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# Helen's Family Trees

genealogical information I've gathered about our families

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- [Home](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/) - Last updated: 8 April 2024 Helen's Family Trees Hello and welcome to my genealogy website. This site contains the family trees of my own blood family and that of my husband, Joe Gordon, along with those of many other families connected to ours by marriage. Most of our ancestral families are Irish (with roots in
- [Woulfe](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/woulfe/) - Woulfe My Woulfe family came from the parish of Athea, Co. Limerick, probably from the townland of Cratloe as I have been DNA-matched by Ancestry with members of a number of branches of Cratloe Woulfes. However, I have only managed to trace my Woulfe ancestry back with any certainty to my great-great-grandmother Mary Woulfe, born
- [Shanahan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/shanahan/) - Shanahan Our Shanahans are most likely descended from my probable 3rd-great-grandfather Cornelius Shanahan, born around the 1770s in north Co. Kerry or west Co. Limerick. Cornelius married Mary Dillane, with whom he had at least six children, including John, my great-great-grandfather, who married Mary Woulfe. Cornelius, Mary and their family lived in Kilbaha, Newtownsandes (now
- [O'Hara​](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/ohara/) - O'Hara We can trace our O’Hara family back to Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather Laurence O’Hara who married Mary McDonagh around 1796. Both were originally from Co. Sligo, probably from the Riverstown area, but settled in Cootehall, Co. Roscommon. Their sons (that we know of) farmed in Glooria and Clegna in Cootehall and in Oxhill, Knockvicar, Co.
- [O'Connor](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/oconnor/) - O'Connor We can trace our O’Connor family back to two brothers (although it is a possibility they were first cousins rather than brothers), one of whom had at least one son, Patrick (my great-great-grandfather) and possibly another son named Jeremiah. The other brother had at least one son, Maurice. My ancestor Patrick (born around 1800)
- [Nolan (Joseph)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/nolan-joseph/) - Nolan (Joseph) We can trace our Nolan family back to my great-great-grandfather Joseph Nolan, born around 1821 in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. In 1860 he married Kitty Healy and they had five children. The family lived in Lenamore, Ballylongford. For further information, please click on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you have any information at all
- [Morahan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/morahan/) - Morahan We have traced our Morahan family back to Joe’s probable 3rd great-grandfather Dominic Morahan. He and his wife, Mary Killilea, raised at least eight children in Boher, Croghan, Co. Roscommon, including Joe’s great-great-grandfather, John, who farmed in Cloonfeacle, Kiltoghert, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. For further information on the Morahan family, please click on Descendant list
- [Jones](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/jones/) - Jones Our Jones family most likely had British origins but our branch settled in Co. Kerry. Thanks to DNA matching, it appears that Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother Catherine Jones (c.1798-1874) was closely related to a John Jones (c.1795-1880) of Kielduff (also spelled Kilduff), Ballymacelligott, Tralee, Co. Kerry. It may be that they were siblings or 1st
- [Hudson](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/hudson/) - Hudson Our Hudson family can be traced back to my 5th great-grandfather William Hudson, born probably in Bunagara, Listowel, Co. Kerry in the early years of the 18th century. The Hudson family was Protestant and had come to Ireland from England, probably in the 16th century, having been granted land in north Kerry. Several of
- [Hanley](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/hanley/) - Hanley We have traced our Hanley family back to two probable brothers, Michael and Timothy Hanley from the Soloheadbeg area of Co. Tipperary. My 3rd great-grandmother Mary Hanley (c.1826-1899), who married Edmond Carew, appears to have been a daughter of Michael, who married Ellen Lonergan. For further information on the Hanleys, please click on Descendant
- [Hands](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/hands/) - Hands While I am by no means certain that I am descended from the Hands family, it appears that my 4th great-grandmother was Elizabeth Hands, whose family had connections in Bunagara, Listowel, Co. Kerry. It is likely that Elizabeth married my 4th great-grandfather Richard Hudson in the late 1780s and they had at least four
