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First of all, a massive hello to all you fellow Connolly's.
I have looked at a number of the messages here and there seems to be a slight misunderstanding to the number of Connolly's in Ireland. Connolly, especially in the Galway and the rest of the west cost, is one of the widest used names. For anyone to ask "do any of you know about michael / willy / connolly etc, born galway in 1865", for examply is literally pointless!
There seems some belief that Ireland was a tiny country in the 1700-1800's with a few dozen people scattered around the place. This is not true! Until the Great Hunger, the population of Ireland was almost what it is today. This means that to acurately research a name you will need quiet detailed information.
Unlike in the United States, many people within the same community not ony shared the same surname, but also the same christian name. In fact, in Galway even today it is the norn for a son to be named after his father and grandfather!
It is common to go into any pub in the west of Ireland and find no more than half a dozen surnames, shared between 100 people. I know this to be true, as i was not only born and raieed in galway, but still today spend about 6 months of the year at home.
Truth is, with any of the following male christian names, you will need pretty deatiled information to have any chance of locating a family from the west coast of Eire:
Michael-willy-larry-colien-patric-john-joseph-padraig-tomos-thomas:
The same goes for the great names of Burke and Joyce.
It pains me to see people given false hope of locating a relative, when they have so little information.
I hope this will help some of our non-Irish based visitors to the forum, to understand that a name and a date is never going to be enough...unless you have the luck of the Irish.
God bless you all and I hope you have a peaceful New Year.
James Connolly
Carraroe - Galway - W Ireland.
London England since 1990.
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