Eleven New Family Pages and Update to Two Others

Hello Everyone,

Here's the latest batch of family pages and updates based upon the available NLI Catholic parish records that are available online.

Updated Pages:

• Family of Honora (Nora) Lardner and Michael O'Connell / Connell **Michigan & Illinois, United States - Shessive, Labasheeda, Ireland**
• Family of Mary Lardner and John Barry **Massachusetts, United States - Breaffa, Ennis, Ballynacally, Ireland**
• Family of Anne Lardner and John Conway **Illinois, United States - Blaine, Ballynacally, Ireland**

New Family Pages:

• Family of Margret Lardner and William Studdert **Cooga, Ireland**
• Family of Alice (Ally) Lardner and John Shannon **Dagnive, Ireland**
• Family of George Lardner and Catherine (Kate) Brooks **Shessive, Ireland**
• Family of Michael Lardner and Mary (Margret) Gold **Decunigahe, Kildysart, Ireland**
• Family of Thady Lardner/Larner and Jane Ginnane **Kildysart, Ireland**
• Family of Sarah (Sally) Lardner and Hugh Moloney **Horse Island, Gurtnaha, Ireland**
• Family of Sarah (Sally) Lardner and John Sheehan **Gurtnaha, Ireland**
• Family of Michael Lardner/Larner and Mary Toel **Kildysart Parish, Ireland**
• Family of Michael Lardner and Mary Hoare **Kildysart Parish, Ireland**
• Family of Biddy Lardner and Edmund Walsh **Kildysart Parish, Ireland**
• Family of Thady Lardner and Jane Normile **Kildysart Parish, Ireland**

The above families were found in the Kildysart and Kilfiddane parishes which had joint parochial responsibilities.  The earliest records come from the Kildysart baptisms beginning in the 1830s moving forward.  Lardner baptism sponsors and marriage witnesses were not researched.

Until Later,
Jessica

More Family Page Updates

Hi Everyone,

Guess what happens when you revisit research/sources when your not completely and totally exhausted?  That's right. You find people... Right. Where. You. Would. Expect. Them. To. Be. *facepalm*

Anyway...  I've updated the pages for the following families:

• Family of Honora (Nora) Lardner and Michael O'Connell / Connell **Michigan & Illinois, United States - Labasheeda, Ireland**

• Family of John Lardner and Mary Wolf / Wolfe **Ohio & Illinois, United States - Kilrush, Ireland**

More updates coming as I wade through the registers.

Until Later,
Jessica

New Lardners Identified and Added! *Corofin and Ennis*

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick update. I've added a new family page, made a connection to an existing family and found a previously unknown (to this blog) child.

Family of Margaret Lardner and Thomas Hunt **Corofin, Ennis, Ireland**

Margaret appears to be the child of William Lardner and Eliza Carrig per her marriage registry, who are listed as living in Ennis.  I had not discovered a index entry for her baptism on the Ennis parish website, but she has been added to her parents family page.

Family of William Lardner and Eliza Carrig **Ennis, Ireland**

In addition, I've discovered the baptism record for child whose mother was a Lardner in Corofin... Unfortunately his father is unknown at this time, as he appears to have been born out of wedlock.

• Peter (Lardner)
• Birth Date: 09 May 1874
• (Correction made to match baptism record, FHL had the 8th.)
• Birthplace: Clare, Ireland
• GS Film number: 255904 
• Reference ID: v 9-1 p 220
• Civil Registration: Index, Record*
• Baptism Parish: Rath
• Baptism Date: 11 May 1874
• Mother: Bridget Lardner
• Father: Unknown
• Residence at time of Baptism: Corofin
• Baptism Record
• Baptism Sponsors: John (Fenn?) and Mary Lardner
• Minister: J O'Neil

Until Later,
Jessica

*Entry edited to add Civil Registration information from Irishgenealogy.ie for Peter Lardner.

Part 2 - Catholic Parish Registers at the National Library of Ireland (? - 1880)

Hello Everyone,

Here's the second part of the page updates.  There are families that I just wasn't able to locate baptism, etc records for in the Catholic parish records provided by the NLI.  I've included a lists the parishes that I have searched.

