Donnellon family of Dunmore
This is a post I made yesterday on the Galway Genealogy DNA board. As I noted, my great-grandparents, Edward Donnellon and Bridget Murray emigrated from Dunmore in 1880, moving to Cincinnati. I learned recently, that one of Edward's sisters also moved to Cincinnati where she married a widower named John Reddington. The Donnellon name can be spelled a good handful of ways. I should note that the gap in the siblings shown below is because the baptismal records in Dunmore have this gap, so there may be more siblings during the ten years or so that the book has left. Not sure historically why that was.
I'm interested in connecting with descendents of Edward's siblings. I've had great luck connecting with Bridget's family since our families stayed in contact over the years, so we knew who the descendents were.
I'm copying a post I put up on the Donnellan (sp) FB page because I'd like to touch base with others who may be descended from the siblings of my great-grandfather Edward James Donnellon. I don't know when or where his parents were born, although I know they were married in 1839 in Dunmore. Recent comparisions with some folks Gedmatch kits suggests they may have come from Clonberne. My hope in connecting with others who are descended from his siblings is to find any family that may have had family history further back. Or for that matter, someone who might be related through our Nestor line too.
Here's what I wrote:
Now that I've done the Ancestry DNA and also added my Gedmatch number (A072420), I thought I'd break out my own Donnellon family a bit more, since I'm seeing some closer connections among some of you. In the group here, I have my oldest brother, along with a number of first cousins, some second cousins and even a 1st cousin, once removed.
We're all descended from Edward John Donnellon, born in Dunmore in 1859. He married Bridget Murray (also of Dunmore) in 1879 and left shortly after that emigrating to the United States with three of Bridget's Murray sisters (one of whom returned to Ireland and is the grandmother of the famed Galway footballer Jack Mahon, my mom's second cousin).
Edward was the son of James Donnellon and Mary Nestor. I have no info about the years they were born or died. They were married on 16 May, 1839. The other children in the family were as follows:
Mary Donnellon b. 1840
Patrick Donnellon b. 1842
Bridget Donnellon b 1845, d. 1882
Mary Donnellon b. 1855
Anne Donnellon b. 1856, d. 1905 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Thomas Donnellon b. 1859
John Donnellon b. 1865
James Donnellon (no info)
One other little tidbit, the 1910 U.S. Census shows a man named Edward Redington living with Edward & Bridget here in Cincinnati, shown as "brother-in-law". I'm virtually certain that he's not related through Bridget's Murray side as I have all of her sisters accounted for marriage-wise. So that could be something too. [update: his name actually was John Reddington - I'm assuming a transcription error, but I've found his obituary - Anne Donnellon was his second wife]