McBrien families with origins traced to
Lough Erne region, Ireland
Provenance L
Inishmacsaint and Lough Erne, Counties Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Tyrone, Ireland
split into five files, 22nd May 2003
Lough Erne Lineage List | L1-10 | L11-20 | L21-40 | L41-60 | L61-M

This Page was Last Updated on 25th January 2013
 
 

L-1 Thomas McBrien (…pre1852) m. Sidney Lannia McBrien (…pre1852)
[Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh]

Thomas McBrien and his wife Sidney Lannia (?Tannia) McBrien, each of the Parish of Inishmacsaint, Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland seem to have been the parents of (at least):

Thomas and Sidney McBrien were deceased by early 1852. Daughter Mary Jane Openshaw's death certificate states that Thomas was a tanner. [Note: the above sibling grouping is based solely on the documented parental names on Mary Jane's New Zealand death certificate and Carson's Australian immigration listings].

Regarding Tiranagher (Mary Jane Openshaw nee McBrien's native place), the Townland Index (c1851) lists Tirangher Beg and Tirangher More as townlands in County Fermanagh, Barony of Magheraboy, Parish of Inishmacsaint, Poor Law Union of Ballyshannon [see Selected Towns and Townlands, Parish of Inishmacsaint]. In 1834 Lieutenant P. Taylor wrote regarding the Parish in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs,
"The central division is composed of a wild, romantic, mountainous, heathy district composing the townlands of Lenaghan, Blackslee, Shean, Bolusky [Bolusty Beg / Bolusty More / Bolustea], Tiernagher and Drumbag [?Drumbad], forming an irregularly connected range with the Boho mountains."

The villages Garrison and Derrygonnelly lie in the general vicinity at the eastern end of the Boho Mountains; Derrygonnelly in 1834 boasted, according to Taylor's report, "about 20 families, 6 of whom are shopkeepers and 12 spirit dealers". Church Hill, another village mentioned in the report, was smaller. In the report attention is drawn to the fact that the Parish was basically owned by three people, the Marquis of Ely, and two other absentee owners, General Archdale (per Charles I) and Colonel Montgomery (per James I) . Another landowner just east of Inishmacsaint (in the parish of Devinish, now called the Parish of Devinish and Boho) was John Dawson Brien, the sheriff of Fermanag, who had his home at Castletown, Monea and owned property around Derrygonnelly . Sanders, Styles and Gower (1982) noted regarding to the Parish of Devenish records that in the Census of 1841, John Brien, Esq. was listed as a landowner at Monea and Randleshough living at Castletown, Monea with family Charlotte (his wife), Mary, Wilhelmina and servants Robt. Thompson, Henry Dundas and Jane Thompson. There also appeared to be another "minor" landowner listed for Drumbeggan (Weir and Fiddis). The only other landowners listed in the Census were the Marquis of Ely, Col. Archdale and H. Montgomery; all others listed were freeholders or tenants .
Conditions and rentals were such that, as the report states "nothing but the means of transport prevents a simultaneous emigration to Australia or the Canadas…". While contemporary local documents mention McBrien with almost monotonous regularity, there appeared to be no references to O'Brien. [Although there were a number of Irish names mentioned, Methodist and Presbyterian influences seemed fairly strong in the district. There were many reiver families from Berwickshire, Dumfrieshire and Roxburghshire on the Scottish Borders in the late 16th century represented in the Barony of Magheraboy including Armstrong, Beattie, Bell, Kerr, Nixon, Robinson…]

Several McBriens were recorded at townlands neighbouring Tiranagher in the early 1800s. Rentals extracted by Ely included the following, attached to the Manor of Ardgart:
Rental of the Estate of the Rt. Hon the Earl of Ely in the County of Fermanagh for the half year ending 1 Nov 1793:-
Manor of Ardgart
Denoms Arrears 1/2 year Arrears
May 1793 Nov 1793 Nov 1793
3. Lower Ardies James McBrien 5-5-0 5-5-0
4. " " Robt McBrien 5-5-0 5-5-0
6. Upper " Thos McBrien 10-10-0 10-10-0 21-0-0
5. West quarter of 4. John McBrien 10-10-0 10-10-0
Perhaps Thos McBrien of Upper Ardies was the father of Mary Openshaw nee McBrien born c1810.
The McBrien name also occurs in other townlands in the same district. Since a townland is a small village or farm settlement – of on average 350 acres – they would most probably be related families. For example, Jack McBrien lived in Drumadillar, a townland 1km SE from Derrygonnelly, and his house "was a magnet for the scholars of the district, Mills, Nixons, Jack Ward, who was the Clerk of Petty Sessions and the Parish Priest, Father McGirr" [the priest died in 1815 and Mary was born c1810, giving a time relationship on Jack and Mary]. Sam Mills, a schoolteacher at Drumadillar from 1800 to 1840 taught Jack McBrien surveying. Presumably Jack was an adult pupil, as he had a house pre-1815, and a young pupil would probably not be taught surveying unless apprenticed. McBrien taught his nephew Thomas Nixon, who surveyed the village in 1845 and later emigrated to Australia, apparently becoming "…the Surveyor General of that country" . The Enniskillener of 6 December 1832 records the death of “John McBrien of Derrygonnelly, land surveyor, a confidential under agent of the Archdall family;... he was an old and respected member of the Masonic Institute (in his 84th year)”. The Impartial Reporter of the same date gives his name as John M'Brine.
Thomas Nixon's name is yet to be traced in Australian records. The Impartial Reporter of 21 July 1870 mentions him: “Thomas Nixon, Government District Surveyor of Benalla, Australia, son of Mr. John Nixon, Derrygonnelly, has obtained leave of absence for twelve months, owing to ill health, and will soon visit his native place, where we trust he will in a short time regain entire convalescence.”

However, a surveyor James McBrien from Enniskillen spent some time in Australia before emigrating to Ontario CAN. In 1823 he reported the first European discovery of gold in Australia (in the Fish River above Bathurst – the first payable deposits were reported by Hargraves at Ophir near Orange, 50 miles to the west, in 1851). James had returned to England by 1826; his wife and children emigrated to Canada in the mid-1800s. [James is discussed further in Section L-10].

L-1.1 Mary Jane McBrien (1808…1879) m. Thomas Openshaw (c1801…1883)

Mary Jane McBrien, daughter of tanner THOMAS McBRIEN and his wife SYDNEY LANNIA (?Tannia) McBRIEN (“formerly McBrien”), was a native of Tiranagher (written as Terriaugher on her death certificate), Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. She was born or baptised at Tiranagher on 1 May 1808. Mary Jane married Thomas Openshaw c1831 at either Halifax, Nova Scotia or Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Thomas came originally from Lancashire ENG, having been born in Manchester c1801, the son of cotton manufacturer THOMAS OPENSHAW.
Thomas and Mary later emigrated to Tasmania, where their two daughters were married in the 1850s, before moving to New Zealand where they passed their final years. [For further details, refer the Openshaw file].

L-1.2 Carson McBrien (1810…1870) m. Mary McBrien (c1815…1903)

From their Australian immigration listings it is known that agricultural labourer Carson McBrien was the son of THOMAS and SIDNEY McBRIEN of the parish of Inishmacsaint, Fermanagh, Ireland. Parish records shew he was baptised (or born?) on 1 July 1810. Carson's wife Mary McBrien was the daughter of JOSEPH and MARGARET McBRIEN. Mary's known siblings were John McBrine, baptised 6 March 1803 to Joseph McBrine and Margt McBrine of Ardes, Elizabeth McBrine, baptised 10 February 1805 to Joseph McBrine and Margaret McBrine of Ardies, Margaret McBrine, baptised 4 April 1807 to Jos McBrine and Margt McBrine of Ardies and Jane McBrien, baptised 19 March 1809 to Joseph McBrien and Margt McBrien of Ardies. [For further details, refer to Lineage L-2].

