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Paul:
Thanks for sharing your ancestral tree on your Hanley family tree. I checked the subscription site Roots Ireland and it appears that James was baptized January18 1872 (unless Roots mistranscribed the year).He had a brother Thomas (1871) and a sister Margaret(1876). Did his mother die young? I found an 1879 civil marriage record for a widower James Hanley who married a Mary Molony. See second record at this link:
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1879/11069/8050289.pdf
Note that his father Thomas was shown as deceased in 1879. Four children of this marriage: Bridget (1880) Michael (1881) Mary (1884) James(1886).
I located a January 1879 death record for a Catherine Hanley see second record at the link https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1879/06524/4879890.pdf
Thomas Hanley died in1874 see last record at link https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1874/020650/7245886.pdf
Roger McDonnell
Hi Roger,
Thanks for your comment. I believe the information on Catherine's death is correct, she was the first wife of my great grandfather James. James remarried and had several more children with Mary Moloney. I am in contact with the Hanleys descended from the second marriage. Although it's possible that I am related to the other Hanleys you site, my great great grandfather Thomas was likely born around 1800. I have a record of his marriage to Margaret and the baptisms of his children in the 1820s. It's all in the McCabe History book posted to the Leitrim Roscommon genealogy website.
I am very interested in researching the earliest Hanlys ( the name changed to Hanley in the late 1800s). I believe they were well established in Labbamolaga in the 1700s. Some researchers believe there was a Roscommon connection.
Your help is much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Paul Hanley
Hi again Roger,
So I went back and looked at the links you posted. You do have the correct marriage record for James and Mary Moloney. Interesting situation there, James' first wife died in 1879 and he remarried in 1879. I guess f you were a widower with three small children; you didn't waste any time finding a second wife.
I'm not sure about the Thomas Hanley who died in 1874. If you go back into my book, Thomas Hanley was dead well before 1874, not sure when and his widow had taken over the lease on the property that Thomas leased from the Earl of Kingston. Subsequently son James took over the lease. I think the Hanleys stayed on thet lease until 1900? and then the leaseholder married a McCarthy and moved to County Limerick.
Genealogy is a game, lots of fun.
We are off to a good start. Thanks Roger.
Paul
