Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Michael J. O'Brien

Sex: M
AKA: Mike O'Brien ²⁷⁹⁴
Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: Bef 13 Aug 2025 - Newfoundland ²⁷⁹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Spouses and Children

1. *Catherine Cantwell ²⁷⁹⁴ Marriage: Children: 1. Margaret O'Brien 2. Jim O'Brien 3. Redmond O'Brien 4. Michael O'Brien 5. Trix O'Brien 6. Betty O'Brien 7. Maureen O'Brien 8. Mike O'Brien 9. Joe O'Brien 10. Frank O'Brien 11. Pat O'Brien 12. Don O'Brien 13. Kenny O'Brien 14. Catherine O'Brien

Michael Joseph O'Brien

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: May 1877 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ²⁰ ^,7301 Christening: Death: 13 Oct 1970 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 93) ⁷³⁰¹ Burial: After 13 Oct 1970 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷³⁰¹ Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Death: 1970.

Parents

Father: William O'Brien ³¹⁵ Mother: Ellen O'Brien ³¹⁵

Spouses and Children

1. *Mary Alice O'Brien ³¹⁵ Marriage:

Notes
General:

Email from Enid O'Brien dated 29/05/02:

(these would be related but not close) They didn't have any children.

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: Living Mother: Living

Mike O'Brien

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: Bef 13 Aug 2025 - Newfoundland ²⁷⁹⁴ Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Michael J. O'Brien ²⁷⁹⁴ Mother: Catherine Cantwell ²⁷⁹⁴

Living

Sex: M

Spouses and Children

1. Living

Living

Sex: F

Parents

Father: John O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹ Mother: Angela O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹ ^,5259

Spouses and Children

1. *Cas Browne ²⁵⁷⁹ Marriage:

Morgan O'Brien

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1859 - Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁷³⁰² Christening: Death: 28 Feb 1939 - Ballinalick, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ( about age 80) ⁶⁶⁸ ^,3780 Burial: After 28 Feb 1939 - Kilkeary, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ³⁷⁸⁰ Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: 1866, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: 1901 Census of Eliza O'Brien and 3 sons, 31 Mar 1901, Glenawinna, Aghnameadle, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Residence: Fort William, 31 Mar 1901, Glenawinna, Aghnameadle, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. Living at home with aged mother and 2 unmarried adult brothers.
• Occupation: Farmer, 29 Apr 1903, Fortwilliam, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Census: Morgan and Kate with sister Norah and two servants, 1911, Ballynalick, Kilkeary, Tipperary, Ireland.
• Occupation: Farmer with two live in farm labourers, 1911, Ballinalick, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Residence: Ballinalick, on his own or his wife's farm, 1911, Ballinalick, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

Parents

Father: William O'Brien ⁴⁸³⁴ ^,7254 Mother: Eliza Reidy ⁷²⁵⁵ ^,7256

Spouses and Children

1. *Kate Lawlor ⁶⁰⁷¹ Marriage: 29 Apr 1903 - Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁴²⁹⁹ ^,6068 ^,7303
Marriage Events
• Minister/Priest: Peter Quinn C.C., 29 Apr 1903, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Witnesses: James Pounds and Nora Lawlor, 29 Apr 1903, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. Spelling of name should probaly be Pound, same surname as best man at marriage of his brother Cornelius. I am assuming for now that the second witness is the sister of the bride. Marriage Notes

Civil Marriage Record Notes: MARRIED IN NENAGH CHURCH PETER QUINN CC [PRIEST] ** FULL AGE *** FULL AGE ****** DEAD ******* DEAD

Also both bride and groom had not previously been married.

Her surname is misspelled Lalor on the church marriage record transcript.

060518:
Ireland Civil Marriage Registers Index Transcription

First name(s)Morgan
Last nameO'Brien
SexMale
AgeF
Marital statusBachelor
Condition (as transcribed)B
OccupationFarmer
ResidenceForth William Toomerara
Marriage year1903
Marriage date29 Apr 1903
DenominationRoman Catholic
Church nameNenagh
Registration districtNenagh
Superintendent's reg districtNenagh
Parish-
CountyTipperary
CountryIreland
Spouse's first name(s)Kate
Spouse's last nameLawlor
Spouse's ageF
Spouse's marital statusS
Spouse's occupationFarmer
Spouse's residenceKilkinane Nenagh
Father's first name(s)William
Father's last nameO'Brien
Father's occupationFarmer
Father deceasedY
Spouse's father's first name(s)John
Spouse's father's last nameLawlor
Spouse's father's occupationFarmer
Spouse's father deceasedY
Registration year1903
Registration quarter yearApr - Jun 1903
Volume3
Page403
SourceView the source record
Record setIreland Civil Marriage Registers Index
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryCivil Marriage & Divorce
Collections fromIreland
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First name(s)Morgan
Last nameO'Brien
Registration year1903
Registration quarterApr - Jun 1903
Registration districtNenagh
Volume3
Page403
MarriageFinder™Morgan O'Brien married one of these people
James Fogarty, Michael Bowen, Nora Kelly, Martin Cawley, Kate Lawlor, Kate Lalor, Susan Armitage
CountyTipperary
CountryIreland
Record setIrish Marriages 1845-1958
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryCivil Marriage & Divorce
Collections fromIreland
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Ireland Marriages 1845-1958 Transcription

