Behan family Aughmeelick Kings county

[carolynb]

Hi does any one have any information on the Behan family there seems to be quite a few of them living on farms in Aughmeelick.I have tried looking for this place I know it is on the Kildare Offaly border but does it still excist .My husbands grandfather was James Behan who came to England but sadly died after which one child James was taken to Ireland and brought up there Ihave found him aged 3 living in the household of Michael and Sarah  on the 1911 census

If anyone can help me with this family and this area I would appreciate it

Cheers and Merry Christmas Carolyn

[hallmark]

Aghameelick ??

https://www.logainm.ie/en/41619?s=Aghameelick

[carolynb]

Hi thanks
I have seen it both Au and Agh  I conk know which is right I was trying to find out if anyone still lives there or is it just countryside now
Carolyn

[hallmark]

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.235413,-7.0958851,3a,75y,86h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stMs-rsCWBYaJo49vhodpNQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DtMs-rsCWBYaJo49vhodpNQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D86.160355%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

[aghadowey]

Aghameelick townland is shown here- Irish names are known for variations in spelling-
https://www.townlands.ie/offaly/coolestown/clonsast/bracknagh/aghameelick/

For reference here's the 1911 census entry you found-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/King_s_Co_/Brachnagh/Aughameelick/555320

Many online R.C. Parish records here-
https://registers.nli.ie/

[carolynb]

Thanks for the information on this place it looks as if people are still living there I wonder if any are Behan

I have been trying to trace my husbands family for quite a while but had been told James Behan was born in or around Naas in abt 1872 but I could never find him there it is only when I looked for his son also James who was taken by family after his fathers death to be raised in Ireland. He is sown on 1911 census as a nephew living with Michael so I think James son and Michael must be brothers. I also think that We have the wrong birth year out by about four year making it 1868

 Michael and all the Behan family state Kings as place of birth
Michael and James may have an Edward as a father as both called their eldest son Edward

Any help would be great
Carolyn

[hallmark]

IF they Registered BDM's then Edenderry would be the District...

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01l6p/   Birth, Marriage and Death results for Behan of Edenderry

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[aghadowey]

Michael Behan married Sarah Dunne in 1893 and his father Edward Behan listed as a farmer with one of the witnesses shown as James Behan.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1893/10590/5858194.pdf

[aghadowey]

Michael Behan in 1901 with sister Sarah and brother John-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/King_s_Co_/Bracknagh/Aghameelick/1465667

Michael's wife Sarah & children listed with her uncle on census night-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/King_s_Co_/Bracknagh/Aghameelick/1465664