MYOG - Mine, Yours, and the Other Guy's Genealogy: My Shaffrey Line

As I finished perusing some of the printed document/scans that I made of pages from the register on the LDS film, I found that the memorabilia section is virtually illegible and undecipherable to me. Another person may have better luck at reading the information. This section is only a few pages. My copies are terrible. One note that is clearly placed across the page is "To be sent to Monsignor McCullen Kells". So, does this ledger now exists down the road in Kells or is it still in Moynalty?

The final section is deaths. This section is very unclear. I could only make out 6 possible people who might be related to my family tree. I see an entry for Catherine Shaffrey of Dunsikin (last word is very hard to read) on 12 Jan 1841. On 7 Nov 1847, John Maxwell of Shancarnan passed away. In Jan 1850, Philip Shaffrey of Druminsiken passed away. In Oct 1857, Phil Shaffrey of Rathburn passed away. On 15 Jun 1860, John Shaffry of Carickgar (rather illegible) passed away. On January 18 or 28, 1872, Peter Shaffrey of Dryralla (illegible) passed.

One could hope that the parents' names or other information would be indicated with the deaths but that is not the case for deaths. The only indicator of use besides the name and date of death is the location of where they lived. In some cases, the location is illegible. I made an attempt to transcribe the locations.

My spreadsheet is now as complete as I can make it. I have my transcribed raw data preserved and saved as read-only. I can copy this data to another spreadsheet to sort the information. The data needs some finessing, however. I will probably get to that next.

For now, the data contains 17 marriages, 1 profession of faith (convert), 63 baptisms, and 6 deaths. The data includes Maxwells and Shaffreys where they appear as the primary person for the life event or as a sponsor/witness, and in the case of baptisms, as the parent.

I was hopeful for more but I have this. I can probably pick out two to three distinct families fairly easily including my own Maxwell family unit headed by Joseph and Judy "Shaffrey" Maxwell.

Gleaning more information from this data may be challenging. Like I said, it needs finessing. Any instance of the Shaffrey name needs a standardized agreed upon spelling rather than the variations (Shaffrey, Shaffy, Shaffry, Shaffery). I will need to run through the entire batch of data and convert the spelling. My choice is Shaffrey for the spelling. First names also need some help along with locations. I will get to that.

Basic Shaffrey Life Event Data:

Shaffrey	Thos.	Baptism	1831
Shaffrey	Michl	Baptism	1831
Shaffrey	Simon	Baptism	1831
Shaffrey	Mary	Marriage	1831
Shaffrey	Thos.	Baptism	1833
Shaffrey	Mary	Baptism	1833
Shaffrey	Judy	Marriage	1834
Shaffrey	Catherine	Marriage	1834
Shaffrey	John	Baptism	1834
Shaffrey	Hugh	Baptism	1834
Shaffrey	Hugh	Marriage	1836
Shaffrey	Cathern	Marriage	1838
Shaffrey	Catherine	Baptism	1839
Shaffrey	Brigt	Marriage	1839
Shaffrey	Catherine	Baptism	1839
Shaffrey	Michl	Baptism	1840
Shaffrey	Betty	Marriage	1841
Shaffrey	Catherine	Death	1841
Shaffrey	Betty	Baptism	1842
Shaffrey	Cathn	Baptism	1843
Shaffrey	May	Baptism	1843
Shaffrey	Owen	Marriage	1845
Shaffrey	Philip	Baptism	1846
Shaffrey	Cathrine	Baptism	1846
Shaffrey	Andrew	Baptism	1846
Shaffrey	Anne	Baptism	1847
Shaffrey	Philip	Baptism	1850
Shaffrey	Philip	Death	1850
Shaffrey	John	Baptism	1853
Shaffrey	John	Marriage	1856
Shaffrey	Phil	Death	1857
Shaffrey	John	Death	1860
Shaffrey	John	Marriage	1861
Shaffrey	John	Baptism	1870
Shaffrey	Peter	Death	1872
Shaffrey	Philip	Baptism	1874
Shaffrey	Ellen Jane	Baptism	1876
Shaffrey	Bridget	Marriage	1880
Shaffrey	Thomas	Marriage	1882

Drawing some quick conclusions is possible. I clearly found my Shaffreys. I found my 3rd great grandfather, Joseph Patrick Maxwell, as being from Shancarnan. That location rings true even today for the Shaffrey name but the Maxwells do not seem to truly orignate from there. It seems as though Joseph's wife, Judy Shaffrey, has origins in Shancarnan. I spotted other Maxwells, but were they all Joseph and Judy's children? Bill Maxwell was clearly an adult in 1831 before Joseph and Judy were married and had children. I wonder if the John Maxwell who died on 7 Nov 1847 was a child or an adult. He was from Shancarnan.

Basic Maxwell Life Event Data:

Maxwell	Denis	Baptism	1836
Maxwell	James	Baptism	1841
Maxwell	Ellen	Baptism	1846
Maxwell	Cath	Baptism	1849
Maxwell	Judith	Baptism	1851
Maxwell	Joseph	Marriage	1834
Maxwell	Bill	Profession of Faith	1831
Maxwell	John	Death	1847

The 1834 marriage of Joseph Maxwell was to Judith Shaffrey.

I will hopefully be able to sort this data to filter out some answers. For now, I offer this basic version of the data in this public post. If anyone finds this, reach me at kristin@zelsersk.net.