Family of Michael O'CONNOR and Julia BIRD

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Family of Michael O'CONNOR and Julia BIRD

Husband: Michael O'CONNOR

  • Name:

  • Michael O'CONNOR2

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1822 (cal)1

  •  

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Stone Mason3

  • Death:

  • 7 Aug 1891 (age 68-69)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1,4

Wife: Julia BIRD

  • Name:

  • Julia BIRD

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1840

  • Co. Galway, Ireland5

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 61)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland5

  •  

  • Address: Brackernagh

  • Death:

  • 17 Dec 1909 (age 68-69)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland4

Child 1: Michael Joseph O'CONNOR

  • Name:

  • Michael Joseph O'CONNOR

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Margaret O'REILLY (1873?- )

  • Birth:

  • 15 May 1864

  • Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1,6

  • Baptism:

  • 27 May 1864 (age 0)

  • Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 35)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland7

  •  

  • Address: Brackernagh

  • Occupation:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 36)

  • Stone Cutter; Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland7

  • Death:

  • 20 Dec 1909 (age 45)4

  •  

Child 2: Martin O'CONNOR

  • Name:

  • Martin O'CONNOR

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Bridget KELLY (1868?- )

  • Birth:

  • c. 1865

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland8

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Stone Cutter1

Child 3: James O'CONNOR

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Son: James O'CONNOR

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Spouse: Catherine 'Kate' HENSEY

  • Name:

  • James O'CONNOR9

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Catherine 'Kate' HENSEY (1869-1948)

  • Birth:

  • 8 Sep 1866

  • Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1,6

  • Baptism:

  • 14 Sep 1866 (age 0)

  • Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1

  • Occupation:

  • Aug 1889 (age 22)

  • Stone Cutter1,2,9

  • Resided:

  •  

  • 69 Upper Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway

  • Resided:

  • Aug 1889 (age 22)

  • Arden Road, Tullamore, Ireland2

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 44)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland10

  •  

  • Address: 58 Brackernagh

  • Occupation:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 44)

  • Stone Cutter; Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland10

  • Death:

  • 1936 (age 69-70)

  •  

Child 4: Thomas O'CONNOR

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Son: Thomas O'CONNOR, c. 1940, age 72

  • Name:

  • Thomas O'CONNOR

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Margaret FLYNN (1874- )

  • Birth:

  • 17 Aug 1868

  • Dunlo, Ballinasloe, Ireland1,6

  • Baptism:

  • 4 Sep 1868 (age 0)

  • Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 30)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland11

  •  

  • Address: Brackernagh

  • Occupation:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 32)

  • Stone Cutter; Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland11

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 41)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland12

  •  

  • Address: 56 Brackerhagh

  • Occupation:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 42)

  • Stone cutter; Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland12

Child 5: Mary O'CONNOR

  • Name:

  • Mary O'CONNOR8

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 18718

  •  

Child 6: Stephen O'CONNOR

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Son: Stephen O'CONNOR

  • Name:

  • Stephen O'CONNOR13

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Mary CAULFIELD (1875?-1946)

  • Birth:

  • 31 Dec 1872

  • Dunlo, Ballinasloe, Ireland1

  • Baptism:

  • 24 Jan 1873 (age 0)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 27)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland14

  •  

  • Address: Brackernagh

  • Occupation:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 28)

  • Stone Cutter; Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland14

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 38)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland15

  •  

  • Address: 22 Brackernagh

  • Occupation:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 38)

  • Stone Cutter; Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland15

  • Death:

  • 27 Nov 1939 (age 66)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland4,16

  • Burial:

  • c. Dec 1939

  • O'Connor plot, Ballinalsoe, Co Galway, Ireland4

Child 7: Julia Anne O'CONNOR

  • Name:

  • Julia Anne O'CONNOR

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • ? FENERAN ( - )

  • Birth:

  • 4 Feb 1876

  • Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1,6

  • Baptism:

  • 25 Apr 1876 (age 0)

  • Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1

Note on Husband: Michael O'CONNOR - shared note

Julia, his wife was present at his death.

 

Michael worked as a stonecutter.

 

Story from Des Madden....

 

When Michael and Julia (Bird) died their sons decided to erect a big Cross. They bought the stone and started collecting money on a weekly basis from family members. Unfortunately they had a falling out over the money and they did no work on the stone, eventually they had a bigger row that split the family and spent the money on drink. It was the next generation of O'Connors, Stonecutters all, that finished the job. They decided that only direct male descendants of Michael and Julia(Bird)

would be buried under the O'Connor Cross. The Mary O'Connor who is buried under the Stone according to Kay O'Connor who remembers the funeral, was wife of Stephen who predeceased her by a few months in Nov 1939. Thomas, son of Michael and Julia (Bird) is not buried under the big

Cross. Kay O'Connor thinks he died in England. Thomas had a son called Matthew who married a Mary and they had a daughter called Maureen. Maureen emigrated to Australia and we think married an O'Connor (No relation) and they had a daughter called Caroline who is a famous film star. Do a google search and you will find her, she had a part in the film Moulin Rouge. In March 1940 Mary wife of Matthew died . She lived near Athlone and the story goes that her family buried her late one evening in the O'Connor plot in Creagh Cemetery, without ever telling the O'Connors.I can remember my father, with tears of laughter in his eyes, telling me that there was consternation among the O'Connors when they found out that she was buried in the family plot and that there were calls from some of them to have her dug up and moved. I am sure there must have been great fun in the Ballinasloe Pubs then. There is no inscription on the stone to verify her death but according to Kay O'Connor the story is true.

Note on Wife: Julia BIRD - shared note

Census Ireland 1901

 

Julia O'Connor, head, RC, not read or write, 61, F,, widow, Co Galway, English spoken

Sources

1.

Research Report - O'Connor 2000.

2.

Marriage Certificate - Connor, James and Hensey, Catherine.

3.

Research Report - Kate Hensey July 2005, (commissioned by Bernadette Doyle).

4.

Monumental Inscription - Michael & Julia O'Connor.

5.

Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland O'Connor, Julia, (O'Connor, Julia). Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.

6.

IGI.

7.

Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland, O'Connor, Michael. Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.

8.

Information from Terry Childs.

9.

Marriage Certificate - Greene, Joseph and O'Connor, Mae.

10.

Census 1911 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.

11.

Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland - O'Connor, Thomas. Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.

12.

Census 1911 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.

13.

Photo from Terry Childs.

14.

Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland - O'Connor, Stephen. Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.

15.

Census 1911 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.

16.

Information from Des Madden.

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