Mathew & Martha Briody

Hi - Thank you for your message. Some sites which may be useful to you include:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093

Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/

Also - Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com

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Thank you for your assistance.  I will give those links a try.

Hi Gloria,

it seems we are related! Rose Ann Briody was my great grandmother. I have been looking into this side of the family and have essentially reached the same conclusions as you and have pretty much the same questions.

I can add a few more bits of information to the story.

I did get a copy of Martha Briody's death certificate from 1916 with Rose Ann listed as the witness.. so looks like she was living in Mullingar dueing the Census. I can't find her either!

Also I got a copy of the marriage certificate of Mathew Briody and Martha Pedley from Birmingham. The only extra information it has is that Mathew's father is listed as Patrick Briody from Ireland.. which doesn't rule this out ..

I will keep digging!

Paul

Hi Gloria,

it seems we are related! Rose Ann Briody was my great grandmother. I have been looking into this side of the family and have essentially reached the same conclusions as you and have pretty much the same questions.

I can add a few more bits of information to the story.

I did get a copy of Martha Briody's death certificate from 1916 with Rose Ann listed as the witness.. so looks like she was living in Mullingar dueing the Census. I can't find her either!

Also I got a copy of the marriage certificate of Mathew Briody and Martha Pedley from Birmingham. The only extra information it has is that Mathew's father is listed as Patrick Briody from Ireland.. which doesn't rule this out ..

I will keep digging!

Paul

Hi Paul, You would be related to my daughters rather than myself as their father, my former husband, is descended from Rose Ann's brother James Joseph Briody.  I have been doing further research on this line for them.  I'm not absolutely certain how and when James came to Australia but the nearest I can get is that he arrived in Nov 1882 on the ship "Roma". That James was aged 17 which would the right age.

He married Margaret Martha O'Meara in Charters Towers, Qld in March 1886 and they had 3 children :James Joseph (1888-1951); Patrick Matthew (1890 - 1938) and Margaret Martha (1891 - 1969).

The middle child, Patrick Matthew Briody, married Frances Elizabeth Warren in Charters Towers, Qld in 1916 and they also had three children: Frances Mary Margaret; Patrick Matthew (1917 -1998) and Joyce Alice (1920 -2003).  Joyce Alice was my former mother-in-law, the grandmother of my daughters.

Anything you could add to the history of Mathew and Martha (nee Pedley) Briody would be very much appreciated.There seems to be a big brick wall there somewhere. I'm wondering if Mathew was a soldier  posted to England where he met Martha.  Does her death cert show where she was born?

So many questions, so few answers ...as yet.

Regards

Gloria