Edmund and Mary Walsh from TullaBeg, Galey(married c.1832) descendents

Have you seen this?  Saw this years ago as a book exerpt in the Chicago Tribune. 

http://books.google.com.pe/books/about/Remembering_Ahanagran.html?id=I3…

I'm also researching Walsh in Kerry.  I wasn't able to connect to the ones is Ahanagran.   Mine are from Farranpierce and possibly Dromin.  My GG grandparents were William Walsh and Mary Kennedy (m 1857). 

Sounds like you've done lots of research.  I found quite a Kerry records on the Irish Genealogy site if you haven't used it.

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/bc0e830046…

Good luck!!

Cathy

Thanks Cathy.  Yes I bought the book Remembering Ahanagran by Richard White.  This book is the main reason I hope descendents from Willliam Walsh (my GGGrandmother Marys brother) and Ellen Carr are still living maybe even farming on the same farms, as in 1995 they were.

Best Wishes in your search,                                                                                                       Chris  

I am in contact with 2 people in the U.S , who are related to some members of these families. Namely the Catherine Walsh/ Patrick Quille, and the other Edward (Ned) Walsh/Lizzie Sullivan, families.Would you like to post a reply, although your message is 3 years old......hope you are still searching. Ang from Kerry.

Hi Ang, Yes I am still searching and would love to be in touch with descendents of the Catherine Walsh/Patrick Quill and Ned Walsh/Lizzie Sullivan families.  I managed to find descendents of William Walsh and Helen Carr who still live in the Ballylongford area.  Last year my husband and  I visited the Ballylongford/Listowel area and were able to meet up with members of this family.  We had one full day of travelling around this area north of Listowel (also getting lost!) visting the Galey Cemetery  and found the old Nolan homestead in Drombeg with alot of help from local folk :-).   It was an amazing. experience.  Many thanks for your post  even though mine was 3 years old!  I never give up :-)      Chris in New Zealand

I have sent a screen shot of your reply , on to the States, so that they can view your details. I am related to them through a DNA test, so we are going through the records as best we can. I am probably related to you too, but will have a job proving it.Ang.

Lady in the U.S would like to know if you are on Ancestry? My e mail is  anghenderson56@yahoo.ie    if this would be easier for us both.

Has anyone on this post been DNA tested on ancestry.com?  Our third great grandfather is Michael Walsh of Tullamore (b abt 1800 or so). And we have DNA matches with people descended from Mary Walsh and Edmund Walsh (one of whom is probably Michael's sibling) through their children William and Joanna.  

We're also a DNA match with people descended from Mary Walsh and Edmund Walsh through their daughter Catherine.

I had my DNA tested with Ancestry, so maybe you have already seen my profile.  If you are having problems , email me at the address that I had given in my reply to kiwibird56, and I will forward my profile name on Ancestry to you.AngQH.

It didn't look like you mentioned which Tullamore Walshes are your ancestors. We have tree on Ancestry with about 19,000 people. There are about six of us descended from my grandfather who have tested so far -- and four of us are attached to that tree. We don't all match the same people. But one or more of us are matches with several of Mary Walsh's and Edmund Walsh's descendants.

Hi Kate and Angie, I'm Chris from the first message so related to you thru our common Ancestors.  It's so gtreat to make a connection.  I haven't done any DNA testing yet, I've been procrastinating, unable to decide on which company to go with.  Kate if you have 19,000 people on your tree you probably have these siblings of Michaels but just in case not.  I received these names from Mary in England whose direct ancestor is Bartholomew.  The Father is  Edmond Walsh, children Michael born c 1800, married Joanna McCarthy, (Kate if I'm understanding your message correctly these 2  would be your direct ancestors, would you please confirm this for me and Mary has their children as William born 1826, Edmund born 1830, martin born 1831, John born 1834 and Stephen born 1837)....now carrying on with Michaels siblings..... Edmund born c. 1802 (my ancestor) , Daniel born c. 1803, married Mary Costello, Thomas born c. 1804 married Mary O'Donnell, William born c. 1806. married Bridget Molouny, Bartholomew born c. 1808, married Mary Connor.  Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes, Chris in NZ

Thank you so much for that info!!  That is going to help a lot in sorting out some information. We have other DNA matches with Tullamore Walshes as ancestors.  And we were trying to figure out if they were siblings or cousins of our Michael. 

And, yes, we are descended from the Michael who married Johanna McCarthy -- through their son William. Johanna and those five sons moved to the U.S. in the early 1850's. Stephen went out to the gold rush in Nevada in the mid 1850s. William moved to Wisconsin by 1860. Edward, Martin and John remained in upstate New York with their mother. Johanna was living with William, Martin and John in various censuses. And in the 1860's, Johanna's son Edward placed an ad in the Boston Pilot's "Missing Friends" column searching for Stephen. And in that ad, he identified the family as being from Tullamore, parish of Gale, county Kerry. And we have found Martin's, John's and Stephen's baptisms there. (William's and Edward's were too early to be found.)

We believe that our Michael and Johanna may possibly have had daughters, too, but we haven't identified any yet.

I assume that Michael and the others may also have had sisters, too? 

We have family members who have tested on FTDNA, Ancestry.com, and 23andMe (including several on more than one site). They each have certain advantages. Matches usually have the best trees on Ancestry.com. That is extremely helpful -- e.g., it can be used for quickly identifying those with Tullamore ancestors. So we do most of our research there. However, FTDNA provides information on ALL "common matches" with a person, So, for example, if you find one Tullamore Walsh, then you can identify everyone who matche. (Ancestry.com limits "shared matches"  to one's closest matches.)