Seeking connection between RUANE family Spanish Parade, Galway & RUANE family in Monivea area

Hi M,

There are 1141 Ruane birth/baptism records in Galway on www.rootsireland.ie/ (which charges)

There are 3 marriage records of Ruane to Daly in Galway: 

Patrick (Royan) 1858; Thomas 1891 (twice) but none of Bernard, Bartley or Bartholomew to a Daley in any county.

The Tithe Applotments (1823-37 & free online) have 8 Ruanes in Monivea in 1827 which might show a connection?

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?surname=Ruane&firstname=&county=Galway&townland=&parish=&search=Search&sort=&pageSize=&pager.offset=20

Griffiths Valuation (1848-64 free) has 20 Ruanes in Monivea

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=21&Submit.y=11&Submit=Submit&familyname=Ruane&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=GALWAY&unionname=&parishname=MONIVEA

Col

Thank you.  I am aware of the resources available and agree that there seems to be no documentation to give me the link I need without travelling to Dublin to look at land registers, valuation office, registry of deeds, probate records etc.

I am, however, hoping that there may still be someone alive in the Monivea area who can remember some link with Ruanes fish processing and chandlery business at Spanish Parade in Galway or who can remember visits or christmas cards etc from them as I suspect the link may still have been kept up in the 1930s/40s/50s and even possibly 60s.  There may also be people who attended funerals of the family here in Galway at Forthill Graveyard near the docks.  The family have quite an elaborate vault there.  People in Monivea may still have memorial cards in Missals and prayerbooks owned by elderly family mambers which might provide a clue.  Or letters from other members of the family who may have emigrated as I suspect the link may either go back to Bryan's parents or to a sibling of Bryan's who remained in or moved  to the Monivea area.

There is also the issue of the occurance of the forenames Bryan and Andrew in the Ruane family as well as Bedelia i the Daly family.  They are relatively uncommon and may still be in use by families in the Monivea locality who still follow traditional naming practices. 

There seem to be families in Liscune, near Ballinasloe who use the name Bryan.  Also in Claregalway.  There was also a Bedelia who was a schoolteacher in Claregalway.  Also a family in Pensylvania who use the name Andrew J,  There are also some families in Mayo who use the name Bryan.  However, I never heard of any connection spoken of with the family here who mentioned there origins being anywhere other than Co. Galway. 

Bedelia Daly's father was Michael Daly, who had a pub at the Fish Quay beside the Spanish Arch in Galway.  Her mother was Winifred Picker, suspected to be a member of the Picker family who settled near Kinvara in Doorus, Rinneen and Cahernamadra.  They were married, I suspect,. in the 1830s or 1840s so would likely have been born in the early 1800s.

Ruanes also had a ropewalk, at the fairgreen in Galway.  I was told that when the Railway came to Galway they were compensated for the loss of this land by being given a piece if land at Two Mile Ditch in Galway, where the rope walk continued to operate up until the 1930s/40s or possibly even later.  I don't know whether the original ropewalk was owned originally by the Daly or Ruane families.

Andrew also lived in a very fine house in Eyre Square in Galway, beside where the Great Southern Hotel is now.  So I suspect that they made their money or had money by the early 1800s.  Andrew's career path also indicates he must have been well educated or well connected to have attained his position as an Inspector with the Congested Districts Bpard and later as The Fisheries Inspector who dealt with fisheries right around the Coast of Galway.  He also mucst have been pretty well connected to have been on the Galway Corporation.

So there may be people who remember assistance or advice being obtained from him in the past.

All I have to work on now are the memories of those who are still living.  I would be exremely pleased to hear from anyone with any memories at all which migh help me connect the family to Monivea and I would also be happy to talk to anyone, at a time convenient to them, who would like to share possible memories and is not connected to the internet.

Until recently the Irish phone book was accessible online and some have had success writing to those still living in the area of the original family. However I haven't been able to access it of late.

I hope you get a response from someone in the know.

Col

Thank you.  Eircom phone book is still online, but with so many other phone operators, both for landline and mobile,  now in the market, it is not reflective of the reality of phone ownership.  I was considering making a trip to some of the townlands in the Monivea area but it might make more sense to look at land & probate records in dublin first to see if they would give any firm leads.  There seems to be a townland called Glennagloghaun South which looks promising, though Galway County Council Planning Section show no occurrances of the Ruane or Daly names of recent years.  However, land registry records should show the transfer of ownership from the 1900s to the present day and possibly identify decendants..  Do you know which RC Church would cover this area and what graveyard people from this townland would use? 

I'm afraid you're asking questions I'm not able to answer so I'd encourage you to write to the Irelandxo admin - Clare Doyle - and ask for this query to be directed to a Galway specialist.

I did have a look at a cd I have: Memorials of the Dead Galway & Mayo and searched for Ruanes

There was only 1: and the graveyard was Killeen (Mayo)

For RUANE it said 'see Staunton'

The inscription: In loving memry of  Patrick Staunton 18-24-4 - 1893 His Wife Winifred (Ruane) 1883-20-9 - 1925 Their son Andrew 1865-4-6 - 1951 His Wife Alice (O'Malley) 1871-3-12 - 1946 Their sons Patrick 1895 - 17 -3 & Tommie 1901-26-4 - 1977

Killeen graveyard is located on the road from Louisburgh to Killadoon and is about 1 mile south-east of Roonagh Lough on the western side of the road opposite a modern church

Col

Thank you so much for your efforts.  I will follow up on the information you found and see if it links with the families I already found in Mayo.  Maybe someone will see the posts and make a connection.  We live in hope.  I hope I will be able to return the favour by assisting someone else who is seeking information in my own area.

Because this family seemed to have been well educated (from Andrew's generation onwards at tleast), I have given priority to the spelling they used - RUANE.  But in the course of my search I have also come across families using ROOANE, ROHAN, ROWAN, ROUGHANE, WROUGHANE, RONAN, RONANE and similar variations - none of which have thrown light on the mystery.  I am in the process of trying to see if there are any British Civil Service records in existence from Andrew's time in the Congested Districts Board.  I have contacted the Department of Fisheries and asked about any documentation from his time as Fisheries Inspector, but am not having any success to date.  There is no documentation or photographs in the building used by the Fisheries Office in Galway.