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Update: February 26, 2022 -
UPDATED
The task of finding Upperchurch area ancestors is complicated by
the fact that the church records for that parish only go back to
1829. Researching earlier than that year requires some good luck
in the form of gravestone inscriptions or finding an old
genealogy at an estate sale. In the case of Upperchurch, it was
the gravestone inscriptions that allowed ancestor searches to
proceed back into the 18th century in some cases.
This section has been reformatted from the original
single large paper into separate smaller papers, each based on
one or more present day individuals with connections to
ancestors buried in the Upperchurch cemetery. A while ago, a set
of gravestone photos (almost entirely Ryan related) and
inscriptions were combined into family tree structures. Since
2015, the readily available church records found in the Parish
Registers has allowed some of those family trees to be expanded
even further.
This has also provided opportunities for the creation of
additional papers which make extensive use of the cemetery
pictures, transcribed inscriptions and the expanded family
trees. The Image numbers referenced in the papers below are all
from the collection of Jeanie’s Upperchurch cemetery pictures.
Michael McGraw - Ryan and Hayes Connections in
Glown
This paper focuses on Jerry Ryan (brother of my gg-grandmother,
Mary Ryan) and his wife, Anne Hayes, of Gortahoola. Jerry
discovered coal on his property in Gleninchnaveigh and it was
mined for a few years until it proved not to be economically
feasible. It was the dispensation found in the church records
for the 1878 marriage of Jerry and Anne Ryan’s son, Edmund, to
Ellen Ryan, also of Glown, which demonstrated that Edmund and
Ellen were 3rd cousins. After Jerry’s death on May
27, 1860, Anne married a second time, on June 22, 1860, to Ned
Ryan of Gortnahalla. Anne’s connections from her 2nd
marriage are found in the inscriptions on gravestone Image #303.
Tony Hayes Burke - Hayes Ancestors of Gortahoola
Two branches of the Hayes family are described in the gravestone
inscriptions found in Image #309. In this paper one of those
branches has been brought all the way down to the present day,
in the person of Tony Hayes Burke. Much of the information
presented in this paper was contributed by Tony himself. One of
the branches took up residence in Coolbawn which is a sub-townland
in Moyaliff parish. Tony’s branch took up residence in
Gortahoola, also in Moyaliff parish. This Gortahoola branch of
the Hayes family is also that of Anne Hayes Ryan, from the
previous paper. However, Anne’s exact connection to this branch
has not been determined.
Graeme
Reed - Ryan Ancestors of Commanealine -
Revised March 3, 2022
Graeme Reed was trying to establish
his connection with the Ryans of Glown. By combining his
information with some additional research it was possible to
sort out the connections of the individuals mentioned in the
gravestone inscriptions in Images 316 and 317. It turned out
that three generations of Cornelius Ryans from Commanealine, was
the source of the Connie nickname used by the Ryans of Glown. In
the end, two possible descents were proposed that would link
Graeme to the Ryans of Glown. According to the Commanealine
descent he would be the 3rd cousin, twice removed, of
Con Ryan (Connie) of Glown, as he suspects. The 2nd
descent (Upperchurch) would make Graeme the 5th
cousin, twice removed, of Con Ryan.
Patty
Ryan Foley - Ryan Ancestors of Mogland
Patty was looking for other Ryan family members and she knew
that her ancestors had come from the Upperchurch area. Her gg-grandparents
were Denis and Honoria Ryan, which led to gravestone Image #326
in the Upperchurch cemetery. From there another branch of the
family that was identified from the gravestone inscription. In
addition to her grandfather, Thomas Ryan, who came to the US in
1870, Thomas’ parents had 7 additional children. In the Appendix
of this paper there is an email from Patty which contains a
wonderful description of her trip of discovery to Upperchurch
back in about 2016.
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