I am trying to find information on Ann Donohue Lunn, her mother Ann Mack and father John Donohue.
Family information states Ann was born about 1834 in Turlough, County Clare, Ireland to John Donohue and his wife, Ann Mack. A biographical sketch of Ann's husband, Daniel Lunn, in the Biographical Record of Salt Lake City & Vicinity, Ann came to America at the age of 8. She and her mother, Ann settled in Sand Lake, Renssalaer, New York where they lived for 9 years. The couple lived in Nassau until 1864 when they moved to Missouri and worked to save money to bring the family along with member of Daniel's family to Salt Lake.
I have found several towns named Turlough in Ireland. I am thinking the family may have been Roman Catholic in Ireland. It would appear that John died before mother and daughter emigrated.
I have found records that provide a couple of additional clues but so far I have not been able to find reocrds that would help conclusively connect and provide information to extend the family line.
- Mary Donehoe may be a sister of Ann's. She was married to Francis Moss who was born in Montreal, Canada.
- William Croycher, born in Froyle, Hampshire, England, is mentioned as a step-father to Daniel. Could he have married Ann Mack Donehoe?
Hopefully, this rambling may strike a note with another Community member. I look forward to hear from anyone with ideas.
Candy Kammerman
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According to Wikipedia, a turlough is a type of lake usually found in Co. Clare and other western counties of Ireland. There is a place called Turlough, but it is in Co. Mayo.
There is a very strong chance they were Catholic- 90%+ of the population in the southern areas of Ireland was Catholic. If they were not, they were probably either Anglican or Presbyterian. Many Anglican records were destroyed in 1922 and Presbyterian records can be hard to access or have been lost due to decentralised ownership and storage.
If you can find a place or places that may have been called Turlough, you should try to access the church registers. Most of them can be found at: https://registers.nli.ie/ Very few rural Catholic parishes kept records before 1828, and some in the west did not start until several decades later.
My final piece of advice for Irish research is to be very careful not to confuse two or more individuals with the same name. The Irish did not have much variety in either their first- or surnames.
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According to townlands.ie Turlough is a townland in County Clare https://www.townlands.ie/clare/burren/oughtmama/oughtmama/turlough/. Here's a link to records of the New Quay Catholic parish which seems to include Turlough townland https://www.johngrenham.com/records/rc_church.php?county=Clare&parish=NewQuay&churchid=622.
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Thanks for the tips. Does the "nli" in the above link refer to only Northern Ireland?
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Thank you Ali.M.Pili. I will check out these links.
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NLI=National Library of Ireland. The NLI is the public library of the Republic if Ireland, but also has Catholic records from Northern Ireland.
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