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THE SECOND GENERATION

This poor couple sired two children, Patrick and Denis. The fact that we do not have accurate dates of birth for the two boys illustrates the lack of records available for this period.

Patrick, the older of the boys, married Bridget Gorman (1798-1875) in 1829. The modest two roomed stone cottage in Fisherstreet that they occupied was owned by Capt Francis MacNamara. Patrick also tenanted seventeen acres of land at Fanore, a short distance north. He held this tenancy from John MacNamara and here he farmed. He subsisted as a tenant farmer and fished in the waters of the Atlantic from his timber framed, hide bound Curragh.

Patrick and Bridget had seven children, Michael (1829), Patrick (1831), Martha (1832), Bridget (1833), Peter (1837), Mary and Denis.

Their eldest son Michael eventually took over the farm at Fanore which in time passed to his son Dennis. Today, Patrick (Patsy), Dennis' grandson, his wife Anne and their family occupy the property, which has expanded some five-fold from when Patrick senior first husbanded it.

Of the other children, first Bridget and then Patrick and Peter migrated to Australia. Martha died in childhood and of Mary we know little.

We believe that Denis was born around 1810. In 1835 he married Mary Sexton in Corofin and research from the County Clare Heritage Centre refer to him living subsequently in Fisherstreet, a fishing port neat Fanore, and farming at Fanore.

Denis and Mary had five children, Bridget Mary (1836), Thomas (1838), Patrick (1840), Michael (1841) and Marie.

In 1866, their eldest child Bridget Mary migrated to South Australia, described in the Ship's manifest "Charlotte Gladstone" x Plymouth 13 March 1866 arr. Adelaide SA 17 June 1866 as a Dairymaid, age 20. She married John Doube and raised a family in South Australia.

There is still much to discover about life in those days.

The following table, taken from the 2004 family genealogy publication ' Dirt Poor - Spirit Rich' shows the first three Carrucan generations of our story, as researched at that time.