Bernard Anthony Mahon

[benchurian]

Trying to research Bernard Anthony Mahon (Sept 12 1884) who was born somewhere in Wicklow.  He went to the States when he was about 5 and died 26/5/37.  He married Margaret O Brien in N.J.  Trying to find out anything on his family in Ireland.  Can anyone help here?

[Sinann]

Have you got either parents names from his marriage?

[oldohiohome]

Parents: Bernard Mahon and Mary Cox
married 19 Sep 1912, Manhattan, NY

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:243G-FL6

1915 census says he was born Sept 1884
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV93-CSRW

[oldohiohome]

DOB came from his Social Security Application: 12 Sep 1884, Republic of Ireland.

he was one month off, closer than a lot I've seen.

Screen and Dromard, Sligo
Baptism: 17 Aug 1884
Birth: 12 Aug 1884
parents: Bernardus Mahon, Maria Cox
sponsors: Michael and Brigid - surnames cut off of the image at ancestry. I didn't look at nli.ie

[oldohiohome]

The civil registration says Bryan

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02676/1985893.pdf

Dromore West, RD: Skreen?, Sligo
Births
12 Aug 1884 in Leekfield
Bryan Mahon, son of Bryan Mahon a laborer of Leekfield and Mary Mahon, formerly Cox. informant: Bee Cox, aunt, of Lukfield, present at birth

edit to change spelling of Bryan's townland

[oldohiohome]

Parents Marriage
1 Dec 1883, Same District
Bryan Mahon bachelor, laborer of Leekfield, father: Bryan, a farmer

Mary Cox, a spinster of Chapelfield, father: Michael, a laborer
neither could sign their name

witnesses: James Kilgallon and Be Cox. - both could sign their name.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1883/10952/8002914.pdf

edit to change spelling of Bryan's townland

[oldohiohome]

same place
Margaret Mahon, birth: 5 Jan 1886
Bryan -his mark- father, a caretaker of Leekfield, informant
mother: Mary Cox

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02610/1963748.pdf

that was all in Sligo through 1895. did the parents emigrate also?

[oldohiohome]

him and his family in Manhattan, 1900

oldest 2 children born in Ireland, others, starting in 1888, born in New York

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSV5-JTH

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siblings births in NYC, first few hits here
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?givenname=bernard&surname=mahon&residence_place=manhattan%2C%20ny&residence_year_from=1900&residence_year_to=1900&spouse_givenname=mary&spouse_surname=cox&count=20&offset=0

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His sister Mary Hufnagel's death
8 Jan 1936, the Bronx

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WGX-KTH

[oldohiohome]

This might be Bryan/Bernard's father, but you will need to check what other Mahons were in the area. There could easily be more than one Brian Mahon/Mahan in the neighborhood. But it is the right townland, and the month and year match the 1900 census. His death record in the US might help, if available.

Catholic Parish Registers

Birth 24 May 1854
Baptism 31 May 1854, Dromard and Skreen, Sligo
Bryan Mahan, parents: Bryan Mahan and Honor Marley of Leekfield
sponsors: James Mahon and Bridget [something - maybe "do" for "the same"]