The Ancestors
Caithlin Gabriel O'Loghlen b 1995
Following the birth of my daughter Caithlin in 1995 I began researching my family history. In 1854 my paternal great great gandfather Michael O'Loghlen left County Clare, Ireland to sail to Port Adelaide, South Australia after the potato famine of the 1840s. Eleven years later my maternal great grandfather John Henry Cahill made the same voyage. This album is an attempt by one Australian to understand their homes, history and hopes whilst in the land of my Ancestors.
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Michael O'Loghlen
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Born County Clare Ireland
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1811
John Henry Cahill
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Michael James O'Loghlen
B County Clare Ireland
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B County Clare Ireland
1848
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1847
Lillian Marie Cahill
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Patrick Martin O'Loghlen
B Australia 1885
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B Australia 1887
Majorie Gwendoline Richardson
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William Cyril O'Loghlen
B 1912
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B 1920
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Gavin William O'Loghlen B 1952 - Anne Dormer B 1954
Caithlin Gabriel O'Loghlen
B 1995
Michael O'Loghlen
Born near Corofin on the Burren in County Clare, Ireland in 1811. The language spoken in the region was Gaelic. He was a Cotter, a landless agricultural labourer, who provided labour as part payment of rent. He married Ellen O'Day, born 1813 also of Corofin, in 1833. They had three children . After the Potato Famine of the 1840's he decided to leave for South Australia. He had no relatives or friends there. He set sail in the "Joseph Rowan" with wife Ellen and three boys aged 7, 4 and 2, and arrived in Port Adelaide on Sunday June 18 1854. The colony was 18 years old. He continued to work as a farmer near Gulnare, in the mid north of SA. He later moved to Georgetown where he died in 1873 at the age of 62. He was buried in the Gulnare cemetary. His grave has since been destroyed.
John Henry Cahill
Born in Knockatunna in the parish of Kilmaley, County Clare, Ireland, six miles southwest of Ennis on Sept. 14, 1848. This was one year after the coldest and wettest winter on record, which together with the Potato Famine, claimed the lives of one million Irish Cotters. At the age of 17, he left for South Australia, arriving first in Perth then later at Port Adelaide in 1865. He started work driving bullock teams at Port Augusta. On 26 Nov 1879 he married Margaret Florence Haggarty. They had four sons and three daughters. He then began a butchering business in Quorn, before running Nantabra Station. Losing nearly everything in the drought of the 1890s, he turned his hand to farming near Willochra where he bred horses for racing and show jumping. He won many trophies and had as many as six horses in his training stables. In 1907 he suffered a stroke, never recovered and died on 6 September 1911 at the age of 63. He is buried in Quorn.
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