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 Wexford

The warmer and sunnier region of the outh-east. Strawberries and early potatoes come from this county. It contains the essential port of Rosslare as a near point for England and France.

Many family groups in this county (155) some of which had been settled since before 1800..

Although the county has Crowe residents in 1800, many of the people registered here are transient, maybe showing up one or two generations only.

Doyle surnames are almost ubiquetous in Crowe families across Wexford. Murphy, Sinnot and Redmond are regulary found too.

Each area seems to have its own short time period of decades Whilst families are often closely connected some families appear to have no descencents – did they move or emigrate?

Some unusual given names appear in this county, notably Moses but Philip, Myles, Morgan and Peter are also rare with the Crowe surname

There are more variations to the spelling of Crowe here than in other counties. Wexford is not noted for any strong accent but if people moved from Tipperary they would have a noted accent and pronounciation making a translation difficult

To add to this is a lack of association in some parishes between family groups in Wexford. In cities this is expected but in rural areas it rarely happens.

Notable associations do exist in Annaghdown, Davidstown, and St. Mullins Glynn parishes where there are big concentrations that stay together. Is this a migrant population (Blow-ins) that stick together or is it part of the transient nature of the locations as noted above?

As with other counties the missing links between the generations, seem to be due to the absence of men, with women being ‘left behind’ The migration of men with no prospects in Ireland and the relatively huge numbers of Irish in the English military services across the globe may be good reasons for this. Later, once migration was under way in large numbers single women were readily able to find factory work and gained a good reputation as domestic servants

Monamolin (3 slides) represents a parish with a high number of Crowe people and families. So many, that it was hard to identify easily the links between families. Added to that is most of them appear in one of about 30 townlands! Eventually some patterns emerged and resulted in three charts which should be

Slide 1 shows starter families from a 'clan', Slide 2 shows other descendents from those same families.

Surnames: CAVANAGH, DEMPSEY, DOYLE, MORDANT WOODBURN

Surnames: CARR, CONNORS, DOYLE, ROCHE, SINNOT, SYNNOT

Surnames: DOYLE, KENNY, KINSELLA, MORDANY, MURPHY

Enniscorthy

Surnames: BRIEN, CLANCY, CLEARY, CONNORS, CURRAN, DOYLE, EUSTACE, FENTON, FOLEY, GRACE, HIGGINS, SINNOT,MURPHY

Davidstown 1

Surnames: ANDERHAN, BRYAN, FURLONG, GOODWIN, HARPER, LACEY, LAMBERT, REDMOND, RONY, WAYNE

Davidstown 2

Surnames: BENT, BYRNE, CULLEN, DEVEREAUX, DOOLY, DOYLE, KELLY, TOBIN

Parish of St Mullins Glynn

Surnames: BRENNAN, CANAVAN, DEMPSEY, FORTUNE, GANNON / GARMON, KANE, KEEGAN, KELLY, REDMOND, RYAN

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