Hi Jessica

If you use the search facility to look at old messages about the Gick family of Cordeman (just put the single word "Cordeman" into the search box) you'll find a huge number of messages from 2006/7/8/9. The trouble is, there's some good information in there mixed up with some misleading information eg the maternal grandparents of Isabella Kelly b circa 1812 were William Gick (1760-1837) and jane Moore (1758-1831) who married in Santon in 1781, but there was also another William Gick/Jane Moore couple having children in the 1760s and 1770s in Santon, leading to someone muddling up of the children of these two couples.

I can't manage to locate my old notes on this family, but from memory I believe that the question "was the Isabella Kelly b 1812 who married Joseph Clarkson in 1832 definitely the daughter of Jane Gick and William Kelly of Ballalonney, Marown ?" was still unanswered. However, I may be wrong; Ray may have found proof that she was indeed Jane Gick's daughter, (Jane Gick b 1792 being the daughter of William Gick b 1760 of Cordeman and Jane Moore b 1758)

William Gick's 1837 will shows that he did have a granddaughter, Isabella Kelly, who was a daughter of William Kelly:

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Thirdly – I leave and bequeath unto my grandchildren Isabella, Jane, Ann, Agnus and
Elizabeth daughters of William Kelly deceased of Balla(g)lonney in the parish of
Marown the sum of twenty pounds British each
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Isabella's parents had died when she and her siblings were young (William Kelly died in 1823 and Jane Kelly nee Gick died in 1825 ) so these children may have been brought up by their grandparents.

I'll send you by email a sketched tree of this family so that when you read the old messages on this board you'll have some sort of framework to help you get to grips with the information. It's an interesting family to research because several of them left wills.

Jean C