O'kane Formil

[aghadowey]

It may be that Ellen didn't leave a Will or that her estate wasn't administered officially and thus would not appear in Will Extracts.

This is the extract for Patrick-
"Letters of Administration of the personal estate of Patrick Kane late of Formil County Londonderry Farmer who died 7 March 1890 at Brockaghbuoy were granted at Londonderry to Ellen Kane of Formil the Widow."
Normally if you click on image it takes you to the correct page in Will Book but unfortunately in this instance you get the Will of a Richard Kane.

[familyroutes]

Daniel "The King of Formil" O'Kane was born 10/09/1885 He married Martha Doherty in
St. Patrick's, Dungiven on  15/08/1899 when he was almost 14 and she was almost 16.
Daniel's father was Patrick "Dunany" O'Kane,his grandfather was Daniel O'Kane,his grandmother was Margaret (I don't know her surname) I am related through Patrick's sister Elizabeth "Dunany" O'Kane.
 Daniel's mother was Ellen Lagan...her parents were Henry Lagan and Rose Milligan.

[Kane57]

I am delighted to hear from you.  I had heard of the Dunany O Kane's but I didn't know how or if they were related.  I am Daniels great granddaughter.  I am making good progress researching Daniels children.  His father Patrick was married to Ellen O Kane nee Lagan I think.  Do you know when they died or where they are buried?
 

[familyroutes]

Hi Kane57
I've left a private message for you.

[familyroutes]

Patrick married Ellen Lagan, daughter of Henry Lagan, on 25 Jun 1884 in Maghera Roman Catholic Parish Witnesses, Daniel O’Mullan, Ellen Walls.


They had one child:
      Daniel “Dunany King of Formil”  (9 Sep 1885-abt 1940) Christened Maghera RC Church

According to the marriage record of Patrick and Ellen, Patrick was a widower when he married Ellen.

I don't know the name of his 1st wife. As Patrick's father was Daniel he was likely to name his 1st son "Daniel" in the usual naming order; so perhaps "The King" was his only son.

Daniel died in Portstewart where he'd been living with a daughter.

[Kane57]

Why are they called Dunany?  Do you know the date of Ellen's death?

Thanks for your help

Máire

[familyroutes]

Máire, We haven't been able to figure out where the nickname came from. The family were originally from Dunavenny,so it may be a corruption of that.It's probably  a family nickname to distinguish them from the many O'Kane families in the area...Dan's Annie...or something like that. I've only seen it written once and that was in a newspaper report from 1882 and then it was spelled "Denany" The group I research with decided on Dunany at some stage. I think the name has only come down through the oral tradition so I suppose that spelling is as good as any!!
 I don't know when Ellen died...she was still alive in 1890 when letters of administration were granted to her as the widow of Patrick Kane of Formil.

[familyroutes]

Just realised that aghadowey had already post the information about the letters of administration!

[virgilia]

I'm a great grand daughter of catherine (denany o'kane)hegarty. I believe there were 7 sisters.