Conneely & Curran

Hi Bill

You are in the wrong Parish but I stumbled across your message by accident, Spiddal is in Connemara on the West Coast of Ireland. I have just been researching Conneelys from Galway (Connemara) as my husbands family are Conneelys from Inverin, Connemara.  There are a lot of Conneelys around those parts (we have just found living family by posting messages up on Facebook pages in the area, one called Connemara News was really helpful). Depending on the dates you are looking at the website https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ may be helpful for you to look at to try and narrow down where Bart was from.

Krista McKenna

Sorry just realised you are not in the wrong Parish at all! It's me that is, how fortunate though that I clicked the link by accident and we just happen to be searching for the same family name. :)

Bill:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Unfortunately, the RC records for Spiddal start late-- 1861 for baptismal records and 1873 for marriage records.

I checked the 1855 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing for Moycullen civil parish  (which includes Spiddal) and there were eighteen Curran records. Do you know Margaret's parents names from her death record? 

There were also twenty-two Conneely records on the Griffiths for Moycullen.

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Roger McDonnell

Hello, 

My husband is also related to Currans and Connellys from the Spiddal/Inverin/Carna areas. As far as we can tell our link is to Nicholas Curran (Cregduff)  married to Margaret O'Flaherty (Inis Mor) -although it seems likely that our Curran was a brother to Nicholas (Martin). You might also check with the Maine Irish Center in Portland , Maine - that is a woman there, Margaret,  that would be related to your line and was very helpful to us. Victoria and Richard Curran

Hi, I am descended from Martin Curran and Catherine Ryan. Martin came to Boston from Galway and he and Catherine had two children. Martin (my great grandfather), who was born October 1875 in Massachusetts, and Bridget, who was known as Lena, in August 1877, in Lynn Massachusetts. The family settled in Norwood Massachusetts. Lena was married to John P Cavanaugh, and they remained in Norwood. Martin came to New York City where he married Anna Bernard. Martin and Anna had  three children, Honorine Madeline ( my grandmother), born June 24, 1898, Martin, born February 19, 1900, and Alexander born in 1903.  When I did my ancestry DNA, I had many connections to Connolly/Connelly, Folan, and Lydon lines, all of whom appear in the Norwood MA census and may have also come from Galway. I am very interested in finding out more about my Curran ancestors and how I am connected to these other families. 

Cgkennedy 

Lots to talk about here.   The Connelly, Curran, and Folans (Foley) all came from Spiddal and some from the Boliska area.  There is still a Kathleen Costello Connelly living in Barna who is related to my McDonough relative.. Also many of the Spiddal people from my family ended up in Norwoord.  Margaret at Maine Center is a DNA cousin of mine but we have not been able to make the connection.  Do you specifically know of any connection to Stephen Connelly who lived in Boliska around 1900 and was the husband of Anne (Nan) McDonagh who died in 1904?  We also have Lydon in our family 

Hi! We are all cousins!! I tied into Maine as well. We don't know the connection. Has anyone seen me on the GedMatch??

Hi Bill O'Hara

I may have missed it but what is your GED Match #? 

Is there anybody else in this Parish that has a GED Match #? 

Thanks

John Bearce

GED Match #M505940

I am GEDMATCH # A649310  

Mike Young 

(a Mcdonagh from Boliska) 

Mike Young,

No match Comparing Kit M505940 (John Bearce) and A649310 (*Mung6120)

I don't match any of those kits.  I am T342804.  I do match to cousins of Margaret LaCombe of the Maine Gaeltach project!  We discovered earlier in the year that I tie highly to some of her people.  I match several as a 2nd or 3rd cousin.  We are not sure as how it is possible.  The trees don't align properly.  We can't identify as to where my Curran came.  

I have no info.  We don't have the name of my Margaret Curran's parents.  Or her birthplace.

bill

Ha , we all seem to match Margaret , most likely through Feeneys or Folans (Foleys)  

Mike Young (Lee, McDonagh)  

The Feeneys have Curran DNA. they descend from a Curran. Is this how you are matching ??

The Feeneys have Curran DNA. they descend from a Curran. Is this how you are matching ??

No match Comparing Kit M505940 (John Bearce) and T342804 (William O'Hara)

I do not know how I am matching Margaret.  Need to get back to that.. 

I'm yet another person with Curran/Coneely connections from the Spiddal area.  My particular Coneely was Bartley but it appears there were three of them in that area.

Karen Frederick

Karen! Tell me more about your Bart. I think that mine died in Boston. They already had several children and his wife, Margaret, lived in South Boston.

They were both apparently born in Ireland.