- [Gordon](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/gordon/) - Gordon Our Gordon family is descended from John Gordon (Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather) who was probably born in Scotland around 1750. John moved to Ireland in the latter part of the 18th century and settled in the townland of Kilgarriff in the parish of Fairymount (Tibohine), near Castlerea, Co. Roscommon. It is possible he had to
- [Gavin](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/gavin/) - Gavin Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my 3rd great-grandmother Mary Gavin who was born around 1791, probably in Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary. She married Edmond Carew of Soloheadbeg around 1806 and they had 13 children, most of whom emigrated to Newfoundland and the United States. Mary herself settled in Newfoundland, probably after Edmond’s
- [Foley (Ellen)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/foley-ellen/) - Foley (Ellen) Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother Ellen Foley. She was born around 1797 in Ireland and married Kerry-born William Hussey in 1828 in London. They and their family lived in Kensington, London. For information on their descendants, please click on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you have any
- [Foley](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/foleym/) - Foley (Michael) We have traced the Foley family back to Joe’s probable great-great-grandfather Michael Foley from Breanamore, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, who was born around the 1800s. He had a daughter, Anne (possibly an only child), who married Thomas Gordon around 1857. They had 16 children and lived in Kilgarriff, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. For further information,
- [Flanagan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/flanagan/) - Flanagan Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my potential 3rd great-grandmother Maria Flanagan who was born around the 1750s. She married Bryan Cunningham, with whom she had at least four children. The family lived in Monagea, Co. Limerick and at least three of their children settled in Kilbaha, Newtownsandes (Moyvane), Co. Kerry. For
- [Finucane](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/finucane/) - Finucane My 3rd great-grandmother Margaret Finucane (c.1793-1877) lived in Kilbaha, Newtownsandes (Moyvane), Co. Kerry with her husband, Richard Hudson. According to one family source, her family came from an area called Ardmore in the townland of Carhoonakineely near Tarbert, Co. Kerry, while another source tells me they came from Bunagara, Listowel, Co. Kerry. For the
- [Egan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/egan/) - Egan We have traced our Egan family back to two siblings, John and Mary (Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother), who were born in Dublin around 1802 and 1813 respectively. Both moved to London, where John married Mary Cunningham and Mary Ann married John Lynch. Both raised families in the parish of St. Giles. For further information, please click
- [Dore](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/dore/) - Dore/Dower We have traced our Dore/Dower family back to my 5th great-grandfather Robert O Doghair (Irish spelling of Dore), born around 1705 in west Co. Limerick. Descendants of Robert’s settled in Gortnagloss, Templeglantine, Co. Limerick, with a number of their descendants going on to settle in Newtownsandes (now known as Moyvane), Co. Kerry. For further
- [Dillane](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/dillane/) - Dillane Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my probable 3rd great-grandmother Mary Dillane who married Cornelius Shanahan around 1800. They lived in Kilbaha, Newtownsandes (Moyvane), Co. Kerry and had at least seven children (including my great-great-grandfather John Shanahan), born between about 1800 and 1820. For information on Mary and Cornelius’s descendants, please click
- [Devine](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/devine/) - Devine Joe’s 3rd-great-grandfather Michael Devine was born in Co. Kerry (possibly in either the Tralee or Dingle area) around 1797 and moved to London with his wife, Catherine (née Jones) and their young family in the early 1820s. They lived initially in the parish of St. Giles and later in Kensington. For further information, please
- [Dalton](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/dalton/) - Dalton Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my probable great-great-grandmother Mary Dalton. She was born around 1810, probably in Athea, Co. Limerick and married, possibly in 1830, Patrick Connors (O’Connor), with whom she had at least nine children. The family lived in Lower Dirreen in Athea. For information on Mary and Patrick’s descendants,
- [Doody](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/doody/) - Doody We can trace our Doody family back to my probable 3rd great-grandfather James Doody, born in the late 17th century, possibly in Co. Limerick. He married Catherine O’Connor and they had at least five children, one of whom, Michael (my great-great-grandfather), was born around 1820, possibly in Knocklong, Co. Limerick. Michael settled in the