Carson was 38 and Mary 37 when they emigrated to Australia aboard the ship David McIver, departing Plymouth on 31 December 1851 and arriving in Sydney from Belfast on 9 April 1852 with their six daughters (unmarried at the time). The David McIver was placed in quarantine until 19 May, though the last immigrants were not released therefrom until 24 June. Recapitulation shews 337 emigrants arrived, including 49 families.
The listings state that Carson's and Mary's parents were all deceased prior to the David McIver's departure from Ireland. Carson, Mary and their daughters were natives of the Parish of Inishmacsaint [the listings have Innes Mc Mc Scent (sic)] Co Fermanagh. Carson was a Protestant who could read and write; Mary and the girls were noted as adherents of the Church of England, all excepting the younger three able to read. The whole family, excepting the eldest daughter Mary Anne (who was in the ship's hospital on arrival), reached Sydney in good health and made no complaints regarding conditions on the voyage. Carson paid £14 towards the passage of himself and his family to Australia. Interestingly, the listings note no known relatives known to be resident in the Colony.

Information from Trevor Johnston (johnston819@btinternet.com, 28jun2006) indicates Carson indentured his land to Robert Johnston of Tiernagher.

Carson and Mary McBrien were parents of:
The family quickly moved to North Parramatta where they were soon joined by relatives from Fermanagh; Carson and Mary remained there for the rest of their lives. Daughters Margaret, Ruth, Elizabeth, Mary Jane and Anabel each married at Parramatta , which appears to have been an early settlement area for other McBrien families. There remain today several streets in the Parramatta district named after the daughters' husbands.
Carson McBrien, labourer of Church Street, Parramatta, aged 56 years, died of dropsy after a three weeks' illness on 5 July 1856. His wife and all six daughters survived him, and the details for his death certificate were attested by his nephew William Edwards of Church Street [erroneously denoting Carson's parents as Carson and Mary]. [There was a marriage of a William Edwards and a Jane MacBrien in two ceremonies, at St George in Sydney's south, and at Parramatta to the west, during 1870 ; it may be that this William was a nephew (perhaps loosely defined) of Carson].

Mary McBrien died 18 March 1903 at Church Street, Parramatta North . Her death certificate, attested by her son-in-law Walter Gates of Parramatta, stated that she was 96 years old when she died of senile decay which she had endured some six months, that her father's name was McBrien and that she had married when aged about 27 and had been resident in Australia some 48 years or half her life; she was predeceased by Ruth. Mary was interred with Carson in All Saints CoE cemetery at Parramatta; their plot is enclosed with an iron railing and has a headstone inscribed:

Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF

CARSON McBRIEN
WHO DIED JUNE 5 1870
AGED 56 YEARS
The year rolls round, and steal away
The breath that first it gave.
Whate're we do where're we be
We're travelling to the grave.
Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground
To push us to the tomb
And fierce diseases wait around
To hurry mortals home.
Great God! on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things!
The eternal states of all the dead
Upon life's feeble strings.
Also MARY,
BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED 18th MARCH 1903
aged 96 years.
 
 
A newspaper obituary (source and date not identified) mentioned that Mary was a cousin of Assistant Surveyor James McBrien, who made the first European discovery of gold in Australia in 1823 at Fish River NSW):
Current News
Death of an Old Resident
Mrs. Mary McBrian, who was regarded as one of the oldest residents of Parramatta, passed away on Wednesday to her long rest, at the grand old age of 96 years. Mrs. McBrian was the mother of Mrs. Walter Gates, Mrs. Entwistle, Mrs. W. Buckley (Toongabbie), Mrs. John Wilson (Summer Hill), Mrs. J. W. Raven (Coonamble), and the late Mrs. Annetts. The old lady was a resident of Parramatta district for half a century and with her husband left Ireland (County Fermanagh) shortly after the great famine. She was attracted to Australia by the glowing accounts of her cousin, Assistant-surveyor James McBrian, who in 1823, found gold in the Fish River, but was ordered to say nothing about it, as it was feared that great excitement would prevail, and that this would lead to violence and attempts to escape on the part of the convicts. The funeral, which was largely attended, took place on Thursday, the deceased's mortal remains being interred in All Saint's cemetery, after a short service in the church, at which the Rev. John Done officiated. Mrs. Jordan Sparks was in charge of the funeral arrangements, and many handsome wreaths were laid upon the coffin. For some time Miss Garland has been conducting a Sunday school at Mrs. Brian's residence, and her schoolary met at the graveside to sing the old lady's favourite hymn.

L-1.2.1 Mary Jane McBrien (c1835…1928) m. Walter Gates (1845…1931)

Mary Jane McBrien, born circa 1835 in the parish of Inishmacsaint TYR, daughter of CARSON McBRIEN and MARY McBRIEN, was 17 years old when, as a farm and house servant, she emigrated to Sydney NSW with her parents and five siblings. At Parramatta in 1874, Mary Jane married Walter Gates, son of WILLIAM and ELIZABETH GATES, who had emigrated from Cambridgeshire circa 1856. Mary and Walter had three known children:

NSW Electoral Rolls shew William John Irwin [storekeeper] and Velinda Raven Irwin [home duties] at at Smith street, Parramatta in 1930,1933, 1936, 1937 and 1943, and Velinda at 24 Foamcrest avenue, Newport in 1949.

The birth of Heather M Gates, daughter of Lozina M, had been registered at Burwood in 1903; her death was registered at Parramatta in 1969. Heather Marie Kirkland passed her Nurses' Registration Board examinations at Sydney's Coast Hospital in November 1929. NSW Electoral Rolls shew Heather Marie Kirkland [nurse] at Sydney Hospital in 1930, at 65 Phillip street, Parramatta in 1933 and 1936, at District Hospital,Liverpool in 1949 and 1958, and [nursing sister] at Lidcombe State Hospital in 1963. On 9 February 1954 the NSW Supreme Court granted Probate on the estate of Velinda Raven Irwin deceased late of Newport Beach to Heather Marie Kirkland and Alfred Joseph Morgan.

Mary Jane Gates née McBrien died at Parramatta in 1928. Walter Gates died on Saturday 5 September 1931; the following obituary appeared in the Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate of 10 September.

L-1.2.2 Elizabeth McBrien (1838…) m. William F Entwistle (1836…1919)

Elizabeth McBrien, born 9 April 1838 at Tiranagher in the parish of Inishmacsaint FER, daughter of CARSON McBRIEN and MARY McBRIEN, was 14 years old when, as a farm and house servant, she emigrated to Sydney NSW with her parents and five siblings. Elizabeth married William F Entwistle on 2 August 1860; he had been born 1 September 1836, the son of WILLIAM ENTWISTLE and MARY CAMPBELL. Elizabeth bore William three known children:

L-1.2.2.1  Emily J Entwistle (1861…1942+) m. Samuel Thomas Marchant (1862… 1958)

The marriage of Emily J Entwistle (whose birth was registered at Parramatta in 1861, daughter of ELIZABETH McBRIEN and WILLIAM F ENTWISTLE) and Samuel Thomas Marchant was registered at Parramatta NSW in 1885. Samuel Thomas Marchant, 20, arrived in Melbourne aboard the Thirlmere on 31 December 1882: he was one of thirteen children of JOHN MARCHANT and ANN THOMPSON. Samuel's younger brother Percy Marchant emigrated with wife Emily Hartley in 1894 [research of their family by Linda Combe and Anne Buckingham is on the GenForum WebSite]. Samuel and Emily were the parents of:

Victorian Electoral Rolls shew Samuel Thomas Marchant [optician] and Emily [home duties] at Ryrie st., Geelong in 1903, where they were joined by Percy Marchant [traveller] in 1909. Samuel, Emily and Ivy [home duties] were at Ryrie st., Geelong in 1914. Samuel and Emily were there in with Lillian [clerk] and Louie [home duties] (they were listed at Kent House, Ryrie st.) in 1919. Samuel, Emily, Annie Drav. Marchant [attendant] and Louie Marchant [attendant] were at 99 Hoddle st., Richmond North in 1924. Samuel William Marchant [optician] was also listed at 123 Gray st., Melbourne East and Emily Marchant [home duties], Annie Draeg Marchant [home duties] and Louie Marchant [office worker] at 114 Gray st., Melbourne East in 1924; they were all listed at 114 Grey st. in 1931, 1936, 1937 and 1943, where Samuel, Annie and Louie remained in 1949 and 1954. Annie [home duties] and Louie [office wkr.] were still at 114 Grey st., Melbourne in 1963.

