A letter from Fintan Costello
~ Our Irish Cousin ~
to Kim Daly Burns, daughter of Frank
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I came across this site on a search a couple of years ago. The Irish census stuff became available only recently. By coincidence it is a project of the Irish Archives crowd where they have buddied up with Canada since Canada had already developed the technology. They intend to include the 1901 census fairly soon, so we would have access to both 1911 & 1901. The earlier census records were mostly destroyed by fire during the Irish Civil War of 1922.

The Griffith's Valuation material is interesting too and it is good that it is now on line. Your Dad, Frank was the only one of the Daly Brothers that I have met. Teresa and I met him in Michigan in 1968. He was great fun. We had just come to North America then, had no children at the time, and went camping across the continent. I never met my aunt Margaret or Jim Daly. One thing came to mind since I sent the last bit of stuff to Marilyn - My sister, Bernie, still lives in the house I mentioned that we got in 1950. Your Dad visited and stayed there. He would not have been aware nor was I until recently that he was walking around land cultivated in the 1850's by James Daly (Daley), who I presume was his great-grandfather. Jim Daly, still alive at 90+ has always been our neighbour in Ireland. He is the son of Peter, your grandfather's brother, and that James would have been Peter's grandfather. Peter's father was also James but 60 in 1911, hence too young to be the head of the house in 1854.

I'm plugging away at trying to find a bit more on the Gannons. As you will see from my Mother's stuff, she was only guessing at birthdates before they came to the Rochfortbridge parish. Mother did not get any further with specifics, but she knew they came from the Co. Meath/Co. Kildare area. I believe from the status Edward Gannon had and the Swan and Boylan connections that I have a fairly good line on which Gannons they were. I'll continue to play around with that and hopefully it will work out.

We live in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. We have three children, Fiona, Shannon, and Adrian. The girls are married. Fiona has four: Liam, Gemma, Aiden, Julia. Shannon has one: Ciara. Both of the girls kept their own names through marriage.

Again, great job and it is wonderful that you are working on this.

Take care,
Fintan

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