- [Cunningham](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/cunningham/) - Cunningham Our Cunningham family can be traced back to four brothers, Myles (my 3rd great-grandfather), Daniel, Timothy and John. All were born between 1780 and 1810, probably in the Templeglantine area of Co. Limerick. They later moved to neighbouring Co. Kerry, with Myles, Daniel and Timothy settling in Kilbaha, Newtownsandes (now called Moyane) and John
- [Carew/Carey](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/carew/) - Carew/Carey Our Carew/Carey family has roots in Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary. My 3rd great-grandfather Edmond Carew was born there around the 1770s and married Mary Gavin. They had 13 children, several of whom emigrated to Newfoundland, as did Mary herself, presumably after Edmond’s death. Their only child to remain in Ireland (my great-great-grandfather), also named Edmond,
- [Butler](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/butler/) - Butler We can trace our Butler family back to Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather George Butler, born around 1795, who was a musical instrument maker in Dublin. I am told the family had Co. Kilkenny connections. George moved to London in the early 1830s to set up another musical instrument shop in Covent Garden, later moving the
- [Bertridge](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/bertridge/) - Bertridge Our Bertridge family has been traced back to Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather William Bertridge (c.1770-1866) who farmed in the townland of Cloonfeacle in the parish of Kiltoghert, Co. Leitrim. It is believed that William’s wife was Catherine Reynolds, with whom he had at least seven children. For further information, please click on Descendant list or
- [Search database](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/search-database/) - Search database This page will bring you to my RootsMagic web pages. RootsMagic is the genealogy software I use to record all my data and produce a navigable name index and pedigree chart. By navigable I mean you can move back and forth through the generations to follow a kinship trail. To access these functions,
- [O'Sullivan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/osullivan/) - O'Sullivan We have traced our O’Sullivan family back to my great-great-grandfather James Sullivan (the family used the Sullivan rather than the O’Sullivan name until the early 20th century), born around 1812, probably in Caheraveelane, Glantane, Co. Cork. Two of his sons, Dan and Jim (my great-grandfather), settled in Glynn, Mourneabbey, Co. Cork. For further information,
- [More](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/more/) - More information This is a simple, non-navigable chart showing all generations of our family in one view. For a chart of our family where you can navigate back and forth between generations, please click on Search Database above and then on Pedigree chart. See chart This is a report listing everyone in my family trees. Scroll down,
- [Treacy​](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/treacy/) - Treacy We have traced our Treacy family back to John (my great-great-grandfather) and Nicholas Treacy, believed to have been brothers and born about 1787 and 1805 respectively in Soloheadbeg in Co. Tipperary. The family burial ground was in Kilfeacle, Co. Tipperary so the family may have had origins there, or in Nicker, Pallasgreen, Co. Tipperary
- [Murphy (William)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/murphy-william/) - Murphy (William) We can trace our Murphy family back to Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather William J. Murphy, born around 1789, who lived in Knocklonogad, Garryhill, Co. Carlow and married Mary Murphy, also from Knocklonogad. They had at least one child, John, who married Mary McDonald, with whom he had nine children. For further information, please click
- [Hussey](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/hussey/) - Hussey Our Hussey family is descended from William Hussey from Castleisland, Co. Kerry (Joe’s 4th great-grandfather), whose son William (born in Castleisland in 1797) moved to London where he worked as a policeman in Kensington. The younger William and his Irish-born wife, Ellen Foley, had at least four children. All those pictured below are descended
- [Chart of our family](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/chart-of-our-family/) - Chart of our family This is a simple, non-navigable chart showing, in one view, all ancestral lines for Joe and myself. For information on a particular family, click on the right-most box of your chosen family. If you would like to see a chart of our family where you can navigate back and forth between
- [Conditions of use](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/conditions-of-use/) - Conditions of use This website, including its RootsMagic pages, is owned and managed by me, Helen O’Connor. You may freely link to this website, and you are very welcome to download and print material from this website, for your own personal, non-commercial use. If you are a professional genealogist, you may download and print material
