Ross
Beattie's BRIEN
Genealogy Page
[please contact Ross
Beattie for further details of this lineage, especially for details regarding
more recent generations]
This Page was Last Updated on 18th March 2013
- Locality
Early Generations (3)
1.
Henry
Brien (c1741
1818) m1. Rebecca Coleman (1736
1783); m2. Mary Scott (1775
1831)
1.1 John Brien (1767…1801) m. Ann — (…1828)
1.1.1
John
Brien (1797…1858) m. Elizabeth Beatty (1797…1885)
- 1.1.1.1 John Brien (c1836…)
1.1.1.2
William
Brien (1839
1882) m. Mary Jane Fleming (1842
1925)
- 1.1.1.2.1
Francis
Albert Brien (1878
1964) m. Agnes Effie Shearer (1887
1964)
- 1.1.1.2.2 George Lindsay Brien (1880… 1945) m. Alice Minnie Harris (…1942)
- 1.2 Robert
Brien (1777
1852) m. Mary Johnston (c1775
1831)
- 1.2.1 Margaret
Brien (1816
1860) m. John Alexander Brien (c1812/4
1883)
- 1.3
Rebecca Brien
(1782
1863) m. Joseph Eaton
(
1833)
- 1.4
Francis Brien
(1788
c1819) m. Mary Anne Crawford
(
1820+)
1.4.1
John
Alexander Brien (c1812/4
1883) m1. Margaret Brien (1816
1860),
m2. Mary Jane Edgar (c1835
1902)
- 1.4.1.1
Henry
Brien (1837
1921) m1. Ann Jane Eaton (1827
1888), m2. Eliza Jane Beattie (1847
1942)
- 1.4.1.1.1
John Eaton
Brien (1860
1913) m. Isabella Fleming (1859
1944)
- 1.4.1.1.2
William
Henry Brien (1861
1912) m. Rebecca Susan Eaton (1863
1930)
- 1.4.1.1.3
David Brien
(1862
1942) m. Lucinda Ann Eaton (1865/6
1934)
- 1.4.1.2
Mary
Brien (1838
1900) m. Donald Campbell
- 1.4.1.3
John
Brien (1840
1854)
- 1.4.1.4
Diana
Brien (1842
1847)
- 1.4.1.5
Rebecca
Brien (1845
1913) m. Robert Dugan (1846
1936)
- 1.4.1.6
Margaret
Brien (1847
1852?)
- 1.4.1.7
Robert
Brien (1849
1937) m1. Lydia Johnston (1837
1917), m2. Mary Ann Hodges (c1884
1953)
- 1.4.1.7.1
John
Alexander Brien (1872
1955) m1. Lydia Jane Fleming (1871
1905),
m2. Maria Annie Kefford (1883
1932)
- 1.4.1.8
Francis
Brien (1851
1895) m. Rebecca Fleming (1852
1929)
- 1.4.1.9
Susan
Brien (1853
1929) m. John Bryant (1846
1907)
- 1.4.1.10
William
John Brien (1856
1943) m. Kier Mill (1856
1938)
- 1.4.1.11
Margaret
Brien (1865
1940) m. William Hugh Grant (c1856
1939)
- 1.4.1.12
Elizabeth
Ann Brien (1866
) m. Alexander Scott Murray
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Locality
These Brien families originated
in southwest Ulster (Counties Fermanagh and Tyrone, Ireland). Several emigrated
to New South Wales, Australia, in the mid-1800s, settling firstly in the Oberon
district in the Central Tablelands (about 160 km or 100 miles west from Sydney)
and later also establishing themselves about Cowra to the southwest. Descendants
today are of course very widespread. Several neighbouring families in Ulster
also emigrated and settled about Oberon, where inter-relationships continued.
Early
Generations
The Briens were long of
Irish stock, many of them becoming Protestant adherents after the Plantation
of James I [1610]. One of the early Briens was granted land near Omagh :- Lislea,
Cloonemulin and Tattykeele. Henry Bryne of Ferny who held it in fee simple,
later leased half of the three sesiaghs to William Bryne and Henry Bryne Junior
both of Stranagumer, grandsons of the early Bryne [pers comm, Elizabeth
Garrad , November 2002]. In The Brien Family Irish Origins (Colin
Fleming Brien and Noel Wickliffe Brien, c1988), the authors note:
- Peador Livingstone
in his study Fermanagh Story (1969) provides some early details of
the Fermanagh Briens:
- Breen (MacBriain)
also McBryan, descends from Brian grandson of Manus, from whom the McManuses
descend. They are thus related to the McManus family and the Maguires.
Their original centre was at Baillr Mhic Shearralgh or Mullamucheray
townland in Aghalurcher. The first McBryan chieftan seems to have been
An Giolla Dubh (the black servant) who, having led his clan for eight
and a half years, was proclaimed the MacBriain in 1488. He ruled till
1506.
After the Plantation, the family seems to have multiplied greatly and
some of them became Protestants. In 1751, we see Henry, Robert and William
as freeholders in Aghalurcher and Thomas, Denis, John, David and James
at Ardees. In 1788, five years before Catholics got the vote, we find
many McBryans on the Fermanagh Register.
The origin of the Fermanagh
McBriens is not clear. Most of the traced emigrants were Protestant, though
later surveys indicate a predominantly Roman Catholic grouping about places
such as Trillick in neighbouring County Tyrone. The name is also found on OBrien
lineage charts and was known circa 1534 in the southern Irish inland, according
to one [unidentified] publication:
- On the borders of County
Limerick and Tipperary were the Bourkes of Clanwilliam. After 1466 the local
lords of this area, the Bourkes and MacBriens of Coonagh and Aherlow, appear
to have fallen under the overlordship of the OBriens of Thomond, who
occupied directly the district of Onaght in County Tipperary and exercised
some sort of authority in this area until they surrendered their rights to
the crown in 1542. The OBriens, having formerly been enemies of the
city of Limerick, seem to have developed a working arangement with it at a
later date and after 1456 drew a tribute from it, as they also did from Limerick,
or rather its eastern portion. The OBriens of Thormond were thus, on
occasion, able to play an active part in the affairs of Limerick and Tipperary.
An exiled branch of the family had settled in the barony of Pubblebrien, to
the southwest of the city of Limerick, with which they seem to have been on
bad terms.
