Irish-Welsh Ancestry

Our latest research focused on a McCarthy family in Co. Cork. One family member, Denis McCarthy, remained a mystery. His family did not know what had become of him. The commonality of the name in Cork compounded the challenge. When we searched the 1901 Irish census, we found 89 men named Denis McCarthy of similar age. Each one had to be meticulously ruled out. Eventually, we found him and uncovered his story. Denis McCarthy was born on the 10th of January 1886 in Curraclogh, near Kilmurry in...

In 1901, James Kenny was in his late 60s and living at 8 Great Ship Street, Dublin. His occupation was recorded as an engine fitter, a skilled trade that had once provided a modest living. But by the turn of the century, James was a widower, his wife having died six years earlier. He shared his one-room home with his twenty-year-old daughter Caroline Johnson and two of his grandchildren, eighteen-month-old Edward Johnson, and seven-year-old Jane Dunne. Great Ship Street was a narrow...

A Department of Defence stamp dated March 15th, 1933 , marks a significant appeal from Denis McCarthy of Ovens, Co.Cork. Writing to request a gratuity or pension. McCarthy outlined his extensive service and subsequent hardships during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Military Service and Condemnation Denis McCarthy joined the Irish Volunteers in 1917. The Company he served was based at Srelane. Srelane is located between the Ovens Bridge bar and the turn off for the Lee Valley Golf...