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Well done AustenQ. Looks like a brother and sister may have married a brother and sister.

Theresa, that looke like your grandfather James with his grandmother Maud in 1901.

3.July 2004..From an Ancestry Message Board USA

CONWAY PORTAGEVILLE - Message Boards



https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.../579.../mb.ashx


Might be of help as he has lots of info. especially about Jeremiah "Darby" Conway who married Maire Calvy

" Listed in Gortbrack, 1834 and 1855 tax records.
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Jeremiah "Darby" Conway b.ca.1810-20
m. Maria Calvy b.ca.1825
In 1855, Jeremiah Conway rented a house and two tracts of land in Gortbrack, 147 acres (shared with Michael Conway) and 218 acres (shared with three other men). Darby was dead by the time of the 1901 census, when Maud Conway, born about 1825, a widow, resided in Gortbrack. The link tying her with Jeremiah is the birth record of their son Peter, on December 1, 1865. Peter Conway born about 1866 was living with his mother Maud in 1901.

Image shows yearly rent of £14. 7s. 3d


First name(s) Darby
Last name Conway
Year 1869
Place Gortbrack, South
Parish -
County Mayo
Covering date Jun-Dec 1869
Volume 095
Document 009
Record set Landed Estates Court Rentals 1850-1885
Category Census, land & surveys
Subcategory Land & estates
Collections from Ireland
© IIM & Findmypast

I just dont know how you all do it once again thanks

Sorry, I don't know how to copy this complete article from the Irish Times - perhaps someone else can

A Case of Great Hardship

cattle, then want through the wall into the adjoining one, killing two moro. The beusa occupied, bosadta cattle, man called Darby Conway and hi* wife, racy aid people, and their eon ; one Mtcbaat Conway ami bis wife. Tbnaa poor people live at Gar*- brack,
26 February 1898 - Irish Times - Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

It's a letter to the editor asking assistance after the family lost their cattle in a storm.

Theresa...If you cant access the site I posted I will try and copy and paste all of it or send a link via Pm...the actual link stretches forever...!!

I've just been looking at the conway portageville site thank you

http://www.irishgenealogical.org/page/problem-names-any-other-name

Irish equivalents for male English names
Jeremiah = Darby, Dermot, Diarmid, Diarmud

Thank you

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Conway-2026...Someone else after wanting Darby...

rootgatherer..Have tried to find article on GR news site as have loads of credts I will never use...cannot locate it although have managed to get 1898 Irish Times up on screen

Oh RG- it's very sad! - also quite enlightening to how hard their lives already were, and the type and land they were farming.

Irish Times 26 February 1898

A Case of Great Hardship

To the Editor of The Irish Times

Sir, I shall be much obliged if you give me space in your valuable paper to ask for help from your numerous readers for a case of great hardship and distress.

A violent thunderstorm broke over this district on last Saturday night and two houses were struck by lightening. It entered one house killing four cattle, then went through the wall to the adjoining one killing two more.

The first house was occupied, besides the cattle, a man called Darby and his wife, very old people, and their son; the second one by Michael Conway and his wife.

These poor people live at a place called Gortbrack, on the slope on Bonmore Mountain, in the Barony of Errin, where they cultivate two small mountain farms, or rather patches.

The six head st cattle, three of which they depended on for milk during the spring and summer, was their entire stock except for one calf. As it was they would have had great trouble to live even meagrely until the new crop of potatoes should come in, and now after this calamity, without outside help, theirs will be a case of extreme want and destitution.

Besides the loss of the cattles the walls of the first house are so cracked that it is not habitable. I hope some kind people will respond to this appeal, and any ???, no matter how small will be received with gratitude by Rev R O'Connell, the Parsonage, Ballycroy; Rev Father M'Hall PP, Parochial House, Ballcroy, or Yours

J. Lindsat
Shean, Ballycroy, County Mayo
23rd February 1898
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Darby died later the same year on the 22nd November 1898 of Senile decay

Very sad AustinQ. Sounds like they were living hand to mouth before the storm.

How lucky are we. Thank you