An accompanying map entitled
Lordships, c. 1534, by K. W. Nicholls notes three MacBrien lordships in the
baronies of ?Abra, Coonagh and ?Amirlow, east of the OBriens Pubblebrien,
Limerick. [type indistinct, to be checked] Perhaps some of these MacBriens moved
up along the Shannon and settled in Fermanagh, becoming progenitors of the McBriens
of Inishmacsaint.
The Brien family was among
the first of the Kilskeery-related families to emigrate to the Oberon area in
New South Wales. Much of the information presented here is based on the substantial
research of Colin Fleming Brien and Noel Wickliffe Brien published as The
Brien Family Irish Origins, which also provides data on the Flemings, Edgars,
Wilsons and Eatons; other families such as the Beatties are mentioned therein.
Both Colin and Noel have also contributed in many other ways, generously forwarding
material of interest to this author.
Perhaps related, a group of Briens from Magheracross also settled at the Junction
in Newcastle NSW [possibly called Burwood in the 1850s]; several descendants
moved to Sydney. Perhaps some of this family emigrated to America even earlier.
Mr Harry Brien of Roleystone, Western Australia, is the great-great-grandson
of one of the Junction emigrants.
1. Henry Brien (c1741…1818) m. Rebecca Coleman (c1736…1783);
m2. Mary Scott (c1775…1831)
- Henry Brien,
farmer of Gargadis (1½ m NE of Kilskeery), in a deed dated 1777 listed
two sons:
- JOHN BRIEN
(born circa 1767 [aged 10 years in 1777]) and
- EDWARD BRIEN
(born circa 1769 [aged 8 years in 1777]).
- Henry, by his wife Rebecca
Coleman, also begat:
- ROBERT BRIEN
(born 1777, Gargadis TYR, baptised 22 March 1777, died 12 May 1852 TYR; buried 13 May 1852, Old Graveyard Magheracross; married Mary Johnston about 1802 [Mary was born circa 1775 and died 5 March 1831 TYR; buried Old Graveyard Magheracross]; seven known issue)
- ELIZABETH
BRIEN (baptised 11 March 1779, TYR, died TYR) and
- REBECCA
BRIEN (baptised 1782, TYR, died pre-1858 TYR; married Joseph Eaton)
- It is assumed that Rebecca
Brien (née Coleman) died soon after 1782 when her daughter Rebecca
Brien was born, and Henry then married Mary . Issue of
Henry and Mary Brien were:
- FRANCIS
BRIEN (baptised 14 January 1788; married Mary Anne Crawford in 1810) and
- JANE BRIEN
(baptised 1791, TYR, died 14 April 1872, TYR; never married).
- In the deed dated 1777,
Henry Brien was leasing the Gargadis farm from Mervyn Archdall for the lives
of his sons John Brien, 10 years , Edward Brien, 8 years and Nathaniel Bird,
10 years, son of William Bird of Shanmullagh. A witness to that deed was James
Alexander of Shanmullagh. In the 1810 Marriage Articles for his son Francis
Brien and Mary Anne Crawford, shewing Henry Brien and Francis Brien of Gargadis
of the first part, Thomas Buchanan and Robert Brien of Kenog of the second
part, and Richard Cluff of Trillick and George Buchanan of Shanmullagh of
the third part, thirty acres of the Gargadis land leased by Henry from the
Revd. Mervyn Archdall was to be reserved for Robert Brien.
- Brien_Coleman_Eaton_Johnston_Edgar_Beatty_Fleming
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1.1 John Brien (1767…1801) m. Ann — (…1828)
John Brien, by his wife Ann —, begat at least two children:
- JOHN BRIEN (born c1797; died 29 May 1858, buried Magheracross Graveyard near Jamestown and Ballinamallard Fermanagh; married Elizabeth —; two issue; lived at Blocky Hill, in the townland of Carran),
- HENRY BRIEN (born Fermanagh / Tyrone).
John Brien died 27 February 1801; Ann died 18 March 1828. They were buried in the old Magheracross Graveyard.
1.1.1 John Brien (1797…1858) m. Elizabeth Beatty (1797…1885)
John Brien and Elizabeth Beatty of Co Tyrone irl were the parents of:
- JOHN BRIEN (born before William; like William apparently a ward of Dr John Eaton for 12 years),
- WILLIAM BRIEN (born 1839 Tyrone, died 1882 at Oberon NSW; married Mary Jame Fleming).
Betty Garrad eMailed [14 April 2010]:
… I can’t link Colin’s Oberon Briens with the other Briens from Kilskeery. I wondered if you have come across any links in your research. This is what we know about his grandfather William Brien of Ferndale, Oberon :
* William Brien died 22 May 1882 aged 43. His D/C stated he had been 22 years in NSW. His parents were John Brien and Elizabeth Beaty ; and that William married at the age of 27 years.
* On 11 Dec 1861 he took up Block F portion 38 of 34 Acres.
* In 1863 he acquired adjacent blocks …. Ferndale.
* 27 Feb 1867 he married Mary Jane Fleming at Fish River Creek.
* Family lore has it that William Brien and his brother John Brien were wards of Dr John Eaton for 12 years and that John Eaton was a ship’s doctor before he settled In NSW. The story has it there were two other Brien brothers who went to Canada. Were they all orphans? It has always seemed to me that there must have been a kinship between Dr Eaton and this Brien family.
* Neither Colin nor I could find William’s brother John Brien’s name on the NSW Death Indexes.
* I cannot find our William Brien on any passenger list.
* Immigration Deposit Indexes : John Brien (18) Depositor William Brien Dep No. 2693 Date of Dep 14/5/1859 SR NSW 4/4580 reel 2669
Remarks 0/L/TYR/R/S I found on the Board List Reel 2479 on ship “Annie Wilson” John Brien,17, labourer, Kilskeery Co Tyrone, Parents John &
Fanny both Ch of E, R + W, brother William Brien at Bathurst. Health Good Remarks : Rem Reps £4
* It seems that William was already in NSW in May 1859 to be the Depositor for brother John’s passage. The informant for his D/C may not have known the exact year he arrived in NSW. Note that William’s parents were John & Elizabeth and John’s parents were John & Fanny.
