| You will find the materials in this site divided into four main areas, loosely titled “The Place,” “The Process,” "Records," and “The People.” The idea was to let visitors focus in on specific areas you might be interested in, while giving you a bit of a road map to the other materials available on the site. If you have Buckley family roots from this part of Ireland, we hope you will browse all the areas of the site, then share with us your ideas, your history, and your feedback about how these materials are laid out.
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The People ~ If all you are interested in here is the current version of the extended family tree for the Buckleys of Cappawhite, then you will want to go straight to People. Here, you will find the tree broken down into smaller trees corresponding to the Buckley family centers that grew up in each of the townlands surrounding Cappawhite. How good these trees are depends on how much data we have had to work with, but what you see represents the best information we currently have. This area concludes with what we call the “Master Tree,” which is our current best guess about how all the smaller pieces fit together. |
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| Joseph, son of Edward of Knockanavar |
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I should note that these trees don not yet come down very far toward the present day -- but they will. Our emphasis to this point, and what has been most readily available to us, is data from the 19th century. There are still Buckleys living in the area today – in place like Doon, the Toem townland of Shanacloon, and in Cappawhite village, but this site does not yet tell their story. We have put in a few placeholders for them, and we are looking forward to the day when the site is far enough along to bring them into our project here. When that happens, when these modern Irish cousins of ours share their stories with us, then we will see the tree in full bloom. |
| The Place ~ This section covers the physical locations where the Buckley families grew in the Cappawhite area. It touches on where Cappawhite sits in the country of Ireland, the various civil and church divisions of the area, and so forth, and it includes various maps -- including townland maps from the middle of the 19th century. I visited this area in the summer of 2005, so I have included some photos of Tipperary, and may add some short video clips, too. |
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| The Emerald Isle |
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| But “The Place” is more than just mildly interesting background information, because these places – towns, townlands, and farms – shaped the movement and growth of our family, and the civil and church divisions are the key to being able to find records about the family. For those of us whose families have moved away from this place – very far away, in some cases – I think it is an important perspective to remember that we were people of not “The Place” but “The Land.” Literally all the Buckleys living in the Cappawhite area during the first half of the 19th century were tenant farmers, from the land and of the land. From dust we were formed, to dust we will return.
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The Process ~ For visitors who are interested in family research, or who wonder how we have drawn the family tree the way we have, this is the place for you. It takes you through the various types of records we have about the family in the Cappawhite area, and it explains the various assumptions and analyses we have used to try to assemble all of our records into one story. This effort has been part detective work and part creative guesswork, so even if you are only a casual visitor you might enjoy some of the inventive approaches we have used here. |
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| The Parents of Edward of Knockanavar |
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Records: If you are really interested in researching your possible Buckley roots in the Cappawhite area, then this will be the place for you. Some people just enjoy knowing their family's story, but for others everything is about the data. We have amassed a fair amount of data about the Buckleys in the area in the early 1800s: birth data, marriage data, death records, property records, and so on. It is our intent to get as much of this data posted as we properly can. Some is here already, but there is a lot more to go. | |
Finally, if you enjoy solving logic puzzles you can probably lend us some help here. Every piece of information ultimately helps to shape the picture, and we may have some pieces whose significance we have not yet understood or you may have a tidbit of information that we don’t have that will make things clearer. If this is the case, please talk to us and let us know. To this point, there are only a few of us who have been working to pull this information together. We have a lot of research materials that we are not publishing on the site for a variety of reasons. But if you are a serious researcher into this Buckley family, we can discuss these deeper background materials in more detail. |
Acknowledgements ~ In closing here, let me add a word acknowledgement and of gratitude. Early in my research efforts, I crossed paths with Phil Buckley -- one of our American cousins, lately of Montana and California. Phil's help has been critical to my understanding of the materials that are available, and he has shared with me years' worth of his hard work to bring me to the point where this research is today. Every page you see on this site shows the stamp of Phil's contribution to this effort. Phil, in turn, has long been working with Bill Buckley, another of our American cousins, whose Cappawhite ancestors settled in upstate New York and who has been compiling information about his Cappawhite family for many years. Phil and Bill, thanks to you both.
To this list, I now need to start adding other names: Siobhan from Doon who did some great research in her local parish records; Clair from England who has completed by family's story for me; and Peter from the US who gave us that great page from the family Bible. I look forward to adding more names soon.
James Buckley
Los Angeles, February 13, 2007 |
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