Anne Worthington [28sep2010] noted “…Samuel kept a diary of his trip out to Australia. In Parramatta he part-owned a business "Martindale and Marchant Booksellers and Picture-Framers", before moving his business to George St Sydney before 1895, and before 1903 moved to Geelong, Victoria where he became an optometrist, and then moved to Melbourne before 1924. He died in Melbourne in 1958.”

L-1.2.2.2  Alice Mary Entwistle (1863…1939) m. Robert Cort (1855… 1902)

Alice Mary Entwistle (born 23 March 1863, daughter of ELIZABETH McBRIEN and WILLIAM F ENTWISTLE, birth registered at Parramatta nsw) married Robert Cort (born 1855, son of ROBERT CORT and MARY HUNTINGTON) on 19 July 1882 at All Saints Parramatta. Robert and Alice were the parents of:

Western Australian Electoral Rolls shew Alice Mary Cort [widow], William Henry Cort [accountant] and Madge Cort [home duties] at 99 Dyer-street, Melbourne Road district, Perth in 1903. Alice [home duties], William and Madge Cort [home duties] were listed at 99 Dyer street in 1906. Alice was listed at 161 Hamersley road, Subiaco, Perth and at 78 Heytesbury road, Subiaco in 1925, together with Nellie Lloyd [home duties; Reginald William Britten Lloyd [carpenter] was listed at 161 Hamersley road (Nellie was also listed at that address in 1925). Alice was enrolled at 57 Bedford avenue, Subiaco in 1931 and at 43 Keightley road, Subiaco in 1936 and 1937. Alice Cort [married], Nellie Cort [spinster] and Stella Prosser [married] were at 17 Rose street, Subiaco, in 1910.

Alice Mary Cort née Entwistle died on 27 December 1939 at Field Street, Mt Lawley near Subiaco wa. Robert Cort died on 16 November 1902 aged 47 in Western Australia.

L-1.2.3 Margaret McBrien (1841…1921) m. William Buckley (…)

Margaret McBrien, born 22 July 1841 at Tiranagher in the parish of Inishmacsaint FER, was the third of six known daughters of CARSON McBRIEN and his wife MARY McBRIEN. Margaret married IEN. Margaret married William Buckley in 1859. Margaret and William were parents of ten children:

Margaret Buckley nee McBrien died in 1921.

L-1.2.4 Ruth McBrien (1844…1878) m. John Annetts (…1901)

Ruth McBrien, born 1 April 1844 at Tiranagher in the parish of Innes Mc Mc Scent [Inishmacsaint] Co Fermanagh, was the fourth of six known daughters of CARSON McBRIEN and his wife MARY McBRIEN. Ruth was seven years old when she emigrated to New South Wales with her parents and sisters aboard the ship sters aboard the ship David McIver, departing Plymouth on 31 December 1851 and arriving in Sydney from Belfast on 9 April 1852. The immigration records list Ruth as an adherent of the Church of England, not yet able to read.
Ruth married John Annetts on 3 December 1860 at Parramatta NSW; their issue included:
Ruth died at Parramatta in 1878 ; she was buried with her parents at All Saints' Cemetery, Parramatta.
Jacqueline Bobich née Annetts (pers comm 13 January 2004) is a great great grand-daughter of Ruth Annetts née McBrien.
John may have remarried following Ruth's death; a marriage of John Annetts and Maria Ogden was registered at Parramatta in 1879. One birth was registered to this marriage:
John Annetts, son of WILLIAM and MARY ANNETTS, died at Parramatta in 1901.

L-1.2.5 Martha McBrien (1847…1929) m. Joseph Wilson Raven (…)

Martha McBrien, born 3 January 1847 at Tiranagher in the parish of Inishmacsaint FER, was the fifth of six known daughters of CARSON McBRIEN and his wife MARY McBRIEN. Martha was four years old when she emigrated to New South Wales with her parents and sisters aboard the ship David McIver, departing Plymouth on 31 December 1851 and arriving in Sydney from Belfast on 9 April 1852. The immigration records list Martha as an adherent of the Church of England, not yet able to read. not yet able to read.
Martha married Joseph Wilson Raven on 16 August 1870 in Queensland. In 1903 they were living in Coonamble, NSW. Their union resulted in at least five issue:
Martha Raven nee McBrien died at Manly NSW in 1929 .

L-1.2.6 Anabel McBrien (1849…1941) m. John Wilson (…)

Anabel McBrien, born 4 October 1849 at Tiranagher in the Parish of Inishmacsaint FER, was the youngest of six known daughters of CARSON McBRIEN and his wife MARY McBRIEN. Anabel was two years old when she emigrated to New South Wales with her parents and sisters aboard the ship David McIver, departing Plymouth on 31 December 1851 and arriving in Sydney from Belfast on 9 April 1852. The immigration records list Ruth as an adherent of the Church of England, not yet able to read.

Anabel married John Wilson in 1882; their issue included:
Anabel Wilson nee McBrien died at Ashfield in 1941.

L-2 Joseph McBrine (c1780…1852-) m. Mar garet McBrine (c1780…1852-)
[Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh]

[This was McBrien Lineage #18 on the pre-2002 WebSite]
Joseph McBrine/McBrien and his wife Margaret (nee McBrine/McBrien) were parents of (at least):
Joseph and his wife Margaret were both deceased prior to Mary's emigration in early 1852.

L-2.1 Mary McBrien (c1815…1903) m. Carson McBrien (1810…1870)

Mary McBrien, aged 37 years, daughter of JOSEPH McBRINE and his wife MARGARET (nee McBRINE), emigrated to Australia aboard the ship David McIver, arriving in Sydney on 9 April 1852. With her was her husband Carson McBrien, an agricultural labourer aged 38, son of THOMAS McBRIEN and his wife SIDNEY (nee McBRIEN) of Teerenagher in the parish of Inishmacsaint, and their six then unmarried daughters. They were all natives of the Parish of Inishmacsaint [Innes Mc Mc Scent (sic)] Co Fermanagh. Carson was a Protestant who could read and write; Mary and the girls were noted as adherents of the Church of England, all excepting the younger three able to read. [For further details of Mary and Carson, see section 1.2].
Their ages recorded in the David McIver's logs implies that Mary was born circa 1815 and Carson circa 1814. Carson however appears to have been baptised at Teerenagher in the parish of Inishmacsaint in 1810.

L-3 Francis McBrien (c1780?…) m. Sidney McBrien (c1780?…)

Francis McBrien (or McBrine) and Sidney McBrien (or McBrine) married on 24 September 1801 in the Parish of Inishmacsaint, Middle/Lower Division. They were noted as parents of:
Francis and Sidney were residents of Drumbad in 1802, 1804, 1806 and 1810, and of nearby Ardies in 1808 and 1812.

