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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cork => Topic started by: shawd on Monday 04 May 20 01:07 BST (UK)
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I am getting stuck.
I have a record of my 2nd G-Grandparents getting married on Nov 4 1856 in Gananoque, Leeds Co, Ontario, Canada.
I am certain that Cornelius Harrington and Margaret Ryan are my 2nd G-Grandparents, as their son, Dennis, was my grandmother's father, and my grandmother recalled Margaret and had a photo of her.
Their marriage record gives the following information:
Cornelius Harrington of the Rail Road in this mission
Margaret Ryan, also of this mission
Parents of Cornelius - Timothy Harrington and Julia Falvey from Parish Kilcastle?? C. Cork.
Parents of Margaret - Michael Ryan and Bridget Lahey from Parish Kilknomon?? C. Limerick.
I also found a newspaper clipping in an American paper posted by a Jeremiah Falvey in Moira, Franklin, NY seeking his nephew Cornelius Harrington, son of Timothy Harrington and Julia Falvey, from Rosnegrena, Top of the Glen, Glengariffe, County Cork who married Mike Hyan's (sic) daughter from Cappawhite, County Tipperary about 12 years prior (this was posted in 1871) at Guaranacque (sic), Grand Trunk Railroad, Canada.
Despite some misspellings and such, this certainly reinforces that Timothy and Julia are Cornelius' parents. But I am unable to find any information about them. I don't know if they stayed in Ireland or came to Canada (or went to the US?) and I don't know when they married or what other children they might have had.
Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
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There was indeed a Cornelius Harrington baptised for those parents in Adrigole RC parish on 2 December 1830 and the address was Rossnagrena.
https://www.townlands.ie/cork/bear/kilcaskan/kilcaskan/rossnagrena/
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There was indeed a Cornelius Harrington baptised for those parents in Adrigole RC parish on 2 December 1830 and the address was Rossnagrena.
https://www.townlands.ie/cork/bear/kilcaskan/kilcaskan/rossnagrena/
Sorcery! How did you find a baptism?
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'RootsIreland' has a transcript.
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Thank you!
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Transcript here as well:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01pf0/
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And the image is here
https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000631891#page/10/mode/1up
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Jeremiah Falvey ?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3CL-HPF
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62911206/nellie-falvey
marriage 1838
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01pf1/
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That address of Rossnagrena townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan is important to note, for Harringtons in the more general area straddling counties Cork and Kerry were quite plentiful. If you look up Rossnagrena in Griffith's Valuation (local print date 1852), you will see it predominated by a cluster of Harringtons, including a Timothy:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=placeSearch
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I can't yet see an online baptismal record for Margaret Ryan with those parents. However, I'm leaning towards the speculative possibility that she was the daughter of Michael Ryan and Bridget Leahey of Curraghafoil, a townland in County Limerick (but on the county border with Tipperary):
https://www.townlands.ie/limerick/coonagh/doon/bilboa/curraghafoil/
The reason being that I can see records for children of such a named couple at that address being baptised in Kilcommon RC parish: Honora in 1837, Michael in 1839, Patrick in 1842, John in 1845, and Johanna in 1847. Cappawhite lies about 7 miles south of Curraghafoil, as the crow flies.
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That address of Rossnagrena townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan is important to note, for Harringtons in the more general area straddling counties Cork and Kerry were quite plentiful. If you look up Rossnagrena in Griffith's Valuation (local print date 1852), you will see it predominated by a cluster of Harringtons, including a Timothy:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=placeSearch
You can also see them here a couple of decades earlier in the Tithe Applotment Books (watch out for the different spellings of the same place name):
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/index.jsp
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Blimey you guys are honestly rockstars at this! ;D ;D ;D
Thank you all so much - this is amazing!
gaffy I think you must be right about the parents of Margaret Ryan. Especially as Margaret had children with the names Michael, Patrick, John, and Johanna. I know some are super common names in Ireland then, but it makes sense. And the locations make sense based on your knowledge of proximity too.
Sinann Thank you for posting the image. I wasn't able to see it through the previous link because I didn't have a membership to the site. I saved it. :D :D
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Sinann Thank you for posting the image. I wasn't able to see it through the previous link because I didn't have a membership to the site. I saved it. :D :D
Apart from needing to register with Family Search there is no membership required for any of the sites linked to on this thread.
For the Irish Genealogy link you just need to prove your not a robot.
You need to sign in to see the Civil records to cover the legal stuff but no registration or membership required. Free and safe.
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Hi there,
I am a great-great-great-grandson of Jeremiah Falvey and Julia Sullivan from Moira, New York. I knew nothing of any siblings of his till now.
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I can confirm that Margaret Ryan (ca. 1838-1937), wife of Cornelius Harrington, was the daughter of Michael Ryan and Bridget Lahey of Curraghafoil, Doon, Co. Limerick (though Michael Ryan was apparently born on the Tipperary side of the border).
Margaret's sister Honora Ryan (my 2x-great-grandmother) was also married at St. John the Evangelist, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario, Canada, to a Thomas Benton of Cappawhite, Tipperary.
I believe both Cornelius Harrington and Thomas Benton were amongst the Irish labourers working on the construction of a Grand Trunk Railway line from Montreal to Brockville, which opened in 1859. They did not settle permanently in Ganonoque; and by the early 1860s had moved on (Thomas Benton and Honora Ryan to Pakenham, Lanark Co., Ontario; Cornelius Harrington and Margaret Ryan to Renfrew Co., Ontario).
I have a bit of information on the family here:
http://www.familytree.ottawavalleyirish.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F13&tree=Moran
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I can confirm that Margaret Ryan (ca. 1838-1937), wife of Cornelius Harrington, was the daughter of Michael Ryan and Bridget Lahey of Curraghafoil, Doon, Co. Limerick (though Michael Ryan was apparently born on the Tipperary side of the border).
Margaret's sister Honora Ryan (my 2x-great-grandmother) was also married at St. John the Evangelist, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario, Canada, to a Thomas Benton of Cappawhite, Tipperary.
I believe both Cornelius Harrington and Thomas Benton were amongst the Irish labourers working on the construction of a Grand Trunk Railway line from Montreal to Brockville, which opened in 1859. They did not settle permanently in Ganonoque; and by the early 1860s had moved on (Thomas Benton and Honora Ryan to Pakenham, Lanark Co., Ontario; Cornelius Harrington and Margaret Ryan to Renfrew Co., Ontario).
I have a bit of information on the family here:
http://www.familytree.ottawavalleyirish.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F13&tree=Moran (http://www.familytree.ottawavalleyirish.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F13&tree=Moran)
Thank you for sharing this! Cornelius and Margaret did indeed settle in Renfrew and I am descended from them (they are my second great-grandparents).
Do you have a source for Cornelius working on Grand Trunk Railway or does that come from oral family history?
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Hello,
There are two sources:
1. In the church record of his marriage to Margaret Ryan (4 Nov 1856), he is identified as "Cornelius Harrington, of the Rail Road in this mission"
2. A "Missing Friends" advert in the Boston Pilot (7 Jan 1871):
"OF CORNELIUS HARRINGTON, son of Timothy Harrington and Julia Falvey, from Rosnagrena, Top of the Glen, Glengariffe, county Cork; he got married to Mike Hyan's [Ryan's] daughter, from Cappawhite, county Tipperary, about 12 years ago, at Guaranacque [Ganonoque], Grand Trunk Railroad, Canada. If this should meet his eye, or any person acquainted with him, they will confer a favor on his uncle by writing to him. Address Jeremiah Falvey, Moira, Franklin co., N.Y."