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My Irish genealogy website

My Irish genealogy website

I am continuing the update of my Irish genealogy website.

The site serves as the County Limerick pages for IrelandGenWeb. In addition, I have a good place to read or post genealogical queries on the name Reidy and its variants. Also some good information of the REIDY, RIEDY, REEDY, READY, etc name.

The site has lots of links and resources for those of us with family from County Limerick.

I had a good bit of information on Irish Genealogy and I expect it will all be there shortly. Right now I have almost everything on the Reidy name moved, a most of what I have on County Limerick, and some general Irish genealogy information.

And it is all free to use.

Irish Genealogy: John J Reidy 1906

Irish Genealogy: John J Reidy 1906

I’ve enjoyed my membership in the Genealogy Bank. I am now in my second year.

It allows searches in a wide variety of older newspapers and they are adding more newspaper every month. When I got my monthly newsletter today, I was pleased to see they added more issues of the Gaelic American. This is a New York news papers publishing thing of interest to Irish-Americans, including news from Ireland.

Since I am interested in Irish Genealogy including the name REIDY, I was pleased to see an obituary of John J. Reidy who died July 17, 1906. This was in the August 11, 1906 issue. Among many other things the article says he was from Ballyelan, Ballingarry, Limerick and was active in the Fenian movement, and an uncle of James Reidy of New York.

There were also quite a few articles in the Gaelic American of this time on James Reidy of the Brooklyn Gaelic society and other Irish-American organizations. I suspect this is may be the nephew mentioned above but I do not know this.

Since Ballingarry is just down the road from Rathkeale where my REIDYs were from, I found this especially interesting.

Edward Reidy of North Cambridge MA

Edward Reidy of North Cambridge MA

I just ran across this on GenealogyBank as I was looking for one of my Reidy families.

There was a short article in the Boston Herald in 1923 saying that the body of Edward Reidy, age 22 and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Reidy of 14 Alberta St in North Cambridge, was found in Alewife brook.

Short Life of Katie Reidy

Short Life of Katie Reidy

Katie Reidy, the daughter of my great grandfather William Ready (or Reidy), was born in New York City on 11 October 1895.

She died on 25 July 1896 of whooping cough in her family’s tenement apartment at 303 E 110th St. Continue reading “Short Life of Katie Reidy”

William Riedy (Reidy) of Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland to NYC

William Riedy (Reidy) of Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland to NYC

One of my intentions with this blog was to publish genealogy information – both general genealogy and stuff about my family. I noticed that I’ve been neglecting that in favor of politics these days. So here is some genealogy at last.

My great grandfather (GGF) William RIEDY of Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland was born around 1861/1862 and emigrated to New York about 1880. We have not found a birth or baptismal record so the years is only our best guess. Hsi father Edward or Edmund RIEDY or READY married twice. First to Margaret CONWAY and then Mary SCANLAN in 1857. William was of the second marriage and we believe he traveled to New York city with his half-brother John. The surname has been recorded as REIDY, RIEDY, REEDY, and READY.

On December 24, 1895, he was injured in a blasting accident. My GGF was a wagon driver working on a construction site. A blast went off a few minutes early and a 150 pound rock was thrown 200 feet and landed on my GGF. The foreman was arrested and charged with reckless blasting. I actually saw a microfilm of a news article about this this summer in the NYC Public Library.

I have no idea how the foreman fared. My GGF never left the hospital and died about a month later.

More information is on my website at http://www.jackreidy.com/genealogy/family/reidy.htm

The Proud History of the Reidy Clan

The Proud History of the Reidy Clan

For those who missed it there was a short article on The Proud History of the Reidy Clan By Maeve Molloy in Irish America magazine a few months back. I must have been tired when I posted this last night since I forget the link ( http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/decjan08/departments/TheProudHistoryOfReidy.asp ) as well as the tags. The article has a bit on name variants, history, and various well-known Reidys. Irish America magazine has much of interest online and it is worth looking around. This article happened to catch my attention. Happy reading!

Limerick Ireland Archives Search

Limerick Ireland Archives Search

A while back I mentioned that Limerick City has archives online at http://www.limerickcity.ie/Archives/.

In the upper right there is a search box that will search many of the records. And it is worth noting that at least some of the records seem to be county wide, not just the city. For example, my Reidys are from Rathkeale in Limerick County so if I do a search on Reidy AND Rathkeale, 12 records are found including my gggrandmother in the 1901 census householders index. I also saw several indices of newspaper notices and some scanned newspapers.

I haven’t installed the viewer needed to view the digital records but I suspect that will make this site even more interesting.

Reidy graves  in Limerick, Ireland

Reidy graves in Limerick, Ireland

A while back John Reidy Treworgy sent me some transcripts of Reidy graves in Limerick. I thought I would add them to the blog. The original post is at:
http://www.jackreidy.com/reidy/reidymisc.htm

Killeedy Cemetery (Saint Ida’s) in Limerick:

* Margaret Reidy 1888 – 1977 Glebe, Monagea and late of Glenquin. Mary Ready.

* Erected by Patrick Riedy in memory of his father Michael Riedy who died Oct. 23 1862 aged 67 years of his mother Elizabeth Riedy alias Lacy who died April 5 1870 aged 65 y of his brother John who died August 22 1862 age 36 years and of his sister Ellen.

* Erected by Mrs. Mary Reidy of Gardenfield in memory of her beloved husband Jeremiah Reidy who died Sept the 11th 1868 aged 68 years & also of her children her son William died June the 24th 1824 her daughter Bridget died August 15th 1852.

* In loving memory of William and Catherine Reidy, Ballinaha Ballingarry died 6 Dec 1962 and 20 Dec 1975 and their daughter Eileen d. 15 Dec 1991.

* Erected by George Reedy in memory of his father Jeremiah Reedy who died January 3rd 1827 aged 83 years also his sister Mary Pickley alias Reedy died Aug 1st 1816 aged 41 years.

Cloncagh Cemetery in Limerick:

* Erected by Catherine Reidy of Mundillihy in memory of her beloved husband James Reidy who departed life March 11th 1851 aged 58 years also her daughter Eileen who died Dec 1st 1859 aged 28 years.