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Wicklow / Doyle/Byrne/O'Brien
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My Great grandmother, Anna (Doyle) married Laurence Byrne and had three children prior to 1862. Two sons: Laurence (b: 1852) and James M Byrne (b: june 1861); the daughter's name remains unknown. When mr. Byrne died, Anna (Doyle) Byrne married James O'Brien (my great grandfather). Anna had three more children with Mr. O'Brien, all boys; one was my grandfather Peter J. O'Brien (b: July 1864) . All 6 children were born in Ireland in wicklow or dublin counties.
Anna (Doyle) and Mr. O'Brien along with "her" 6 children (3 Bryne from 1st marriage & 3 O'Brien children from 2nd marriage) came to United States reportedly between 1868 and 1872. She settled in New York state.
Mr O'Brien, as in James, Anna's 2nd husband died a few years after arriving in the U.S (c 1875). He reportedly was a farmer and owned land in New York state.
James M. Byrne (d: 1930) & Peter J O'Brien (d:1943) are 1/2 brothers via their mother Anna (Doyle). These two boys lived as "adults" in the Madison, Wisconson area. Their mother (Anna) and the one sister and two brothers (both O'Brien's) continued their lives in New York state.
Jame's older brother Laurence was the 1st to move to Wisconsin as an adult. He was followed by James soon thereafter. There they bought 120 acres of land together in the mid to late 1880's, as is noted on a 1890 Fitchburg township plat map (dane County). This farm land remained in the Byrne family for better than 100 years; they sold it in the late 1990's.
Laurence, James M Byrne & Peter J. O'Brien's brother eventually left the United States and returned to Ireland. He died on October 11, 1896. Decendants of James M. Byrne have the original copy of this deathbed last will and testament. He died in "Ballinagappogue, Aughrim, county Wicklow, Ireland".
The importance of where and when Laurence died, since he returned to ireland, is that no modern day "Byrne" or "O'Brien" family member from Wisconsin know whatever happened to the New York Byrne & O'Brien family members, nor where exactly "we" collectively came from in Ireland.
So my thought has been to follow "laurence byrne" back to ireland thinking he was returning to an area familiar to him when he was a child--recalling that he was born in 1852--which then made him 16 to 20 years old when the family immigrated.
I need contacts for Aughrim area Doyle, Byrne and or O'Brien family.
trust me, that was the short version!
Anna (Doyle) and Mr. O'Brien along with "her" 6 children (3 Bryne from 1st marriage & 3 O'Brien children from 2nd marriage) came to United States reportedly between 1868 and 1872. She settled in New York state.
Mr O'Brien, as in James, Anna's 2nd husband died a few years after arriving in the U.S (c 1875). He reportedly was a farmer and owned land in New York state.
James M. Byrne (d: 1930) & Peter J O'Brien (d:1943) are 1/2 brothers via their mother Anna (Doyle). These two boys lived as "adults" in the Madison, Wisconson area. Their mother (Anna) and the one sister and two brothers (both O'Brien's) continued their lives in New York state.
Jame's older brother Laurence was the 1st to move to Wisconsin as an adult. He was followed by James soon thereafter. There they bought 120 acres of land together in the mid to late 1880's, as is noted on a 1890 Fitchburg township plat map (dane County). This farm land remained in the Byrne family for better than 100 years; they sold it in the late 1990's.
Laurence, James M Byrne & Peter J. O'Brien's brother eventually left the United States and returned to Ireland. He died on October 11, 1896. Decendants of James M. Byrne have the original copy of this deathbed last will and testament. He died in "Ballinagappogue, Aughrim, county Wicklow, Ireland".
The importance of where and when Laurence died, since he returned to ireland, is that no modern day "Byrne" or "O'Brien" family member from Wisconsin know whatever happened to the New York Byrne & O'Brien family members, nor where exactly "we" collectively came from in Ireland.
So my thought has been to follow "laurence byrne" back to ireland thinking he was returning to an area familiar to him when he was a child--recalling that he was born in 1852--which then made him 16 to 20 years old when the family immigrated.
I need contacts for Aughrim area Doyle, Byrne and or O'Brien family.
trust me, that was the short version!