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.

County Limerick

A county and a city, where lots of Crowe records are to be found. However, they are hard to group into rational families.

One reason could be the migration of these people from Clare, at a point just to the north-east of Limerick City. Clare is separated by a large lough formed on the length of the Shannon. There were 'bridges' to the north of Lough Derg at Portumna and to the south near Limerick. Therefore there were not many longstanding families and hence hard to establish what relations they may have had. This siruation is exactly like the emigrants who went to other countries

One exception to this is Ballingarry (not to be confused with the same name parish in East Tipperary, bordering Kilkenny.)

Please note - three parishes on the map marked red. appear on Tipperary and Limick maps

Newcastle West and Shanagolden

also Kilcolman, Askeaton

Newcastle West is a parish to the east of the county and seems to be the centre of a bunch of Crowes with some neighbouring parish links - see chart. A dominant name here is Donnell

Surnames: BRODER, BYRNE, McCARTHY (x2), FORAN, McGRATH, SHAUNESSY, WARD

Surnames: BARRY, BURNS / BYRNE, O;DONNELL, HAYES, NASH, SHEEHAN, WEEKS

This is Walter's Tree. Although not specifically named as the father. Walter is arare name associated with Crowe and has a lot of significance in Tipperaary. It is placed like this through the use of the Irish Naming Pattern. Four people with a first born of unusual name in one Parish is a lot of circumstatial evidence. Ballingarry is well populated with the Crowe name so rarity can not be included in the case for one family.

Surnames: FARRELL, FLEMING, LOUGHMAN MAHER, MURPHY

Limerick City, St Mary Parish

There are approximately 45 families in this parish, from before 1800 but very little evidence any of them are linked. The tree shown is before 1800 and despite many families in the 1800s there are no easily identified links. This is a similar pattern to other areas or cities that have RC records before 1800. One answer to this may be DNA connections helping to identify branches of this population in the greater Crowe tree.

Surnames: DEE, DILLON, FLOYD, HEHER, HONESY

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