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MAYE Family Moylough

I am searching for MAY/MAYE in Moylough Co Sligo. The nearby parishes were Doocastle, Rooskey, Powelsboro and more. Some of them crossed the County border with Mayo. They migrated to England, Australia and the USA and probably more.

Other connected families were COLEMAN, CASEY, DUFFY, BRETT, BRENNAN, HENRY and more. I have quite a bit to share and would love to have more.

Daniel MAYE marr Annie CASEY and had a family in Moylough.

Michael, John Patrick (Jack) came to Australia, Bryan, Daniel (to UK), John, Peter, Bridget.

Anne Maye

Anne Maye

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Here are more details for what I have on the MAYE family. Spelling varies, often within one document.

It seems that there were three brothers Michael, Bryan and Daniel that the family knows but possibly more but not enough evidence so far to say others are siblings.

Daniel MAYE m Annie CASEY about 1860 we think. Can find no record of marriage in archives.

Issue:

1. Michael  (abt 1862-1944) m Anne DUFFY abt 1886. Died Powelsboro.

Issue: Daniel (1889-1896), James (1891-?) , Bridget (1896-?), unknown (from 1911 Census)

2. John Patrick (Jack) 1863-1920 m Sarah Agnes McERLAINE 1887 Australia (10 chn).

3. Bernard Bryan (Bryan) (1864-1929) m Annie McDERMOTT 1901 lived in Powelsboro TL, no chn

4. Daniel (1867-1945) m Mary Eleanor SCOTT in Yorkshire. 2 chn.

5. John (1870-1934) m Mary BRENNAN 1908 5 chn. Lived Moylough.

6. Peter (1872-1954) m Mary DURCAN 1903 3 chn. Died Co Sligo but said to have moved to Carrick-on-Shannon?

7. Bridget (1874-1911) m Ambrose FEELEY 1907. No chn

 

Anne Maye

Anne:

Could this be the marriage record in 1848? Charlestown is right on the border with Co.Sligo.

Date of Marriage:06-Mar-1848
Parish / District:KILBEAGH/CHARLESTOWN
County:MAYO
Husband  DanielMay
Wife AnneCeasyWitness 1
Witness 2Name:MichlMay
PatGilgan

www.irishgenealogy.ie is a free site and has civil birth records for any child born 1864 or later (assuming the parents civilly registered). Below is Bernard's record. The registration district is Tubbercurry.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur…

The RC parish is Curry and unfortunately baptismal records start late in October 1867. I did find the baptismal records for Daniel, John and Bridget. See below. No Peter.

Let me know what questions you have.

Roger

Name:Daniel MayDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:29-Dec-1867Address:MoyloughParish/District:CURRYGender:MaleCountyCo. Sligo
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:DanielMother:Anna CaseyOccupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:Thomas McDermot Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Catherina Casey 

Name:John MayeDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:22-Jan-1870Address:MoyloghParish/District:CURRYGender:MaleCountyCo. Sligo
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:DanielMother:Anna CeasyOccupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:John Stenson Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Bridget Ceasy 

Name:Bridget MayeDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:27-Sep-1874Address:MoyloughParish/District:CURRYGender:FemaleCountyCo. Sligo
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:DanielMother:Anna CaseyOccupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:John Stenson Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Atty Maye 

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Those extras are a big help. Thank you Roger. The Bryan on the 1901 census at House 52 Moylough is the newly married Bryan, son of Daniel and Annie CASEY. He and Annie McDERMOTT were married at Tourlestrane in Feb 1901 and in the Census were living with her father Bryan McDERMOTT.

This is where the naming can be a problem with Bryan and Bernard being interchangeable.

The marriage Record says his name is Bernard and names her father as Bernard also, when elsewhere they use the name Bryan for both. This is confirmed by oral info from family in Moylough.

In 1911 Bryan and Annie were living at House 39 in Moylough.

Bryan died 22 Apr 1929 in Moylough with his wife Annie present at the death.

Re the marriage of Danl MAYE Annie CASEY in 1848 is not impossible but there seem to be some contradictions.

Hypothetically Daniel was born about 1837 from a record from a search of the snippets of the 1851 Census. This was when later in the early 1900s members of the family were seeking evidence of their births or existence for pension purposes, and:

Possible connections:

Patrick MAYE /Mary TIMLIN had a son Daniel (13 in 1851?) and were in Doocastle in 1851. (Doocastle straddles the Co border and a relative in Moylough pointed to a fence across the paddock and said 'That is Doocastle on the other side of that fence.'

or

Michael MAYE/Mary MAYE had a son Daniel and were at Moylough in 1851. There is no clue to the age of this Daniel.

I will start to trawl individually through the RC baptism records to see what I can find.

I have been using the Irish Genealogy site to find records to cross check any oral information.

I have also just made contact with a descendant of the Daniel b 1867 son of Dan/Annie CASEY.

Will add that later.

Anne

 

 

Anne Maye

Anne:

As you indicated, Bryan and Bernard are interchangeable. My great-grandfather Bryan Roddy who lived not far from Doocastle, was Bernard in some records. Let me know if I can help further.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Roger, your help has sent me off on a few more searches and I have found a lot of connections so will post them when I sort out a bit.

The thing that threw me was the gap between the marriage (1848) and the supposed first born (abt 1860). However looking at it in the context of the times, during and after An Gorta Mór and at a time of social upheaval, it is highly that there were a number of births and infant or childhood deaths between 1848 and 1860..

Will see what I can add. I do have a lot of material and am trying to put it in place.

Anne

Anne Maye

Hi Anne. I was just trawling here. Did you find the Maye Family. I went to Moylough Primary School.  Great big Maye family still there. Tom's sister was married to a Coleman.  The descendants of these people are all around there in South Sligo. 

Ann Brett

Hi Anne. I was just trawling here. Did you find the Maye Family. I went to Moylough Primary School.  Great big Maye family still there. Tom's sister was married to a Coleman.  The descendants of these people are all around there in South Sligo. 

Ann Brett

I have found a lot of this line of MAYE (var spellings) and have contacts with some of them more recently in England and Australia. Will try to get some of it together to post. Things are busy here at the moment.

I am in touch with some of the COLEMAN family.

Sadly I have to report that on Saturday 19 Jan 2020 John BRITTON died in Cairns QLD Australia at the age of 82 years. He was the youngest of his generation.

Where does he fit?

Daniel MAYE/Annie CASEY's son

Patrick John (Jack) MAYE m Sarah Agnes McERLAINE 1887 Brisbane QLD AUS.

Their sixth child Catherine (Kitty) b 1898 m John Francis (Frank) BRITTON (from Tipperary) 1920 Murwillumbah NSW AUS.

Their youngest was John BRITTON 1937-2020

Anne Maye

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