Looking for ancestors
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Looking for ancestors
I was directed to this site by John Patrick Gillooly of Atlanta, GA. We were both researching ancestors of Owen and Patrick Gillooly, Parish of Kilbride, Co. Roscommon. We know that their parents were John Gillooly and Mary Johnson. Can anyone provide more info. I am also sad to tell you that John P. Gillooly passed away in his sleep on April 30, 2006.
I am posting the following reply for Mary Lee Dunn who is having difficulty signing in.
Dear egillooly,
Thank you so much for posting the news about John Patrick Gillooly. I had wondered why I had heard nothing from him after the research trip he had planned in late April and early May. I had emailed and had nothing back, which concerned me. That was unlike him. He had told me I would not hear from him for a while, but too much time had passed.
On behalf of myself and the Ballykilcline Society, condolences to his wife Beth and their family.
I had known John Patrick only a short time before his death. He had registered with Beth for the Ballykilcline Reunion in late June in Albany, NY, and Rutland, VT, and we had looked forward to meeting them. John Patrick and I had traded much information during the few weeks in which we connected.
Correspondence with him and postings on this site showed that he had an appreciation of and interest in his heritage, a strong family connection, a sense of humor, an attachment to poetry, anecdote, and nature, and a strong interest in West Virginia’s local oil industry history. Perhaps a Ballykilcline connection, or maybe not. You can see by the number of people who read his thread -- more than 2,000 -- that he stirred something here. It was obvious that he had joie de vivre, and I knew he would be a great social mixer at the Reunion.
To his family, sincerest sympathy. I am saddened that I never met him in person. To my “Cousin” -- how he addressed me -- peace.
Mary Lee Dunn
Dear egillooly,
Thank you so much for posting the news about John Patrick Gillooly. I had wondered why I had heard nothing from him after the research trip he had planned in late April and early May. I had emailed and had nothing back, which concerned me. That was unlike him. He had told me I would not hear from him for a while, but too much time had passed.
On behalf of myself and the Ballykilcline Society, condolences to his wife Beth and their family.
I had known John Patrick only a short time before his death. He had registered with Beth for the Ballykilcline Reunion in late June in Albany, NY, and Rutland, VT, and we had looked forward to meeting them. John Patrick and I had traded much information during the few weeks in which we connected.
Correspondence with him and postings on this site showed that he had an appreciation of and interest in his heritage, a strong family connection, a sense of humor, an attachment to poetry, anecdote, and nature, and a strong interest in West Virginia’s local oil industry history. Perhaps a Ballykilcline connection, or maybe not. You can see by the number of people who read his thread -- more than 2,000 -- that he stirred something here. It was obvious that he had joie de vivre, and I knew he would be a great social mixer at the Reunion.
To his family, sincerest sympathy. I am saddened that I never met him in person. To my “Cousin” -- how he addressed me -- peace.
Mary Lee Dunn
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