Regarding Threekids post# 133 about this family there are a few things that have possibly altered since that post (at least in my mind)
Firstly I think Robert Bryson was the son of James Bryson and Ann McConnell of Ballyvoy (not Martha) and they married at 1st Donegore on 18 Jan 1829.
Ann Bryson, widow of Ballybracken, married again in 1850 to a Malcolm Barkely of Ballyclaverty. This is how I think Robert Bryson and his sister Mary came to be at Ballyclaverty when they married.
Ann Barkley died 1875 aged 71 at Ballywoodock and her death was registered by William Bell.
Secondly the death of Ellen Byrson listed by Threekids is not for the correct Ellen Bryson as she was alive when her children Sarah and Robert were born and again later when she married at Ballymena and later again in 1911.
#130
Did Ann McConnell die during childbirth?
I’ve read somewhere that this may have been the case and that James then married Martha which may have been Ann’s sister??
Also I’ve read that Martha may have married another James Bryson after the first one died.
It’s really confusing.
The Tilly mentioned in Robert’s will: is she the daughter of Annie Bryson before Annie married Hugh O’hara?
She’s living with her uncle James Bryson later on and her aunt is only a year older than her.
On Tilly’s marriage to Mooney she lists her father as a Hugh Bryson.
I’m not sure who the father for Sarah Bryson is 100%. Maybe John J Nevin who puts him at 16 years old and becoming a father. Then 2 years later Robert Bryson / Nevin is born but both Sarah and Rob are with just Ellen in 1901.
Martha Gordon registered Sarah’s on behalf of Ellen.
Sarah did visit Ireland with her youngest son she had with her husband in England. However she never saw her mother and nothing was talked about.
Robert Bryson, Sarah’s brother came to live with her and her family in Coventry. Apparently he called himself Robert Nevin but his recorder as a Bryson officially. I’m so surprised no one asked more back then. They wouldn’t cope with me at all. 😂
The it seems Sarah moves in with the Andrew family at Owensland. She’s a visitor but Margaret who died before the 1911 census was apparently a Bryson. So that’s a connection.
Sarah’s son James Bryson is born at the house in owensland so that’s interesting too.
Who was his father as it’s been a mystery.
She then left him somewhere in Ireland. She came back when she married someone in England and took him to live with her. The step father added his surname of the birth certificate document and so all James Bryson's (Watkins) descendants are now called Watkins 😂
Thanks for the replies
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