Cunninghams and Hanrahans

Dear Cocor1:

Thank you for your post to the message board.,  I will pass this query to a local person who may be able to help.  If you have not done so already, please check out the Killofin page at the Clare Library:  http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/killofin.htm

If you have any questions, or would like to share your travel plans,  please email medirectly at:  jhalloranryan@irelandxo.com

Kind regards,

Jane

Michael Cunningham of Lakyle in Killofin parish, labourer, and Bridget Hanrahan had a daughter Bridget jr. born in Lakyle on 3 Feb 1864 (just a few weeks after the introduction of civil registration of births in Ireland, but several years after their namesakes of interest to you had left Ireland):

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/7394…
Name    BRIDGET CUNNINGHAM
Date of Birth    1864
Group Registration ID    7878696
SR District/Reg Area    Kildysart
Sex    N/R
Mother's Birth Surname    N/R

The above index entry is linked to the wrong PDF image, and should link to
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_retur…

By coincidence, the familysearch.org version of the index also has the wrong page number:

Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958
Name:     Bridget Cunningham
Date of Registration:     1864
Registration district:     Killadysert
Birth Country:     Ireland
Volume:     4
Page:     296 [recte 290]
FHL Film Number:     101041

There is also an extract at familysearch.org:

Name: Bridget Cunningham
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 3 Feb 1864
Event Place: Leaba Shíoda, County Clare, Ireland
Event Place (Original): Labasheeda, Clare, Ireland
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Michael Cunningham
Mother's Name: Bridget Hanrihan
GS Film Number: 101083
Digital Folder Number: 007763801
Citing this Record
"Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F51Z-1XB : 15 February 2020), Bridget Hanrihan in entry for Bridget Cunningham, 1864.

In Lakyle North in Griffith's Valuation in 1855, John Cunningham sublet a house (no. 12Ba) with rateable annual valuation of 5 shillings on James Davis's land.  There was also a Thomas Cunningham in Lakyle North, but there was no Cunningham in Lakyle South.

Michael might be related to either Thomas or John.

John Cunningham was a fisherman according to the 1883 marriage certificate of his daughter Mary Cunningham of Lackille and the 1887 marriage certificate of his son Michael Cunningham, fisherman, of Lakyle.

John still has descendants living in the area, including a GGgrandson who is JA3361778 at GEDmatch.com in case you are interested in looking for DNA matches.

I have Hanrahans and Cunninghams in my family tree. My gg grandfather is a John Hanrahan born in Ireland about 1840 and settled in Gulf Summit, NY. I have his mother as Bridget (Cunningham?) I am a match for JA3361778. My GedMatch is PZ1483523.

I sure would love help in sorting out this family!

Diana McDonough Griffin

Hi Diana

Do you have the full death certificate for your GGGgrandmother Mrs. Bridget Hanrahan?

If so, then posting a copy of it here would be a huge help.

If not, then you must order a copy based on the index entry linked to your tree at
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/18183759/person/250010…

The same applies to the marriage and death certificates of her son John Hanrahan.

It is not clear from your tree and from the multiple linked marriage records whether Bridget's maiden surname was Cunningham or Curtin or Ladrigan.

If your ancestors were married in one of the many parishes for which registers have not survived, then ancestry.com will try very hard to persuade you, via its abominable shaky-leaf-hint virus, that they married in a parish for which registers have survived.  You will have train yourself to resist this persuasion.

You and your brother certainly have a number of small DNA matches to people with Hanrahan ancestry from County Clare.