Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

James Hough

Sex: M
AKA: Daniel Hough ²⁵⁸
Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1800 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁸⁸ Christening: Death: Cir 1861 - Lorrha, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ( about age 61) ⁵⁵⁶⁹ Burial: Cir 1861 - Lorrha, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁵⁷ Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Carpenter, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Living: From Tithe Applotment Books, 1822-1823, Behamore Smith, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

Spouses and Children

1. *Bridget ²⁵⁸ Marriage: Cir 1825 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁸⁸ Children: 1. Daniel Hough

Notes
General:

140714:

Name:Danl Hough
Event Type:Tax Assessment
Event Year:1823
Townland:Loughane
Parish:Modreeny
County:Tipperary
GS Film number:256666
Digital Folder Number:004239504
Image Number:00112

Citing this Record:
"Ireland, Tithe Applotment Books, 1814-1855," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VXPR-YZF : accessed 15 Jul 2014), Danl Hough, [REFERENCE-ERROR]; citing Modreeny, Loughane, Tipperary, Ireland; FHL microfilm 256666.

050714:
Something needs to be clarified concerning the church attended by the families of Whelans/Phelans, as well as the Houghs and the families into which they married in Ireland, in the 1800s, and hence where they were all buried, if they died in Ireland. David Stevens and I researched this but it was his wife Maree who found the crucial missing information online.

The centre of life in this part of Tipperary, North Riding, prior to the purges and depredation of Oliver Cromwell's forces was not the modern town of Cloughjordan but rather Modreeny. After the destruction of the old RC church and most of the homesteads of Catholics in that vicinity, a movement toward what is now Cloughjordan began to take place. But a Church of Ireland was erected in Modreeny on the same spot previously occupied by an ancient medieval RC church believed to have been destroyed by Cromwell. The Modreeny C of I church was only replaced by worshipers in that faith by the current church in Cloughjordan (St. Kieran's) in 1837.

The following information is found in the book In and out of School-In the home of the MacDonaghs by Roche Williams. Page 93: "Up to this time the only Catholic church in the area was located in Grawn, a mile and a half from the town (of Cloughjordan). During the Penal Days a small thatched chapel was situated there on the opposite side of the road from the present structure, beside what was then the priest's house; this house was in place up to forty years ago when it was demolished. In 1830, the then parish priest, Fr. Thomas Dunne built a new church at Grawn on a site provided by the O'Kennedys of Coolnamona. This was a spacious building, cruciform in shape, the place of worship for the Catholic people of Cloughjordan and the surrounding areas for many years, who travelled by horse, pony or donkey and trap or who walked along the many Mass-paths that linked the countryside to the place."

The townland name given is Grawn, although that townland name is no longer in use. I believe the name "Grawn" comes from another adjacent townland called Garraunorish.

There seems to be an absence of information on this church, or rather a great deal of conflicting information about it is given online. Once thing is certain, before this church was built, it was the practice to bury Catholics as well as Church of Ireland adherents in the one cemetery that did exist, that surrounding the Modreeny church. And after the Grawn church came into being, the Catholics would have been buried close to it. So when one sees reference to a Catholic being buried in Modreeny cemetery, it is probably true, but they may also be buried in the area surrounding the ruins of the old RC Chapel of Grawn. Most likely earlier burials were at Modreeny and later ones at Grawn.

Only late in the 1800s did the centre of faith for RCs shift to the town of Cloughjordan with the construction of St. Michael's and St. John's. Still, even then, some of the burials of the older RC parishioners would have taken place in the old location in Grawn or even in Modreeny to be amongst their ancestors. C of I adherents had no choice, since the new church did not have a cemetery in the churchyard. They are still buried to this day in the Modreeny cemetery.

It is worthy of note that the Quinlisks of Behamore/Laughane/Silverstream, who were inter-related with the Houghs and Whelans by marriage, tended to bury their dead across the border in County Offaly at the cemetery of Kilcomin near Shinrone. The reason seems to be that it was closer than the cemeteries in Modreeny and Grawn. Only in the 1900s did some of them begin to be buried in the churchyard of St. Michael's and St. John's.

