O'Flaherty

Hello Margaret,

If you go to www.rootsireland.ie , you will find the baptismal record for Simon O Flaherty in the Aran Islands  RC in 1881.   It's free to join this site and search it, but you will have to pay about €5 to view the record.  Hopefully it will yield much information for you.

Regards,

Anne Dennehy

Margaret,

I forgot to say that when you know the names of his parents, you may be able to search newspaper records for information on that trajic accident.  It may tell to whom the children were sent after their parents' deaths.

Look also at the 1901 and 1911 census for Simon.  Have you any idea what was the name of his sister?

Anne

Hi Anne

No I have no more information on Parents names or his sisters name - as he was at war from 1899 he is not on 1901 census. I am going to RDS tomorrow for Back to past show so hopefully I will get some more leads there.

Thank you so much for your help so far and no doubt I will probably be back on to you if I get some more information

:)

Margaret

margaret,

You will find his parents names on the baptismal record on www.rootsireland.ie.  It only costs about €5 and will set you on your way to discovering much more about the family.

When yu know the names of his parents please post them here and I can perform a search for all children born to this parents.

Let me know when you biew the record and I will help if I can.

It's all there on the bap record.

Anne

Hi Anne

I purchased the Baptism Record from Simon

However - it says Simon Flaherty (and the O' is left out) not sure why??

Parents names are Bartholomew Flaherty & Catherine Flaherty

Occupations: Blank

Date of Baptism 3rd November 1881

Date of Birth - Blank

Parish   Aran Islands

Dem: Roman Catholic

Sponsors:  Stephen Flaherty & Catherine Hogan

Any further information would be so much appreciated

Many Thanks

Hello Margaret,

Thank you for giving me the names of Simon's parents.  It's a pity that his mother' maiden name is not given asw in most records.  However I put in the information that I had  child born to Bartholomew O Flaherty (doesn't matter if there is an o or not)  with mother Catherine.   I got back about 8 records in the date range.  Who new that the name Bartholomew would be prevalent in Galway???   I narrowed down toh search to the Aran Islands and came up with just two records.  Simon's record (which you have) and a record for Bridget O Flaherty born in 1884.

At least now you have both sibling names and hopefully you may be able to search newspapers to see if there is anything about an accident.

I went to the census to see if I could find a Bridget O Flaherty or Flaherty.  Both are distinct on the census but not often on church records.

She would have been aged between 16 and 18 years, depending on when her birthday fell and when the census was taken.   I found a record for a servant girl Bridget Flaherty living with a Mc Hale family in Aillebrack, Co. Galway.  Don't know if she is your Bridget or not.

It may be worth contacting the local newspaper in the Aran Island to see if they have copies of old articles and where they would be kept now.

Anyway that's all I have for now,  

Kind regards,

Anne

Hi Margaret,

I forgot to say that when you open  Bridgets record it might give the maiden name of her mother (fingers crossed) .  You might let me know what it says and we'll see if there is anything more we can do for you,

Regards,

Anne

HI Anne

I visited the GRO to day and got a copy of Bridgets Birth Certificate - 28/12/1883  Father Bartholomew Flaherty - Mother Catherine Flaherty (Maiden surname also Flaherty) - 

Fathers profession; Land holder - Residence of Father Inishere

Any further information would be so much appreciated

Many Thanks

Margaret

Hi Margaret,

I went to www.rootsireland.ie and searched the marriage record with both names you gave.  It seems that there are two records for their marriage in 1874.  One record is a church record and the other is a civil record.  

I did a full search for all offspring and still only found the two children.

I think you may need to follow up newspapers to see what happened the parents.

Sorry I can't be of anymore use.

Kind regards,

Anne