Notes for Bernadette Matthews: received lots of email info from Bernadette Matthews Wheeler wheelbent@msn.com or 0(or "o")1432264874@msn.com
She is meeting with Archivist Michael O'Leary...and wants to go to the GRO in Kew to look up records.
Letter from Bernadette:
one Scannell family in Tredegar; however; also Scannell family in Newtown, Ebbw Vale; one in Dowais; and one in Rhymny....living about 4 miles from one another. "A Monsingneur Maurice Scannell in Cork. Ellen Scannell who was a Rebel and a Maurice Scannell are mentioned on a Memorial Plaque from about 1869 as a rebel aainst the Government. But told all official records for Cork area were destroyed by fire in early 1900's."