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Am wondering if anyone has any early information on the Gibbon family of Newport, Co. Mayo, around the mid 1850's and earlier.  I am mostly interested in the parents and their backgrounds.  I have a lot of info about 5 of the 12 children born to James and (possibly Marie Cain) Gibbon, but know nothing of the others nor of the parents.  The five I have much on are: 
1) Reuben Henry (b. about 1835), who later moved to Ramelton, Co. Donegal to raise a family and eventually to the US. 
2) Annabel, who married an Edward Roycroft and moved to Dublin where she presumably died.  They had a daughter, Florence Annie, who emigrated to the US. 
3) William, who married a woman named Sarah and had 2 children, Alfred and Mary Emilie, both of whom emigrated to the US.
4)  Edward John, b. abt 1854 who emigrated to Australia
5)  Elizabeth (my GGrandmother), who married Duncan MacFarlane MacDougall, and moved to the US

Hi Maria,

Not a whole lot.  They were from Caherbarna and Ballycotten, just up the hill from Liscannor and the Greene family still owns a farm there.

In my genealogy of Greenes, My GGGrandparents were Michael and Nancy (?) Greene and my GGrandparents were Robert and Margaret (Dunleavy) Greene of Caherbarna.  They had 10 or more children I am aware of, all born between 1870 and 1892 (Elizabeth, Thomas (lived only a few months), Michael, Anne, John, Mary, Bridget, Patrick (1881 -  1902), Katherine (1883 - 1907) and maybe a Robert and probably a second John (the first seems to have died in the first year of his life [1875] while the second was born in 1887 and was still living on the farm on the 1901 census.

Do you think you may tie into this family?

Best wishes

Robt Dunleavy

Hello Therese

The Margaret you reference is my Great Grandmother, born about 1854.  The Ennistymon Union recorded: "1/26/1869  In Liscannor the marriage of Robert Greene 23 a single farmer living in Caherbarna.  Father: Michael Greene, farmer.  Bride: Margaret Dunleavy age 15 single the daughter of farmer Thomas Dunleavy of Caherbarna Wit: Anne and William Greene."

This couple went on to have at least 10 children, including my grandmother Elizabeth Greene, who emigrated to the US in 1908.  Once here she met and married Austin Dunleavy from Knockaskeheen (Lisdoonvarna).  Unknown as to whether or how they may have been related, but family lore is that they did not know each other in the old country.

Somewhere along the way I found that Margaret's brother Thomas married a Mary Deloughery (or Delahouny) and they had 3 children:  Catherine (1874), Thomas (1876) and Maria (Abt 1882).  Trail ends there

Believe Margaret died on February 13, 1902 and is buried in the Lagh Cloon Cemetery, just outside of Lisconnor.  My great grandfather Michael Greene was still alive in 1908 when my grandmother emigrated.

In 1999 when I last visited Ireland, the only Dunleavy still living around Caherbarna was a bachelor named Patrick (Patsy), who was in his late 70's.  The Greene family still has a farm in Caherbarna