Irish Carrs writing project: finish line in sight?

 What a nice neat and orderly blog it was in 2015! How different to 2022.

It doesn't reflect my current state of mind which is a mixture of frustration and consternation and urgency. I'm trying to finish writing my "project", which has simmered on the burner for so many years. I don't want to die and have boxes full of stuff that is meaningless to my kids and probably will be thrown into the landfill. 

To me the only true "product" worth making is a written story that can be picked up and read. Or gather dust on the shelf. It doesn't matter. What matters is to meet my end of the bargain as keeper of family stories - to tell those stories - and get the monkey off my back!

Covid and lockdowns have been a gift to the family historian. Plenty of time to focus on what must be done. And no excuses.

The Project is to write up research on the Carr line of ancestors, going back to Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries. With a lot of help from fellow researchers, their amazinng stories have been uncovered. After the Great Famine, 9 out of at least 13 children in one family left Ireland and made Australia home. I tell their story and follow the paths out of Ireland to Australia, with emphasis on my direct line. It ends in 1900, just beacuse that time period is difficult but achievable. A future project is the story from 1900 but that is big and scary, and for later. 

This post is the first attempt to reach out to others who may be interested to get the story. With luck these messages may reach people who know something about the ancestors in my story. Maybe we can pool our knowledge?

Here are some words that someone might be searching for:

Thomas Carr, Cecilia Burke, Castlebar, County Mayo, John Stanley Carr, Frederick Carr, Elizabeth Moran, Royal Irish Constabulary, RIC, Great Famine, Eliza Louisa Blakeney, William Theophilus Blakeney, Jo Dowse, Thomas Carr, Charles Andrews Carr, Dublin, Cork, Belfast, John De Burgh, Marcella Blake, Frederick William Carr, Maria Theresa Carter, William Landsborough, Lavinia Elizabeth, Thomas Kemp Strong, Mabella Edith McTier, Magill, William Henry Carr, Maria Lillyman, Augustus Edward Stanley Carr, Minnie McGregor, Ernest Henry Carr, Fanny Beardmore, Alfred Blakeney, Jane Margaret May, Edward John Priestly, Mary Irby, Ada Johanna, David Scott, Sydney Josephson, Edwin King.