* In Colin’s book he states that Dr John Eaton qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at Trinity College 16 July 1835. I found his name in a NSW medical list with the letters L.A.H. Dublin 1835. I found in the EPPI in (Return of persons examined & certified as qualified by the Apothecaries’ Hall in Dublin)
2 Mar 1827 John Eaton, Enniskillen, Fermanagh. This would possibly have led up to his degree in 1835.
* John Eaton was a witness at the marriage of his sister Elizabeth Eaton & Thomas Fleming on 23 Feb 1849 at Kilskeery in Co Tyrone. That pair arrived in NSW on the “Garland” on 15 Mar 1851. So we can place John Eaton in Tyrone in 1849. If he was a ship’s doctor he could have been on voyages to NSW prior to that though. I can find no record of him as a ship’s doctor as yet. It is a pity he had no children and therefore none of his descendants to help chart his history. He settled at Fish River Creek in 1854 as a farmer and medical doctor and married Sarah Liddell in 1861.
My question is : Have you found any connection between the parents of William Brien, eg John Brien and Elizabeth Beaty, and your Beattie family, or to the Eaton family? I know of course that Joseph Eaton married Rebecca Brien of Gargadis. There is a John Brien buried beside Henry Brien of Gargadis in the old Magheracross graveyard near Ballinamallard but that John’s wife was Ann. I think our Henry and that John were brothers.
1.1.1.1 John Brien (…)
John Brien was a son of JOHN BRIEN and ELIZABETH BEATTY. Betty Garrad eMailed [17 March 2006; re: McGregor & Beattie families of Kinine:
… [William] and his older brother John were said to have been wards of Dr John Eaton for 12 years. For that to have been so, perhaps there was a relationship between William’s mother Elizabeth Beatty, and Sarah Beatty, wife of Robert Coleman Eaton?
It appears that John, a labourer from Kilskeery aged 17 Years, son of JOHN and FANNY, brother of William at Bathurst, emigrated aboard the "Annie Wilson"; William had paid a deposit for John's immigration on 14 May 1859. John was noted in the Immigration Journal as CoE and able to read and write.
1.1.1.2 William Brien (1839…1882) m. Mary Jane Fleming (1842…1925)
William Brien, born 1839 Tyrone, son of farmer JOHN BRIEN and ELIZABETH BEATTY, emigrated to New South Wales in 1858/1860 as a ward of either John Eaton or his brother Robert Coleman Eaton [William's 1882 death certificates states that he had been 22 Years in NSW]. On 11 December 1861 he took up Block F portion 38 of 34 acres and in 1863 he acquired adjacent blocks - Ferndale, on the Duckmaloi Road east of Oberon. On 14 May 1859 William paid a deposit for the immigration of his brother John to NSW.
On 27 February 1867 at Fish River Creek near Oberon William married Mary Jane Fleming, daughter of JOHN and SUSAN FLEMING born 3 February 1842 at Gingkin near Oberon.The couple produced six sons and two daughters:
- SUSAN JANE BRIEN (born 12 December 1867, died 1956; married Alexander Edgar (1870-1940)),
- ROBERT BEATTY BRIEN (born 18 July 1869, died 25 May 1959; married Rebecca Jane Johnston (1875-1957)),
- WILLIAM JOHN BRIEN (born 4 August 1871, died 17 April 1946; married Louisa Morrow (1878-1956)),
- twins EDWARD ERNEST BRIEN (born 13 October 1873, died 25 August 1948, un-married)
- and JAMES FLEMING BRIEN (born 13 October 1873, died 1935; married Lenore Elizabeth Hawkins (…1955)),
- MARY ELIZABETH BRIEN (born 25 April 1876, died 11 June 1961; married George Wren (1869-1955)),
- FRANCIS ALBERT BRIEN (born 10 September 1878, died 16 August 1964; married Agnes Effie Shearer (1887…1964)) and
- GEORGE LINDSAY BRIEN (born 13 October 1880, died 22 November 1945; married Alice Minnie Harris (…1942)).
William Brien, a farmer, died of paralysis on 22 May 1882, six months after suffering a stoke while in a paddock on his farm at Oberon. His medical attendant had been Dr Eaton. William was buried the next day at Oberon by undertaker James Fleming, witnessed by James Graham and Joseph Lewis.
Mary Jane Brien née Fleming died 25 September 1925. Both were buried in the churchyard at St Barnabas’ CoE in Oberon.
1.1.1.2.1 Francis Albert Brien (1878… 1964) m. Agnes Effie Shearer (1887…1964)
Francis Albert Brien (Frank), born 10 September 1878, was a son of WILLIAM BRIEN and his wife MARY JANE FLEMING. Frank, a mounted police trooper in 1910, married Agnes Effie Shearer (born 1887) in Sydney in 1912. Their issue included:
- GAVIN F BRIEN (born 1917 near Waverley) and
- COLIN FLEMING BRIEN (born 1923).
Frank died 16 August 1964. Agnes also died in 1964. Colin served in the 2nd/19th Battalion 8th Division Australian Infantry Forces during World War II; he was in Singapore at its fall. His remarkable survival has been recounted in the oral history series Survival, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1987 (part 3: Eventually I Didn’t Die).
1.1.1.2.2 George Lindsay Brien (1880… 1945) m. Alice Minnie Harris (…1942)
George Lindsay Brien, born 13 October 1880, youngest son of WILLIAM BRIEN and his wife MARY JANE FLEMING, married Alice Minnie Harris (daughter born at Parkes NSW to JOSEPH and ELIZABETH ARNOLD HARRIS). Their nine issue included:
- CLAUDE LINDSAY BRIEN (born 30 September 1909 near Bathurst, died 22 April 2007; married Bonnie Robertson, The Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday 3 February 1934 (p12) noting: "The Engagement is announced of Hazel (Bonnie), second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Robertson of Rockdale, to Claude, eldest son ot Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Brien, of Ferndale, Oberon.") and
- HEATHER M BRIEN (born c1912 near Bathurst; married — Rawlings; died April 2007) and
- WILLIAM J BRIEN (born c1918 near Bathurst).
The Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday 24 November 1945 (p30) noted:
BRIEN.— November 22, 1945, at Oberon District Hospital, George Lindsay, loved father of Heather (Mrs. Rawlings), Oliven (Mrs. H. Armstrong), Mona, Joyce, Claude, Mervyn, and Arnold, aged 65 years. Interment at Oberon, 24th inst.
The Oberon Review published an obituary for Claude Brien on 3 May 2007.
