Monaghans, Caseys and Traynors from Tedavnet
Has anyone any info to add to the following:
My great grandfather William Monaghan is down on the 1911 Census of England and Wales at 237 High Street, Jarrow on Tyne (now Jarrow, Tyne and Wear)
William is a 67 year old widower living on his own in a one room tenement (what we now class as a bedsit) at the address.
He has his place of birthplace as Davnet, County Monaghan, Ireland.
I take that to mean Tydavnet, County Monaghan, Ireland.
In the late 1860s to late 1870s William was known to be living in North America working as a cabbie (horse drawn cab) in New York, then for Thomas Edison at Menlo Park in the mid 1870s.
William arrived in Jarrow on Tyne to live with a friend Patrick Casey in the late 1870s.
He married Patrick Casey’s youngest daughter Catherine Casey in Jarrow in January 1881.
William’s father is down as William Monaghan a farmer (not present at the wedding whose wife is thought to be a Mary?)
Catherines father is down as Patrick Casey a labourer (he was present at the wedding)
William and Catherine Monaghan (nee Casey) are on the 1881 census living in Jarrow with Catherine’s father Patrick Casey and her older brother John Casey.
Patrick Casey’s wife Margaret Casey (nee Traynor) was not with them at the time of the 1881 Census.
Catherine Monaghan (nee Casey) died early 1903 in Willington Quay, Northumberland (just across the river Tyne from Jarrow)
Her older brother John Casey went on to become a town councillor and Alderman of Jarrow.
John is on the 1901 census in Jarrow aged 43 born County Monaghan Ireland, and he has two of his cousins lodging with him, Edward Trainor aged 26 and Patrick Trainor aged 23 both born County Monaghan Ireland
On the 1911 census John Casey aged 53 is living at 12 Grey Street, Jarrow with his wife.
And his birthplace is down as Killybough. Parish Tydavnet, County Monaghan
On the Griffiths Evaluation of Tenements in the Parish of Tedavnet (I have just found this on this site)
In the Township of Killybough there is a Patrick Casey (which surely is the same one as above) and next to him a William Monaghan (which surely is the same one or his father above?)
My regards from Curlew of Jarrow