DEBNEY/FALLON marriage Galway

[whisky]

Looking for any information for Gregory DEBNEY who married Margaret FALLON, farmers, Galway, son John DEBNEY b. abt 1816 and emigrated to Australia.

[shazzaq]

I am looking for more information on this as well, they are my 4th great grandparents.

Gregory Debney (born 1795 Galway)
Married Margaret/Margarita Fallon (born 1796)
they had one son, John who was born 1816 when Gregory was 21 and his Margaret was 20.
John who emigrated to Australia in 1834, at age 19 yo where he lived his life as a farmer and also opened a general store in the booming gold rush era of central Victoria.
When John Debney was 62yo he married his shop assistant Sarah Lawrence who had emigrated from Hertfordshire UK with her 8 children from a previous husband (who had deserted her and the kids) 
They had 2 more children together.
John Debney passed away at age 80yo.
I've found all this so far on ancestry.com but it doesn't go back any further than Gregory Debney (born 1795 Galway)

[shazzaq]

John Debney and Sarah Lawrence's first daughter together, Mary Ann Debney (born 1850) is my 2nd great grandmother.  Their second daughter was Emma (born 1851)
Mary Ann Debney married James Campbell Muir (born 1843, Renfrew, Glasgow, Scotland) who had emigrated to Australia with his father, a ships captain.
Mary and James Muir lived in the goldfields of central Victoria, Australia and had 15 children. 
Their daughter Mary is my maternal great-grandmother.

[shazzaq]

I noticed you have "Muir, Graham, Coulthorpe, Argyle, Renfrew, Glasgow" in the bottom of your post.
I wonder if that is any relation to my 2nd great grandfather
James Campbell Muir, (born 1843 Renfrew, Scotland) who married Mary Ann Debney in Australia. 
I don't have any family information about James Campbell Muir.

[dublin1850]

Gregory Debney would be a VERY unusual name for Ireland.
Could he have been a soldier?
There are no Debney entries in the Griffiths Valuation or the Tithe Applotments.

[whisky]

thanks so much for your post, it has been such a long time since I looked up Rootschat. No, John Debney was not a soldier, thanks for looking, Whisky

[Elwyn Soutter]

I can only find one person in the whole of the 1901 Irish census with the name Debney. She was a Maggie Debany, born and living in Belfast:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Clifton/Easton_Cresc/961479/

Apart from the fact that the surname Debney (and variant spellings) is unknown in Galway and almost unknown in Ireland generally, your other problem is that very few parishes in Co. Galway have any records for the early 1800s, so there may not be a record of this couple’s marriage in Ireland to find.

Perhaps Debney is a corruption of some other name, though I can’t really suggest what that might be.

[aghadowey]

I can only find one person in the whole of the 1901 Irish census with the name Debney. She was a Maggie Debany, born and living in Belfast:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Clifton/Easton_Cresc/961479/

To me Maggie's surname looks more like Deleaney but since it was written by her employer the spelling might not be correct- Delany?
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000317036/

There are some Daubneys in 1911 but not from Galway. 1901 has one D'Aubney (born in Scotland) and one Daubney.

[whisky]

Thank you for your reply, perhaps John Debney's father was English and he married an Irish girl, Margaret Fallon, quite possible I think. Whisky