Info on the Glynn Family

Roger -

Thank you so much for the info on Michael and Mary Glynn.  It could very well be their marrige records you found, at least the dates match very well.

Were there any mention of attendants or parents of the bride and groom in the record you found.  There is quite a bit know about the bride's family, and relatives but very little about Michael Glynn, which is what i am more interested in.

If there were any mention of other names in your record, it may let me know if it were the same couple or not.

I looked up the church's website, and noticed there was no mention of any address that i could find.  If we make it over to Ireland the summer of 2015 or summer after that, how would I find the church?

Thanks again, Blake

Thanks Roger. Good luck with your search Blake

Best wishes
Clare Doyle
Genealogy Support

Hi Blake,

I too am researching the Glynn family. Please read my post on this message board from 2011 (search for the surname Glynn). I have not had much feedback from that message, but I find it rather intriguing that my Glynn (Maria) married a Fox too, and at about the same time (1836). I know more about the Glynns than the Foxes, so if you have information about the Fox family, I would be very interested to hear it. 

Christa Mee

Christa - Thanks for brining all this to my attention, I had previously read your post while researching my family, and until now, the Fox relationship never registered with me.

What I know for now at least, was that were (and are) several Glynn families in the Fohenagh area and at least one Fox family, and like you, I am don't know much about them before the came to America in the 1840s.

I have never paid too much attention to the Fox side on the family, as my Glynn relatives and I have always searched for pretty much just our Glynn history. However, one of my relatives did do some extensive research on the Fox family with some help from people on Ancestry.com.

I have many names and birth/death dates of the Fox's dating back to the 1640's. Unfortunately, I only have these names and know very little history of the family, only that they came to Ireland from England, as my GGGGrandfather's wife (Mary) was born there. I know that before coming to Ireland they spelled Fox as Faux, and spent some time in the United States in the 1700's.

My GGGGrandmother, Mary Holden Fox's parents were Benjamin Fox (b. 1782 d. 1847) and Elizabeth Manistre Fox (b. 1785 d. 1862). I don't know if this enough to link our two Fox families together, but when I have some time, I will dig out the family tree and send more generations of the family back to the 1600s. Records do show that her father was born in Norfolk, England moved to Ireland at some point long enough for Mary to meet and marry Michael Glynn, but then returned and died back in England.

Good Luck
Blake

Guess it is worth mentioning, since I left it out of my original post concerning Michael (b. 1807 and from Fohenagh Parish) that I believe he had a brother Thomas Glynn (b. 1800) and married to Bridgett Carr (?? not 100% sure about that maiden name.)

When they landed in New Orleans, United States in 1847 the town census had these two Glynn families living in the same house, the 1850 US census had them living in the same neighbor hood in Madison, Indiana, and finally the 1860 US census still had them living on adjacent farms in Scott County Iowa where they had settled for good in 1856.

Could not rule out them being cousins or other close family, but if in fact brothers, I didn't if that would help link them to any particular line of Glynns from the early 1800s.

Thanks, Blake

Hi Blake, Thanks for the info about the Fox family. I really know no more about my Foxes than that Edward Fox, who seems to have been some sort of horse trader in Ireland, came to St Helens, England, in about 1836 and married Maria Glynn there (it is said they eloped together, but that could be a family myth). Maria definitely came from (or had relatives in) Fohenagh/Ahascragh as we have copies of letters from a James P. Glynn in the 1890s with the address on (begging for money to keep his father out of the workhouse!). Maria had an unmarried sister, Bridget, who lived with her and Edward in St Helens, and her mother also came over at some stage and died there in 1856. Maria's mother was Mary Ann, widow of James Glynn. Maria is supposed to have been a 'hedge teacher' and was clearly a formidable woman, bringing up a large family (on her own after Edward died in 1852) who were all very successful. Christa

Hi Blake,

I see that most reponses are from 2014, so I don't know if you ever look at this website any more.  I am descended from Thomas J. Glynn, son of Michael Glynn.  I have some

information about this line of Glynns, but you may already have most of what I have.  The main source is a history of Scott County, Iowa which delineates the Fox and Glynn families from

the oldest known ancestor.  I have seen suggestions on other websites that the father of Michael Glynn was a Thomas Glynn and Mary Fox Glynn's mother was a Mary Hanly on one site and Mary Tulley on another, so nothing is really clear.  I do have a couple photocopies of Thomas J. Glynn and his wife Anna Ennis Glynn if you're interested. I have only recently returned to genealogy having been focused on a career for 40 years, so I'm dusting off old records and trying to put together information that connects family.  Hopefully you might see this some day.  Would be interested in 

comparing information, not necessarily just on this website. 

Thanks,

Russ

My great grandmother was Mary Glynn Tumpane.  She died in 1934 and is buried in DeWitt, Iowa.  Her mother was Mary Fox.   

I know that her infant brother died during their passage to America and was "buried at sea."  I believe his name was Peter. 

My mom's family socialized with the Glynns quite a bit, and Sr. Xaverita Glynn would visit our home for several days every year when I was a child. 

Geralynn McGinn

This looks just like my Glynn Family i am stuck on Michael Glynn and Mary its such a headache.

St. Helen's seems like many Glynns left Ireland and settled there.  My Great Grandfather's brother John Glynn moved there and married around 1880s.  His name was John Glynn.  I believe he married Ann Fitzgerald.   He lost two sons in WWI.

Diann