220814:

I had recorded this man's name as Daniel Hough the same as that of his son and based this on my remembrance of information received by Jamie in a letter from her Auntie Elizabeth years ago. I am now of the opinion that either she gave us incorrect information or I copied down his name incorrectly from the information contained in her letter. David Stevens had his name as James or Jim and based this on information he had received from a direct descendant, Mary [Hough] Whelan, the sister of Pat Hough, who owns the farm and pub in Lorrha. Mary's daughter Liz has just confirmed this information and I am therefore correcting the name to be James/Jim. This name is almost certainly correct based upon the Christian name given to Daniel Hough's first born son in conformance with Irish naming traditions.

Because of this I am today removing the references I had attached previously to this man from the Tithe Applotment books and substituting them for ones pertaining to James Hough which appear to be the relevant citations.

Here is the information received from Liz Whelan by David Stevens on August 19, 2014:

My grandfather Danny Hough had told me that his grandfather Daniel Hough (m Betty Whelan) was born in 1829 but I cannot confirm that
He also said that his great grandfather was called Jim Hough - a short man, a carpenter by occupation, and that he was buried where you stand to ring the bell at the Friary in Lorrha - I am unsure of this although my grandmother Maureen Moylan/Hough told me that the Hough and Moylans were evicted in the early 1800's from around Grange in the Parish of Lorrha -again I have no proof.
I was also sure that Pat Hough (mother's brother) had shown me where Jim Hough had lived in Knocknacree not far from where the Whelan's came from.

So I asked mother last week - now that all the grandchildren have departed to their various parents and homes.
She confirmed that his name was Jim and recalls her father and his brothers Jim and Phil talking about him, he was a trademan -she could not confirm carpenter and lived in Knocknacree. She thinks there was only one child -Daniel. Dan and Betty Hough bought Laughane on their return from Australia ( they got the nick name of the Bendigo Gold diggers). Pat had taken her on more that one occasion with visitors to Knocknacree.

Daniel and Jim being related would make sense and may account for them both moving to the one area.
I found Jim (James) in the Griffith's valuation in Knocknacree on a small plot which would suggest the trademan. That land passed to Bridget Hough hence my belief that that this was his wife as the only way for a woman to get land then was to be a widow or rich.
This would be supported by Dan and Betty's first child being called James - he was born in late 1856 and died on the way to Australia. They then called their 2nd child James also - traditionally the first son would be named after the father's father and the 2nd after the mother's father in their case Thomas.

I hope this makes sense
Best Wishes
Liz

John Hough

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 21 Sep 1895 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁵ ^,5570 Christening: 21 Sep 1895 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Death: 27 Jun 1918 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ ^,5571 Burial: After 27 Jun 1918 - Grawn, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ ^,5572 Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Farmer's son.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1901, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. (Household Member)
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Occupation: Farmer's son, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

Parents

Father: Patrick Hough ¹⁴ ^,163 Mother: Mary Kennedy

Mary Ellen Hough

Sex: F
AKA: Mary Ellen Howe
Individual Information

Birth Date: 5 Jun 1936 - Roscrea, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Christening: Death: 8 Mar 2023 - Castledermot, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland ( at age 86) ⁴⁶⁰⁵ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Arrival: Cir 1991, Victoria, Australia. Margaret Honeychurch wrote to Jamie noting that Mary Whelan (née Hough) had been in Australia visiting her daughter Martina in 1991 and had been there several times previously.
• Living: 2013, Castledermot, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland.
• Living: 2021.

Parents

Father: Daniel Hough ¹⁴ ^,5545 ^,5547 Mother: Mary Margaret Moylan ⁴⁶⁰⁵ ^,4606

Spouses and Children

1. *James Joseph Whelan ¹⁴ ^,5547 Marriage: 25 Aug 1952 - Castledermot, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland Marriage Notes

Church of the Assumption.
Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 6. Living 7. Living 8. Living 9. Living 10. Living

Notes
General:

Emigrated to Australia and changed the spelling of her surname to match that used by her relatives who had emigrated there a generation before her.

