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Australia / Re: MACKAY Family of Victoria
« on: Thursday 09 January 14 12:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Peter, Remember your visit to Canny-land very well. Still chasing Cannys when I spot the name.  Only this week came across an interesting item in the Ennis Chronicle of Oct. 1797.  Seems the Denis of Clonmoney had agreed a legal separtation with his wife Lucinda Lysaght and she was to get some land.  In a case His Majesty v. Denis Canny some lands at Corcanknockane and Knocksaggartnabanetry wer to be sold for the sum of £1650-18-7 to be paid to wife.
Good luck with the Canny gathering.  My own GG grandfather John Henry McCan went out with at least some of his children and died in Riley St. Sydney in 1854. My G grandfather Joseph McCan
was m.1847 in St. Mary's to Jula O'Brien and my grandfather Francis McCan was born 1848, so you can see that I am an Irishman with a grandfather born in Australia.  John Henry had 12 children but I could never come any of them in Australia.
Best  wishes,
Anthony

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Australia / Re: MACKAY Family of Victoria
« on: Monday 06 January 14 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
If anyone is looking for family documents relating to the family of Denis Joseph Canny, the Registry of Deeds in Dublin has lots of Canny deeds going back to the 18th century. The ones that refer specifically to Denis J, Canny are numbered as follows:
1861-23-74
1870-21-218
1871-30-98
1873-20-38
1874-18-227
1875-51-170
They tell the story of his decline into bankruptcy and loss of the mansion house ,farm, offices and lands of Ballycasey,225 acres IPM and the lands of Tullyariga 185 acres IPM. (These are Irish acres, equal to 656 statute acres)
The Registry of Deeds Henrietta St. will send you photostat copies of them. (20 euros each the last time I bought any).  Anthony

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Clare / Re: CANNY, Clonmoney Ballycasey
« on: Sunday 05 January 14 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
Re your families listed :
John Canny of Ballycasey m. Mary Lyonsof Croom Co. Limerick in August 1768, 7 children
Denis Canny b. Ballycasey d. Clonmoney m. Ellen O'Brien of Cranagh Co. Tipp. 1802 9 children
Matthew Canny of Clonmoney m. Margaret Taaffe 1839 in Dublin
Denis Joseph Canny of Limerick m..  Atkinson of Exeter in England 1825 in Ballina, Co. Mayo 7 children
I see the latter had a daughter Marie Mostyn Canny who died in Adelaide 1960.  I that your connection ?
I have a Canny connection too and lots of information on the family

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Tipperary / Re: Alleyne of Golden, Tipperary
« on: Monday 18 November 13 16:47 GMT (UK)  »
Stories of lost estates and crooked solicitors always have a certain charm.  I refer of course to the Samuel Alleyne family of Waterford.  Here are such facts as I have been able to discover.
The story begins with the lease of 500 acres Irish Plantation Measure at Coolprevane by Walter Atkins to John Alleyne.  The lease was dated 14 April 1779 and was for a period of three lives of Samuel  and William AlleyneAlleyne, John Alleyne.  The estate passed to John's son Samuel.  He was the last of the 3 lives when he died in 1841.  His widow Ellen (Scully) Alleyne renewed the lease with Gertrude Atkins in 1842 and Ellen in 1846 assigned the  estate to her nephew Samuel William who in 1860 was married to Honoria Cowan.  Now the plot thickens.  In 1864 a Marriage Settlement was drawn up, Apparently at the insistence of Joseph Henry Cowen Hoichnoria's father, by whch Samuel was to get £2000 Fortune (i.e. Dowry) from the Cowen family and the lands of Coolprevane were to be handed over to trustees to guarantee Honoria's future.  The trustees were Walter Richard Butler of Clondalkin and Edward Michael Duffy of Hardwick St. Dublin, Solicitor.
In Feb. 1865 Cowen Sen. sued Samuel in the Court of Common Pleas for -noncompliance with the terms of the settlement.  Samuel lost and headed for the U.S. as we know. 
In April1872 the lands of Coolprevane in the Barony of Iffa and Offa were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court, the vendor being, not Samuel as you might expect, but Edward Michael Duffy, one of the trustees of the Marriage Settlement, and William Henry Alleyne, a minor (eldest son of Samuel's first marriage). The purchasers were the Russells, former tenants.
Well, that's the story.  Whether Duffy was really a crook or simply acting in the best interests of his client (Cowen) must be for Samuel's descendants to decide
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