Mac Clancy/ Clancy 1654 to now. Part2
William died in 1727 and, the following year , his youngest son, Peter crossed Galway bay from Ballyvaughan and settled in Moycullen Parish. Significantly, this account appears to show him as avoiding the walledCity of Galway, which at that time was under the control of the 350 or so Protestants
who by law occupied all positions of authority. the Population of the city was 14,000in 1760 . ( See Lecky- " History of Ireland in the Eighteeth century)
Peter' wife was Sheila Curtin of Kilmacduagh on the Galway/ Clare border and it was perhaps an arranged marriage complete with dowry etc , as was probably his parents.I have no proof of this but notwithstanding having descended from yoeman class in his grandfather's time to tenant on the banks of Ross Lake, Peter and his wife were able to send their sons abroad for their education !
The children were Thomas ( Big Tom), James,William Charles and daughters Cecelia, Grace ,Monica ,Mary and Joan.
Joan who married John Hanly( d. 1807 aged 81) had a daughter Maria who married Hugh Davoren. They had a son John b, 1785 . He , John , was my Grandmothers' grandfather.
Of Peter's other children,Big Tom on his return from his two years in Guernsey , in the Channel Islands, where he acquired French with ,it is said, a Breton accent and discarded the cooleen hair style ( long hair back of the coat collar) the knee breeches and buckled shoes and Gaelic. He posed generally although a big man and made a runaway match, an elopement, with the landlord's daughter Monica Lynch and so was given a large tract of the estate ( I've been told 6000 acres but that may be an exaggeration) Big Tom died 1801 and sleeps in Spiddal. There was always a Thomas in every generation and there still is .the progeny of Big Tom were Patrick , Tom, Monica ( Mrs. Keady) There are still descendants in Moycullen.
The next of Peter's family was James who died in the 1790s . He had married Sheela (or was it Grania) Conneely and the oldest of his family called ( guess what)thomas died 1839.
(By the way I will require a Quid pro Quo for this information ,from the Clancy nearest Vancouver , a lookup)
Later..