In the 12th century the Ó Gadhras were Kings of Sliabh Lugha, anciently referred to as Gailenga. The O’Hara’s retained the name Luighne for their territory to the north. The O’Garas were expelled into Coolavin, Co. Sligo by the Mac Jordan of Connacht.

The Gearys (O’Garas-or O’Gadras) are decents of Irish Royalty. This Royal family is one of the oldest royal families in the world- their ancestry actually came form Scottish Royalty. (which dates back to the vikings) (hence the red hair)

I tried to send this to the last address I had for you, unsucessfully. I did find you in this website, so I hope you don’t me cluttering up the works with this off topic note.

It has been a couple of years since our last emails, and I believe we stopped communicating because you had other priorities to deal with. That was OK. You had been looking into the possibility that Thomas Carew and his wife Esther Goulding would have had ancestors in the Farrahy area between Mallow and Mitchelstown. We didn’t quite get that far.

Since then, I have not been doing too much in the way of Carew research, until just recently. As much by accident than anything, in reviewing the Irish participants of the Peter Robinson Immigration to Canada in 1825, I came across something that really caught my attention. When I was reviewing the Emily Township Census documents from 1826 forward, which were organized by Lot and Concession, I found that Thomas Carew’s neighbour immediately north of his land was John Guiry and family, one of the Peter Robinson families from the 1825 event, living on the north half of Lot 21 Concession 6 Emily Township, Victoria County, Ontario. Thomas Carew’s property was the south half of Lot 21, Concession 6. In addition, after checking the ship lists from the Peter Robinson Immigration, I found that Lord Ennismore had vouched for both Thomas Carew and John Guiry. John Guiry was shown to be from Carrigtohill, County Cork, Ireland, and arrived in Canada aboard the Star. In the manifest, his name was spelled Geary, but in all subsequent documents, and cemetery listings, the family name was Guiry. In the Census documents, his family is recorded as RC, and after checking the Cemetery Lists in Emily Township, I found John and his wife and their descendants buried in various RC Cemeteries in Emily.

I thought at least that you might want to know this, and perhaps have the opportunity to determine if John Guiry, born cica 1788 was a relative of yours.

Perhaps you’ll let me know what you find out.

Cheers,

John Carew
Frankford Ontario Canada
johnandsuecarew@gmail.com