Mary Jane McLaughlin in Balley Feeney

[Jane Ellen Brennan Herrin]

Greetings,<p>I am seeking any information/advice regarding Mary Jane McLaughlin. She was born in 1868 in Balley Feeney allegedly in Roscommon. Her parents were Michael McLaughlin and Catherine Fallon. I have been unable to find Balley Feeney on any map. That's all I've got on her until she showed up in Providence, Rhode Island and married my great-grandfather in 1895. <p>Thank you very much for your time,<p>Jane
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[Mary Lee Dunn]

: Greetings,<p>: I am seeking any information/advice regarding Mary Jane McLaughlin. She was born in 1868 in Balley Feeney allegedly in Roscommon. Her parents were Michael McLaughlin and Catherine Fallon. I have been unable to find Balley Feeney on any map. That's all I've got on her until she showed up in Providence, Rhode Island and married my great-grandfather in 1895. <p>Jane,<br> Ballyfeeney is a townland in Kilglass Parish, near Strokestown. It is just down the road from<br>Ballykilcline. Fallon was a surname of tenants <br>evicted from Ballykilcline during the Famine. The<br>story is told in the book "The End of Hidden <br>Ireland" by Robert Scally of NY University.<br> A search is underway for the Lost Children<br>of Ballykilcline -- the descendants of those<br>several hundred evicted tenants. See the web site <br>at www.ballykilcline.com. Then contact Maureen<br>McDermott Humphreys or Peter Hanley from the web<br>site. They are leading the search. A reunion of<br>descendants is planned in County Roscommon in <br>August 1999.<br> Please let me know if you have any Rileys or<br>Colligans connected with your family. I believe<br>my immigrant great great grandfather descended<br>from Michael Riley in Ballyfeeney in the 1820s.<br>His wife was Ann Colgan (or Colligan).<br> Many people from Roscommon, and Kilglass<br>Parish in particular, went to Providence after<br>the Famine. My ancestors moved on then to<br>Burrillville, north of Providence, and then to<br>eastern Connecticut. I can give you more information about Ballyfeeney. Please e-mail me.<br>Good luck in your search.<br> Mary Lee Dunn<br> <p>: Thank you very much for your time,<p>: Jane<p>

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MaryLDunn@aol.com

[Mary Lee Dunn]

: Greetings,<p>: I am seeking any information/advice regarding Mary Jane McLaughlin. She was born in 1868 in Balley Feeney allegedly in Roscommon. Her parents were Michael McLaughlin and Catherine Fallon. I have been unable to find Balley Feeney on any map. That's all I've got on her until she showed up in Providence, Rhode Island and married my great-grandfather in 1895. <p>: Thank you very much for your time,<p>: Jane<p>Jane,<br> Griffith's Valuation (1854) lists an Anne <br>McLoughlin in Ballyfeeny. She's the only <br>household of that surname. There are no Fallons<br>listed at that time. But there were three<br>families of Fallons among the Ballykilcline<br>evictees. See the Ballykilcline web site for<br>their names.<br> Mary Lee Dunn<br>

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[Peter Rourke]

Hi There Jane and Mary Lee<p>My paternal grandmother Margaret McLoughlin was born at Ballyfeeny on 14 February 1862.<br>I think I have identified her family in the 1881 UK census for Co Durham:<br>James McLoughlin Head Age 50<br>Margaret Wife Age 40<br>Margaret Dau Age 18<br>and six other children (one of whom emigrated to Terre Haute, Indiana in the 1890’s)<br>The children’s places of birth indicate the family emigrated to UK circa 1863.<p>The only records I found available through the LDS FHC are the Strokestown Parochial Registers 1830-1862 which covered the parishes of Strokestown, Lissanuffy, Cloonfinlough and Kiltrustan. There were plenty of McLoughlins but unfortunately none that I could connect with, and quickly looking through my notes I can’t see your three names. If you are interested I can send you a copy of my notes -- just email and let me know.<p>These were the only records I could find through the FHC and now I’m at a bit of a loss as to where to look next. I’d be grateful for any suggestions that I can pursue from a distance (I live on the Canadian westcoast at Victoria, British Columbia).<p>Mary Lee, I’d love to hear any information whatsoever that you can tell me about Ballyfeeny, together with any other sources you know of or can recommend.
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