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Notes from David Stevens:

2013 still living in Castle Dermot.

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If my original note above was correct, Mary must have returned to Ireland to marry and remained. Castledermot is in County KIldare and according to an email from David, he visited her and her daughter Elizabeth there on one of his trips to Ireland.

Michael Hough

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 1 Jul 1905 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁵ ^,5573 Christening: 1 Jul 1905 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Death: 17 Sep 1967 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. (Household Member)

Parents

Father: Patrick Hough ¹⁴ ^,163 Mother: Mary Kennedy

Living

Sex: M

Parents

Father: Daniel Hough ¹⁴ ^,5545 ^,5547 Mother: Mary Margaret Moylan ⁴⁶⁰⁵ ^,4606 Marriage Did Not Marry

Patrick Hough

Sex: M
AKA: Pat Hough ¹⁴
Individual Information

Birth Date: 27 Jan 1871 - Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁹ ^,5574 ^,5575 ^,5576 ^,5577 Christening: 27 Jan 1871 - Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁹ Death: 13 Jan 1938 - Loughaun, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ( at age 66) ¹⁴ ^,5572 Burial: After 13 Jan 1938 - Grawn, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ ^,5572 Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Farmer.
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1869, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Baptism: 27 Jan 1871, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. Sponsors Tom CANNY and Ellen CASEY.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1901, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Occupation: Farmer, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Residence: 28 Dec 1926, Loughaun, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

Parents

Father: Daniel Hough ¹⁴ ^,164 ^,261 ^,262 Mother: Eliza Whelan ³⁴⁶¹

Spouses and Children

1. *Mary Kennedy Marriage: 3 Oct 1893 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁵ Children: 1. Daniel Hough 2. John Hough 3. Thomas Hough 4. Ellen Hough 5. James Hough 6. Elizabeth Hough 7. Barthomelew Hough 8. Patrick Hough 9. Phillip Hough 10. Michael Hough

Notes
General:

080608:

In letter from Auntie Elizabeth to Jamie dated 11 Sept. 1991: "Uncle Pat had a big family in Ireland and some of them, your generation people, have now settled in Australia."

140714 three similar but not identical records from Family Search:

Name:Patrick Hough
Gender:Male
Birth Date:27 Jan 1871
Birthplace:Tipperary, Ireland
Father's Name:Daniel Hough
Mother's Name:Betty Whelan
No image available
Search collection
About this collection
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01233-1 , System Origin: Ireland-EASy , GS Film number: 255821 , Reference ID: v 8-2 p 493
Citing this Record
"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPKZ-CXW : accessed 15 Jul 2014), Daniel Hough in entry for Patrick Hough, 27 Jan 1871; citing Tipperary, Ireland, reference v 8-2 p 493; FHL microfilm 255821.

Name:Patrick
Gender:Male
Christening Date:
Christening Place:493, CLOUGHJORDAN, TIPP, IRE
Birth Date:27 Jan 1871
Birthplace:Cloughjordan, Tipp, Ire
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name:Daniel Hough
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name:Betty Whelan
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:C70145-3
System Origin:Ireland-VR
GS Film number:255821
Reference ID:2:RG5GFF

Citing this Record:
"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPY8-LJG : accessed 15 Jul 2014), Daniel Hough in entry for Patrick, 27 Jan 1871; citing Cloughjordan, Tipp, Ire, reference 2:RG5GFF; FHL microfilm 255821.

Name:Patrick Hough
Gender:Male
Christening Date:
Christening Place:
Birth Date:27 Jan 1871
Birthplace:Tipperary, Ireland
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name:Daniel Hough
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name:Betty Whelan
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:C01233-1
System Origin:Ireland-ODM
GS Film number:255821
Reference ID:

Citing this Record:
"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FRWW-9TG : accessed 15 Jul 2014), Daniel Hough in entry for Patrick Hough, 27 Jan 1871; citing Tipperary, Ireland, reference ; FHL microfilm

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Notes from David Stevens:

Lived on family farm.

