Fanny Shoebridge

Hi Dianne,

There are a number of articles on the Shoebridge family in Ireland, Freemans Journal 1763-1924

There are also more up to date articles in the Connaught newspapers including 2012 articles.

Brendan

www.researchireland.com

Dianne,

The Shewbridge Family are still living around Portumna - neighbours of mine - have a look also at 

http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1115

  Mike

Good Morning Diane

Just to let you know I have emailed our volunteers in the Portumna area and also the surrounding townlands with regards to your genealogy query. I have also spoken to John Joe Conwell, local historian in Portumna, and he knows a gentleman in the area with the surname shewbridge. You can email John Joe Conwell on johnjoeconwell@gmail.com.

Best of luck with your research.

Paula

Hi Paula

Thanks so much for your email.  It is very exciting to hopefully get on the trail of the Shoebridge/Shewbridge family. I will email  John Joe Conwell and see how he can help me. 

Kind Regards

Dianne Bates

from wet and cold Wellington, New Zealand

Hi Mike

Thanks for the email. Is it possible that your Shewbridge neighbours would be willing to correspond with me regarding my ancestors?, Or if they don't have access to the internet would they be willing to give you the details.

Kind Regards

Dianne Bates

from wet, windy and cold Wellington, New Zealand

Hello Dianne,

            These are just a few interesting references to Shoebridge/Shewbridge of Portumna. I hope they are of interest and help to fill in some of the missing pieces.

Regards,

Christy Cunniffe.    

            Firstly; look up the Landed Estates database developed and managed by Dr Marie Boran and Dr Brigid Clesham of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. You will be able to see an image of Oakley Park, Portumna which it is thought that Anne Shewbridge owned. You will also be able to see the entry part of which I have quoted here.

            Website http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/

The entry reads; ?In 1856 Anne Shewbridge was leasing a property in the townland of Gowil, parish of Lickmolassy, barony of Longford, to John Cunningham. Local sources suggest that a William Shewbridge served as a Church of Ireland curate in Portumna in the 1760s while genealogical sources note a marriage in 1779 between a Mary Eyre of Eyrecourt and a Mr. Shewbridge.?

            Secondly; Michael MacMahon has a reference to the setting up of the Connaught Rangers regiment at Portumna in his book Portumna Castle and its Lords (1983), pp23-24. He has an early reference to a Henry Shewbridge on page 24 where he notes that; ?In the Connaught Journal  of September 25 1793 a notice proclaimed: ?All spirited young men desirous of entering into the Royal Regiment of the Connaught Rangers are desired to apply immediately to Capt. Henry Shewbridge at Portumna ??

            It is worth checking if this is the same Henry that is mentioned in the Landed Estates database as leasing lands in Clarary from a William Doolan (Nov.14 1788).  ?nd also to establish his relationship to the Henry who is the Church of Ireland curate in the1760s.