Culnan and O’Grady , my grandma was May Culnan and my grandfather Frank Ogrady, they were from Mayo, but moved to Roscommon.....I am interested in the extended family history of their siblings and families

Susan:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Can you give us more specifics? When did Frank and May marry? Do you know their approximate year of birth? Parents names, children etc. Culnan is a rare surname. In fact, no one had that surname in the 1911 census. Could be Cullinane, Cullen etc.

Roger McDonnell

You might be right, Cullinane.. may have been the spelling. I am not currenlty sure when my grandparents married but, the children are: Margaret 1931, John 193?, Bridget 1939, Catherine 1944, Anne Marie 1945. There were Cullinanes in Kilmaine, Richard and Peter, they were my grandmas brothers. I am unsure what happened to her sisters and I know very little about the O'Gradys. Frank was born in either 1899 or 1900, and May was likely born in 1901, he died in 1984 and she in 1994, she was 93. My understanding Frank was the youngest of 17. I am pretty familiar with my immediate , extended family, but both my grandparents siblings are a bit of a mystery. I have been to Cong and Kilmaine and have visited various cousins but not since I was a child. The last time in Ireland was when my grandmother passed in 1994. My mom (Catherine) and her sisters are all still alive in Canada and England, but we are all getting older and I would hate to never know the history.

Susan:

I assume this is the O'Grady family in 1901  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Houndswood/Ballymacgibbon_North/1577670/

and 1911 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Houndswood/Ballymacgibbon__North/705378/  14 children 11 living as of 1911.

Your grandfather's civil birth record  https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1901/01961/1756514.pdf

Let me know and then I will look for the other side of the family.

Roger