Dear Margaret, Your mention of the name Marron pricked my ears. In very preliminary research I have found that my great-great grandmother was born Rose Marron in 1828 and married Patrick Finnegan in 1850 - Corduff, near Carrickmacross in Monaghan. I don't know of Dympna or Agnes but will keep you in mind as I try to find more info about this branch of my family. If you happen to find anything about the Marrons please pass along. Thank you, Mary Sue On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Castleblaney Connections (Margaret Malloy) > 2. Farrell Mystery (Margaret Malloy) > 3. Re: Castleblaney Connections (Margaret Malloy) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Margaret Malloy <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:54 -0400 > Subject: Re: [IRL-MONAGHAN] Castleblaney Connections > > Mike and James, > > This is indeed interesting. > > Mike, if your father was first cousins with my John Farrell, then his > father must have been Patrick. Is that right? I might have pictures of > Patrick also. > > I have a 1965 legal document establishing John Farrell's title to the farm > at Cloghan which writes Patrick off as dead-and-we-don't-know-anything=else. > They did this to my great grandmother too, even though they knew darn well > where all her descendants were. > > James, I have a double Farrell connection because we have very strong > circumstantial evidence that one set of my great grandparents were cousins > of some degree through their Farrell lines. The one line we have direct > memory of and contact with goes back to Cloghan, next to Annyalla in Co. > Monaghan. The other is a dead end at a wedding in Liverpool in 1863. > > Here is what I know: > > Matthew Gannon (originally Guinane, b. 1834-8 Killaloe, Co. Clare) married > Mary Farrell (b. 1838 Ireland) at St' Patrick's Liverpool in 1863. In 1865 > they had a son. John Matthew in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Mary's parents were > Ann and John Farrell. John is listed as deceased and as a clothier on the > civil registration of the marriage. I have documentary evidence for all of > the preceding. > > The family story is that Matthew beat some guy up for "insulting" Mary and > it looked like the guy was going to die so his cousins who were in Brooklyn > bundled Him, Mary and the baby on the next ship out of port—they were a > seafaring bunch. The Gannon family did not show up back in Liverpool until > the 1881 census. In a box we have of things my great grandfather kept and > passed on to my great aunts. There are two primary school textbooks that > have "John Matthew Gannon Annyalla NS" written on the inside cover. So > evidently my on the lam ancestors went to Mary's family for shelter. > > Oh, but the guy didn't die so no murder here. > > Here is my big leap. Since Mary's father, John, was a Clothier, it seems > likely that he would have lived in a town or city, right? Castleblaney would > seem like the most likely place, no? I don't know exactly when John died but > I haven't been able to find him in any of the directories on ancestry. > > So, in short, I am looking for John Farrell married to Ann who would have > had a daughter in 1838 possibly in Castleblaney. And I want to know the > connection back to the Cloghan Farrells. > > One more thing, I'm also interested in any Farrells or Marrons from > Monaghan that have the names Agnes or Dympna in their lines. > > Margaret > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Margaret Malloy <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:21:31 -0400 > Subject: [IRL-MONAGHAN] Farrell Mystery > Now that I'm thinking along my FARRELL lines . . . > > Does anyone have a family story about a seafaring relation who was robbed > of his pay and thrown unconscious into "the river" to drown? > > I have a John Farrell (b. 1850 ish, Cloghan, Castleblaney, Co, Mo.) who > allegedly suffered this fate around 1901 but I have yet to find any > documentary evidence of it. I am intentionally leaving out mention of the > place since we have a couple of versions and some of them may be based on > assumptions of generations past and I don't want to prejudice the jury. > > The interesting part is that on a list of family deaths written by this > man's daughter that goes up to 1912, there is no mention of him! Sisters, > Aunts. brothers are all there but no father. > > Something smells fishy. > > Margaret > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Margaret Malloy <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:39:45 -0400 > Subject: Re: [IRL-MONAGHAN] Castleblaney Connections > Ok, I'm an idiot. > > Mike, your father was first cousins with my John Farrell on his mother's > side. > > I'm so self-centered it took me this long to realize that my side of the > family isn't the only one! > > My apologies. > > Margaret > > > To contact the IRL-MONAGHAN list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the IRL-MONAGHAN mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > >

I have a Marron in my tree. Ellen Marron married Francis McAree about 1881. Their children were born in Counties Cavan and Monaghan. Ellen dies somewhere around 1891. Francis and children are in NYC by 1893. Some of the children were born in Carrickmacross. On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Mary Sue Daniels wrote: > Dear Margaret, > > Your mention of the name Marron pricked my ears. > > In very preliminary research I have found that my great-great grandmother > was born Rose Marron in 1828 and married Patrick Finnegan in 1850 - Corduff, > near Carrickmacross in Monaghan. > > I don't know of Dympna or Agnes but will keep you in mind as I try to find > more info about this branch of my family. If you happen to find anything > about the Marrons please pass along. > > Thank you, > Mary Sue