First name(s)Morgan
Last nameO'Brien
Registration year1903
Registration quarterApr - Jun 1903
Registration districtNenagh
Volume3
Page403
MarriageFinder™Morgan O'Brien married one of these people
James Fogarty, Michael Bowen, Nora Kelly, Martin Cawley, Kate Lawlor, Kate Lalor, Susan Armitage
CountyTipperary
CountryIreland
Record setIrish Marriages 1845-1958
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryCivil Marriage & Divorce
Collections fromIreland
copyright Family Search

Notes
General:

071108: Little is known about Jamie's father's uncle Morgan except that he existed. The Census information in Glenawinna include him in the family as an adult living at home with his aged mother and two unmarried adult brothers. After that there is no record of him. Presumably he moved away after his mother died and Cornelius took over the farm. There is no birth record for him in Toomevara.

261009: The mystery surrounding Morgan continues. The birth records shown here seem to be for a different Morgan, that one born in Portroe. That one was the son of William alright but his mother's name was Honora McLaughlin.That is not correct for our Morgan. I recall having heard Jamie say that she thought her grandfather was married twice (but not her great-grandfather about whom she knew nothing). The fact is that Morgan's father, William, died before the 1901 Census, when Morgan and two of his brothers were still living with Eliza. So I think we have the wrong birth record for Morgan.

In addition, I am not convinced that it was our Morgan who married Kate Lawlor in Nenagh. It could be. But if so I think he and she died or emigrated soon afterwards. There is no 1911 Census return anywhere in Ireland for a Morgan O'Brien that is sufficiently close to the details on our man to accept and certainly none with a wife named Kate.

130513: Eureka! Jamie is visiting Ireland at this time and today she visited St. Joseph Churchyard cemetery where her parents are buried, There she found several more gravestones of family members including her great uncles Terence, Thomas and Morgan (the latter two on the same stone). There it shows that Morgan's wife's name was indeed Kate, though it does not give her maiden name. Nevertheless this is strong evidence that I did find the correct marriage record. Though why they do not appear on the 1911 Census is still a mystery since they were both alive at the time. It could be that they were living with Thomas on the family farm and therefore thought that it was not appropriate to be included in the census as non land owners.

Although the townland of residence at the time of his death is not given for Morgan, since Morgan and his wife appear to be buried in the same plot with his brother Thomas and his wife, or at least they are all memorialised on the same stone, and since Thomas's abode is given as Grawn at the time of his death, I suspect that they were all living together on the one farm in Grawn at the time of their deaths.

WRONG!!

Already disproved. I finally found the 1911 Census record for Morgan and his household on the Irish National Archives website. Digitising the 1911 census as well as the 1901 census remains a work in progress and evidently this census return was indexed since the last time I looked. It shows the following:

Morgan O'Brien, Head, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, Age 52, Farmer, Married, Where Born - Tipperary, Irish language - Blank

Kate O'Brien, Wife, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, Age 32, No Profession, Married 8 Years - No children born or living, Where born - Tipperary, Irish language - Blank

Norah O'Brien, Sister, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, Age 30, No Profession, Single, Where born - Tipperary, Irish language - Blank

Michael Ryan, Servant, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, Age 30, Farm Labourer, Single, Where born - Tipperary, Irish language - Blank

Hugh Ryan, Servant, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, Age 41, Farm Labourer, Single, Where born - Tipperary, irish language - Blank

In other words, Morgan was working his own farm, or possibly Kate's by inheritance, and was not living with his brother Thomas, nor vice-versa.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing of all in this census is that there is a sister named Norah O'Brien living with them. This is the first that I have ever heard of her. She did not appear on the 1901 Census when three of the boys, including Morgan, were shown still living at home with their mother, Eliza. She may have been working as a domestic somewhere else at the time or even at boarding school perhaps. I have added her despite my reservations. She is too young to be a child of Eliza Reidy, who would have been around 59 when Norah was ostensibly born. There are family rumours that William O'Brien did marry a second time. If this were so, she could be a child by his second wife. But so far I have no evidence to support this.

Morgan O'Brien Sr.

