Looking for Brothers or Sisters , of Honor Fahey

Thomas:

What year was Honor born? Do you know her parents names or where in Roscommon they lived?

Roger McDonnell

I'd be interested in whatever connections you may find. I'm descended from the Faheys found on Henry Street in Roscommon in the 1901 census. They were all related. My grandfather was the 11 yr old Thomas Fahey found in that census. I grew up in Ballybohan just outside Roscommon town and was told of his parents and brothers and sisters as a boy. He married Bridget Murray from the Eady farm in Stonepark and I went home visiting her until she died at 92 in 1992. I know of all the descendents of my grandparents but would like to know of distant cousins from my greatgrandparents time. Though I came to America when I was 23 (I'm now 69) my heart never really left Ballybohan and Roscommon.

I'd be interested in whatever connections you may find. I'm descended from the Faheys found on Henry Street in Roscommon in the 1901 census. They were all related. My grandfather was the 11 yr old Thomas Fahey found in that census. I grew up in Ballybohan just outside Roscommon town and was told of his parents and brothers and sisters as a boy. He married Bridget Murray from the Eady farm in Stonepark and I went home visiting her until she died at 92 in 1992. I know of all the descendents of my grandparents but would like to know of distant cousins from my greatgrandparents time. Though I came to America when I was 23 (I'm now 69) my heart never really left Ballybohan and Roscommon.

I'd be interested in whatever connections you may find. I'm descended from the Faheys found on Henry Street in Roscommon in the 1901 census. They were all related. My grandfather was the 11 yr old Thomas Fahey found in that census. I grew up in Ballybohan just outside Roscommon town and was told of his parents and brothers and sisters as a boy. He married Bridget Murray from the Eady farm in Stonepark and I went home visiting her until she died at 92 in 1992. I know of all the descendents of my grandparents but would like to know of distant cousins from my greatgrandparents time. Though I came to America when I was 23 (I'm now 69) my heart never really left Ballybohan and Roscommon.

I'd be interested in whatever connections you may find. I'm descended from the Faheys found on Henry Street in Roscommon in the 1901 census. They were all related. My grandfather was the 11 yr old Thomas Fahey found in that census. I grew up in Ballybohan just outside Roscommon town and was told of his parents and brothers and sisters as a boy. He married Bridget Murray from the Eady farm in Stonepark and I went home visiting her until she died at 92 in 1992. I know of all the descendents of my grandparents but would like to know of distant cousins from my greatgrandparents time. Though I came to America when I was 23 (I'm now 69) my heart never really left Ballybohan and Roscommon.

Thomas:

I will take a look at your family but one point of clarification. You mentioned that your grandfather was 11 and living on Henry St. in 1901. I found this family with no Thomas. Is this the correct family?

Roger

Hello,

I have a PDF file from the Leitrim-Roscommon 1901 Census Search Output that I saved in late 2005 that gave me this information:

There were 4 Fahey families on Henry Street at that time.

The second famly in my file is the family you describe.

The first is Thomas (31), postman, with his wife Norah (19).

The third is my great-grandparents house: Thomas (55), labourer, wife Mary (45), William (16), John (14), Thomas (11), Harriet (9), Pat Lee (60), widower/labourer/lodger.

The fourth is of the widow Mary Fahey (60) who ran her house as a lodging house with a grand-daughter Jane Mannion (4), Patrick Kelly (60), boarder/not married, Michael McMahon (26) boarder/tailor/not married/born Co. Limerick, Patrick Geeton (30) printer/boarder/not married/born Co. Waterford, Richard Maher (40) printer/boarder/not married/born Dublin.

My grandfather was indeed there in 1901 at age 11. He later was a soldier in Africa during World War I, and returned to marry Bridget Murray (born 1900) from the Wade/Eady farm in Stonepark. They settled in a house in Ballybohan where I had many happy times as a child. It was my grandfather who told me that all the families on Henry Street were related to each other. I used to be taken into town to his sister Harriet's house (1949-1953?) where she would buy me icecream.from the shop next door. My grandfather died when I was 9 and I was taken away to England but I returned many times to Ballybohan up into 1989 visiting my grandmother Bridget so Roscommon has a very special place in my heart.

My grandparents had three surviving children, Thomas, Josie, and Maureen. My father Thomas had five children, myself, Patricia, Mary, Thomas, and Terrence, Josie married Myles Fahey from Galway and had three children, Kenneth, Cora, and David, Maureen married an Easby in England and had one daughter Susan.My brothers and sisters have 7 children who themselves so far have 7 children of their own so my grandparents progeny are thriving.

I do know my great-aunt Harriet was alive and living in Roscommon in 1950 while my grandmother's family still lives in Stonepark up into today. I was great friends with my great-uncle Frank Eady and visited him and his mother on their dairy farm many times when I would return.

I will soon be 70 and I've often wondered about distant cousins descended from my grandfather's parents and my grandmother's parents and how they could be located. I'm in frequent contact with everyone descended from my grandparents and we have all had interesting lives and have many stories to tell. I'm sure our distant cousins will have comparable lives.

I was often told when I was younger that I looked very much like my grandfather so I like knowing I'm a typical Fahey man from Roscommon.

I've read a lot about the history of the Faheys so I'm very proud to be of such a lineage.

Due to my grandfather I've always been aware of that lineage throughout my life. He gave me so much and I miss him even now.

And my life::  http://www.erinpharm.org/about_me.html.

I live in the southern Appalachian mountains of Tennessee, in Copperhill, at the edge of the Cherokee National Forest, close to the Ocoee whitewater river, but when I tend my garden I think often of my childhood and Ballybohan and how fortunate I was to live there as a child.

Thomas:

Great story! I figured out why I could not find your Thomas and his family in the 1901 census on the National Archives site. The person who transcribed the record wrote the surname as Tahey. I have sent corrections into the National Archives but who knows when they will make the corrections. The National Archives used a Canadian group to transcribe the census and the quality was sub-par in some situations.

Ironically, the Leitrim-Roscommon site that you mention, is my web site and I've been working on transcribing the census data for 15 years.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Roscommon_Urban/Henry_Street/1670110/

I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow for the Jersey shore ( I live in Maryland) but will keep looking for your family.

Roger

Honour was born 10/02/1911 in Rosecommon. What part I don't know, the family had a farm.