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Descendants of Michael madden

Hi my name is Sarah, maiden name Madden. In the last few years I have done some digging in my ancestry, and havealways beenvery interested in where I come from. I have discovered that I am thefour times great granddaughter of Michael Madden from Galway. He is the father of Demosthenes Robert Malcolm Madden. I am very interested to find out if there are any family from this line that are still in Ireland and would love to connect with them. Indoing this research, I have been very drawn to my Irish roots and would give anything to connect with other family members. My ultimate dream is to one day come to Ireland My ultimate dream is to one day come to Ireland Almost like coming home in a way Thank you so much for any help you could give me

Sarah Wurzbach

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Miriam,  thank you for such a quick response. I have some more information for you concerning Michael. His birth year was approximately 1803 in Galway.  I  show his wife as being Mary Jane Carswell  and they were married May 29, 1839 in Kiltormer, what was then know as the laurencetown parish, Confert dioceses. A  List of some of their children being John franklin, Nancy Sarah, Patrick, James, and Michael   I also have his father being listed as possibly a John Madden born in 1780 and his mother Bridget being born in 1784 I also have record of his arrival to the US being August 14, 1849   Currently still digging to see if any of the children were actually born in Ireland   I have found naturalization papers, marriage records, Records of a sustainability alone and Ireland and a Griffiths valuation. I know this is a lot of information to give at one time but I greatly appreciate your help

 

 

 

Sarah Wurzbach

Thank you so much I will look into that further

Sarah Wurzbach

Once I got to him a lot of the information concerning his parents etc. was a little sketchy

Sarah Wurzbach

Hi Sarah,

Did you find any further information? I am tracing the same Michael Madden:

My Great Grandfather was John J. Madden (1890-1936), GG Grandfather, Delbert Madden (1867-1928), GGG Grandfather John Franklin Madden (1829-1870), GGGG Grandfather Michael Madden (b.1804 Galway -d.1881, Alabama). I'm using Ancestry.com and it shows Michael was married to Lenora Conahy (1805-1850). I believe you have Mary Jane Carswell? Maybe he was married twice? I get lost on Ancestry.com!

Ancestry show a potential path from Michael to his father John Madden (1780-1865). John shows to be married to a Bridget Quinn (est b. 1784).  John leads to a potential path to a Walter Madden, possibly John's father, Michael's grandfather, (est. b. 1763). 

That's as far as I have gotten without major chancing the 'hints' from Ancestry. I tried looking at the Lenora Conahy line and I got as far as Alexander Carswell

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