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Looking for John Monley-Monnolly - Mormolly - Monmolly

Mayo

My Great Grandfather was known to be born in Mayo in 1812.

He was charged and transported as Monnolly, recorded as Mormolly, given permission to marry as Monmolly and married and buried as Monley. It is also recorded he used the alias Maloney Mulowney.

It is obvious he was illiterate and had no idea how his name was written and having a heavy Irish accent explains all the variations and interpretations.

His father is listed as John Monley on his death certificate.

We've pretty much given up on tracing the Irish end given the many variarions in name but thought I'd give this a go.

Cheers.

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You might want to take a look at this website for the 1901 census. 

http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census/census.shtml

There are some helpful search options.  If you enter "mon" in the surname field and choose "at the beginning of the field" you can get all the Monley variations in one view.  The report is nice in that the entire family can be seen on one line.  You might want to look for common family names and target those townlands/parishes. 

Cathy

 

 

cdanhauer

As he was transported in 1835 and was only 23 we never really gave much thought to the fact he may have been already married in 1835 - potentially with a daughter born  when he was 18. ( both of whome he never saw again ) because he did marry again and have children in Australia.

The family lore was that he had ' two spinster sisters' so we had no direct decendants back in Ireland, we know if this guy is leaving records after 1835 in Ireland and is buried in ireland, its not the same guy.

Cheers, I'll follow that lead.

 

 

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