There appears to be a couple with the same first names that lived around Wakefield and another couple seemly in Portland Maine.

Which one are you tracing??

Bill

I am tracing a Bart Coneely that was born around 1841 and married Anne Curran in and around Kilroe.  My g-grandmother was Julia Coneely who then emigrated to South Boston in 1895 and married a William Curran.

oh, btw...  My Gedcom #460172

Karen Frederick

Karen Frederick

Your GEDmatch is missing the letter before the 6 digits.

Thanks

Whoops, add an ‘A’

Karen

My gedmatch kits

ZQ6814890

T342804

I have a whole assortment of cousins via DNA match on FTDNA, Ancestry, and MyHeritage. I have thoughts about which lines might soemhow tie to the different ones.  I have very strong DNA connections to the group of kits associated with Margaret of Maine.  There are many Connollys in my dna matches.  Some of the kits would ostensibly actually tie to my great great grandparents from Loughrea Galway or the set from Sligo.  Seriously, I think that some of the kits have DNA sequences from early times - those are the periods prior to records - that tie to Connollys. 

My Conneely "Conley" was Bart Conneely.  He married a Margaret Curran.  The folks in Maine have a DIFFERENT Margaret Curran.  I'm not sure were she originated.

Bartley put his parents names as John and Bridget.  The Bridget might have been a Fallon, Whelan, or a Flaherty.  This ia guess from some of the DNA kits.

Margaret put her parents as John and Mary.

I have a DNA match to a Fiona Conneely, which I think might be a relation of Barley.  The match is small.  Her tree goes to a set of great grandparents, Patrick Conneely and a Mary.  This Patrick might have been a grand nephew of My Bartley or a nephew.

I also have matches with a Mary Borrello, an Alan Folan, etc. 

Anyone identify a specific spot?  Or figure something in a tree that has room for me? 

thanks

Bill

Greetings Bill,

I have Conneely connections on both sides of my family.

My mother's Conneely side comes from Shannagurran, a townland

just north of Spiddal Village, by Boluisce Lough. There was a Bartley

Conneely up there, though perhaps not during the time interval of interest

to you.

On my father's side the Conneely connections are several miles

west of the village, in and around the townland of Banraghbaun South

(Banrach Bán Theas, 'Bontrach') near Tully/Inverin. Many of the Conneelys

out there can be traced back to the Aran Islands.

There are various Conneely groups  between Spiddal Village

and west to Rosseveal. I know there were Bartley Conneelys among them.

I am an Ancestry DNA match to Mary Borrello and Alan Folan.

For Mary it is a 2nd-3rd cousin match. But she has no tree.

The shared DNA matches show both strong maternal and paternal

connections. It is not unusual for me to be related to someone from the

Cois Fharraige (the North Galway Bay coastal region between Barna

and Inverin), in more than one way.

For Alan Folan, it is a 5th to 8th cousin match. He has no tree either.

Interpreting the shared DNA matches for me and him is more fuzzy,

because of the distance of the relationship.

Many people from Spiddal went into Portland Maine.

I searched for you on Ancestry, but didn't find you.

Best Wishes,

John Keady

Hi.  I am on Ancestry.  I did message you previously and try to sort a possibility with your Bart...no go!  I couldn't figure anything that worked.  I think that connection is further back.  I have you grouped in one my Conneely groups.  Everyone belongs to a different set of groupings save for one cousin that is actually both an O'Hara and Conneely cousin.

My Bart would potentially have a family unit with at least this.

John Conneely m.  Bridget c 1800 - 1835

b. Bart c.1835
b. Margaret c.1845

We have so many Barts in the Portland grouping.  I have good DNA matches to a bunch in Maine.  I have built trees up from people with different surnames and they actually trace to another Bart Conneely marrying this Margaret.

Plus, I have the many matches to folks in Spiddal, Galway City, etc that match Margaret and the other Feeneys.

Greetings everyone,

I descend from Margaret Feeny Curran and Nicholas Curran of Cregduf, An Spiddeal county Galway. My grandmother Bridget Curran Weatherby (April 15, 1909)emigrated to Boston June 2, 1930. after her sister Barbara and brother Michael.

Nicholas  in Cregduf 1938.

Margaret died in 1950 with her youngest child, Nappy, present at death in county Galway. I cannot find anything else on Nappy from here.

highly suspect that our family descended from Aran islands in part. We are related to John Wayne’s family as my grandmother was cousins with him, although I suspect they didn’t ever know each other.

 Thank you, in advance, if anyone has any tips, connections, etc. I visited An Spiddeal this past summer and was unable to connect with living relatives to date.