Working Models (WM)

Trees (flexible) using family blocks Bars show strong links. Arrows, possible links / useful data

Numbers in Black = years in the 1800s, Green = Census 1901, Red = Census 1911. Blue = Calculated

Locations of births at the bottom, sponsors names in red italics – possible family connections.

Galway RC Parishes map

This is a hand drawn map I use for working on locations with recordsby agreement with NLI, The orange dots are principle towns.

The Crowe name starts in County Clare, but internal migration south went towards Limerick City and then east Limerick and Tipperary. Going north it entered Galway, though in much smaller numbers and in particular places, not as a general spread.

Anthony - Castlegar is a rare combination with Crowe, here there seem to be some clear links between families and to USA migration?

Surnames: FLAHERTY, GLYNN, HOGAN, MULLOWNY, SKERRET, WALSH

Ballindooly - Castlegar, once on the outskirts of the old Galway City - today the city has consumed this area.

Only two links but many associations possible, shown by arrows. Not all these links are shown - it gets messy :)

Surnames: CAIN / KEANE, CADY / CODY / COADY, CASSIDY, DUGGAN, FAHY, FALLON, FARRAGHER, FRANCIS, TIGHE

Galway City as it was in the 1800s

The County Town and important port.The data here is on two sheets which is unusual because connections in cities are harder to make. Cities also change more at the end of the 1800s following the famine. Irelands cities grew enormously with the famine forcing internal migration for the poorest survivors and paradoxically, international trade , especially at the height of British Empire and growing wealth in Ireland.

Surnames: COLLINS / COLLERAN, CONNER, HANNON, HOLLERAN, HUGHES, MOLLOY

Surnames: BRODERICK, FORDE, LALLY, McDONAGH, SMALL

Glinsk is a parish above Killian in the north-east of Co Galway.It seems to be associated with Killian.

Surnames: FYNN, FLEMING, LEACHIE, MANNION, MORGAN, WARD

Killian Parish with Crowe Village

In many parts of Ireland you will find parish names mixed with surnames.Crowe Village no longer exists but a point on a map. it wasa acluster of houses. Of course in those days many of the houses were made of turf and some rock where possible but nothing long lasting. Then migration emptied these places and the land went back to fields and moor.

Surnames: CREAGHAN, CUSACK, HINDE, NOLAN, REGAN

Dunmore Parish

Michael and Patrick and the Noone Sisters

This family was researched from the USA and requests posted on Message Boards before the modern internet were kept and now have relevance to my research. They explain why I can not make descendent matches. The migrants were often badly recorded in Ireland and better recorded, from arrival, in the new lands. Now it is possible to put the two halves together but shows it is also necessary to keep anecdotal evidence to help this process

Both slides indicate Cincinatti as the destination and an intention of this site, to discover migration bridges, is fulfilled.

Surnames: BURKE, COMMOMNS, CONNOLLY, COSGRAVE, DISKIN, FLEMMING, KINANE, MARTIN, MELIA, NOONE, PATTON, ROWLEY, RUANE.

Surnames: CANNY, CORCORAN, MURPHY, NOONE (x2)

Surnames: COMBER, CONNELL, GLYNN, KYNE, LOGHAN, MANNION, MONAGHAN, NOLAN, READY

Tuam Parish

Surnames: BLAKE, BURKE, CROW, FLEMING, FLYNN, GILMORE, HUGHES, KILBYS, SHEPHERD, WALSH

Annaghdown Parish

Another parish with many Crowes. Although the parish is large the many families on the next 4 slides lived in and around a townland that is less than 1400 acres.

Barana also has a coastline with a large inland lake and I assume there must have been fishing available too, to supplement the diet.

Surnames: DUGGAN, FAHY, FEENY, FLAHERTY, GLYNN, KILKELLY, SOMERVILLE

Surnames: BANE, BURKE, CROWE, DUGGAN, HYNES, NEVIL, QUINN, WINN

Surnames: CAREY, CASEY, CAVANAGH, COSTELO, CROWE, HUGHES, MURPHY, ROCHE, SCULLY

Surnames: BURKE, CAHILL, CAULFIELD, FORDE, GOOLY, QUINN

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