Hi there,
Thank you so so much for putting all this info together. Things are starting to make sense now and it's put me in the right direction to my next piece of information.
My mother received some money, a minimal amount i must add, back in 1997 due to her being the 2nd cousin, twice removed of an alice farrely. Alice's nephew, a Patrick Raymond Kelly died intestate on 1st April 1984 - he was a bachelor with no blood relative living apart from his Aunt, Alice. I have been trying for ages to figure out how the farrelly's came into our family and i now see that it must be through Mary Burke's (my mother's grandmother on her mother's side) sister marrying into the farrelly family.
Thank you again for your help and I also had success on the other side of the tree today when I managed by pure chance to make contact with descendants of Thomas Brady, a brother to John. What a crazy day it has been.