My Great-Great-Grandfather was Lawrence Fanning born about 1827 Tipperary. Married Mary Stapleton born about 1832 Tipperary. They went to Guernsey where my Great-Grandmother Mary Elizabeth Fanning was born in 1855. The family migrated to Australia. Wonder if any connection. Marie Stewart

Hi Marie

I am not sure, though I do have a DNA match to some Fanning descendants in Queensland. I have not been able to trace a connection to Tipperary - my Fanning family were farming around Swords and Dunbrough House (now adjacent to Dublin Airport). However - I recommend you visit this link if you have not already, I think your family are discussed here:

https://fanningfamilyhistory.com/index.php/category/australian-families/

Hi Joe,

What a treasure trove of family history you have provided for me.  I can’t thank you enough  I have read through it just now but will take time & really go through it slowly as my family are clearly mentioned.  I will contact a lovely cousin who I connected with through our Ancestry DNA results a little while back  In fact the DNA results disclosed a number of cousins from the Fanning family who settled in Esk, Queensland.  Will get back to you when I have absorbed this amazing research.  Again thank you so much Joe & I must check through the Ancestry DNA results to see if you are listed as a possible cousin.  Kind regards Marie

Hi Marie

I am delighted that you are pleased. Its a great thing when you find something like that isnt it. 

Here is my tree down to me on the Fanning side as far back as I can get it. As I say, The Fannings were farmers. They 'leased' land at Dunbrough House, north of Dublin and are associated with Swords and Dunbrough and Dublin.

My grandad Hugh was orphaned and moved to England, my Mum was Fanning and so I an now Abrams after my Dad then. I have done a DNA test with Ancestry DNA. You may find a connection with me on there. 

John Fanning 1831-1884
2nd great-grandfather

John Fanning 1864-1944
Son of John Fanning

Hugh William John (Matthew) Fanning 1906-1979
Son of John Fanning

Eileen Fanning 1931-present
Daughter of Hugh William John (Matthew) Fanning

Joseph Abrams 1973
You are the son of Eileen Fanning

Hi Joe, I contacted my cousin re the data on Fanning history & I have since learned that the researcher for that vast amount of information was Kathleen Fanning. My cousin & Kathleen Fanning are well known to each other & both have been trying to find if there is any link to the two families.   Due to me reading the sad story of Hugh Fanning that you wrote they are now following more leads. I will let you know if anything new turns up. Regards Marie Stewart

Hi Marie

Lovely to hear from you. Your cousin is very welcome to look at the research I have on 'Abrams Walls Family Tree'. I have also written up what I have on my Grandfather and his siblings and parents. It is sad, lots of events and stories coming out of that period were. I have a DNA Link to a man in Australia who traces his family back to Swords, Dublin also. Thats a Fanning link. My closes DNA link is to a male whose grandfather was a foundling in New York at a hospital. He moved to Texas via an Orphan Train. 

Such stories of poverty, orphans and travel to England, Australia and America are frequent I know. Still, the individual narratives, events and teh ripples down a couple of generations to now are very interesting. 

I await any news with eagerness and would be happy to pass on teh documents and photos I have if they are useful. I have a sale document for the lease of Dunbrough House (1897) by CHarles Fanning (brother to my Gt Grandfather). The family moved to a relatively good house in North Dublin (the last residents, literally just before them were the family of James Joyce). Thats another story - but an excellent one and I made sure on the residency address and so on. I mention it, as its interesting, and because it makes the next part so amazing. My gt GRandfather John Fanning married Catherine Boyland and they lived not far from that address - but far enough to be in a slum dwelling which was declared unfit for human habitation on teh census. There was a lot of that at the time - but the death of Catherine from TB (typical of the slums) and dissapearance of John, their father, led directly to my grandad being orphaned and wandering. Its a huge turn of fortune in a 20 year period as it was 1914 when they went into Artane. 

Hi, 

I am researching the history of my local GAA club in Moate, Co. Westmeath, and in doing have come upon a chap named Richard Fanning, sometimes referred to as Dick Fanning in other reports. 

By all accounts, he was a really good footballer, and played with my club Moate All Whites in the late 1920's for six or seven years into the mid 1930's, and in that time he was chosen also to play with the Westmeath junior team. 

In trying to establish 'who he was' there is only one piece of information known about him, and that is that he had spent time in Artane, no other details of his origins or background are known around here. 

So, this post caught my eye, and if anyone thinks the Richard Fanning who once lived in Moate, could be the same chap mentioned in these posts, I would like to receive a reply about that. 

Tom Duffy

Hi Tom

Thank you for writing and good luck with your research into your local GAA club in Moate, Co. Westmeath. To the best of my knowledge the Richard Fanning or Dick Fanning in my family emigrated to England in the early 1920s. He worked as a tailor as he had learnt that trade when in Artane and then in Quigleys, Banagher. He later went on to serve in the Army in WWII. I dont have any details suggesting we was involved with Football. 

That doesnt mean he wasnt - just that I dont have the details and I think he would have been living in England.

Sorry not to help more - but maybe this narrows the search which is also a useful thing.

Regards

Joe