Garrett Barry

Hello and Thank you for your efforts.

I've been looking quite a while for the missing information and location, and have now taken extensive DNA tests to help make a link to other who are biological family. There are two problems so far, my Y DNA signature is very rare so only one other found so far, and the lack of other parental side autosomal signatures, as only two of the known four possible lines of desecndant males from Garrett have survived until the present, but at least by tracing a third cousin on the other line and comparing Y DNA then I have now 100% confidence that the research so far is accurate.  The problem is that although I have records from Drogheda, and Belfast and Dublin none of these are from the most likely area i.e. Munster and / or Co Cork, the family were street traders and very mobile, I suspect that as Drogheda was a cloth manufacturing area, Garrett went there on the newly installed railway long enough to meet his wife who may have moved south for employement, they then moved to Belfast by 1864 and lived virtually next door to the Smithfield market where I assume they had a stall, Catherine died at another address also very close to the market, in central Belfast.  The information for parents of Garrett, comes from a death certificate I have from Edinburgh, as he seems to have taken the family to first Glasgow, the later Edinburgh. The two sons born in Belfast joined the Army in Scotland, and gave the next of kin details. Strangley there was another son James who registered the death that I have never been able to trace, presumably he would have had to have been at least 16 years old to make a death registration which means he was probably also born in Belfast, he had a seperate addrees in Edinburgh in 1886, and there is no entries in the 1881 or 1891 Scottish census or 1901 for that matter of an Irish born James Barry / Berry, so one day there may be a further line of Barry's come to light! The John Barry and Mary O sullivan were listed on the Edinburgh death certificate as farmers, but no location, neither have I been able to find a burial place in Edinburgh for Garrett. The two sons, Garrett jn and Lawrence went back to Belfast, Garrett married and had three children but he and the last born died of TB in within weeks of one another, Lawrence married an older woman and didn't have his own family. Patrick moved to Dublin and continued the family business, my gt grand father Michael came to England some time between 1882-85.  It's an interesting story but I wish I knew from where they really originated. Thank you again MikeB