Records of John Clancy on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Clancy and the Clancy Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Clancy Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Clancy family tree.

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Clancy Family Tree Databases

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Clancy Forums

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Some Famous People called John Clancy

John Michael Clancy

John Michael Clancy (May 7, 1837 – July 25, 1903) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in County Laois, Ireland, he immigrated with his parents to the United States and settled in New York City. He attended the public schools of Brooklyn, engaged in the real-estate business, served as an alderman of the city of Brooklyn from 1868 to 1875, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1878, 1879 (both Kings Co., 1st D.), 1880 and 1881 (both Kings Co., 4th D.).

Clancy was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 and resumed the real-estate business in New York City. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress and died in Butte, Montana while returning from a visit to Yellowstone Park. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, New York City.

Source: John Michael Clancy, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

John Joseph Clancy (bishop)

The Most Reverend John Joseph Clancy (1856–1912) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Elphin from 1895 to 1912.

He was born on 23 December 1856 in Sooey, County Sligo, Ireland. He was educated at the Marist Brothers school in sligo and Summerhill College, in 1876 he went to Maynooth College to study for the priesthood. He went on to become professor of English Literature and French at Maynooth.He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Elphin and Titular Bishop of Achantus on 12 January 1895. He succeeded as the Diocesan Bishop of Elphin on 8 February 1895 and ordained bishop on 24 March 1895. He died in office on 19 October 1912, aged 55 years old.

Source: John Joseph Clancy (bishop), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Clancy

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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