1901 census in house 6 Killurane, Mertonhall, Tipperary.; also present a general domestic servant Mary GAVIN. 1911 census in house 3 Killurane, Mertonhall, Tipperary; also present his father Daniel HOUGH (age 86) a widower (lunatic).

The 1908-1930 roll shows the occupancy of plot 15a Knockanacree consisting of house office and land 2 acres 2 roods 32 percheschanged from Daniel HOUGH to Thomas BUTLER in 1911 then to Patrick HOUGH in 1914, John Quinlisk in 1921 and William AUSTIN in 1931. It would appear that this land previosly owned bu Lord DUNALLY was sold by hin about 1930.

Headstone
In Loving Memory of Patrick Hough Loughane, Cloughjordan Died 13th Jan 1938
His wife Mary died 24th Oct 1944
Their son John died 27th June 1918.

Patrick Hough

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 6 Feb 1903 - Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Christening: 6 Feb 1903 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Death: Cir 1905 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Patrick Hough ¹⁴ ^,163 Mother: Mary Kennedy Marriage Did Not Marry

Notes
General:

Notes from David Stevens:

Died at age apprx 2 1/2 years.

Phillip Hough

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 25 Jan 1904 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁵ ^,5578 Christening: 25 Jan 1904 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Death: 4 Aug 1988 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Sponsors: William HOGAN and Margaret KENNEDY, 25 Jan 1904, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. (Household Member)

Parents

Father: Patrick Hough ¹⁴ ^,163 Mother: Mary Kennedy Marriage Did Not Marry ¹⁴

Notes
General:

Notes from David Stevens:

Batchelor. Lived at Loughane, Cloughjordan.

Thomas Hough

Sex: M
AKA: Tom Hough ¹⁴
Individual Information

Birth Date: Bef 14 Sep 1896 - Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵⁵⁴⁵ ^,5579 Christening: 14 Sep 1896 - Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁴ Death: 2 May 1969 ¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Farmer's son.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1901, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. (Household Member)
• Census: Household of Patrick and Mary Hough, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Occupation: Farmer's son, 1911, Killurane, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

Parents

Father: Patrick Hough ¹⁴ ^,163 Mother: Mary Kennedy

Tom Hough

Sex: M
AKA: Thomas Hough ¹⁴ ^,163
Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir Feb 1862 - Back Creek, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia ⁷⁸⁷ ^,5580 ^,5581 Christening: Cir 1862 ¹⁴ Death: 30 Jan 1942 - Baltimore, Baltimore (City), Maryland, United States of America ( about age 79) ¹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Occupation: Carpenter.
• Occupation: Saloon keeper.

Parents

Father: Daniel Hough ¹⁴ ^,164 ^,261 ^,262 Mother: Eliza Whelan ³⁴⁶¹

Spouses and Children

1. *Sarah E. Dohony ¹⁴ Marriage: 29 Sep 1890 - Heathcote, Victoria, Australia Marriage Notes

Catholic church at Cornella.
Children: 1. Daniel John Howe 2. Thomas J. Howe 3. Carroll Francis Howe

Notes
General:

080608:

According to information in a letter from Jamie's Auntie Elizabeth dated 11 Sept. 1991: "Uncle Tom Howe went to America & unfortunately we lost touch when he died. His sons (sic) Daniel and Carol wrote a few times when I was young but no one kept up." I assume Carol is a daughter not a son.

130814:
Actually, information supplied by David Stevens shows that it was Carroll, a male, not Carol, a female.

Notes from David Stevens:

Went to Ireland when he was about 2 years old (c1863), returned to Australia c1886. Immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. c1891.
1900 census at 511 Abel Street, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States of America (shown as HOWE). 1910 census at 511 Claggett Alley, Baltimore City. 1920 census at 840 George Street, Baltimore City shown as owing own store and that he imigrated to America in 1891. 1930 census at 840 George Street, Baltimore City (shown as retired).
Went to Ireland to see his parents in 1903 and also went there again in 1909 to see his father.

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