L-4 Noble McBrine (c1780?…) m. Margaret Bustard (c1780?…)

Noble McBrine and his wife Margaret Bustard (Bustod) were married by in the parish of Inishmacsaint (Middle/Lower Division), County Fermanagh. Residents of Terenagher (Terenaghen/Tieranagher/Turnegher) townland, they were noted as parents of:
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From the “British Isles – Vital Records Index” [Copyright 1998 by The Church Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]:
McBrien, Noble; Marriage; Wife: Mary Rankin; Date: 19 June 1848; husband's father: Noble McBrien; Wife's Father: Alexander Rankin [FHL 101293]
Perhaps Noble McBrien the father of Noble who married Mary Rankin was the 1804 son of Noble McBrine and Margaret Bustard.
See also Section L-5, regarding neighbours Mary McBrine who married Robert Dundas: they named a son Noble in 1806. Perhaps Mary was a sister of Noble McBrine.

L-5 Mary McBrine/McBrien (c1780?…) m. Robert D Dundas of Drimbad / Bolusty, Inishmacsaint

Mary McBrine/McBrien and Robert D Dundas of Drimbad or Bolusty, Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh were the parents of:
See also Section L-4 regarding neighbours Noble McBrine who married Margaret Bustard: perhaps Mary was a sister of Noble McBrine.

L-5.1 Noble Dundas (1806…1868) m1(c1850) Sarah McBrien in Ontario; m2(c1858) Margaret Ann Maxwell

Noble Dundas, son of MARY McBRINE and ROBERT DUNDAS of Drimbad, Inishmacsaint, was baptised 11 May 1806. Noble immigrated to Canada about 1833 and married Sarah McBrien about 1850 in Ontario. By 1858, Noble married Margaret Ann Maxwell in Pittsburg Twp, Victoria Co., Ontario.
Margaret was left with the small children when Noble died in 1868 and remarried two years later to Daniel Thomas Levely. They all came to Michigan with the rest of the Maxwell family around 1872.
Linda Dundas < Ljdcad@aol.com > is a descendant of Sarah McBrien (?and Noble Dundas?), according to Pretoria Maxwell of Hope, Michigan < TORY6208@cs.com , 08 September 2001> who wrote to Bill Barber, Hudson, New Hampshire, regarding Margaret Ann Maxwell and Noble Dundas. Pretoria Maxwell has information of both the Dundas and Levely descendants: webSite - http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?nt>s odb=pfm6208.

L-6 Guy McBrien (c1790?…) m. Anne Bailey (c1790?…)

Guy McBrien and his wife Anne Bailey (Baily) were married by licence on 14 April 1809 in the parish of Inishmacsaint (Middle/Lower Division), County Fermanagh. Residents of Ardies townland, they were noted as parents of:

L-7 James McBrien (c1790?…) m. Catherine Dundas (c1790?…)

James [Jas.] McBrien and his wife Cath. [?Catherine] Dundas were married by licence on 29 November 1810 in the parish of Inishmacsaint (Middle Division), County Fermanagh. Residents of Terenagher townland, they were noted as parents of:

L-8 Thomas McBrien (c1848…1930) m1. Mary McDonnald (…?1881), m2. Jane Whiting née Mobbs (c1850…)

Labourer Thomas McBrien, son of carpenter JOHN McBRIEN, died aged 82 years on 26 April 1930 at Maitland Street, Stanford Merthyr in Tarro shire near Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley region of NSW. His son Carson McBrien stated at that time that Thomas had been born at Enniskillen in Fermanagh, Ireland, and had been in New South Wales some 68 years. Thomas would have been born about 1848, and would have emigrated about 1862 when aged about 14 years. The identity of Thomas' mother was unknown, and Enniskillen may have been a regional reference to his birthplace.

[Note that in 1881 the Peterborough delivered immigrants Arthur McBrien and his sister Eliza McBrien from Fermanagh to Sydney. Both Arthur, aged 33 years, and Eliza, aged 28 years, noted their mother as Jane, still living in Fermanagh, and their brother Thomas already a resident at Parramatta. This Thomas may have been Thomas born c1848, whose children's birth and death registrations indicate he resided at Parramatta in 1881. Alternatively, Arthur and Eliza could have been the children born 1846 and 1852 to Arthur McBrien and Jane Belford in Fermanagh, who had a son Thomas born 1830 (about whom little is known) and several other children, some of whom including Thomas emigrated to NSW and settled in Sydney and Parramatta (see section L-9). However Arthur born 1846 is known to have emigrated in 1864 aboard the Sirocco with his brother Andrew (their brother Thomas was already resident at Parramatta - see section L-9.6) and is unlikely to have been allowed assisted immigrant status a second time for a passage in the Peterborough.]

Thomas married twice. His first marriage, to Mary McDonnald, was registered at Parramatta NSW in 1870. Thomas and Mary were noted as parents of:
The death of a Mary McBrien, daughter of JOHN and FANNIE and perhaps the wife of Thomas McBrien, was registered at Parramatta in 1881; she may have died as a result of childbirth. Thomas' second marriage was about 1883 [registered in 1886] at Parramatta toJane Whiting née Mobbs, daughter of JOHN MOBBS and ELIZABETH BEST baptised in 1850. Thomas and Jane were parents of:
By her previous marriage to Joseph Whiting at Parramatta in 1866, Jane was the mother of eight to ten children including:
 
 
 
Thomas was buried on 27 April 1930 in the Church of England cemetery at Kurri Kurri, Arnold Bailey reading the service. Brian Perry [13 December 2001] has access to the Kurri Kurri cemetery records with listings. The only McBriens listed are (all in the Church of England section]:
Thomas McBrien (buried 27 April 1930, grave site 24, 33),
A.G. McBrien (buried 13 May 1933, grave site 24, 33),
Carson Balfour McBrien (buried 31 October 1942, grave site 2, 34 [son of the above]) and
J.McBrien (buried 29 September 1940, grave site 26, 33 [granddaughter of Carson Balfour McBrien]).
Given that McBrien is not a common surname, and that Carson is a very uncommon Christian name, it seems likely that Thomas was related to Carson McBrien of Parramatta NSW.

L-8.1  Thomas Francis McBrien (1873…1945) m1. Mary Josephine Allport (1872…1901); m2. Jessie Taylor (…); m3. Margaret Elizabeth Quilkey (…1951)

Thomas Francis McBrien, son of THOMAS McBRIEN and MARY McDONNALD, was born about 1873 at Parramatta in Sydney's west. Thomas married Mary Josephine Allport in Sydney in 1898; her birth had been registered at Parramatta in 1872 to WILLIAM EDWARD ALLPORT and MARY RYAN [whose marriage was registered at Parramatta in 1872]. Thomas and Mary were the parents of:
The death of Mary J McBrien née Allport, daughter of WILLIAM E and MARY, aged 28, occurred at Parramatta District Hospital on 5 July 1901, as noted in The Sydney Morning Herald on 6 July 1901: “McBRIEN.—July 5, 1901, at District Hospital, Parramatta, Mary Josephine, beloved wife of Thomas Francis McBrien, aged 28 years.”.She was buried in St Patrick's cemetery at North Parramatta, three or four graves to the left of the chapel (with some McDonalds).

Thomas Francis McBrien re-married in Sydney in 1906: the marriage, to Jessie Taylor, lasted to Saturday 6 April 1918, when The Sydney Morning Herald (p9) reported: “McBRIEN v McBRIEN. Mr. R. W. Fraser appeared for Jessie McBrien (formerly Taylor), who sought a divorce from Thomas Francis McBrien, to whom she was married on December 19, 1906, at the New Unitarian Church, Sydney. The issue of desertion was proved, and a decree nisi granted, returnable in six months."

Thomas Francis McBrien, widower labourer aged 44 years, of Murwillumbah, Tweed River NSW, a Roman Catholic, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 28 July 1916 for duty in World War 1. Given service number 2615 and ranked Private, he was assigned to 42 Infantry Battalion (5th Reinforcements (June-December 1916)) and embarked on HMAT Kyarra (A55) on 17 November 1916 at Brisbane. His next-of-kin was noted as his father, Mr Thomas McBrien of Kurri Kurri NSW.

