Jane Halloran Ryan

Hi John/Beth,

I have done a preliminary trawl based on the information supplied above and can see that, as you have found, there doesn’t seem to be anything that jumps out and reveals dates and connections.  This probably doesn’t surprise, as the period before your family migrated to Australia is short on universal records.  To that difficulty we can add those of popular names , the uncertainty of dates of birth etc and place of residence.  

 

But …

www.rootsireland.ie has 3 potential baptismal records for Cavan for John Brady and 40 for Anne Brady

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie has 408 Bradys for the 1841 Cavan Census.  If the Brady’s were from Cavan, then it is quite possible that they, or parts of the family are among the 408.

 

So, on the information given a potential plan of attack - not easy but not hopeless!:

• Check out the rootsireland data - if you are not members it is possible to take out short membership and take note of Bradys and O’Hallorans broadly in Cavan
• Take stock of what info you have - paying special attention to the names of any male children (these run through families according to Irish naming tradition), also middle names which sometimes honoured the surnames of ancestors, and  occupation - similarly, often passed on
• Then take a deep breath (sorry if you’ve already been there, done that) and study the Bradys in the 1841 Census to see whether any repeat names, share locations and could possibly be related

 

In the absence of direct records, this kind of research to find different types of evidence that confirms people or relationships has got me out of more than one ‘oh well, that’s it then’ moment.  Once you can get some concrete data/likely scenarios, then  finding other bits of info from newspapers, directories, Griffiths Valuation etc is perhaps possible.

 

I hope this helps,

Best regards

Iem