letter from Loretto Buckley,
Moskeigh, Templemartin Bandon co.Cork Ireland p 49 #1026
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John Barrett junior
made eight visits top Ireland l971-1978 and stayed at sixty acre dairy farm
of Loretto Buckley born 1907.The property was occupied by Jack Barrett's
great-grandparents John Buckley and Catherine Murphy when censuses were
conducted for tax purposes in 1827 and l832. Loretto's brother Ricahrd heard
this couple had a family of "seven men and four women." There has be no
success in learing of marriages of any of the four women, but Daniel,John
and Thomas Buckley came to Massachusetts - Dan to South Boston before 1852-
Thomas a l855 and John later to Milford, while their brothers Michael and
Jerry had large families in Cork. Michael Buckley Loretto's grandfather
appears in 1834 in Templemartin parish records- he lived until l918 and
corresponded with Jack Barrett's aunt Minnie Buckley who raised him after
the death of his mother 1889. Michael Buckley also had a photo of his second
cousin General Michael Lenihan, originally from Hopkinton,Massachusetts, who
commanded an Irish batallion from New York in France l9l8. O Mahonys the
Lake Castle Lack and Buckleys of Ilford Essex and Buffalso-Blasdell New York
were also descendants of Loretto's grandfather Michael of Moskeigh. Another
brother Jerry Buckely had eight children, - several went to Middle West USA
and lost touch, but a daughter became Mrs. Sheehy and had sons Maurice and
Jack of Moskeigh and their brother Jerry whose family are in
Wethersfield,Connecticut and California. The aNCESTOR CATHERINE MURPHY WAS
BELIEVED A MEMBER of a clan known as "Quarry" Murphys, including James
Hallahan of Moskeigh and Kate O Halloran who married her distant cousin
Maurice Sheehy of Moskeigh and had six in family. |