Thomas, an unmarried labourer aged 43 years, of Queensland, previously disembarked with 43rd Battalion (5th Reinforcements), still ranked Private, was reassigned to 27th Batallion (18th Reinforcements) and reembarked on HMAT Berrima (A35) on 23 December 1916, at Fremantle WA. His next-of-kin was noted as his father, Mr Thomas McBrien, Post Office, Kurri Kurri NSW.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Thomas Francis McBrien [labourer] at State Hospital, Flemington [Lidcombe] in 1930. It appears that Thomas Francis McBrien re-married at Annandale in Sydney’s inner west in 1936, his third wife being Margaret Elizabeth Quilkey. The Rolls shew Thomas Francis McBrien [labourer] and Margaret Elizabeth McBrien [home duries] at 19 Chestnut road, Auburn, in 1937.

Basil McBrien and a Patrick McBrien, along with Ashton Taylor, Agatha Saunders, Lucy Wall, Frank Allport, Kathleen Christian, Edith Lawler, Lizzie Ryan, William Allport and Bertha Lawler were among the mourners at the funeral of their aunt Edith Selina Allport, who died at her residence (2 Aird Street, Parramatta) on 23 August 1940. The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday 24 August 1940 (p12) reported: “ALLPORT.—August 23, 1940 at her residence 2 Aird Street Parramatta, Edith Selina Allport, beloved aunt ot Basil McBrien, Patrick McBrien, Ashton Taylor, Agatha Saunders, Lucy Wall, Frank Allport, Kathleen Christian, Edith Lawler, Lizzie Ryan, William Allport, and Bertha Lawler. R.l.P.”

The Rolls shew Thomas Francis McBrien [labourer] and Margaret Elizabeth McBrien [home duries] at Campbell Hill road, Guildford, in 1943.

The death of Thomas Francis McBrien, son of THOMAS and MARY, apparently at Rockdale, was registered at Randwick in 1945.
The death of Margaret Elizabeth McBrien on 29 January 1951, aged 78, 'late of Hurstville', daughter of WILLIAM and ELLES, was noted in The Sydney Morning Herald on 30 ans 31 January, and 1 February 1951.
 

L-8.1.1  Ashton Vincent McBrien a.k.a. Ashton Vincent Taylor (1900…1974) m. Nellie May Brown (1904…2010)

The birth of Ashton Vincent McBrien, son of THOMAS FRANCIS McBRIEN and MARY JOSEPHINE ALLPORT, was registered at Parramatta in 1899 though WW2 enlistment states that he was born 18 February 1900 at Parramatta. Ashton's mother died shortly after the 1901 birth of his brother Basil and Ashton was adopted and brought up as Ashton Vincent Taylor.

The marriage of Ashton to Nellie May Brown was registered at Parramatta in 1926; they were the parents of (at least):
 
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Ashton Vincent Taylor [labourer] and Nellie May Taylor [home duties] at Thomas street, Parramatta in 1930 [other Taylors also lived in that street] and 1933, and at 41 Thomas street, Parramatta in 1936 and 1937. Ashton Vincent Taylor enlisted in the Australian Army at Parramatta on 2 July 1940, noting his birth as at Parramatta on 18 February 1900 and his 'next-of-kin' as Nellie Taylor: he was discharged as a Gunner from 'R R D Arty' [?Reserve Regiment D Artillery?] on 27 January 1941. The Rolls shew Ashton Vincent Taylor [labourer] and Nellie May Taylor [home duties] still at 41 Thomas street, Parramatta in 1943.

The Rolls next shew Ashton Vincent Taylor [labourer] at 41 Thomas street, Parramatta while Nellie May Taylor [storekeeper] with Kenneth Charles Taylor [grocer] were at 112 Albert street, Parramatta, in 1949, Ashton [labourer] at 41 Thomas street, Parramatta and Nellie [storekeeper] at 112 Albert street, Parramatta, in 1954, 1958 and 1963.

The death of Ashton Vincent Taylor born McBrien, son of THOMAS FRANCIS and MARY JOSEPHINE, registered in NSW in 1974.

The Rolls listed Nellie May Taylor [storekeeper] at 112 Albert street, North Parramatta, in 1980. The death of Nellie May Taylor née Brown on 16 September 2010, aged 106, 'late of Parramatta', was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 20 September 2010 and in Sydney's Daily Telegraph the next day.

L-8.1.1.1  Kenneth Charles Taylor (1927…1993) m. Clarice Shirley Janet Wilmot (…)

Kenneth Charles Taylor, son of ASHTON VINCENT TAYLOR born McBRIEN and NELLIE MAY BROWN, was born 1 February 1927 at Parramatta. Kenneth enlisted in the Australian Army at Parramatta on 10 March 1945, noting his birth details and his 'next-of-kin' as Nellie Taylor: he was discharged as a Signalman from '33 Aust D/R Sec' on 28 November 1947.

It appears that Kenneth married Clarice Shirley Janet Wilmot as registered at Parramatta in 1950 and that they were the parents of (at least):
 
 
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Ashton Vincent Taylor [labourer] at 41 Thomas street, Parramatta but Nellie May Taylor [storekeeper] with Kenneth Charles Taylor [grocer] were at 112 Albert street, Parramatta, in 1949. Kenneth Charles Taylor [bus driver] and Clarice Shirley Janet Taylor [home duties] were at 6 Mombri street, Merrylands in 1954 and 1958. Kenneth Charles Taylor [refinery operator] and Clarice Shirley Janet Taylor [home duties] were also listed at 16 Mary parade, Rydalmere, in 1958 and again in 1963. Kenneth Charles Taylor [refinery operator] and Clarice Shirley Janet Taylor [home duties] were at 106 Willoughby Rd., Terrigal in 1980, along with Brian Wilmot Taylor [army officer]. Bruce Wilmot Taylor [teacher] and Coralie May Taylor [hairdresser].

The death of Kenneth Charles Taylor on 3 July 1993, aged 66, 'late of Terrigal, formerly of Rydalmere', was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on 5 July 1993..

L-8.1.2  Basil Francis McBrien (1901…) m1. Norah Kathleen Guthrie (1907… 1990), m2. Gladys Roach (1903…)

Basil Francis McBrien, son of THOMAS FRANCIS McBRIEN and MARY JOSEPHINE ALLPORT, was born in 1901 near Parramatta; his mother died shortly after his birth. Basil married Norah Kathleen Guthrie in March 1927 at Enmore, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church [marriage registered at St Peters nsw]; she hailed from the Nambucca district on the NSW mid-north coast: Norah's birth to JOHN and ADELAIDE E had been registered at Macksville in 1907. Basil and Norah were the parents of::
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Basil Francis McBrien [sheet iron wk.] at Aird and O'Connell streets, and Norah Kathleen McBrien [home duries] at 2 Aird street [the same place], Parramatta, in 1930, 1933 and 1936.

Basil and Norah's marriage did not last, Basil securing a decree nisi for dissolution after Norah was found to have committed adultery with a Harry John Edward Farraway, as reported in The Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday 5 November 1935 (p8).

Basil and Norah each later re-married. Norah Kathleen McBrien re-married at Granville in 1936, her second husband being Henry John Edward Farraway. Electoral Rolls shew Henry John Edward Farraway [labourer] and Norah Kathleen Farraway [home duries] at 75 Old Prospect road, Wentworthville, in 1943 and 1949. Henry and Norah are listed with Barny Edward Farraway [shop assistant] at 85 Darcy road, Wentworthville in 1958 and at 55 Darcy road, Wentworthville in 1963. Norah Kathleen Farraway [home duries] was listed with Antonia Aldegonda Farraway [home duties], Gregory Henry Farraway [mechanic], Keith Maxwell Farraway [no occupation listed] and Laurie Henry Farraway [boilermaker] at 5 Old Stock Route Road, Oakville, in 1980. The death of Norah Kathleen Farraway formerly McBrien née Guthrie on 9 June 1990, 'late of Wentworthville',was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 11 June 1990.

