Morans in Kilfian

Thank you.  I was hoping to find more on Mary Moran, Pat Farrell's wife.  I will keep on searching.

Thank you again,

Mary 

Hi Liam,

I was hoping to learn a connection of my GGgrandmother, Bridget Byron(Beirne, Barron, Barrane, Berne).  She was 17 when she left Co. Mayo for Leeds, England in 1848.  She was with her father, Martin and 3 sisters.  Her mother had passed at the time of emigration to Leeds.  I only know of Co. Mayo from the census records in Leeds.  I never knew what town in Mayo until the mtDNA results came in.  I have 6 matches directly related to me through the Co. Mayo.  The Moran surname is the connection.  Martin, Bridget's father, was married to "Mary", no surname.  How I know that is he remarried in Leeds.  The mtDNA connections have their Mary Moran married to a Bernard Kneafsey( nefcy, neafsey).,  leaving Mayo around the same time but to America. Then a Pat Farrell married to a Mary Moran.  Their children came to the US in 1859ish.  I probably am connected to these families another generation back.....which would make it close to impossible to ever know the connection.  It would be another surname that I don't even know.

I was hoping to find any information that would explain the connection to the DNA matches.

I appreciate your reply.  And, I know that Irish records are limited.

Thank you again,

Mary

New York

Mary (and anyone else on this thread),

   I have Langan/Hoban ancestors in Mayo.  I have several DNA kits that match Morans, Langans, Hobans and others:

     GEDmatch #     Name

     A859294         Steven Paul McDonald (Me)
     T830147         Thomas McDonald (Uncle)
     T611413          James McDonald  (Uncle)

  Let me know where your atDNA results are located.  I have tested on AncestryDNA, FTDNA and 23and me.

Thanks,

   Steve McDonald (mcdonald@san.rr.com)

Hi Moygownagh Mayo:  The problem with Martin born appx 1805, Co. Mayo is that his accent when he arrived in Leeds in 1848, his surname was written: Byron, Barrone, Barron.  It actually could even be Beirne, Burn, Berne.  He had 4 daughters with him. all born in Co. Mayo, Bridget, 1833, Mary, 1836, Ellen, 1840, Margaret, 1843.  Martin remarries in Leeds and with that marriage record, I learned Martin's father was Patrick and his mother Mary.  When the church records became available, I searched every church without success.  I haven't be able to learn the townland.  I followed all the sisters.  The youngest had written her mother as Catherine McGowan, Martin's second wife.  I can understand that since Catherine is probably the only one she remembers, but I have to tell you when I received that doc, I was so disappointed.  As the connections with the Moran surname, it has to be through my maternal lines.  It is a mtDNA connection: Bridget's mother, her mother, her mother, etc.  So there is a Moran in there somewhere.

Steven McDonald:  I just checked my mtDNA and my Ancestry DNA and cannot find a Steven McDonald.  What is your username for Ancestry?  I'm curious, were the results different with the ethnicity results with Ancestry and 23and me?

Mary Sparks

New York