BREHONY/ENY/ANY family

[TuB1945]

Hello,
My Brehony family( There are many spellings of the name!) were in Arigna, Dereenavoggy, Roscommon, Ireland, in the 1830s until 1910.( Tithe aplottment, Grifiths Valuation and and 1901 census.
I am trying to trace any descendants of:-
Brigid(b.1839) and Winifred(b. 1846) daughters of Patrick Brehany and Dorothy Gaffney.

Or the next generation. Descendants of:-
Terence(b.1866),  Thomas(b. 1865), Brigid(b.1868) Eleanor(b. 1869), and Patrick(b.1873) children of Patrick Breheny(b.1836 d,1878) and Margaret Glynn(b.1843 d.1909).
If any of this rings a bell, please get in touch.
TuB

[Neil Todd]

Hi, I just checked NSW BDM's for mentions of the name BREHONY/ENY/ANY.

There are quite a few and might be worthwhile you going through them. The most popular Variant being BREHENY.

This is not to discount any of the other 5 States that also may contain mentions of this family.

NSW is free to search, just TYPE..... NSW BDM into your search engine.

Neil

[~MERLIN~]

NSW BDM online here:

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingOrder.cgi/search?event=

[TuB1945]

Hello Neil Todd and Merlin,
Thanks for the information, much appreciated.
TuB

[CJPorter]

Are you still interested in information on the Brehony family?  I have done quite a bit of research if you are.My husband's great uncle married Ellen Brehony in Belfast and they moved to Hamilton, Scotland where he worked as a coal minter

[Kiltaglassan]

Welcome to RootsChat 

My husband's great uncle married Ellen Brehony in Belfast and they moved to Hamilton, Scotland where he worked as a coal minter

Is this the marriage that you are relating to?
17 January 1899 - Ellen Brehony to Thomas Wynne.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1899/10368/5774802.pdf

Ellen living in Kilronan Co Roscommon. Here's the townland of Kilronan Mountain just to the west of Arigna (which was famous for coal mining).
https://www.townlands.ie/roscommon/boyle/kilronan/keadew/kilronan-mountain/

My Brehony family in Arigna, Dereenavoggy, Roscommon, Ireland, ............and 1901 census.

1901 census
House 14 in Derreenavoggy (Keadew, Roscommon)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Keadew/Derreenavoggy/1658633/

Derreenavoggy townland just to the east of Kilronan Mountain.
https://www.townlands.ie/roscommon/boyle/kilronan/keadew/derreenavoggy/

The mining area of Arigna.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4675061#map=13/54.0708/-8.1143

[CJPorter]

Yes this is the marriage! The Kilronan threw me off too, expecting it to be the townland she was born in as it usually was.  Perhaps she was working at the castle which was not that far from home, or for some reason listed the PARISH of Kilronan in which she was from?  That is still unknown to me.  It also threw me off that they were married so very far from home, but their death records have convinced me this is them.   

Ellen must have been living in Kilronan at the time they married as it is recorded as her most recent place of residence (not necessarily her birth, although almost every woman at that time lived at home until she married, unless she went abroad for employment). I have a copy of her death cert on 20 Mar 1936 at 3 Nielsland Drive, Meikle Earnock, Hamilton, Midlothian County, Scotland that that lists parents as Patrick Brehony and Margaret Glynn,  I tired to attach but the file is too large.   She is the only Ellen Brehony that matches born this year and to these parents in county Roscommon.  Thomas and Ellen's family is found in the 1901 and 1911 census.   A lot of the men from this area sought mining jobs abroad coming from the area that they did near the Arigna mine, as did my husband's grandfather (brother of Thomas).

Ellen also confused me because I find her baptism record and no birth record except  as "Anne" the month after but I have encountered other instances in these records shortly after they began requiring registration where the births were registered after the baptism and with a different forename.  She went by Ellen or Eleanor in all the other records that I have found. 

This marriage makes sense in the end because Thomas was from the townland neighboring Derreenavoggy, spelled variously Carrownanalt, Carnalth, etc.  The name was Guihen until they went abroad and in Ireland they changed sometime after the 1911 census.  There are still Wynne's and Guihens who did not change their surname) living there.

I am pretty convinced this is the Ellen from your family and I have traced many of the rest of the family as a result if you are interested.

[CJPorter]

Hello, I have researched this Brehony family and have the following info on descendants of Patrick  Brehony and Margaret Glynn of Derreenavoggy:

Thomas (born 1865) emigrated to the Jordan Valley in Marheur county Oregon, USA where he worked in sheep ranching.  He remained single and died 20 April 1927 in the Vale Sanatorium, Vale, Malheur, Oregon, USA

Terence (born 1866) married Mary Anne Christie from nearby Upper Rover near Arigna on Feb 14, 1901 in East Calder, Scotland.  They lived in Uphall near Broxburn in 1901 and in Broxburn in 1911 where he worked in the oil shale mines.  They had 10 children and he died age 59 of meningitis on 14 October 1925 in the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Scotland

Bridget (born 1868) was attending her mother Mary Glynn's death in Arigna in 1909, living with her sister Mary Brehony Gilvarry in the 1911 census in  Londonderry, Northern Ireland  (Mary's first husband was Patrick Gilvarry) and died single September 18, 1954 • Navenny Street, Ballybofey, Stranorlar, Donegal, Ireland.

Eleanor (born 1869) married Thomas Wynne (born Guihen, spelling of last name changed) from neighboring Carrownalth on January 17, 1899 in the Chapel of St. Malachy, Belfast Rosemary St Church, Antrim, Northern Ireland and they lived in Hamilton, Scotland having 7 children and she died 20 March 1936 in Hamilton, Midlothian County, Scotland. 

Patrick (born 1873) also went to the Broxburn area in Scotland marrying Catherine Davidson Heatie in 1910 at the St. Andrews Church in Edinburgh and they had 3 children before she died two days after giving birth to son James.  About 1917 he married Catherine Dignon.  He worked as an insurance agent, although he went to Oregon for a brief stint in 1926 to try his hand at gold mining.  Lots of Maguire cousins living in this area, he went to join cousin William Mcguire.  He returned to Scotland died 26 May 1959 in Broxburn, Scotland

Other children of Patrick Brehony and Margaret Glynn that I know of are: John born 1871, Charles born 1877 and Mary Anne born about 1880.  You did not specifically ask for information regarding them, would you be interested in more info regarding those children?