- [Lonergan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/lonergan/) - Lonergan Unfortunately, we know little about our Lonergan (or Londrigan) family, other than they probably came from the Soloheadbeg area of Co. Tipperary. My Lonergan ancestor, Ellen, married Michael Hanley around 1810 and lived in Soloheadbeg. Information on Ellen and Michael’s descendants may be found by clicking on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you happen to
- [Ryan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/ryan/) - Ryan Our Ryan family can be traced back to Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather Thomas Ryan who was married to Bridget Healy. It appears Thomas and Bridget were the parents of Joe’s great-great-grandfather Loughlin Ryan, born in 1822, who was headmaster of Garryhill National School in Co. Carlow. He was the husband of Bridget Nolan, with whom
- [McDonald](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/mcdonald/) - McDonald It is believed our McDonald family came from the Knocklonogad area of Garryhill, Co. Carlow where Joe’s great-great-grandmother Mary McDonald was likely born around 1820. Her parents may have been Thomas McDonald and Bridget Power. Mary married John Murphy and they raised nine children in Knocklonogad. For further information, please click on Descendants list
- [Lynch](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/lynch/) - Lynch Our Lynch family can be traced back to Joe’s 3rd great-grandfather John Lynch, born around 1806 in Co. Carlow, and his Dublin-born wife, Mary Ann Egan. Around 1834, shortly after the birth of their first child, the family moved from Dublin to London where seven other children were born. For further information, please click
- [Our families](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/our-families/) - Our families Click on any of the families below to see more information. Bertridge Butler Carew/Carey Cunningham Devine Dore Doody Egan Finucane Foley Gordon Hands Hanley Hudson Hussey Jones Lynch McDonagh McDonald Meehan Morahan Murphy Nolan O'Connor O'Hara O'Sullivan Ryan Shanahan Treacy Woulfe Click here
- [Contact](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/contact/) - Contact I am always delighted to receive any family tree information. Anything at all you can add, no matter how small, would be very much appreciated. I would also be grateful for any photos you would like to share, and would welcome notification of any errors. Please contact me by sending an email to HelensFamilyTrees@gmail.com. Note that
- [Riordan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/riordan/) - Riordan Unfortunately, we know little about the Riordan family, although they are likely to have come from Athea, Co. Limerick. My probable 5th great-grandmother, Kathleen Riordon, married Maurice Woulfe around 1730 and they raised at least five children in Athea. For information on Kathleen and Maurice’s descendants, please click on descendant list or narrative report.If
- [O'Connor (Catherine)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/oconnor-catherine/) - O'Connor (Catherine) Unfortunately, we have very little information of the family of my probable 3rd great-grandmother Catherine O’Connor who married James Doody around 1820. Catherine and James lived with their family in the Galbally area of Co. Limerick. For information on their family, please click on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you have any information
- [Nolan (Bridget)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/nolan-bridget/) - Nolan (Bridget) Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s great-great-grandmother Bridget Nolan. Bridget was born around 1815, probably in the Garryhill area of Co. Carlow, and was married to schoolteacher Loughlin Ryan. They and their family lived in Garryhill. For information on their descendants, please click on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you have
- [Murphy (Mary)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/murphy-mary/) - Murphy (Mary) Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother Mary Murphy. Mary was born around 1790 in Knocklonogad, Garryhill, Co. Carlow and was married to another Murphy, William J. (they do not appear to have been related). They and their family lived in Knocklonogad. For information on their descendants, please click
- [Meehan](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/meehan/) - Meehan We have traced our Meehan family back to Joe’s great-great-grandmother Ellen Meehan and two possible sisters of hers, Mary and Winifred. Ellen was born around 1818 in Cootehall, Co. Roscommon. In the early 1840s Ellen married Laurence O’Hara, with whom she had 10 children. The family lived in Clegna, Cootehall, Co. Roscommon. For information