1.2 Robert Brien (1777
1852) m. Mary Johnston (c1775
1831)
- Robert Brien,
by his wife Mary Johnston begat seven children:
- SUSANNAH
BRIEN (baptised 1803, Kilskeery; died 2 December 1877, Oberon; married John
Fleming (1806
1879) on 16 November 1838, Kilskeery),
- MARY ANN
BRIEN (baptised 1805, may have died in infancy),
- HENRY BRIEN
(born 1809 or 1813, died 1 December 1875, Cowra; married Frances
Wilson),
- MARY BRIEN (born 1812, Gargadis, Kilskeery TYR; baptised 5 March 1812, Kilskeery; married William Edgar, 28 January 1834, Kilskeery (William born circa 1804, Aghadulla, Drumragh TYR; died 16 September 1883, Gargadis, Kilskeery; buried at Kilskeery),
- JOHN BRIEN
(baptised 1814),
- MARGARET
BRIEN (baptised 25 January 1816, Kilskeery, Tyrone; died 6 May 1860, Fish River Creek, Oberon NSW; buried 8 May 1860, O'Connell NSW; married John Alexander Brien, 4 October 1835, Kilskeery (John born circa 1814, Stranagumer Tyrone; died 18 October 1883, Back Creek, Cowra NSW, buried 20 October 1883, Cowra Cemetery,
- DIANA BRIEN
(baptised 1819).
1.2.1 Margaret Brien (1816
1860) m. John Alexander Brien (c1812/4
1883)
- Margaret Brien,
born January 1816, second youngest child of ROBERT BRIEN and his wife MARGARET
JOHNSTON, was the first wife of John Alexander Brien of Stranagummer
townland. The couple were married on 4 October 1834 at Kilskeery, and sailed
from Liverpool ENG on 18th instant, bound for a new life in Australia. Ten
of Johns seventeen children were born to this marriage. (For further
details on John Alexander Brien's descendants, follow
this link).
1.3 Rebecca Brien (1782
1863) m. Joseph Eaton (
1833)
- Rebecca Brien,
daughter born May 1782 in Tyrone to HENRY BRIEN and his wife REBECCA COLEMAN,
died pre-1858 TYR; Rebecca married Joseph Eaton, farmer of Carran
townland near Trillick Co Tyrone IRL, on 25 November 1802. Joseph and Rebecca
Eaton had eleven children. Rebecca Eaton née Brien, aged 81 years,
died 9 March 1863 and was buried at Bullock Flat [Oberon] NSW. (For further
details of this family and its descendants, refer to
the Eaton
Lineage).
1.4
Francis Brien (1788
c1819) m. Mary Anne Crawford (
1820+)
- [pers
comm Elizabeth Garrad, 1 November 2002]
Francis Brien, baptised 14 January 1788 to HENRY BRIEN and his
second wife MARY , married Mary Anne Crawford in 1810.
The Marriage Articles shew three parties involved : Henry Brien and Francis
Brien of Gargadis of the first part, Thomas Buchanan and Robert Brien of Kenog
of the second part, and Richard Cluff of Trillick and George Buchanan of Shanmullagh
of the third part. The Gargadis land was leased from Rev. Archdall Mervyn
by Henry Brien; thirty acres of it was to be reserved for Robert Brien. It
is hard to follow because there were several other covenants and agreements
signed at the same time, not available now.
2.
John Brien m. Elizabeth Beatty
John Brien
and Elizabeth Beatty of Co Tyrone IRL were the parents of:
- WILLIAM BRIEN (born
1839 TYR).
2.1
William Brien (1839
1882) m. Mary Jane Fleming (1842
1925)
William Brien,
born 1839 TYR, son of JOHN BRIEN and ELIZABETH BEATTY, emigrated to New South
Wales in 1858 as a ward of either John Eaton or his brother Robert Coleman Eaton.
In 1867 William married Mary Jane Fleming, daughter of JOHN
and SUSAN FLEMING born in 1842 at Gingkin near Oberon. The couple produced
six sons and two daughters:
- SUSAN JANE BRIEN (born
1867, died 1956; married Alexander Edgar (1870-1940)),
- ROBERT BEATTY BRIEN
(born 1869, died 25 May 1959; married Rebecca Jane Johnston (1875-1957)),
- WILLIAM JOHN BRIEN (born
1871, died 17 April 1946; married Louisa Morrow (1878-1956)),
- twins EDWARD
ERNEST BRIEN (born 1873, died 25 August 1948, un-married)
- and JAMES FLEMING
BRIEN (born 1873, died 1935; married Lenore Elizabeth Hawkins (
1955)),
- MARY ELIZABETH BRIEN
(born 1876, died 11 June 1961; married George Wren (1869-1955)),
- FRANCIS ALBERT BRIEN
(born 1878, died 16 August 1964; married Agnes Effie Shearer (1887
1964))
and
- GEORGE LINDSAY BRIEN
(born 1880, died 22 November 1945; married Alice Minnie Harris (
1942)).
William Brien died 22 May
1882, several months after suffering a stoke while in a paddock on his farm
at Oberon. Mary Jane Brien née Fleming died 25 September 1925. Both were
buried in the churchyard at St Barnabas CoE in Oberon.
2.1.1
Francis Albert Brien (1878
1964) m. Agnes Effie Shearer (1887
1964)
Francis Albert Brien
(Frank), born September 1878, was a son of WILLIAM BRIEN and his wife MARY JANE
FLEMING. Frank, a mounted police trooper in 1910, married Agnes Effie
Shearer (born 1887) in Sydney in 1912. Their issue included:
- GAVIN F BRIEN (born
1917 near Waverley) and
- COLIN FLEMING BRIEN
(born 1923).
Frank died 16 August 1964.
Agnes also died in 1964. Colin served in the 2nd/19th Battalion 8th Division
Australian Infantry Forces during World War II; he was in Singapore at its fall.
His remarkable survival has been recounted in the oral history series Survival,
broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1987 (part 3: Eventually
I Didnt Die).
2.2.2 George Lindsay Brien (1880… 1945) m. Alice Minnie Harris (…1942)
George Lindsay Brien, born 13 October 1880, youngest son of WILLIAM BRIEN and his wife MARY JANE FLEMING, married Alice Minnie Harris (daughter born at Parkes NSW to JOSEPH and ELIZABETH ARNOLD HARRIS). Their nine issue included:
- CLAUDE LINDSAY BRIEN (born September 1909 near Bathurst; died 22 April 2007; married Bonnie Robertson, The Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday 3 February 1934 (p12) noting: "The Engagement is announced of Hazel (Bonnie), second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Robertson of Rockdale, to Claude, eldest son ot Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Brien, of Ferndale, Oberon."),
- HEATHER M BRIEN (born c1912 near Bathurst; married — Rawlings; died April 2007) and
- WILLIAM J BRIEN (born c1918 near Bathurst).
The Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday 24 November 1945 (p30) noted:
BRIEN.— November 22, 1945, at Oberon District Hospital, George Lindsay, loved father of Heather (Mrs. Rawlings), Oliven (Mrs. H. Armstrong), Mona, Joyce, Claude, Mervyn, and Arnold, aged 65 years. Interment at Oberon, 24th inst.
The Oberon Review published an obituary for Claude Brien on 3 May 2007.
1.4.1. John Alexander Brien (c1812/4
1883) m1. Margaret Brien (1816
1860),
m2. Mary Jane Edgar (c1835
1902)
John
Alexander Brien was born circa 1814 at Stranagummer (Stranagomer)
townland in Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland. Johns first wife was Margaret
Brien, second youngest child of ROBERT BRIEN and his wife MARGARET JOHNSTON,
from nearby Gargadis townland, some ten minutes distant by foot. John and Margaret
Brien married in the Kilskeery Church on 4 October 1835, and emigrated as newly-weds
aboard the Clyde from Liverpool ENG on 18 October 1835 for a new lifestyle
in New South Wales. They were accompanied on the Clyde by neighbours
William Fleming of Magheralough, his wife Lucinda
Wilson from Derryhillagh, and their first child Isabella, born 1834.
John and Margaret Brien's
children were:
- HENRY BRIEN (born 1837,
Kelso NSW, died 2 February 1921, Cowra NSW; married first Ann Jane Eaton and
later Eliza Jane Beattie),
- MARY BRIEN (born 1838,
Hartley NSW, died 25 December 1900, Warren NSW; married Donald Campbell),
- JOHN BRIEN (born c1840,
NSW, died April 1854 (found drowned, possibly murdered) Fish River Creek),
- DIANA BRIEN (born 1842,
NSW, died 8 April 1847, NSW (died in a house fire c1853)),
- REBECCA BRIEN (born
1845, NSW, died 15 February 1913, NSW; married Robert Dugan, seven children),
- MARGARET BRIEN (born
1847, NSW, presumed died 1852, NSW (lost)),
- ROBERT BRIEN (born 1849,
Oberon NSW, died 22 May 1937, NSW; married first Lydia Johnston, one child,
second Mary Ann Hodges, three children; also one adoptee and one ward),
- FRANCIS BRIEN (born
1851, NSW, died 14 August 1895, NSW; married Rebecca Fleming, seven children),
- SUSAN BRIEN (born 1853,
NSW, died 15 August 1929, NSW, married John Bryant, eight children) and
- WILLIAM JOHN BRIEN (born
1856, NSW, died 21 September 1943, Epping NSW; married Kier Mill, one son).
Margaret Brien died on
6 May 1860, aged 43 years at Emu Creek Farm, on the Fish River near Mutton Falls
downstream from the confluence of the Duckmaloi and Fish Rivers near Bathurst
NSW; she was interred at O'Connell cemetery. Four years later John Brien married
Mary Jane Edgar, Margaret's niece and sister of Robert Edgar who
was to marry Mary Jane Brien. John, Mary Jane née Edgar and the seven surviving
children of his first marriage then moved to a selection in the Back and Morongla
Creek area near Cowra, where they were joined by John's brother-in-law Henry
Brien (1809-1875) and his wife Fanny née Wilson and their children. Henry
Brien was the first Brien to own "Ferndale" at Deep Creek east of
Oberon NSW. Mary Jane bore John Brien seven children:
- MARGARET JANE BRIEN
(born 1865, died 14 September 1940; married William Hugh Grant, eleven children),
- ELIZABETH ANN BRIEN
(born 1866),
- JAMES BRIEN (born 1867),
- DINAH BRIEN (born 1869),
- JOHN ALEXANDER BRIEN
(born 1870),
- THOMAS EDGAR BRIEN (born
1871) and
- LYDIA BRIEN (born 1873).
John Brien, aged 71 and
father of seventeen, died at Back Creek farm near Cowra on 18 October 1883.
Mary Jane Brien née Edgar continued awhile at Back Creek, eventually
sold by her children. She died on 18 June 1902 at Warwick, west of Cowra, where
a son had a property.
1.4.1.1
Henry Brien (1837
1921) m1. Ann Jane Eaton (1827
1888), m2. Eliza Jane Beattie (1847
1942)
Henry Brien
was the first-born of ten to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN. Born in
1837, Henry's first marriage, celebrated at Kelso in 1859, was to Ann
Jane Eaton, born 1827(2?) and Henrys senior by fifteen years.
Their marriage was a happy one, and produced three children, all of whom married
in 1889:
- JOHN EATON BRIEN (born
1860, died 1913; married Isabella Fleming, four children),
- WILLIAM HENRY BRIEN
(born 1861, died 1912; married Rebecca Susan Eaton, three children) and
- DAVID BRIEN (born 1862,
died 1942; married Lucinda Ann Eaton, five children).
Ann Jane Brien née
Eaton died on 8 July 1888. In 1892, when 45 years old, Eliza Jane Beattie became the second wife of Henry Brien, then 55, in Sydney, NSW. Henry and Eliza
Jane lived at "Andrewville", Merton Box near Cowra. Henry Brien died
at "Merton", the family property near Cowra, on 4 September 1921,
and was buried in Cowra cemetery next to his first wife Ann Jane Eaton. Eliza
Jane bore no children; she died 4 March 1942 and was buried next to Henry.
1.4.1.1.1
John Eaton Brien (1860
1913) m. Isabella Fleming (1859
1944)
John Eaton Brien,
born 1860, was the eldest of three children of HENRY BRIEN and his wife ANN
JANE EATON. A farmer of Morongla Creek, John married Isabella Fleming,
daughter born January 1859 to THOMAS FLEMING and ELIZABETH EATON. To John and
Isabella were born:
- ELIZABETH ANN BRIEN
(born and died 1890),
- ARCHIBALD THOMAS BRIEN
(born 1893, died 1975),
- EMILY JANE BRIEN (born
1894, died 1973) and
- OLIVE VICTORIA BRIEN
(born 1897, died 1983; married Dudley H Muir at Goulburn, 1925).
