Re: Kilmore - Which County?


"Natalie Drest" <mccoey84HATANDCOAT@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you Trish,

I can see I have opened a Pandora's Box of Kilmores! I'll try to
pinpoint
them to see if there are geographical connections to the family,
perhaps.
Hmm big job I think. And I find confusing all the different types of
land
divisions - civil parish, townland,I haven't a clue what a Barony
is! I have
a Lot of homework.


On the information givee in your past, I haven't a clue either. I'd
suggest two things.

First go to the GENUKI website, read up all you can, and ffollow
whatever links you think rekevant to your search/

That may give you enough extra shreds of information such that you can
put the question again on this newsgroup but with enough detail to
enable people to gude you to the Kilmore you seek or at least to a
very restricted choice. Then you may be able to get right down to the
target by looking st the right set of records.

What you cannot assume is that people o the implied social status were
static and did not meet people of similar class from quite great
distances away. Those sorts of people travelled by horse and networked
like mad. There would be officers from the same regiment meeting
socially, and marrying eachother's sisters and daughters. There would
be landed gentry neeting eachothr in connection with business. There
would be balls in country houses, and they were in efect meat markets.
It wasn't at all unknown for sme of this class to go to London for
'The Season'.
The people who had to stay still, until starvation forced migration,
were the peasantry.

You may find a pattern of marrying the girl next door but in the right
social class you might find next door is 50 miles away. Tou can't
necessarily jump to conclusions. The only way is the painstaking one,
and for that you'll need to know what you are doing.

Don



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