Michael Joseph McCabe and his wife Ethel Ford are on each end of this group. Others in the group are (from left to right) Joe McCabe and his wife, Phyllis, Mary Quigley and her daughter-in-law, Eugene Sweeney, John Quigley and Mary McCarren.

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McCabe Records

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HOMEPAGE

1911 Census for Ireland

Below are the McCabes listed in the townland of Drumsheaver, where we think the McCabe family originated. There are two houses of McCabes in Drumsheaver, numbers 7 and 10.

Below is the McCabe family living in the townland of Derrylea (Clones Parish, Monaghan)

I have found a Joseph McCabe listed in Aghalissabeagh, (Clones, Monaghan) in the 1911 Census. As Michael was referred to by his middle name of Joseph (due to a brother Michael who died while young, he was named after) this may be him before he went to work for Canon McGlone in late 1911. Below is the listing for the household. It says McCable but I think this may be an error on the part of the census taker.

From Parliamentary Papers you can see Michael McCabe listed in the Land Purchase Act. This Michael would be Michael Joseph's father.

According to one website, here, "Bishop James Duffy was born in Drumshevera in 1744. He was ordained a Priest in 1768. He was Parish Priest in Tydavnet when he set up the earliest Catholic School in Clogher Diocese after the Penal Laws at Urbleshanny, Scotstown in 1791. He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop in 1798 and Bishop in 1801. He died in 1824".

DRUMSHEVERA IN THE MONAGHAN STORY BY PEADAR LIVINGSTONE

One reference to the townland of Drumshevera is that a man called Thomas Devin Reilly, who had joined the Young Ireland Movement in the late 1840s, had stayed there while in hiding from the authorities. "The rebels were quickly dispersed, among them Thomas Devin Reilly. Eventually he reached the lakelands, the home of Father Thomas Tierney, where he remained in hiding. However, on Monday 4th September 1848, searches for Reilly began in the vicinity. The town of Ballybay was raided. Fifty police set out from Castleblayney to search the Annyalla area. Luckily for Reilly, Father Tierney's housekeeper, the sister of Terence Bellew McManus, got word before they reached Lakelands and Reilly made his escape. They searched the house and found Reilly's cap. Meanwhile, the rebel had made his way to Tempo in Fermanagh where he actually had a drink with a policeman in a public house. From Tempo he headed back for Tydavnet and sought refuge in Cormac Duffy's house, the house where Bishop Murphy had lived. He was turned away and went into a wood near Drumshevera lake where he stayed the night. He then spent four days with a Thomas Higgins in the locality and from there went to his home in Monaghan.Some time later police entered the house but Reilly escaped through the back garden. He got refuge in the house of an Orangeman called Gillanders about a Kilometre from Monaghan. When the police raided Gillander's house Reilly hid up the chimney. Eventually Thomas Devin Reilly made his escape to the United States where he died in 1854 at the age of thirty."

Another reference to Drumshevera is that of James Murphy who was a Priest from 1801 - 1824:

"James Murphy (1801 - '24) was born in Drumshevera, near Scotstown, in 1743. He was educated abroad and ordained in Rome in 1768. He returned at once to assist his uncle who was Parish Priest of Tydavnet and in 1773 became Parish Priest himself. He remained here in Drumshevera for the rest of his life. When the diocesan chapter of canons was revived in 1789, Murphy was nominated by Bishop O'Reilly to be it's first Dean. He led the diocese in opposition to the appointment of the same Bishop's nephew, Hugh, as coadjutor bishop in 1798 and succeeded to the diocese in 1801. Although fifty-eight years of age when he took over the diocese, Murphy approached the task with remarkable dynamism. He threw himself fully behind the church-building programme that had already begun with the building of Bishop O'Reilly's church in Carrickmacross in 1786. In 1814, Murphy was able to report:

Bishop Murphy also concerned himself with the Christian education of his people. He tells us about his work in 1804:

In 1814 Bishop Murphy tells us that the Catechism was being taught morning and evening on Sundays in the chapels for seven months of the year. The instruction was in English and in Irish, where that was necessary. Moreover, catechism was being taught on Sunday mornings in places too remote for children to go to mass."

