Re: Connecting the Monaghan Wards with Louth

I have. already posted my message on the Louth section but thought as it also relates to Monaghan, I would widen the net.

The two details I have with some certainty, are my 2X GG's were: Hugh Connor c1815 and his wife Mary McNany c1823 who according to the 1851 English Census came from Louth Ireland to Sunderland Co. Durham.The rest is to some extent educated speculation. I believe that Hugh's parents were James Connor and Margaret Ward 1788. Margaret was born in Ardee, Louth. I have her father as Joseph Ward and the mother as Cattey King. Joseph was from Nobber and Cruisetown, Louth.I have other DNA connections with the name Ward and they were from Clogher, Monaghan , Crossduff, Shantonagh, Monaghan and Raferagh, Carrickmacross, Monaghan. I have a photo of a gravestone, showing a Michael and Bridget Ward together with a Mary McEneany in Corduff, Carrickmacross. So that suggests some relationship by marriage between the Wards and McEneanys' The gravestone also mentions Lisnafeddaly. 

I am desperately trying to see if I can connect any of my Louth Wards to the Monaghan Wards as my closest DNA connection is the Raferagh, Carrickmacross one. Can anyone help me sort this morass of data out. Also if anyone knows of a Mary McNany or variation born in Louth about 1823, I would be delighted to hear from you.

Bill Birchall