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1771 - Kilkeary, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵²⁰⁰ Christening: Death: 22 Jun 1817 - Kilkeary, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ( about age 46) ⁵²⁰⁰ Burial: After 22 Jun 1817 - Kilkeary, Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁵²⁰⁰ Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt. Birth: Cir 1780, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.
• Residence: Aghnameadle, Between 1848 and 1864, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

Parents

Father: Morgan O'Brien ⁶⁶⁹ Mother: Margaret Pound ⁷²⁵⁸

Spouses and Children

Children: 1. Father Cornelius O'Brien 2. Anne O'Brien 3. Frances Maria O'Brien 4. Morgan O'Brien Jr. 5. William O'Brien 6. Terence O'Brien

Notes
General:

280807:

On the CD Index of Griffith's Valuation there are very few O'Brien's living in Aghnameadle, the parish name for the area surrounding Toomyvara. In fact there are only three: Morgan Sr. and Jr. and William. Jamie knows that her grandfather's name was Thomas (Tom) and that he had at least two brothers, Morgan and Terrence. But they were born too late to be landowners in the valuation. So it seems more than likely that the two Morgan's, father and son, are Jamie's great grand uncle and great great grandfather. William was her great grandfather and a brother of Morgan Jr.

290108: From Toomevara parish Register: 1847, Feb 15. Wm., of Morgan O'Brien & Anne Gleeson John Gleeson & Anne O'Brien. Bunacum ? 2-6

There were three Morgan O'Briens having children in Toomevara all at the same time. I am speculating that they were three first cousins, all first born sons, whose paternal grandfather was named Morgan. I have chosen this one as the ancestor in direct line to Jamie because he had a son named William, the name of Jamie's g. grandfather. None of the others did as far as is known at this time. The 2-6 was the fee paid 2 shillings and 6 pence.

It seems he may also be the Morgan O'Brien who leased a house and land in Ballybeg to Mrs. Quinlan in Griffith's. No way to tell for sure.

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030617:

Today I found online a book of grave transcriptions from Kilkeary Cemetery prepared in 1981 for the Ormond Historical Society by Denise Foulkes.

This is the cemetery where Jamie's O'Brien ancestors are buried. One grave and epitaph I had not seen in photos taken there by her last year (2016) is the following pertaining to Morgan O'Brien, who died 22 June 1817 at 46 years of age. While these dates do not conform precisely with what I had expected for this Morgan O'Brien, her second great grandfather, I think that, on balance, it is likely to be he entombed here.

Here is a transcript of the epitaph:
"This tomb, sacred to the memory of Morgan O'Brien, Esq., was erected by his dearly beloved wife. In the various relations of life he maintained the character of a strictly honest and honourable man. He was a tender parent and affectionate husband. By those who knew him best his memory will be long revered. He died on the 22nd June 1817 in the 46th year of his age.

Underneath are also deposited the remains of their aimiable daughter Frances Maria Harding who died on the 9th Dec 1821 in the 19th year of her age. Her premature death will be deplored by all who were acquainted with her captivating endearing disposition."

The fact that they are buried in a tomb and that he is referred to as Esg., not to mention the very well written epitaph, suggest that he was a man of some considerable means.

Morgan O'Brien

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1820 - Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ¹⁸⁸ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Events
• Residence: Mogullaan, Cir 1850, Newmarket On Fergus, Clare, Munster, Ireland. farmed and raised horses.
• Emigration: Ireland, 1862, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Parents

Father: Terence O'Brien ⁴⁴² Mother: Living

Spouses and Children

1. *Catherine Frost ⁴⁴³ Marriage: Cir 1845 - Newmarket On Fergus, Clare, Munster, Ireland ⁴⁴² Children: 1. Terence O'Brien 2. Mary O'Brien 3. Thomas O'Brien

Notes
General:

060816:
Known only from birth/baptism records of children at Aghnameadle parish.

Morgan O'Brien

Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Cir 1801 - Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Parents

Father: Cornelius O'Brien Esq. ⁶⁶⁷ Mother: Elizabeth O'Dwyer ⁶⁶⁷

Spouses and Children

1. *Mary Ryan Marriage: 11 Jul 1844 - Graig, Drom, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁷³⁰⁴ Marriage Notes

040617:

Morgan and Mary were married in Drom and Inch Parish and were shown as being resident of Graig (sometimes spelled Graigue) homeland. This is south of where the O'briens live later on but not very distant, close to Borrisoleigh.
Children: 1. Thomas O'Brien

Notes
General:

040617:

Morgan and Mary were married in Drom and Inch Parish and were shown as being resident of Graig (sometimes spelled Graigue) homeland. This is south of where the O'briens live later on but not very distant, close to Borrisoleigh.

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