There is more to the above but I will not quote it all here. I did not find any references to Derrylea in the book.

BIRTHS

Birth Certificate of Michael Joseph McCabe

Above are some births of children to Michael McCabe and Anne Connolly in Drumsheaver townland (Parish of Tydavnet), County Monaghan between 1875 and 1884. They are as follows: Mary McCabe b. 16th August 1875 (Informant was Mary Connolly – Present at birth) Anne McCabe b. 18th January 1878 (Informant was Anne McCabe – Present at birth) Margaret McCabe b. 14th June 1879 (Informant was Anne McCabe – Mother) Michael McCabe b. 12th October 1881 (Informant was Anne McCabe – Mother) Rose McCabe b. 14th June 1884 (Informant was Anne McCabe – Mother) Patrick McCabe b. 13th March 1886 (Informant was Alice Connolly – Present at birth)   The interesting thing about Patrick's birth is firstly that the Mother is entered as Mary Connolly and secondly that the informant is Alice Connolly of Bough. Since I can find no Connolly names in Drumsheaver in the Griffiths Valuation I think the certificate might point to this Connolly family being from Bough townland in the Parish of Tydavnet. Above are more births of children to Michael McCabe and Anne Connolly between 1888 and 1890. By this time they were living in Derrylea (Parish of Clones), County Monaghan. They are as follows: James McCabe b. 8th May 1888 (Informant was Alice Connolly (Scotstown) – Present at birth) Elizabeth McCabe b. 14th June (Informant was Alice Connolly (Scotstown) – Present at birth) MARRIAGES Above is the marriage of Patrick McCabe of Drumsheaver (son of Patrick McCabe) and Anne Connolly of Killatten (dau. of James Connolly). The marriage took place in the chapel of Urbleshanny (photo below) in Monaghan on 5th August 1872. It is unclear, at this time, what the relationship was between Patrick and Michael McCabe. I have to assume that there were two Anne Connollys married to either McCabe brothers or cousins. Built about 1825, officially known as St. Mary's The marriage of Michael Joseph McCabe (son of Michael McCabe and Anne Connolly) to Ethel Ford (daughter of John Ford and Elizabeth Miller) on 21st August 1917. You will notice it says Joseph McCabe. This is due to the fact that Michael's mother gave birth to a son called Michael in 1881 before Michael Joseph was born. This son died and so they named him Michael Joseph in Michael's memory but he was always known as Joe as if not to be a replacement. On the right is a notice about their wedding. DEATHS Above is the death of Anne McCabe of Drumsheaver on 27th March 1900. This Anne McCabe is aged 87 so would make her birth around 1813. I think we can rule this Anne out of being either Patrick or Michael's wife so I can assume that she was either their mother or their aunt. I do not know what Anne's maiden name was. Monica McCabe has recently got hold of her Great Grandmother, Anne (Connolly) McCabe's death certificate (above) and kindly let me put it on my site. Anne died on 17th June 1896, in Derrylea, from an illness commonly known as T.B. (Tuberculosis). She was ill with this condition for 13 months, which must have been a great hardship for Michael who no doubt had to look after her as well as the family, some of whom were still very young. Above is the death certificate of a Michael McCabe in 1926. We are unsure at this time if it is Monica's Great Gandfather as his age at death does not match up with his approximate year of birth

Looking at the Civil Indexes on the Family Search Pilot Site, the only marriages I could find that might fit Anne Connolly's marriage to Michael McCabe are as follows:

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Michael's Aunts and Uncles

Michael Joseph McCabe's mother, Anne Connolly, had four sisters who married into various families. They were Sheridan, Owen, Boyle and Corrigan.

Michael's father had two sisters, Rose and ? and two brothers, James and Patrick. James went to New York and Patrick was never married but adopted one of Michael Joseph's sisters, Rose.

Michael's siblings

Mary - Married a widower called ? Quigley

Anne - stayed single and lived with her uncle James

Rose - Was adopted by her uncle Patrick McCabe and later married a Peter McGorman

Patrick - Died in the mines in Scotland when he was young