looks a good place to start - I do know my dad was born in 1918 in Killargue and baptised at St Brigids - I also beleive the old family cottage (we think it is now an animal feed store) is owned by the Feeney family and I have plans to try and trace the property at some point with my two boys to show them their herritage. Any hints and tips at this stage in my journey would be warmly appreciated. Eamon Lyons 10/05/2013   

Friday 10th May 2013, 01:11AM

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