Gleeson family in Nenagh
Hi All. Here's a bit of a needle in a haystack question but my research could have led me to Nenagh.
My Gleeson family so far have been situated around Ballyhaunis and Bekan in County Mayo but digging deeper we have now found a George Gleeson who has Nenagh as his birth place on a Manchester census in 1861. He has a birth date of between 1834 and 37 (it varies per census) but all state Nenagh.
We also have a slight link to a Denis Gleeson born 1782 from Nenagh who emigrated to Australia to a place called Port Fairy? He could be a brother of my 4 x Grandfather Andrew (sometimes called Henry/Henricus) Gleeson. Someone once mentioned that if money was tight, some went over seas and the other members of the family went to England? Not sure if this is true.
