Irish Family History Notes 186

Among Todays Topics at the Irish Roots Cafe:


1) Family of the Day: Corkery, O’Keefe

2) CD of the Month: Missouri Irish

3) Searching For: Graney, Brady, Sullivan, Kennedy, Boyd,

Guilsedon, Noone,

4) Curious Note: The Irish Wilderness mystery solved

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What’s happening today at the Irish Roots Cafe


1) We have quite a backlog of podcast info to cover so I

think I’ll combine several episodes till we catch up. So

we’ll try to cover Corkery and O’Keefe this episode.


2) Our new Irish CD Masters Program Year One is

almost ready to launch. Four CD’s are done and

available now, they are Missouri Irish; Irish Language;

Irish History; and in the next week or two Irish Video

DVD shorts will be in. You can of course, now enjoy

our shows anywhere ! We appreciate the support !

Our CD page is here:

http://web.mac.com/irishpat/IrishRootsCafe/CD_DVD.html


3) The next two CDs are: Irish Song and Recitation,

and then the first of our Irish Genealogy Series.


Irish CD of the Month:


From the Irish in America Series, #1.

Missouri Irish, the original history,

audio edition, now condensed from the book !

For more Irish in America programs go to:

http://web.mac.com/irishpat/IrishRootsCafe/Irish_America.html


Missouri Irish

This CD is from the first book ever compiled on the

Irish in Missouri, with special coverage of Kansas

City, St. Louis, The Irish Wilderness, The Murphy

Wagon, and more !

Molly Nickle is the narrator (reader) for this first CD

in our Irish in America Series, (80 minutes).


First of its kind

It first appeared in 1984, and took a few years of

research to put together. I looked through all the

counties and included everything possible in this

book. We had just started up an Irish American

Cultural Center, here in the city, so it was timely.


The Irish Wilderness ‘mystery’

Our visit to the Irish Wilderness led us through

the National Forest, and finding an old map of

the area, along with the forest ranger telling us

of the old well where all the old remnants were

dumped into at one point. Here we saw the

settlement lands, and even heard stories of

the settlement from present day residents.


‘The priest got no further’

One friendly fellow pointed to the fence and said

‘ The priests settlement never went further than

that fence right there!’.

He was quite sure of that, though it was over

100 years ago. I also got a letter accusing me of

representing the Catholic Church and lying

about the forest as it is not a pine forest.


Well we straightened that out, as the pine

trees were harvested some time back, and

I was not trying to acquire land for a church!

My, my, how memories come alive.


Just one example

All in all it was a great deal of fun compiling

this record from one end of the state to the

other. Even found some info on family from

Edina and the Peter ‘Early’ settlement.

I had no idea how far that line went back.


Mystery solved

Since then, several folks have written about

the ‘mystery’ of the Irish Wilderness. There

actually is no mystery when you research

the subject. It was a frontier settlement in

wild country, and the civil war helped put

an end to it. Some settler descendants still

survived to tell the tale.


Molly reads

Molly Nickle was the fellow researcher who

went on that trip back around 1984. She

walked the fields and asked questions of

all who would talk with us. It is quite fitting

that she ends up narrating this audio book

on the Irish in Missouri. The book of course,

includes notes on the trip.

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Time to raise our eyes skywards and ask for help !

Todays “Magnificent Seven” Irish researchers :

1) Welcome long time member Thomas F. Rahrig of

Cumberland, Maryland, who says: I am researching my

gr grandfather William Graney, from Co. Galway, need

townland and immigration info.. Brady from Co. Cavan.


2) Welcome Sharlin Quest of Roanoke, TX., as a new

member searching: Murphy Sullivan Donovan Twigg

Britton Mc Cabe Faye

ALL of your books have shipped !


3) Welcome new member, Lorre Wells of N. Richland,

TX. search: Kennedy, Boyd, McGowan.

My great grandmother, Ellen Kennedy was born in

Colombo, Ceylon in 1853. She married my GGF, William

Boyd there c 1872. I have no other information.

A possible clue is my grandmother was name Daisy

McGowan Boyd, soI believe McGowan is also a family

name. I could really use some help

with how to find old records in Sri Lanka


4) Martin O’Brien of Limerick, Ireland, your County

Limerick books have shipped !