Isabella Brien née
Fleming died at Cowra on 13 May 1944.
1.4.1.1.2
William Henry Brien (1861
1912) m. Rebecca Susan Eaton (1863
1930)
William Henry Brien,
born 1861, was the second of three children of HENRY BRIEN and his wife ANN
JANE EATON. In a double wedding ceremony at Oberon in 1889, William married
Rebecca Susan Eaton, daughter of born 10 July 1863 to ROBERT COLEMAN
EATON and his wife SARAH BEATTY. Williams brother David married Rebeccas
sister Lucinda in the same ceremony. William and Rebecca produced three children:
- HERBERT DAVID BRIEN
(born 1891, died 1908),
- PERCY ROBERT BRIEN (born
1893, died 1948) and
- ETHEL MAY BRIEN (born
1895).
David Brien died in 1912;
Rebecca Susan Brien née Eaton died 15 February 1930.
1.4.1.1.3
David Brien (1862
1942) m. Lucinda Ann Eaton (1865/6
1934)
David Brien,
born 1862, was the third and youngest child of HENRY BRIEN and his wife ANN
JANE EATON. In a double wedding ceremony of Oberon in 1889, David married Lucinda
Ann Eaton, daughter of born in 1865(?6) to ROBERT COLEMAN EATON and
his wife SARAH BEATTY. Davids brother William married Lucindas sister
Rebecca in the same ceremony. David and Lucinda produced five children:
- LUCINDA MAY BRIEN (born
Cowra 1890, married James Langfield in 1913 at Cowra),
- SARAH ETHEL BRIEN (born
Cowra 1891, married Wycliffe/Wickliffe Mitchell Brien in 1913 at Cowra),
- EVAN DAVID BRIEN (born
Cowra 1893),
- ARTHUR HENRY BRIEN (born
Cowra 1898; marriage to Elsie May Price registered at Bathurst in 1930) and
- ERNEST WILLIAM BRIEN
(born Cowra 1901).
Lucinda Ann Brien née
Eaton died 4 January 1934. David Brien died in 1942.
NSW Electoral Rolls suggest that Eliza Jane Brien [home duties] lived with her grandson Arthur Henry Brien [grazier] in 1936.
1.4.1.2
Mary Brien (1838
1900) m. Donald Campbell
Mary Brien
was the second of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN.
Born in 1838 at Hartley, she grew up in the Fish River area and on 23 March
1858 at Bendo (Bindo) near Hampton married Donald Campbel1 to Presbyterian rites.
The couple farmed near Dubbo and later in the Trangie district where they had
extensive grazing properties. They had at least seven children:
- MARGARET CAMPBELL (born
1860),
- HUGH CAMPBELL (born
1863),
- JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL
(born 10 June 1865),
- SUSAN JANE CAMPBELL
(born 1867),
- ROBERT JAMES CAMPBELL
(born 1869),
- DONALD CAMPBELL (born
1872) and
- LACHLAN CAMPBELL (born
1878).
Mary Campbell née
Brien died on Christmas Day in 1900 and was buried in Warren cemetery.
1.4.1.3
John Brien (1840
1854)
John Brien,
third child of JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN, was born in 1840. In
April 1854 he was found drowned, possibly murdered, in the Fish River Creek.
1.4.1.4
Diana Brien (1842
1847)
Diana Brien,
fourth child of JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN, was born in 1842. She
was burnt to death when the family homestead caught fire on 8 February 1847,
and was buried four days later, William Fleming officiating.
1.4.1.5
Rebecca Brien (1845
1913) m. Robert Dugan (1846
1936)
Rebecca Brien
was the fifth of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN.
Born 1845, she grew up in the Fish River area and in 1869 married Dubbo farmer
Robert Dugan. Robert farmed first at Hazeldean near
Coonamble, later at Loleep near Walgett, and then returned to Hazeldean.
On the sale of the latter he purchased and retired to Bannockburn Estate in
Bondi, Sydney. Other Sydney properties were also purchased. Children born to
Rebecca and Robert were:
- SUSANNAH DUGAN (born
1870, died 1948; married Walter Quarmby in 1893),
- JANE DUGAN (born 1872,
died 1952; married Peter Beddie in 1898),
- JOHN DUGAN (born 1874,
died 1880),
- MARGARET DUGAN (born
1877, died 1878),
- MARY ELIZABETH DUGAN
(born 1879, died 1950; married James Beddie),
- THOMAS DUGAN (born 1883,
died 1946; married Rose Emily Fenton in 1903) and
- RUBY DUGAN (born 1886,
died 1946; married David Dalziell in 1915).
Rebecca Dugan née
Brien died 15 February 1913; Robert Dugan died 9 June 1936. Both are buried
at Waverley cemetery on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sydney.
1.4.1.6
Margaret Brien (1847
1852?)
Margaret Brien,
sixth of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN, was born
23 August 1847 and baptised on 21 March 1848. She disappeared from her fathers
house in 1852 and was presumed to have died in the bush.
1.4.1.7
Robert Brien (1849
1937) m1. Lydia Johnston (1837
1917), m2. Mary Ann Hodges (c1884
1953)
Robert Brien
was the seventh of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN.
Born in 1849, Robert married in 1870 Lydia Johnston, aged 33 and
12 years his senior. The couple had one child:
- JOHN ALEXANDER BRIEN
(born 1872, died 1955; married cousin Lydia Jane Fleming).
The family moved to the
Morongla Creek district near Cowra in the 1870s, and in the 1880s selected Springfield
at Baldry.
Lydia died aged 80 in 1917. Robert subsequently married Mary Ann Hodges,
35 years his junior. The couple raised four children:
- MARY BRIEN (died as
an infant),
- HERBERT BRIEN (served
in Second World War, died in 1971),
- ERIC THOMAS BRIEN (born
1922, served in New Guinea during Second World War, farmed afterwards at Baldry
with Herbert, retired to Yeoval NSW) and
- adoptee BETTY ANN BRIEN
(adopted 1934; married and raised five children).
Robert had also cared for
waif
- AMELIA JANE WILCOX (married
Amos Francis of Cowra).
Robert died 22 May 1937
at Waverley and was buried next to Lydia Brien née Johnston at Waverley.
Mary Ann Brien née Hodges died 1953 and was buried at Baldry.
1.4.1.7.1
John Alexander Brien (1872
1955) m1. Lydia Jane Fleming (1871
1905),
m2. Maria Annie Kefford (1883
1932)
John Alexander Brien (Jack) was the only child of ROBERT BRIEN and his wife LYDIA JOHNSTON.
