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david keville (View posts)
Posted: 10 Oct 2000 1:25PM GMT
My name is David Keville,I'm from Belfast,Ireland.My family are from Leitrim,they can go back six generations from the small town of Annaduff.My father assures me that there are two 'clans' one from Galway and the other from Leitrim,SligoRoscommon.I can find out more from my father and post it if anyone is intrested.

KEVILL'S OF ANNADUFF

Irene Sharp (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jan 2001 12:01PM GMT
David,
I was interested to see your message of the Kevill's of Annaduff. My g. g. grandfather HENRY KEVIL who I think originated from Annaduff. He was a corn miller and married to Hannah ? around 1829. They had five children, all born in Ireland but only on documentary evidence does it say that their eldest child, Jane was born in Leitrim.On the other it just says Ireland. I tracked down the Kevill's and the Corn Mills in Co. Leitrim area and all pointed to Annaduff and there are indeed Kevill gravestones in the St. Mary's churchyard at Annaduff which I visited in 1999.
Henry must have died in Ireland as there is no record of his death in the UK civil records. His wife and children all emigrated to Lancashire, UK and I am one of the decendents of their son Peter.
I've been unable to find out so far if Henry had any brother or sisters and if so, did they also come to Lancashire or go perhaps to the U.S.A or Australia etc?
Would be grateful if you could let me know of information you may have.

Regards
Irene Sharp (nee Kevill)
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annaduff

david keville (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jan 2001 1:39PM GMT
Irene,nice to hear from you.
My father was from Annaduff,his father was Pat Keville and as far as I'm sure he had a brother called Peter(not 100% but my middle name is peter called after my fathers uncle).
St marys church is where my Grandparents are buried Pat and Anne Keville.
I am delighted you contacted me as I can contact my dad and his brother Leo who have researched the name etc, a lot more than me.
My father is 65 has two brothers(jack and leo)and two sisters(moya and ann) they might becoming to visit in May,so they will be able to tell you so much about ANNADUFF AND ALL THE KEVILLES from that area.
I will speak to my father this weekend and hopefully have some information on your family.
Slainte David Keville

Keville of Sligo/Roscommon

Posted: 14 Jan 2001 11:52AM GMT
Edited: 20 Aug 2001 6:46PM GMT
David,
I would be interested in receiving some information on the Keville's. My Mother was born in County Sligo in Ballinafad. She came to America in 1929.

My father was born outside of Belfast. Could you give me some suggestions on how to do research in Northern Ireland.

Thank you.
Noreen

Kevill's Of Annaduff

Irene Sharp (View posts)
Posted: 17 Jan 2001 10:45AM GMT
David,
Many thanks for your message. Please let me know if your Father knows anything from the past about Henry Hannah Kevill who I think may have originated from Annaduff. Also if he has any information on any of the old corn mills.

Regards
Irene Sharp
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Information on the Keville's

Anna Gordon (View posts)
Posted: 18 Feb 2001 11:46AM GMT
Hey to whoever reads this, I'm David's cousin I live in Dublin. My Uncle Leo was up at my house last week and i showed him the notice board. He said that he got a good bit of information on the Keville's from a family history centre. He said he'll send it up to me so that i can give it to the relevant people. I'll send it on a.s.a.p.
I hope some of you read this and take an interest.
bye
Anna Gordon.

Keville's

Posted: 18 Feb 2001 12:45PM GMT
Edited: 20 Aug 2001 6:46PM GMT
Anna,
I would be very interested in receiving as much information about the Keville's. Thank you for your help.

Re: keville

bill keville (View posts)
Posted: 13 Sep 2001 2:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
hey David that would be great .Micheal Francis Keville came to America in 1916 or there about. He was a member of the AOH had a son Thomas Micheal Keville Sr.were up to Thomas Micheal Keville the 4 th. As a kid we would send clothes, if they weren't all used up by our family of 5, to a family in the village in sheep country in Ireland my grandmother would visit and write.My dad Tom Keville jr. tried to track records as far as kevillstown only to find the parish had burnt down any furture info would be great . ps did you add letters to your name as it is my understanding that my name was KEVIL until my grandmother changed it .
You couldn't change her mind God rest her soul Thankyou pray for us nathair Ireland

Re: Keville of Sligo/Roscommon

Peter Keville (View posts)
Posted: 27 Sep 2001 11:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Noreen --

Just saw your posts on the Keville board. I've been to "Kevillestown" in the townland Cournameetha, a few miles
up in the hills from Boyle, Co. Roscommon on the edge of the Roscommon/Sligo border. It's only a wind-swept crossroads with a few stone foundations of cottages to mark where the six or so Keville families lived, local Boyle Keville families tell me, before some emigrated to England, Australia, and the US in the 19th century. As late as the 1960s several bachelor Keville men lived up there, who apparently knew the families' histories. My own great-grandfather, John Keville, emigrated from there in 1849 to Australia, then on to Boston, and actually returned to Boyle @ 1865 where he married a Teresa Sheerin from Townytaskin, a few miles away, and took her back to Boston. I have copies of their marriage records and his family records from the Roscommon Heritage Center. John was born in 1832, one of 10 children of Peter Keville and Honora Quigley. Tithe records of the various Keville "plots" of land in Kevillestown indicate payments from a Thomas, a Patrick, and a Michael Keville to a Viscount Lorton in the early 19th century, which may provide a clue as to how many Keville families lived there originally and descended from those
men, who may have been brothers (I'm guessing here).

Several Keville families live in and around Boyle, and they are lovely, charming folks. There's some dispute among them (and among other Keville famlies in Co. Letrim and Galway (Headford area) as to where the Keville name originated. Some say the name came in with the French invasion of 1798; others say it came in earlier and was either a Norman name (Keville=root "kevel" Middle French, emigrating at various points to England and Ireland) or a Gaelic name (O'Coiblihan, associated with coarbs/monks in County Meath. Either way, the Kevilles in Kevillestown lived and farmed fairly bad land up in those hills -- no wonder so many emigrated.

I know the Keville name is associated in Ireland frequently with Co Leitrim and Co Sligo. The Galway phone book lists Kevilles in those places too. I'm interested in your note that one of your Keville ancestors came from Kevillestown in Sligo, just the other side of the Sligo/Roscommon border than the Kevillestown I looked for and visited. This may be the same Kevillestown, so I hope my notes are of some interest to you. Stay in touch.

Regards,
Peter Keville
100 Lexington Street
Belmont, MA 02478

Re: Keville of Sligo/Roscommon

Posted: 5 Oct 2001 4:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 29 Oct 2001 11:21AM GMT
hi peter, just read your notes on the message board.my great great granfather came from roscommon.his name was michael he was born in 1938 ,he came over to england with his wife mary they had two sons john thomas born 1864 and michael 1870 so l guess they would of emigrated 1860 ish. is there any simular names on your family records from the heritage center? just be amazing if they were brothers...with 10 children maybe. look forward to hearing from you
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