5) Adrian Meaney of Allenwood, Co. Kildare your

Kildare book has shipped !


6) Welcome new Gold Member Brenda Gregory of

Vermont ! Looking for James Guilsedon, b. July 11,

1858. Julia Slattery b. Dec. 25, 1866, father Patrick

Slattery, mother Catherine Ryan.


7) Welcome new Gold Member Richard Noone of

Salem, Mass. gr grandfather Bernard Noone from

Galway approx. 1880


8) Welcome new member Betsy McEver of San

Antonio, TX.


9) Welcome new member Margaret Carpenter of

Green Bay, WI.


10) Kai Nicholson of Victoria, Australia your

Tipperrary and Limerick and Irish Families book

has shipped !


11) Member Mary Hoar of Yonkers, NY, thanks

for renewing; your Waterford genealogy book and

Milesian Families shipped!


12) Rick O’Kelley, of Fayetteville, AR, Your Annals

of Ireland by the Four Masters, has shipped !


Check out our online search list at:

http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/


Irish Family Names of the Day:

(1) Corkery, for member Martin Collins of Winchester, CA

(2) O’Keefe, for member Robert O’Keefe of New Rochelle, NY

Related Spellings of the Name

Corkery: Corker, Cork, O’Corkery, Corkry, Corkeran. #334....

O’Keefe: Keefe, Kiefe, Keeffe, Kieffe #979, 2457, 1671...

Varient Spelling Groups:

From The Guide to the Various Spellings of Irish Family Names

http://www.irishroots.com/id4918.htm


Notes on the Name Corkery

We find the name often in Cork, Limerick and Kerry,

and it can be a variant of ‘Corcoran’. It is most

numerous in Cork, and we have found several

references to the name in the Journal of the

Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.

From the ‘Families of County Cork, Ireland’:

the names of Corkery, Corker, OCorkerane,

and Corke are given in listings.


The Irish Book of Arms gives illustration of 'Corker' arms.

Here the arms are those of Edward Corker of Dublin,

in 1696, this Edward Corker was later ‘removed to Cloyne’.


History notes on the Name O’Keefe

We have covered the name before in podcasts,

so lets take a look at a few references to O’Keefe

from the ‘Families of County Cork, Ireland’,

The O'Keeffes were marshals of Desmond and

princes of Fermoy in Co. Cork. Among their castles

were those of Dromagh and Dunragil and junior

branches of the families were to be found at Glenville

and Dunbulloge as well as in Duhallow itself.


O'Heerin finds O'Keeffe as chief of Glanworth in

the barony of Fermoy. Fermoy was taken by the

Anglo-Norman family of Roche or Roach, and

became later sometimes known as 'Roche's

Country'.

O'Keeffe is found as a principal name of Cork City

in the census of 1659 and O'Keefe is given as a

principle name of Cork at that time as well.... etc...


copyright 2010, IGF, based in part upon

The Book of Irish Families, great and small

http://www.irishroots.com/id4098.htm


Irish Family Coats of Arms From the Irish Book of Arms

A Brief search in that work shows:

http://www.irishroots.com/id4861.htm

1) Corker Arms are illustrated in the Irish Book of Arms.

2) O’Keefe is illustrated in the Irish Book of Arms as well, with a

Lion Rampant I believe they call it....

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The Free Master online index at www.Irishroots.com shows:

Listings for the Corkery name 9 times, here are a few examples:


1) Families of Co. Kerry, D. Corkery

2) Families of Co. Limerick

3) Families of Co. Cork, Ireland

4) D. Corkery in Irish Families on the California Trail

5) O’Corkery in Irish Names and Surnames by P. Woulfe

6) Corker Arms in Co. Dublin genealogy and family history notes.


and for O’Keefe 54 times:

1) Glanworth O’Keefe in Families of Co. Cork, Ireland

2) O’Keefes Country in Families of Co. Cork, Ireland

3) T., and J. Keefe in Irish Families on the California Trail

4) O’Keefe in Missouri Irish

5) O’Keefe in Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters

You can use this free index to search for your family name:

http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/

Remember to leave off the Mac or O when typing your name.


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