The Barry Family of Street Traders, in Belfast and Dublin

First of all I would welcome all Barry surname and variants to join the FTDNA Barry surname project and get some testing to add width to your research, I am an admin there.

I have researched my Barry family from England back into Ireland, and back again but still do not know from where the line originates. My Great,Greta Grand father was called Garrett Barry and was born about 1830, he married Catherine Toner place unknown, BUT they had their first child as far as I know in Drogheda, Co Louth - Michael 1857, in 1864 and 1868 they had two further sons Garrett Jn and Laurence, both remained in the Belfast area, but did not produce any lasting line of descendants. The three children of Garrett Jn's died either at birth or shortly after,  he actually died before he saw his son Garrett. Laurence married an older woman who had children and was too old to start a new family. Fortunately there as another male child Patrick, who buried his mother in 1892 in Belfast, Garrett know where to be found. The couple may have split, and Patrick turned up in Glasgow, Scotland and married an Irish woman, who was already pregnant with their son Laurence who was born in Belfast in 1885. Laurence and Garrett Jn were in the RA and joined in Scotland, giving their next of kin as Garrett resident in Hospital St. Glasgow. Michael and Patrick did produce descendant who are living today, Myself and my sons from Michael, and I have traced living desendants of Parick in Dublin, and various parts of England including a Liam Marshall Barry fromm Bolton who has been tested via YDNA to also be descendent from Garrett & Catherine.  Patrick lost his first wife, but managed to remarry in the months after to Teresa Shannon and take his son Laurence to Dublin to start a new life.Patrick and Teresa had a large family of sons and daughters

I am writing this enquiry to try to find out when and where Patrick was born in approx 1862, and when and where Garrett and Catherine married, about 1855 if Michael was actually the first born, and what part of Ireland they originated.It seems odd that I have not found any daughters of the couple, so there could be other descendants out there, maybe one day autosomal DNA testing will bring me a match from a female Barry from this family.  As the title suggests Garrett was a street trader, so was Patrick who lived in the quays area of the centre of Dublin. It seems likely that Co Cork would be the family origins but so far no link or suggestion has been found. So far our Y DNA is very rare and has only one other who is close match who has a history in a village in Co.Cork back to 1750.

So if this family is familiar to anyone then I'd love to know more, thank you Mike A Barry