The Rolls shew Basil Francis McBrien [sheet iron wk.] still at Aird and O'Connell streets, Parramatta, in 1937, and Basil Francis McBrien [stove maker] at 4 Aird street, Parramatta, in 1943.

Basil 's second marriage, to Gladys Roach, was registered in Sydney in 1949. The birth of Gladys Roach, to WILLIAM and EMMA, had been registered at Parramatta in 1903. The Rolls shew Basil Francis McBrien [stove maker] and Gladys McBrien [home duries] at 14 Royston street, Darlinghurst, in 1949.

Basil and Gladys soon separated. Basil Francis McBrien [sheet metal worker] is listed at 12 St. Peters street, St Peters in 1954, at 60 Hutchinson street, St Peters in 1958, at 13 Renwick street, Alexandria in 1963, and Basil Francis McBrien [metal worker] at 158 Belmont street, Zetland, in 1980. Gladys McBrien [home duries] remained at 14 Royston street, Darlinghurst, in 1954. Gladys McBrien [telephonist] was at 203 Juno parade, Chullora, in 1958, at 203 Juno parade, Chullora, in 1963, and [no occupation shewn] at 21/22 Meldrum Avenue, Mt Ptitchard, in 1980.
 
 

L-8.1.2.1 Basil Patrick McBrien (1927…) m. Mary Philomena Fogarty (…)

 
Basil Patrick McBrien, son of BASIL FRANCIS McBRIEN and NORAH KATHLEEN GUTHRIE, was born in 1927. Basil's marriage to Mary Philomena Fogarty was registered at Auburn nsw in 1952: in 1999 they lived at 42 Balmoral Street, Northmead.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Basil Patrick McBrien [pathology teacher] at 3 Aird street, Parramatta, in 1949 and Basil [pathology technician] at 4 Aird street, Parramatta, in 1954, where he was listed with Mary Philomena McBrien [home duties] in 1958. Later in 1958, and again in 1963, Basil Patrick McBrien [biochemist] and Mary Philomena McBrien [home duties] were enrolled at 42 Balmoral road, Northmead. The Rolls shew Basil Patrick McBrien [biochemist] and Mary Philomena McBrien [home duties], with Kevin John McBrien [student], Mary Ann McBrien [cmptmtrst] and Matthew Vincent McBrien [butcher], at 42 Balmoral road, Northmead, in 1980, with a Michael Patrick McBrien [nurse] and Shelley Maree McBrien [receptionist] nearby at 28 Moxhams road, Northmead.

In 1999 Basil Patrick McBrien remembered a Thomas McBrien who was a wood and coal merchant in winter, and an ice merchant in summer, selling his family ice about 1937.
 
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L-8.2  Andrew Charles McBrien (1878…1963) m. Aimee Jane Rainey Marsh (…1921)

[this sub-lineage 'Andrew Charles McBrien (1878…1963) m. Aimee Jane Rainey Marsh (…1921)' was moved from Section L-75.2.1 on 11 January 2014, becoming Section L-8.2, following an eMail from Su Tayler, Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia [7 January 2014] who researches the Marsh side of the family:
Previously on 25 December 2003 lineage 'A-1 Andrew C McBrien (…1963) m. Aimee Jane ?Raine Marsh (…1921) had been merged with Lineages A-2 and A-14 to form Lineage L-75 [provenance changed to Lough Erne area, Ireland]'.

The birth of Andrew Charles McBrain, son of THOMAS McBRAIN and MARY, was registered at Parramatta in 1878. The marriage of Andrew Charles McBrien to Aimee Jane Rainey Marsh was registered at Wagga Wagga in 1908i. Aimee had been born on Jersey in the Shetland Isles. Andrew and Aimee / Amy registered the following births and death for their children at Wagga Wagga in the years indicated:

An Amy McBrien, born 21 June 1921 at Wagga Wagga, enlisted into the Australian Army in March 1943 at Paddington NSW; at enlistment she was apparently residing at nearby Marrickville. She noted her next-of-kin as Charles McBrien. Private Amy McBrien was discharged at 2 AWAS Training Depot on 30 June 1943.

The death of Amy J McBrien, daughter of ELIJAH and ZELIE, was registered at Wagga Wagga in 1921. The family was split when Aimee died and Roy raised by an aunt. Andrew McBrien, described once as an eccentric, died at Wagga Wagga in 1963.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Andrew McBrien [labourer] at Lake Albert., Wagga Wagga in 1936, 1937, 1943, 1949 and 1954. The Rolls have Andrew [no occupation noted] and his son Leslie James McBrien [labourer] at 153 Lake Albert road, Wagga Wagga in 1958.

Andrew McBrien, described once as an eccentric, died at Wagga Wagga on 22 April 1963 and was buried in Wagga Monumental Cemetery two days later.

An Amy Lorna McBrien (Lorna) married William Alfred Pearsall at Wagga Wagga in 1944. Electoral Rolls shew William Alfred Pearsall [water board employee] and Amy Lorna Mary Pearsall [home duties] at 8 Knight street, Erskinville,in 1949.

L-8.2.1  Leslie James McBrien (1909…1980+)

The birth of Leslie James McBrien, a son of ANDREW McBRIEN and his wife AIMEE JANE RAINEY MARSH, was registered in Wagga Wagga in 1909.
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Leslie James McBrien [kitchenhand] at c/o H. T. Prowse, Oura [North Wagga Wagga] in 1930, Leslie James McBrien [labourer] at Lake rd., Wagga in 1933, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1949 and 1954. The Rolls have Leslie James McBrien [labourer] and his father Andrew [no occupation noted] at 153 Lake Albert road, Wagga Wagga in 1958; Leslie remained listed at that address in 1980.

L-8.2.2  Linda O McBrien (1909…1932) m. Reuben C Diessel (…)

The birth of Linda O McBrien, daughter of ANDREW McBRIEN and his wife AIMEE JANE RAINEY MARSH, was registered in Wagga Wagga in 1909. The marriage of Linda D McBrien to Reuben C Diessel registered at Junee in 1929.

The death of Linda O Diessel née McBrien, daughter of ANDREW C and his wife AMY J, was registered at Junee in 1932.

L-8.2.3  Roy McBrien (1915…1974) m. Mollie Irene Burden (…1998+)

Roy McBrien (born in Wagga Wagga 27 March 1915 and raised there by an aunt) was the son of ANDREW McBRIEN and his wife AIMEE JANE ?RAINE MARSH. Roy, believed to have been strongly Roman Catholic, married Mollie Irene Burden at Wagga Wagga about 1943 and they raised at least three children:

Roy McBrien, born 27 March 1915 at Wagga Wagga, enlisted into the Australian Army (service number NX95422) on 23 April 1942 at Paddington nsw; at enlistment he was a resident of Wagga Wagga, and noted his next-of-kin as Charles McBrien. Private Roy McBrien was discharged at 149 General Transport Company on 18 April 1944.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Roy McBrien [labourer] at 57 Brookong avenue, Wagga Wagga in 1936 and 1937. Roy was listed at 7 Richard street, Wagga Wagga in 1943, where he was listed with Molly Irene McBrien [ home duties] in 1949, 1954 and 1958. Roy [factory hand] and Molly [home duties] were listed at 306 Waterloo road, Chullora, in 1963 and 1968.

A notice regarding the death of Roy McBrien, son of CHARLES ANDREW and JEANE RAIMY, on 27 February 1974, “late of Greenacre [nsw]”, was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 1 March 1974.

Molly Irene McBrien [home duties] is listed in the 1980 Electoral Rolls at 306 Waterloo road, Greenacre [subdivded from Chullora]. In 1998 Mollie, who distantly knew of Leslie, Amy Lorna (but known as 'Lorna') and Edna, lived in Penrith. The family rumour was that forebears had been very much publicans and those that weren't spent much of their time in those types of establishments.

