Donoughmore Graveyard near Ballyragget. Bridget Phelan alias Lannen died aug 1786 aged 57. another inscription Joan FARREL alias Purcell who with 5 of her children lie here. She died sept 1790 aged 90 yrs. John FARREL her husband died may 1791 aged 97yrs. another inscrip Honora Dunn alias FARRILL died june 1827 aged 56.
This could well be part of my family,1st sons were often named after their paternal gfather and ditto for daughters being named after gma. 2nd sons & daughters were named after maternal side of the family or siblings of their parents.
I think it was Martin Farrell(O'Farrell) Snr and his wife Anastasia ?Breen(Brenan) that were born in New Ross and yes Martin was buried in Clinstown. They were land tenants in Swiftsheath and later landholders.
Patrick Lannan Snr was born in Wexford, looking all these places up on Google Earth they are not that far from each other given that Ireland is only a small country compared to Australia.
Patrick's wife Catherine Maher was born in Carlow in about 1760's, but I have nothing further on her.
I think Patrick's father may have been Edward Lannan c.1730 and given the naming traditions he was therefore not the 1st son.
I have also seen records of younger Edward's,Patrick's,Michael's, Denis and Thomas (all born roughly 1800's) in Police Gazettes and being tried for various offences. I believe they may have been IRA sympathisers as my ggpa Patrick was quite a radical when he moved to Victoria Australia according to other info I have. Interestingly when the ship carrying the Lannan family arrived in Australia it was quarantined about 500 meters from where I grew up as a child, I never knew this until recently!
Thanks for all your help and hopefully it may crack my brickwall!