In 1895 Jack married his cousin Lydia Jane Fleming, daughter of
JAMES FLEMING and his wife ELIZABETH JOHNSTON. Three children were born:
- IDA BRIEN (born Molong
1896, died 1930),
- MABEL BRIEN (born Molong
1897; married Charles Hope and c1989 lived at Balga WA) and
- ROY BRIEN (born Molong
1903).
Lydia Jane Brien née Fleming died in tragic circumstances at Nyngan in 1905; John subsequently
married Maria Annie Kefford of Dilga at Molong in 1906. Maria,
born near Molong in 1883, was the daughter of AMOS KEFFORD and EMMA SHREEVE
(? or Sheere) who had married at Molong in 1881.
It is possible that John
and Maria moved after their marriage to Sydney, as there were soon two births
registered to John A and Maria A Brien in the suburbs thereat:
- GRACE BRIEN (born 1907
near Ashfield) and
- WALTER BRIEN (born 1915
near Chatswood).
Maria A Brien née
Kefford died at Auburn in 1932. John Alexander Brien died in 1955.
1.4.1.8
Francis Brien (1851
1895) m. Rebecca Fleming (1852
1929)
Francis Brien
was the eighth of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET BRIEN.
Born in 1851, he married in 1877 Rebecca Fleming, daughter of
THOMAS FLEMING and ELIZABETH EATON his wife. At the time of his wedding, Francis
was a farmer at Upper Back Creek, later moving to Talanga at Cranbury
near Cudal NSW. Their union produced seven children, all born at Upper Back
Creek:
- WILLIAM JAMES BRIEN
(born 1878; married Amy Davis in 1899),
- FRANCIS BRIEN (born
1880, died 1924; married Frances Mulligan),
- ISABELLA JANE BRIEN
(born 1881, died 1966; married George Smith),
- MINNIE GRACE BRIEN (born
1883, died 1960; married Laws Coppock),
- REBECCA MAY BRIEN (born
1886, died 1969; married Walter Ward),
- LILA ADA BRIEN (born
1887, died December 1949; never married; very tall and devoted to charitable
works and her family) and
- LUCINDA ETHEL BRIEN
(born 1892, died 1966; married Erold Wilcox).
Aged 44, Francis contracted
a fatal illness while farming at Talanga, from which he died on
14 August 1895. Rebecca remained at Talanga until her children were
adults, after which she sold the property and moved to the south-western Sydney
suburb of Lakemba, where she passed away on 1 May 1929; she was interred at
Cowra cemetery.
1.4.1.9
Susan Brien (1853
1929) m. John Bryant (1846
1907)
Susan Brien,
born in 1853, was the ninth of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife
MARGARET BRIEN. In 1871, she married John Bryant of Mutton Falls,
son of WALTER BRYANT and MARY BRYANT his wife. The Bryants had arrived from
Bodmin CON aboard the Earl Grey on 24 June 1841. John, with his brothers Richard
Bryant and Walter Bryant, moved to the newly available farmland of the Cowra
district in the 1870s, where John purchased his property Daisybank.
To John and Susan were eight born:
- MARY JANE BRYANT (born
1870, died 1881),
- WALTER BRYANT (born
1872; married Elizabeth Cass),
- ALLAN BRYANT (born 1877,
died 1949; married Emma Francis),
- SUSAN BRYANT (born 1879;
married Joseph Potter and later Morgan Lawrence),
- MAY BRYANT (born 1881;
married Arthur Wood),
- ELLEN MAUDE BRYANT (born
1882, died 1940),
- CHARLES BRYANT (born
1890, died 1929; married Maude Hood) and
- ESTHER BRYANT (married
William Lawrence).
1.4.1.10
William John Brien (1856
1943) m. Kier Mill (1856
1938)
William John Brien,
born 1856, youngest of ten children born to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET
BRIEN, married Kier Mill, daughter of Scottish immigrants WILLIAM
and HELEN MILL, in 1890 near Coonamble on the Castlereagh. William had been
a itinerant shearer and farmhand, eventually becoming a master baker and pastrycook.
William and Kier had only one child:
- WALLACE BRIEN (born
Coonamble 1894, died 16 July 1970, Narrabeen; never married).
William purchased at least
90 acres in the Cowra district from 1877, which he later sold to his brother-in-law
John Bryant. William lived for some time with the Bryants. Kier died (?near
Ryde) in Sydney on 11 April 1938; William died at Epping on 21 December 1943.
Wallace, a painter who had served in overseas during World War I, died at the
Narrabeen War Veterans Home in Sydney on 16 July 1970.
1.4.1.11
Margaret Brien (1865
1940) m. William Hugh Grant (c1856
1939)
Margaret Brien,
born in 1865 at Crown Ridge overlooking the Fish River, eldest of seven children
born to JOHN BRIEN and his second wife MARY JANE EDGAR, eloped from Back Creek
when only 13 years old to marry William Hugh Grant, son of the
well-known ticket-of-leave man JOHN GRANT of Hartley. Williams property
was at Bumbaldry near the Lachlan.
In her tempestuous life, Margaret bore William ten bairns and had another by
a later relationship:
- WILLIAM GRANT (born
1880; married Violet),
- JOHN THOMAS GRANT (birth registered at Cowra in 1881,
died 1946; married Polly),
- HENRY JAMES GRANT (birth on 23 November 1883 registered at Cowra; death on 20 October 1970 registered at Newtrown; marriage to Ruby Ellen White registered at Cowra in 1907 (Ruby died 5 June 1966); birth of son Ivan William Grant on 19 June 1916 registered at Dubbo in 1917),
- HERBERT CHARLES GRANT
(birth registered at Cowra in 1886, died at Erskinville, Sydney in 1950; married Agnes Louise Simpson
(she died 1956 in Sydney); Lindsay Grant (pers comm 17 September 2002), is a grandson of Herbert Grant, has many details of the
Grant family),
- CLARE FRANCIS GRANT
((birth registered at Cowra in 1888; death registered at Balmain in 1960; marriage as Francis Clair Grant to Mary Ellen Burt registered at Balmain South in 1916, marriage as Francis Clair Grant to Amy Florence Currie Frere registered at Balmain in 1940),
- BERTHA M GRANT (birth and death registered at Cowra in 1889),
- EVELINE MAY GRANT (birth registered at Cowra in 1894, death on 14 August 1972 registered at Sutherland; marriage to Sydney Edward Cook registered in Sydney in 1923, no children),
- CEDRIC HORDEN [or GORDON] GRANT
(birth registered at Cowra in 1896; death registered at Chatswood in 1957; marriage to Edith Bray registered at Narrabri in 1930, two children),
- IVAN FRANCIS GRANT (birth registered at Cowra in 1898, killed in action on 29 March 1917 at Bullecourt, France, aged 19 as "John Henry Grant": on the first anniversary of his death his mother placed an In Memoriam in the local Dubbo paper (in memory of her son Ivan Francis who was killed on 29th March 1917)) and
- ASHLEY AUGUST GRANT
(birth registered at Cowra in 1900, death registered at Auburn in 1965; married (1922) Gladys Roberts (1903…1945)).