- [McDonagh](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/mcdonagh/) - McDonagh Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother Mary McDonagh was born around 1778 in Co. Sligo, possibly in the Riverstown area. She married Laurence O’Hara, also from Co. Sligo, around 1796. They settled in the Cootehall area of Co. Roscommon, with Laurence and his sons running farms in the townlands of Clegna and Glooria. For further information, please click
- [Hunt](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/hunt/) - Hunt Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s great-great-grandmother Ann Hunt. Ann was born around the 1780s in Co. Sligo and was married to John Gordon of Kilgarriff, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. They and their family lived in Kilgarriff. For information on their descendants, please click on Descendants list or Narrative report. If you have
- [Healy (Bridget)](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/healy-bridget/) - Healy (Bridget) Unfortunately, we know nothing about the family of Joe’s probable 3rd great-grandmother Bridget Healy, other than Bridget was married to Joe’s probable 3rd great-grandfather Thomas Ryan of Garryhill, Co. Carlow. Their son Loughlin Ryan was headmaster for many years of Garryhill National School. For further information on Bridget and Thomas’s descendants, please click
- [Healy](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/healy/) - Healy (Maurice) We have traced my Healy family back to my great-great-grandmother Kitty Healy who was born in Clontubrid, Listowel around 1829. She may have been a daughter of Maurice Healy and Elizabeth Guerin. Kitty married Joseph Nolan in 1860 and they raised five children in Lenamore, Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. For information on the descendants
- [Reynolds](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/reynolds/) - Reynolds Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s probable 3rd great-grandmother Catherine Reynolds. Catherine was born around 1780, probably in Co. Roscommon, and married William Bertridge in 1801. They and their family lived in Cloonfeacle, Kiltoghert, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. For information on their descendants, please click on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you happen
- [Quirke](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/quirke/) - Quirke Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my great-great-grandmother Johanna Quirke who was born around the 1820s, possibly in Knockainey, Co. Limerick. She married Michael Doody in 1848 and they had 12 children. The family lived in Ardnamoher, Galbally, Co. Limerick. For information on the descendants of Johanna and Michael, please click on
- [Power](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/power/) - Power Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s potential 3rd great-grandmother Bridget Power. Bridget was born around 1768, probably in the Garryhill area of Co. Carlow. She was the wife of Thomas McDonald, with whom she had at least three children. The family lived in Knocklonogad in Garryhill. For information on Bridget and
- [McCoy](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/mccoy/) - McCoy Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my 4th great-grandmother Johanna McCoy who married James Woulfe around 1754. Given that James was from Athea, Co. Limerick, it is likely the McCoys were also from the Athea area. For information on the descendants of Johanna and James, please click on Descendant list or Narrative
- [Lyons](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/lyons/) - Lyons Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my 3rd great-grandmother Johanna Lyons (sometimes spelled Lynes) who was born around 1794, possibly in Knockbrane, Lixnaw, Co. Kerry. She was married to Myles Cunningham, with whom she had nine children. The family lived in Kilbaha, Newtownsandes (now called Moyvane), Co. Kerry. For information on the
- [Meade](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/meade/) - Meade Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother Margaret Meade. Margaret was born around 1802 in Dublin and married musical instrument maker George Butler in 1827. They moved to London where they and their family lived in the Covent Garden area. For information on their descendants, please click on Descendant list
- [Looby](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/looby/) - Looby Unfortunately, we know little about the family of my probable great-great-grandmother Mary Looby who was born around the 1790s, probably in the Soloheadbeg area of Co. Tipperary. She married John Treacy of Soloheadbeg, possibly in 1818, and they had at least seven children. The family lived in Soloheadbeg. For information on the descendants of
- [Killilea](https://www.helensfamilytrees.com/killilea/) - Killilea Unfortunately, we know little about the family of Joe’s 3rd great-grandmother Mary Killilea who married Dominic Morahan around 1811, although it appears Mary was born in the Boyle area of Co. Roscommon in 1794. For information on the descendants of Mary and Dominic, please click on Descendant list or Narrative report. If you have any