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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Meath => Topic started by: ChristineLH on Tuesday 21 April 15 01:20 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I am hoping someone may be able to help me advance my search relating to my great great grandfather Thomas Edward Brady who we believe was from Kells Co Meath. We have an approximate birth year of 1834 but no actual date. He apparently spent some time living in New York before either returning to Ireland and coming to Australia or coming directly to Australia. I can find no shipping records for any of his travel. His Australian death certificate says his parents names were Thomas Edward and Ann Brady (how accurate this is I do not know as the same record states his wife's name was Ann when in fact it was Margaret Ann, have they just duplicated their own names on the certificate?). He was living in the Muswellbrook area in Australia by 1862 and working as a mail contractor and that year he sponsored the family of Owen Sharkey to come to Australia from Meath. He married Singleton girl Margaret Ann Glass in 1869 at the Presbyterian church in Sydney Australia despite the fact that she was a strict Methodist. They were married by Rev Dunmore lang who was an active immigration facilitator at the time and this may explain why. I assume Thomas would have not been Roman Catholic but I do not know this for a fact. He ran a dairy farm in Singleton NSW, raised 9 children and died there in 1892. If anyone can help me find more information I'd be very grateful. Thanks Christine
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Have you established any connection to Owen Sharkey ie ''in law'' ''cousin'' etc.
going through the births and baptisms for Co Meath gives 3 possible siblings for Owen Sharkey having children in the 1860s
Bernard/Barney
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F55G-58N
Peter
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F5YW-VFQ
Bryan
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3Asharkey~%20%2Bfather_givenname%3Abryan~%20%2Bfather_surname%3Asharkey~%20%2Bmother_givenname%3Amary~&collection_id=1584963
note the children born between 1864 (start of civil registration) and 1870
Owen 1864
Thomas 1865
John 1867
James 1870
Bryan Sharkey with his father in law Patrick McConnon/McConnell and possibly his father Nicholas living next door in 1871 census
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/meath/census/1871-loughbracken.txt
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Bryan Sharkey
1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Meath/Drumcondra/Drumgill/1608548/
1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Meath/Drumcondra/Drumgill/708788/
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No, I haven't seen any connection to the Sharkey family. I have no knowledge of any of Thomas Brady's siblings or parents either. The Sharkey family he sponsored had left Ireland by 1862.