From Francy:
These are several pages that Johnny Tabert sent. They are a list made up by Bunny of her mother and father's family--Frank Nallin and Sarah Flaherty. A line or two got cut off when he photocopied them and some may be lost in scanning. Bunny says that Sade's mother was named Sarah Murphy but I have Sade's death certificate which says her name was Frances. These documents are made up by whoever happens to be filling them in so who knows what the names really are.
I ran some names through google and got some interesting results. More next week.
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Wow. That's some quality dirt. Who knew we had such skeletons?
Fantastic work, Monte. Amazing what details they gave in the paper then! I followed through a little bit on a geneology post that Brian sent. Seems there's a cousin on the Nallin side lurking in NJ. She's the grandaughter of Nell who was Frank Nallin's sister (Nell was Austin's mother). In any case, I followed this a bit and found something from a town called Crossmolina in County Mayo and it seems that we come from Chieftains--didn't ya just know it? One of the Nallin's, maybe Frank's mother (?), was a Moran. This is from the town website--maybe we're even related to the Duggan's. I'll let you know if I hear from Cousin Eileen (long Swedish name) in NJ. I wrote her.
Genealogy
Family Names
Many families now living in this North East corner of Mayo are descendants of the early Celtic settlers. Names such as Crean, Duggan, Flannery, Gaughan, Greahan, Lennon, Scanlon, Tiemey, Maughan, and O'Donoghoe, are the anglicized versions of early Celtic family names. The O'Morans were important chieftains and the family now called MacHale contributed many great men to the service of the church in later centuries. Some names have now disappeared altogether as O'Maoilfhiona who were chieftains in the Crossmolina area and from whom the town takes its name. The O'Murrays were chieftains in what is now Lacken. They were dispossessed by the Norman settlers during the thirteenth century. The O'Dowds were a powerful family both in Sligo and North East Mayo but after the Norman settlement they too were deprived of their lands west of the Moy.
http://www.genforum.genealogy.com/gibbons/messages/2187.html
http://www.genforum.genealogy.com/gibbons/messages/2187.html
This is the link that you sent, Brian. Teddy may be the only one besides Viv and Bunny who actually met Frances Gibbons--or did you and Paul, Janis? This could be an interesting thread. Those Moran's seemed like a strong family (the Gibbon's side is not actually our blood). Are you out there, Teddy?
messages/2187.html
The address must be a little too long 'cause it chops off the end. Add this to the URL and you'll get the right spot.
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