About 1988 while living in Adelaide, David McBrien spoke to a Peter (?) McBrien who was running a hotel there and who had just announced the birth of his son David in the Adelaide Advertiser, the name no longer appears in the Adelaide telephone directory.
David also recalled seeing McBriens mentioned on the Goulburn War Memorial for the First World War.

L-8.2.4  Dorothy May McBrien (1920…2001) m. Ernest Edward McGregor (1914…1990)

Dorothy May McBrien, daughter of ANDREW McBRIEN and his wife AIMEE JANE RAINEY MARSH, was born on 5 May 1920, probably at Wagga Wagga. The marriage of Dorothy May McBrien to Ernest Edward McGregor was registered at Wagga Wagga in 1938; the birth of Ernest E McGregor on 1 May 1914 to farmer DUNCAN D and EMILY ISABEL had been registered at Wagga Wagga in 1914.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Ernest Edward McGregor [labourer] along with his parents at Pine Gully, North Wagga Wagga in 1936, 1937 and 1943. Ernest Edward McGregor [drover] and Dorothy May McGregor [home duties] were enrolled at 21 Wall street, North Wagga Wagga, in 1949, at 12 Albury street, Harden in 1954. Ernest Edward [“Shady”] McGregor died on 26 December 1990 and was buried inWagga Wagga General Cemetery (lawn) on 31 December 1990.

The Rolls shew Dorothy May McGregor [waitress] at 29 Evans street, Wagga Wagga, in 1958, 1968, and Dorothy May McGregor [home duties] with (her son?) Allan Edward McGregor at 119 Beckwith St., Wagga Wagga in 1980. Dorothy was still living in 1998.

Dorothy May McGregor died on 16 November 2001 and was buried in Wagga Wagga General Cemetery on 21 November 2001..

L-8.2  Carson Balfour McBrien (1879…1942) m. Alice Georgina Clark (1884…1933)

Carson Balfour McBrien, son of THOMAS McBRIEN and MARY McDONALD, was born at Parramatta on 30 September 1879. When a moustachioed Carson aged 22 ran foul of the law in April 1902, he described that he was married and supporting his wife, child and himself, and he had been employed as a groom on 12s a week plus keep for the five months to 29 March, and after giving his wife half of the 12s per week saved £7 in the course of the five months. Carson was sentenced to eighteen months with hard labour for, in company, unlawfully assaulting and robbing Hugh Kennedy in Parramatta.

Alice Georgina Clark bore Carson Balfour McBrien one child, a son:
Carson's statement in May 1902 that he was married and had a child is consistent with that of Alice McBrien in December 1902 (below), though one source said he married Alice Georgina Clark at Merewether nsw in 1930 [the event registered at Waverley in 1930], just three years before her death. Alice (“Lally”) was born 5 August 1884 at “Nu(ru)llambones”? (or “Williambone”?) Station near Walgett in north-western NSW, daughter of saddler JAMES CLARK and ELIZA GANNON, who had married at Walgett on 23 June 1880. James had been born circa 1859 in London eng, and Eliza circa 1858 at Cooks River [?Sydney nsw]. Alice was their third child, one female living and one deceased at the time of her birth.
 

An older sibling of Alice was Florence Maud M Clark, born at Narrabri in 1881, daughter of James and Eliza Clark. She married Joseph W Arundale at Parramatta in 1901. Joseph, born at Parramatta in 1872, was the son of Samuel and Margaret Arundale; his siblings were Ruby M Arundale (born 1901) and Dercy H Arundale (born 1906). Joseph and Florence's son Atherston (or Atheretone) W Arundale [“Tuppence”] was born at Parramatta on 4 July 1902; he married Mary Johns at Kurri Kurri in 1922. A descendant of Atherstone [April 2000] was Andrew Radclyffe . Donna Arundale [April 2000 ] is another descendant of Samuel and Margaret.
The death of Alice G McBrien nee Clark was registered at Kurri Kurri in 1933; she died from cancer. The death of Carson Balfour McBrien was registered at Kurri Kurri in 1942, the son of THOMAS and MARY. Carson died at “Stanford Merthyr” near Kurri Kurri on 30 October 1942. A miner, he was apparently also a proud Orangeman, politically a communist, and an eager reader of the Tribune. His excessive liking of rum eventually led to a bout of pneumonia and death.

L-8.2.1  Reginald Balfour McBrien (1901…1961) m. Hazel Linda Rees (1908…1985)

Reginald Balfour McBrien, born 26 December 1901/2 at Parramatta [though registered at Parramatta in 1930], son of CARSON BALFOUR McBRIEN and ALICE G CLARKE, married Hazel Linda Rees at Kurri Kurri in December 1930. Hazel, born at Minmi NSW on 4 January 1908, was the fifth of seven known children of JAMES H REES and SARAH E HARRISON who had married at Minmi in 1899; the births of Hazel's known siblings were all registered at Minmi save the last, registered at Kurri Kurri in 1917. Reginald and Hazel had one daughter and two sons:
Reginald McBrien died in 1961. Like his father, he had been a coal miner, later working for the Hunter District Water Board.
Hazel was a director of the Kurri Kurri Workers Club, and frequently noted or pictured in local newspaper reports. Hazel McBrien, widow aged 77 years of 53 Wallsend Street, Stanford Methyr, died on 18 January 1985 at Kurri Kurri District Hospital; remembered as a wonderful person, a real “dream”.

L-8.3  Beatrice E May McBrien (1889…6.8.4 1966) m. John Herbert Draper (c1888… 1922); m2. Samuel Thomas Muir (1886… 1941)

Beatrice E May McBrien, daughter of THOMAS McBRIEN and JANE WHITING, was born about 1889 at Parramatta. Beatrice married John Herbert Draper at nearby Granville in 1911; John and Beatrice were parents of:
John Herbert Draper, aged 34, son of JOHN and LOUISA, died 'at Tram Wharf, Parramatta, late of Granville', on 30 January 1922. The Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday 31 January 1922 (p7) advising: “DRAPER-The Relatives and friends of the late JOHN HERBERT DRAPER are kindly invited to attend his Funeral, to move from his late residence, Meehan-street, Granville, TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY, at 12.45, for the Western-road Cemetery, Parramatta.”.

Beatrice May Draper married Samuel Thomas Muir at nearby Granville in 1924: his birth to JAMES and MARGARET had been registered at Crookwell in 1886. NSW Electoral Rolls shew Samuel Thomas Muir [labourer] and Beatrice May Muir [home duties] at 18 Onslow street, Granville, in 1930, 1933 and 1936, and at 56 Alfred street, Granville in 1937.

The death of Samuel Thomas Muir, son of JAMES JOSEPH and MARGARET, was registered at Auburn in 1941.

Beatrice May Muir [home duties] is listed in the Electoral Rolls at 44 Station street, Harris Park, in 1943, and at 14 Tasman street in 1949, 1954, 1958 and 1963. The death of Beatrice May Muir, daughter of THOMAS and JANE, was registered at Liverpool in 1966..

L-8.4  Belmore J T McBrien (1892…1970s) m. Maud(e) Solomon (1896…1980s)

Belmore J T McBrien, son of THOMAS McBRIEN and JANE WHITING, was born about 1892 at Parramatta. Belmore J T O'Brien (sic) married Maude Solomon at nearby Auburn in 1917; she was probably the daughter born at Auburn in 1896 of WILLIAM SOLOMON and his wife LAURA M COOK, who had married in Sydney in 1894. Belmore and Maud were parents of (at least):
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Belmore John Thomas McBrien [labourer] and Maude McBrien [home duries] at Inkerman street, Parramatta, in 1930, 1933, 1936, 1937 and 1943.

