POWELL Families from Tulla, County Clare, who migrated to Australia

Dear Daryl:

Many thanks for your inquiry re the Powell family from Affick, Tulla.  The Powell family continued to live in Affick up until the 1970s or so.  Their house is still there and there is a family (not related) living there.

In addition, a member of the Powell family from Affick made a presentation to the Tulla Courthouse Committee several years ago with the gift of seating for the main hall.  There is a plaque at the front door of the Courthouse commemmorating same. 

I will attach the photo of the plaque for your reference. 

Many thanks for making contact with us and please don't hesitate to contact us again if you need any further information.

Kind regards,

Jane.

Hi Jane!

Very excited to get your message and to learn that POWELLs lived at Affick right up to the 1970s.

There are just so many questions I'd like to raise with you - including whether you are yourself a POWELL or related to the POWELLs, what, if anything, you might know about the relationship between the POWELLS of Affick and those of Tyredagh (Upper), what relationship was it between Cornelius, Connor, Thomas and Daniel POWELL, etc

My mother was a POWELL and a descendant of the POWELLs of Affick.

May we please continue to communicate by email.  My email address is dasmurphy@hotmail.com. I live at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

I would have loved to have seen the photograph of the plaque but I couldn't get the attachment to open for me.  Sorry!

Kind regards and best wishes

Daryl Francis MURPHY

Dear Das,

don't you just love the Baptismal and marriage registers!!!

 I've been wading through them for some time while trying to sort out Doyles and Hursts who lurk around Rosslara in the Tulla parish, lots of fun.  

My lot get tangled with Moloneys and Maroneys later on in the 1850's after your lot have left.  

My issue is the desperate need for an alphabeic index  in the earliest part of the  Tulla register, and infact through the the resest of the Killaloe parishes.

And i'm trying to avoid paying the 195 Euro charge by the clareresearchcentre.

regards

kate

ps. oooh have you seen the new ireland prision registers 1790-1924 at family search - go inn thru "location search"

Hi Kate & Das:

I read your recent notes and I just thought to let you know that we are hoping to have the baptismal registers online for Tulla before the end of the year.  It is a slow work in progress, but hopefully it will come about.  In the meantime, if you happen to look through the town lands page, I have listed all family names within each town land from griffith's Valuation and the 1901 census.  

Thanks for your interest in the web page.  If I can be of further assistance, please ask.  

Jane

Thanks so much Jane - i saw the names on Tuesday - and very much appreciated seeing them too!

Are you serious about the register being on line! That would be magnificent!  Its funny the difference between looking at the micorfilms of a register - you see the whole interweaving - names and places resurfacing - all the sideways stuff that is difficult to get when you are doing a direct "name" search.

My other difficulty appart from reading the writing and the terrible microfilms - is interpreting it - when i imagine that locals would immediately know that was so and so - for location and for surnames.

Just recently i've contacted the Clare centre in Corfin - and bitten the bullet and paid the 195 Euro because i was so desperately stuck with the Herst family - no idea where they come from before James surfaces in Rosslara getting married in 1857 - gets trickey when there are no leads and you are looking at a whole county ... very frustrating

meanwhile there is a family of Doyles to distract myself with

thanks for all your work

kate

ps Jane i would love to learn to pray the Our Father in Irish - do you reckon its possible to get an audio on the parish site?

Hi Kate:

Youre very welcome.  As we are volunteers and new to this endeavour, we are not always quick to reply o have a ready answer.  However, please feel free to continue to ask questions and we are more than happy to help,  thank you so much for your interest in this project.  I will continue to keep my eyes and ears open re the Doyles of Tulla.  

Jane