- Sandra of Dubbo, profiling the service men and women mentioned in the Dubbo Books of Remembrance and on the War Memorial in Dubbo, was confused with two Grant names mentioned and believe they are the same person, a son of William Grant and his wife Margaret Jane (née Brien) [per email, 19 February 2012]. Sandra notes that the Dubbo Memorial makes mention of two sons being killed in action during WWI, viz.:
- a) John Henry GRANT of the 53rd Battalion no. 2415 - A person by this name did enlist and was killed in WWI, but I am unable to locate a birth. Two of the earlier children to William & Margaret were John & Henry. He enlisted at aged 21 yrs & 6 mths, but when he died he was on 19 yrs (which fits in with Ivan's yeats of birth)
b) Ivan Francis GRANT of the 53rd Battalion no. 2415 - No-one enlisted in this name but there is a birth for him.
A search of records at National Archives of Australia using just "Grant 2145" brings up only one person and that is John Henry. Would you happen to know if Ivan enlisted under age and in another name please?
- The 15 January 2011 death of an Ivan Francis Grant, aged 73 [viz. born c1938], 'late of Blaxland, formerly of Erskineville, was noted in The Sydney Morning Herald four days later.
Of John Henry Grant, The AIF Project inotes:
- Regimental number: 2415; Place of birth: Cowra, New South Wales; School: Dubbo Public School, New South Wales; Religion: Church of England; Occupation: Labourer; Address: 168 Botany Street, Waterloo, Sydney; Marital status: Single; Age at embarkation: 21; Next of kin: Mother, Mrs Margaret Jane Grant, 168 Botany Street, Waterloo, Sydney; Enlistment date: 21 February 1916; Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A47 Mashobra on 14 September 1916; Rank from Nominal Roll: Private; Unit from Nominal Roll: 53rd Battalion; Fate: Killed in Action 29 March 1917; Place of death or wounding: Bullecourt, France; Age at death: 19; Place of burial: No known grave; Commemoration details: Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
- William and Margaret
moved to Dubbo. William and Margaret went their separate ways later (sometime
between 1900 and 1908). William by Catherine Ryan née Elms had three
further children:
- CECIL WILLIAM
GRANT (married Josephine Johnson; five children : Cecil William Grant (Jnr.)
Florence Catherine, Stanley Vernon Grant, Lorna, and Herbert. Stanley married
Elizabeth (Betty) Cameron; four children [the eldest, Stan Grant (jnr.), was
an Australian television news presenter, later working for CNN based in Hong
Kong.]),
- SETH GRANT
(married Catherine Stanley; three offspring : Stanley Robert "Roger"
Grant, Betty and Winnie) and
- EUNICE GRANT
(perhaps the Eunice J Grant born Gilgandra 1915; married Lindsay Sloan;
two children to this marriage, however she had four other children to two
other fathers).
- Margaret had another
child:
- DORIS GRANT
(birth registered at Dubbo in 1909; retained the name of Grant; married George Thomson; daughter Zita).
- William died on 27 November
1939 aged 83 and Margaret died on 14 September 1940 aged 75, both in the Dubbo region, and are buried in Dubbo: Margaret has a headstone but William does not. Margaret lived for many years at 23 Carrington Ave., Dubbo.
1.4.1.12
Elizabeth Ann Brien (1866
) m. Alexander Scott Murray
Elizabeth Ann Brien,
second of seven children born to JOHN BRIEN and his second wife MARY JANE EDGAR,
born 7 July 1866 at Emu Creek farm, married overseer Alexander Scott Murray at St Peters Presbyterian Church, Cowra, on 19 May 1887. The couple reared
five children:
- JOHN L MURRAY (born
1890 near Hay NSW),
- MALCOLM W MURRAY (born
1891 near Hay),
- REGINALD S MURRAY (born
1894 near Hay),
- EMILY A MURRAY (born
1896 near Balranald NSW) and
- ESTHER E MURRAY (born
1898 near Narrandera NSW).
Possibly
Related Families:
Perhaps related, a group
of Briens from Magheracross also setled at the Junction in Newcastle [possibly
called Burwood in the 1850s]; several descendants moved to Sydney. Perhaps some
of this family emigrated to America even earlier. Mr Harry Brien of Roleystone,
Western Australia, is the great-great-grandson of one of the Junction emigrants.
Richard Brandon McGlew
(Rich McGlew, McGLEW@prodigy.net,
10jun98) is a descendant of one Mary Brien who married a Gerard Brandon at Magheraculmoney
parish church, Co. Fermanagh, in 1778. Their son William emigrated from Ireland
to the United States and settled in Huntington Mills, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
in 1804. He was Richs g-g-grandfather.
In attempting to trace this Mary Brien we have more or less come to the conclusion
that she is probably related to the Brien family that was very numerous in Kilskeery
and Donacavey parishes in Co. Tyrone in this era. There were Briens in Magheraculmoney
and Drumkeeran parishes in Co. Fermanagh at the same time, but, we assume they
were members of this larger family. All of the above were Church of Ireland
then.
Does any of this ring a bell with you? I would assume this Mary Brien was born
1750 to 1755. Do you have any references to Brandons in your lines? Any general
information on the Brien family would also be very helpful.
None known.
Related
Families from the same areas:
NSW:
Flemings, Edgars, Wilsons and Eatons; other families
such as the Beatties .
Other
(probably unrelated) Brien Lineages:
None known.
Anything to
add?
If you
have any queries about this family, or information to add, please eMail
Ross Beattie ( rossbtgenealogy@gmail.com
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