Timothy Harrington m. Julia Falvey - any help?

[gaffy]

I can't yet see an online baptismal record for Margaret Ryan with those parents. However, I'm leaning towards the speculative possibility that she was the daughter of Michael Ryan and Bridget Leahey of Curraghafoil, a townland in County Limerick (but on the county border with Tipperary):

https://www.townlands.ie/limerick/coonagh/doon/bilboa/curraghafoil/ 

The reason being that I can see records for children of such a named couple at that address being baptised in Kilcommon RC parish: Honora in 1837, Michael in 1839, Patrick in 1842, John in 1845, and Johanna in 1847.  Cappawhite lies about 7 miles south of Curraghafoil, as the crow flies.

[gaffy]

That address of Rossnagrena townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan is important to note, for Harringtons in the more general area straddling counties Cork and Kerry were quite plentiful.  If you look up Rossnagrena in Griffith's Valuation (local print date 1852), you will see it predominated by a cluster of Harringtons, including a Timothy:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=placeSearch

You can also see them here a couple of decades earlier in the Tithe Applotment Books (watch out for the different spellings of the same place name):

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/index.jsp

[shawd]

Blimey you guys are honestly rockstars at this!   

Thank you all so much - this is amazing!

gaffy I think you must be right about the parents of Margaret Ryan.  Especially as Margaret had children with the names Michael, Patrick, John, and Johanna.  I know some are super common names in Ireland then, but it makes sense.  And the locations make sense based on your knowledge of proximity too.

Sinann Thank you for posting the image.  I wasn't able to see it through the previous link because I didn't have a membership to the site.  I saved it.   

[Sinann]

Sinann Thank you for posting the image.  I wasn't able to see it through the previous link because I didn't have a membership to the site.  I saved it.   

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[ekocielko]

Hi there,

I am a great-great-great-grandson of Jeremiah Falvey and Julia Sullivan from Moira, New York. I knew nothing of any siblings of his till now.

[mcmoran]

I can confirm that Margaret Ryan (ca. 1838-1937), wife of Cornelius Harrington, was the daughter of Michael Ryan and Bridget Lahey of Curraghafoil, Doon, Co. Limerick (though Michael Ryan was apparently born on the Tipperary side of the border).

Margaret's sister Honora Ryan (my 2x-great-grandmother) was also married at St. John the Evangelist, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario, Canada, to a Thomas Benton of Cappawhite, Tipperary.

I believe both Cornelius Harrington and Thomas Benton were amongst the Irish labourers working on the construction of a Grand Trunk Railway line from Montreal to Brockville, which opened in 1859. They did not settle permanently in Ganonoque; and by the early 1860s had moved on (Thomas Benton and Honora Ryan to Pakenham, Lanark Co., Ontario; Cornelius Harrington and Margaret Ryan to Renfrew Co., Ontario).

I have a bit of information on the family here:

http://www.familytree.ottawavalleyirish.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F13&tree=Moran

[shawd]

I can confirm that Margaret Ryan (ca. 1838-1937), wife of Cornelius Harrington, was the daughter of Michael Ryan and Bridget Lahey of Curraghafoil, Doon, Co. Limerick (though Michael Ryan was apparently born on the Tipperary side of the border).

Margaret's sister Honora Ryan (my 2x-great-grandmother) was also married at St. John the Evangelist, Gananoque, Leeds Co., Ontario, Canada, to a Thomas Benton of Cappawhite, Tipperary.

I believe both Cornelius Harrington and Thomas Benton were amongst the Irish labourers working on the construction of a Grand Trunk Railway line from Montreal to Brockville, which opened in 1859. They did not settle permanently in Ganonoque; and by the early 1860s had moved on (Thomas Benton and Honora Ryan to Pakenham, Lanark Co., Ontario; Cornelius Harrington and Margaret Ryan to Renfrew Co., Ontario).

I have a bit of information on the family here:

http://www.familytree.ottawavalleyirish.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F13&tree=Moran

Thank you for sharing this!  Cornelius and Margaret did indeed settle in Renfrew and I am descended from them (they are my second great-grandparents).

Do you have a source for Cornelius working on Grand Trunk Railway or does that come from oral family history?

[mcmoran]

Hello,

There are two sources:

1. In the church record of his marriage to Margaret Ryan (4 Nov 1856), he is identified as "Cornelius Harrington, of the Rail Road in this mission"

2. A "Missing Friends" advert in the Boston Pilot (7 Jan 1871):

"OF CORNELIUS HARRINGTON, son of Timothy Harrington and Julia Falvey, from Rosnagrena, Top of the Glen, Glengariffe, county Cork; he got married to Mike Hyan's [Ryan's] daughter, from Cappawhite, county Tipperary, about 12 years ago, at Guaranacque [Ganonoque], Grand Trunk Railroad, Canada. If this should meet his eye, or any person acquainted with him, they will confer a favor on his uncle by writing to him. Address Jeremiah Falvey, Moira, Franklin co., N.Y."