McCUTCHEON

Dear Col:

Many thanks for your query to Ireland Reaching Out.

Have you had a look at the Clare County Library website?  They have a lot of online information with regard to genealogy and family history and it would be a good place to start.  You can log onto the website and look at the Tithe Applotment Books or the Griffith's Valuation books (seen on the left side of the Genealogy Section) and look for the McCutcheon surname.  That may help you to narrow down the parishes and even townlands where the family might have come from. 

If you have any difficulty, please contact me at tulla@irelandxo.com.

Kind regards,

Jane

Hi Jane

Thanks for that helpful info.  Early Sun a.m. here, but shall start looking later on today and see how I go.

Regards

Col

Hi Jane

Have just spent quite some time on the Clare County Library website.  A good site but unfortunately it didn't unearth anything for me.  Just the 1 McCuchen, a Rbt from the town of Lackareagh, Killaloe. Browsed through a lot of the other transcriptions as well.

So I'm thinking perhaps the family story of her coming from County Clare might have been just that.  Also, another family ancestor came out from Co Tipperary aboard the Travencore so even the "Travencore" bit for Hanorah might not be correct.

So not much info to work on I'm afraid.  I will try & track down the occurrence of the surname & see if that can help me pinpoint a town/county.  And perhaps back to the McCutcheon's on ancestry rootsweb.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Col

I have a friend McCutcheon they live in Tullow Co. Carlow.

I also found a McCutcheon in Griffiths Valuation. Near Bunclody Wexford/Carlow Border  (Newtownbarry then).

Regards,

Tom Codd

Col,

This might be a long shot, but.  On the whole, the surname McCutcheon tends to be a Protestant surname, but your use of the Christian name Hanorah for her tends to point to a Catholic connection.  On a hunch, I went looking for any Catholic McCutcheon baptism I could find in Tipperary, where the name is vastly more common than in Clare (vastly being a relative term here!), given that you mention another relative coming out on the same ship, from Tipperary.  I do find a baptism of a Norah McCutcheon to a father named John, in 1831, in the Newport Catholic Parish in Tipperary, which as you may realize, borders Co. Clare and Co. Limerick.  Her mother's name was Margaret Meehan, and I'd lean towards this actually being the Catholic side that gave her the name Norah or Hanorah.  This is the only child I find being baptised to this couple. 

Cindy

Hi Col:

Thanks for your reply.  After I sent that message to you, I looked at the site myself and saw the Killaloe connection.  Killaloe is very close to the Tipp border and that might well be a good possibility.

I will be in the County Library this coming week.  I am more than happy to look up the McCutcheon name for you in the Killaloe register.  If you want to send me what info you have (dates and names) to tulla@irelandxo.com, I will take a look for you.  Let me know.

Kind regards,

Jane.

Thanks for that Tom.  Does your friend have any info on his McCutcheon ancestors at all - looking at the early 1800's at this stage.

I shall recheck the Griffiths Valuation too & see if there's anything there for me to work on!

Regards

Col

Hi Cindy

It might be a long shot but ........... it does sound promising, the closest & most likely info I've had come to hand in my research for the elusive Hanorah!  And many thanks for sharing your knowledge on the naming & religious side of it all - very interesting.

Is there anywhere I can go from here to prove /disprove a connection? I guess not seem as she was married in W Australia.  Perhaps the next best thing would be for me to find her emigration record!  I've done plenty of searching - but there are always new records being released so I'll keep dipping in there.

I actually had an email from another McCUTCHEON researcher today who has heard that it is highly probable that Hanorah was part of an Irish contingent that was sponsored by a Thomas Little, who was a landowner of Prinsep Park in the Dardanup district, in the SW of W Australia.  Hanorah met her husband to be, Richard James HALL, at Prinsep Park, where she was employed as a servant girl. 

So thanks Cindy, your thoughts & help much appreciated, It's head down for me now & see where I can go next!

Regards
Col

Hello, Col.  Cindy's reply to you was excellent.  I'm actively researching the McCutcheon family in that area.  They were in Co Clare in the 1700s & moved to Tipperary in the early 1800s.  Quite a few were Catholic by the early 1800s.

Roz McCutcheon

Hello Col:

I was going to add in that Killaloe County Clare was on the border with County Tipperary so that if there was a family member who hailed from there, it is quite possible that the McCutcheons were in Killaloe (or at least some of them). 

I believe that Jeff (an XO volunteer) has done some work with the Killaloe registers and I will copy this thread to him for his comments. 

Many thanks for continuig to search.  Would you be interested in adding one of the McCutcheon ancestors to the Ancestor Database?  It is located under the XO Chronicles Tab as "People".  I have copied it below for your reference.  It can be very useful to create a profile for this ancestor as other members may also be searching for the same family and further information may follow.  I see from this thread that there are others researching the McCutcheon line so any additional information that can be added through the XO Chronicles would be a great help to all. 

https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy

If you have any further questions, please let me know.  You can email me directly at:  jhalloranryan@irelandxo.com.

All the best,

Jane.

Dear Col,

If you haven’t already checked or someone hasn’t already suggested this site https://www.irishgenealogy.ie

You might find something.  I did a very quick search, and pulled up a Norah, and Eleanor McCutcheon.  Even if they’re not the person you’re searching, maybe they are a relative.

There is no cost to access online records on this site.  I have found a few relatives there.

Sharon Dolan