See also
Husband:
Michael O'CONNOR (1822?-1891)
Wife:
Julia BIRD (c. 1840-1909)
Children:
Marriage:
1 Aug 1863
Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1
Name:
Michael Joseph O'CONNOR
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
15 May 1864
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
Name:
James O'CONNOR9
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
8 Sep 1866
Baptism:
14 Sep 1866 (age 0)
Brackernagh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1
Occupation:
Aug 1889 (age 22)
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)
Name:
Thomas O'CONNOR
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
17 Aug 1868
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
Name:
Stephen O'CONNOR13
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
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)
Burial:
c. Dec 1939
O'Connor plot, Ballinalsoe, Co Galway, Ireland4
Name:
Julia Anne O'CONNOR
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
4 Feb 1876
Baptism:
25 Apr 1876 (age 0)
Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland1
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.
Census Ireland 1901
Julia O'Connor, head, RC, not read or write, 61, F,, widow, Co Galway, English spoken
Research Report - O'Connor 2000.
Marriage Certificate - Connor, James and Hensey, Catherine.
Research Report - Kate Hensey July 2005, (commissioned by Bernadette Doyle).
Monumental Inscription - Michael & Julia O'Connor.
Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland O'Connor, Julia, (O'Connor, Julia). Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.
IGI.
Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland, O'Connor, Michael. Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.
Information from Terry Childs.
Marriage Certificate - Greene, Joseph and O'Connor, Mae.
Census 1911 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.
Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland - O'Connor, Thomas. Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.
Census 1911 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.
Photo from Terry Childs.
Census 1901 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland - O'Connor, Stephen. Cit. Date: 31 March 1901.
Census 1911 Ballinasloe, Co Galway, Ireland.
Information from Des Madden.