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Timothy Brennan and Ann Parker, Mullingar

Hello good day! I hope everyone had a beautiful Saint Patrick's Day!
I will try to be as specific and concise as possible, in the hope of having some guidance,
Among the things of my grandmother Catalina (Kathy) O'Farrell, there was a printed card, with the death data of what I suppose, it was a member of her maternal family, my great-great-grandmother Eliza Brennan
 the card says:
Terence Brennan: 1864-1884
place: Cullenhue
When I look him up on Familysearch, he gives me the data, which I already got, in which he indicates that he was born in Multyfarnham Mullingar, and whose parents were Timothy Brennan and Ann Parker.
Looking for information about my great-great-grandmother Eliza Brennan, knowing that a brother of hers had also come to Argentina, I find a marriage certificate where that brother, JOhn Brennan, said that his parents were Timothy Brennan and Ann Parker, giving me the idea that Terence, The one that appears on the card could well be my great-great-grandmother's brother. I have looked for all the possible information, and I found many brothers from Terence, same parish, in Mullingar, but I do not find the marriage certificate of their parents, nor do I find information about John, who claims to be their son, or ELiza either. ..
any idea where i can keep looking ???
Thank you very much in advance

Diana O'Higgins

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The townland for the family would be Cullenhugh and the civil parish is Leny.

I searched the subscription site Roots Ireland and like you did not locate a marriage record.The Multyfarnham marriage records should be available so possibly they married in a nearby parish where reocrds do not go back to 1847 or so which would have been in the middle of An Gorta Mor so record keeping may have been impacted.

I located nine baptismal records from Jane in 1848 to Michael in 1868. One of the nine was John baptized May 22 1855. No Eliza (Jane was the only girl) but there are some gaps in records. Here is a link to the Multyfarnham parish register  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0950 ; I would look at records from 1851-1855 and 1859-1864 and possibly Eliza's record is there but not clear and was not transcribed. Also no every baptism made it to the parish register.

Civil registration of births started in 1864. I looked up Daniel's record on the free site www.irishgenealogy.ie ; See link below.

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

I checked the 1901 census and there was one Brennan family in Cullenhugh  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0950 ; This may be Anne Parker with another daughter named Anne.

By 1911, the mother Anne had died and the younger Anne married Thomas Kearney. Note her older brother Patrick was living with them. His age matches the 1851 baptismal date for Patrick

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Westmeath/Ballinalack/…

Let me know if you have any questions.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

wooo 9 ?? I only got a few!
What has me very intrigued is whether Eliza is their sister or aunt or cousin ... because I don't explain why that stamp of Terence's death was at my grandmother's house, whose mother was ELiza ... and I can't explain myself that John, was here getting married, if he weren't related to Eliza ... too much of a coincidence. I am still looking for the marriage certificate of Eliza and Patrick Farrell, here in Argentina, since they are not online, and it is complicated.
Maybe Eliza wasn't her first name, but I didn't find anyone among those kids either
I'm going to review those links .. here I attach John's marriage certificate so you can see that he is the son of Timothy and Ann

 

 

Diana O'Higgins

hahahaa well, if Eliza is my great grand mother, Im telling you, she gave birth to 16 children here.. my grandma included... hahah ok.. 

Diana O'Higgins

in the marriage certificate that I send to you, from John Brennan, says that his father Timoteo Brennan , is no longer among the living by  1897

Diana O'Higgins

someone in a facebook group of genalogy, founds this.. what do you think?? can be Timothy and Anne??? 

Diana O'Higgins

Yes. Thats what happens when you search using Timothy Brennan. Thaddeus is an alternate for Timothy.. Rathowen is the RC parish to the west/northwest of Multyfarnham RC parish and would have been Anne's home parish. I found an interesting record. There is a marriage record for an Anne Parker to a James Brenin on March 22 1846 in Rathowen.followed by the 1847 record that you have. Is it possible that the same Anne married James and he died and then she married Thaddeus who may have been a brother or cousin to James.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Roger, you have been an incredible help, words are not enough for me to thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope I can get information about Eliza, since I am missing how to relate to them, hopefully and soon find her marriage file, here in Argentina to verify the names of her parents !!!!!!!!!! ! she makes me anxious! Haha
I sent you a hug!

Diana O'Higgins

Ps: one last question... is it Parker, a common name there? for me, it sounds as an english surname

Diana O'Higgins

I agree. I believe it is English and my initial thought was that Anne was Church of Ireland. In the mid-19th century Parker was found in almost every county. Hopefully this file works. It shows where there were Parker households in Ireland by county in the mid-19th century

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hi, 
you say............
I am still looking for the marriage certificate of Eliza and Patrick Farrell, here in Argentina, since they are not online, and it is complicated.

Was this marriage in 1868?

Margot

Margot Secrette

Hello Margot

 

We rgink that they probably get married in 1877,here in Buenos Aires...Patrick died in 1903 and Eliza in 1908 in Los Toldos, Provincia de Buenos Aires-

 

Diana

Diana O'Higgins

Diana:

I forgot to indicate that the map I sent you showing Parkers by county comes from Shane Wilson's web site swilson.info

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Wonderful.. and , again, thenk you so much!

 

Diana

Diana O'Higgins

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