• Family of Bridget Lardner and Thomas Carry **Ballynacally, Ireland**
• Family of Nancy Lardner and John Conway **Ballynacally, Ireland**
• Family of Anne Lardner and John Conway **Illinois, United States - Ballynacally, Ireland**
• Family of Honora (Nora) Lardner and Michael O'Connell **Michigan & Illinois, United States - Labasheeda, Ireland**
• Family of Mary Lardner and Michael Gerin (Guerin) **Corofin, Ireland**
• Family of Catherine (Kate) Lardner and Timothy (Thady) Hanrahan **Iowa, United States - Carrigaholt, Lisheen Furroor, Ireland**
• Family of James Lardner and Mary Dunn **Carrigaholt, Kilrush, Kilcrona, Ireland**
• Family of Pat Lardner and Jane Madden **Newmarket on Fergus, Ireland**
• Family of Thomas Lardner and Bridget Corbett **Kilrush, Ireland**
• Family of Anne Lardner and John Lynch **Kilrush, Ireland**
• Family of Anne Lardner and John Conway **Illinois, United States - Ballynacally, Ireland**
• Family of John Lardner and Mary Wolfe **Ohio & Illinois, United States - Kilrush, Ireland**

Until Later,
Jessica

Baptism Registry of James Lardner and Siblings.

Wooo hooo!  Quick update! I finally had a chance to look at the FHL microfilmed copy of the parochial registers for Kilmurry-Ibricken!

I must say that the results of my first foray with the records revealed a couple of interesting things.  First and foremost, I couldn't find any notation of James Lardner Sr and Bridget Sullivan in the registers until the baptism of my 2x great-grand father, James, in 1840.  The manuscripts themselves begin in April of 1839 and are therefore missing a couple of months from the first half of the year.  Secondly, when I compared the information that I already had to the information from the microfilm, I found some previously unknown facts...

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Known information:

• Baptism: 2nd January, 1840
• Child: James Lardner
• Parents: James Lardner & Bridget O'Sullivan of Powerstown
• Sponsors: Patrick O'Sullivan & Susan McInerey

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Information gathered from the microfilm (Register of Baptisms, Volume 1, page 40):

• Baptism: 2nd January, 1840 
• Child: James Lardner
• Parents: James Lardner & Bridget O'Sullivan of Powerstown
• Sponsors: Patrick O'Sullivan of Dunsallagh in the parish of Miltown & Susan McInerey of Powerstown
• Minister: E. P. Barry

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Operating on the idea that individuals with the same surname, who are listed on the baptism records as sponsors/witnesses, may be relations to the family....the fact that the microfilm offers a location of a O'Sullivan sponsor is incredibly exciting!

Also found on the film was a location for the sponsors of James' brother John, they were Peter and Mary Sullivan of Dunsallagh.  Unfortunately, there was no location information listed for the only other person that could have possibly have been a relative, Margaret Lardner, she was the sponsor of Patrick Lardner.

Moral of the story kids, go back the original source if possible (or a close facsimile), who knows what could be waiting for you!

Until Later,
Jessica

James Lardner from the townland of Cloonlaheen West, Clare

...Last time... There was a possible ancestor spotting found in the records of Griffith's Evaluation of County Clare ...

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Separate from my own research, relatives of mine were also on a mission to find our family in Ireland and commissioned a genealogical report from the Clare Heritage & Genealogical Research Centre in Corofin.

Through the Heritage Centre's work, they were able to find seven separate baptismal entries for children who were born to a James Lardner and Bridget (O)Sullivan in Cloonlaheen West (Roman Catholic parish of Kilmurry Ibrickane, Diocese of Killaloe):

• James, baptized on 2 January, 1840 
• John, baptized on 17 April, 1841
• William, baptized on 4 February, 1843
• Anne, baptized on 7 December, 1844
• Michael, baptized on 19 July, 1846
• Patrick, baptized on 23 July, 1848
• Ellen, baptized on 1 July, 1850

Comparing the birth information gathered for the two known siblings, the above baptism dates in bold appear to correspond with my 2x great grandfather and aunt’s birth dates given as 1 January, 1840 and 1 July, 1850 respectively.  These individuals could be my family!  If I could, I would hug the person who put this report together. 

Also included in the Centre's report was a copy of James Lardner Sr's 1883 death register record for the civil district of Cragaknock,Union of Kilrush.  According to this document, James died on 13 July, 1883 in Clonlaheen at the age of 80 which would place his year of birth around 1803.  His wife, who is listed as the informant of his death, was a woman by the name of Kate Lardner.  

Per the Centre's report, Bridget (Sullivan) Lardner died sometime after 1850 and James married again, this time to a Catherine "Kate" (Breen) O'Halloran.  Marriage records were not included for the couple in the research, so I'm not sure where Catherine's information comes from, but apparently decedents of Catherine and her first husband, Thomas O'Halloran, still own the family property today.

As a result of this report, my next tasks will be to track down a microfilm copy of the church registers for Kilmurry Ibrickane in order to gather images of the baptism entries, while locating records for Bridget's death and James' subsequent marriage to Catherine.

Until later...

All the Best,

Jessica