HI!<br>Flanagan CLOONMULLIN,Castlerea Roscommon<p>The last member of that family to live there is dead for many decades, my grandfather's uncle Michael Flanagan. He was already<br>62 years old in 1948 when he inherited the very small (18 acres) farm from his mother Margaret whose husband Edward Flanagan<br>died prior to the 1911 Census. He was my own grandfather's grandfather. The 1901 Census lists him as a tenant farmer, which<br>meant the land was owned by a landlord, but in the<br>process of land reform a few years later the Flanagans had gained ownership<br>of the farm themselves by the time of the 1911 Census.<p>These are from the 1901 and 1911 Censuses<br>held under British rule.<p>The 1901 Census details for Cloonmullin lists Edward Flanagan as the head of<br>the family, aged 70, a tenant farmer by occupation. His wife Margaret was<br>aged 60. Both were listed as speaking Irish as well as English, since<br>Roscommon was then undergoing a linguistic transition from Irish to English.<br>But their children did not speak Irish. The children were Mary aged 20, a<br>farmer's daughter, Honoria aged 18, a farmer's daughter, Thomas aged 16, a<br>farm labourer, Michael aged 14, a scholar or school-child, and JAMES aged<br>10, also listed as a scholar, who was my grandfather's father.<p>By the time of the 1911 Census Edward is dead and both Mary and Thomas have<br>left Cloonmullin. Moreover, Norah is the version of her name now used by<br>Honoria. And my great-great-grandmother Margaret has taken six years off<br>her age! The 1911 occupants of the Flanagan home are Margaret aged 64, a<br>widowed head of family and farmer, and her children, Norah aged 27, Michael<br>aged 22, a farmer's son, and JAMES aged 19, also listed as a farmer's son.<p>My grandfather Andrew got a distant cousin TERENCE/TERRY FLANAGAN from Dublin who joined too in The International<br>Brigades. Terence dead for about ten years.<p>If anyone know something, please contact to me<br>Thank you<br>Olga G. Flanagan<br>flanagan@menta.net
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