A notice regarding the death of Belmore John Thomas McBrien on 5 April 1979, aged 79 years, “late of Parramatta”, was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 6 April 1979, and that of Maud McBrien on 14 June 1986, aged 90 years, “late of Merrylands” nsw, on 16 June 1986..

L-8.4.1 George John Thomas McBrien (1918…) m. Irene Hourigan (…19??)

George John Thomas McBrien, born at Granville near Parramatta in 1918, the son of BELMORE J T McBRIEN and his wife MAUDE SOLOMON, married Irene Hourigan at Parramatta in 1938. George, living about Parramatta NSW, was the father of:
In World War II, on 12 September 1941 at Paddington, Georga enlisted into the Australian Army; he noted he was from Parramatta and his next-of-kin as Irene. A Private (service number NX44741), he was discharged at A.A.S.C.T.D. on 4 November 1941, re-enlisting on 19 January 1942. He was discharged the second time at 117 Australian General Transport on 11 December 1945, again as a Private.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew George John Thomas McBrien [lorry driver] and Irene McBrien [home duties] at 6a Lansdowne street, Parramatta in 1943, George John Thomas McBrien [carrier] and Irene McBrien [home duties] at 176 Railway st., Parramatta, in 1949 and 1958, joined there by Donald George McBrien [motor mech.] and Patricia Anne Catherine McBrien [trained ns.] in 1963.

The death of Irene May McBrien on 1 September 1977, 'late of Carlingford', daughter of ARTHUR and ETHEL, was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 3rd inst. Electoral Rolls shew George John Thomas McBrien [no occupation listed] and Dorothy Caroline May McBrien [home duties] at 58 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, in 1980.
 

L-8.5 Gladys May McBrien (1895…1944+) m. William Arthur George Collins (…1980)

Gladys May McBrien, daughter of THOMAS McBRIEN and JANE WHITING, was born about 1895 at Ryde. Gladys appears to have been the mother of:
Gladys married William Arthur George Collins in Sydney in 1915, they had at least three children:
NSW Electoral Rolls shew William Arthur George Collins [labourer] and Gladys May Collins [home duties] at 45 Alfred street, Granville in 1930, 1933 and 1936, and William Arthur George Collins [carpenter] at 23 Boomerang st., Long Jetty in 1949, 1954, 1958 and 1963. The death of William Arthur George Collins on 2 September 1980, 'late of The Entrance', son of ALBERT WILLIAM and EMMA, was noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 4 September 1980.

L-9 Arthur McBrien m.(c1830) Jane Belford

Arthur McBrien and Jane Belford, married circa 1830 in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, seem to have been the parents of:

Several (it is thought all [at least those before Elizabeth and Balfour]) of these children emigrated to Australia.

L-9.1 Ellen McBrien (c1834…) m. William Gourley/Groviley

Ellen McBrien, single female farm servant aged 26, and her brother William McBrien, single male labourer aged 24, arrived in Sydney on 13 July 1860 aboard the barque Chance of 927 ton [972 tons in the newly adopted system], captained by W G Sparke; it had departed Southampton on 3 April 1860 on the voyage of 100 days. Ellen and William both hailed from Lower Ardees in the parish of Inishmacsaint FER., and were apparently closely related to Carson McBrien (q.v.) who on 11 November 1859 paid a deposit of £9 to assist their immigration. Both Ellen and William could read and write, and indicated their religious denominations as Church of England and Church of Ireland respectively. Like Carson, both Ellen and William were to assist the emigration of kinfolk from Ireland .
Ellen may have married a fellow named Gourley [since a Ellen Gourley in 1863 paid a deposit to assist the immigration from Inishmacsaint of a Charlotte and Mary A McBrien and one Arthur McBrien; however the only apparent marriage of an Ellen McBrien in the NSW Indexes prior to 1864 was in 1862 at Parramatta to one WilliamGroviley].

L-9.2 William McBrien (c1836…1896) m. Mary Ann Sommerville (?1835…)

William McBrien emigrated from Ireland to Australia with his sister Ellen McBrien aboard the Chance, arriving in Sydney on 13 July 1860. It is apparently William's emigration's details that name his parents as ARTHUR McBRIEN and JANE BELFORD. [for further details see section L-9.1]. William, a bachelor joiner, married Mary Ann Sommerville, a spinster housemaid, at Parramatta on 5 March 1862 , in a Presbyterian ceremony witnessed by Henry Somerville and Anne King. Apparently Mary Ann Sommerville had also emigrated to Australia aboard the Chance : indeed, the barque did bring a Mary Sommerville to Sydney in 1860 – she was a Roman Catholic housemaid aged 25 years from County Clare in Ireland, able to read and write.

William and Mary Ann were seemingly the parents of:

William McBrien, a gaoler at H.M. Gaol Parramatta, and his wife Mary Ann were amongst the more prolific of seven known McBrien couples living about Parramatta in the mid1800s [see footnote ]. During the births of their children they lived in several places including Church and Galloway Streets, Parramatta and “The Old Domain” (land surrounding Old Government House at Parramatta). William also owned land at Parramatta. The 1929 death certificate of Arthur McBrien noted William as a carpenter.

L-9.2.1  Arthur McBrien (1865…1929) m. Annie Julia O'Shea (1867…1948); m2. Agnes Turnbull Porter (?1867…1923); m3. Myrtle Susan Vening (1893…)

Some confusion exists regarding the birth, marriages and issue of Arthur McBrien, born at Parramatta to carpenter WILLIAM McBRIEN and his wife and MARY ANN SUMMERVILLE. His birth was registered at Parramatta in 1865, where he was born on 2 February at Church Street (though his 1929 death certificate, identifying his parents and birthplace, states an age of 69 years, which implies that he was born in 1860).
Carpenter Arthur McBrien married Annie Julia O’Shea, 17, at All Saints Church, Parramatta on 22 May 1885 to the rites of the Church of England. Annie had been born in 1867 near Ryde NSW to shoemaker MICHAEL O'SHEA and his wife ELIZABETH WILSON (married near Penrith NSW in 1866; Annie Hillie [per eMail, 25jan2013] noted Elizabeth as baptised in 1847, one of eleven children of Cork-born convict stonemason FRANCIS WILSON and his convict wife HANNAH (ANNE) STYLES (both convicts, married at St Thomas CoE Mulgoa in 1844); Francis was credited with a great many of the public and other edifices around the Ryde district).

Francis Wilson had been tried in the York or Leeds Assizes on 9 July 1831, sentenced to life, transported in the John (3) in 1832 and granted a Ticket of Leave at Penrith on 8 August 1841. Ann Styles, 20, single, Protestant, able to read, from London, a child's maid who was listed at the Central Criminal Court for “coining” on 2 March 1840 and sentenced to seven years (no previous conviction); she was 5' 0¼”, fair pale complexion and a little freckled, with sandy brown hair and brown eyes, with RH on her upper left arm and a jagged scar inside her left elbow: she had apparently been transported in the Surrey (9) and arrived in Sydney on 14 July 1840.

Arthur and Annie were the parents of:
Arthur did marry Agnes Turnbull Porter on 21 October 1890, raising a family about Goulburn in the NSW Southern Tablelands. [In an eMail to Mike Kirke in August 1998, Maxine McBryan noted some genealogy sheets prepared by Tom McBryan, suggesting this was Arthur's second marriage, and that it resulted in four children]. The marriage of Arthur McBrien and Agnes T Porter was twice registered at Goulburn — they repeated the ceremony on 7 May 1894 at Parramatta.

Arthur Arthur was a bigamist between 1890 and 1893. It was not until March 24th 1893 that the Supreme Court of NSW granted a Decree Nisi for the divorce of Annie Julia and Arthur McBrien. Annie Julia had been the petitioner and proceeded “in forma pauperis” as she was unable to pay for services. The Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday 5 April 1892 (p3) reported:
"CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. MONDAY. (Before his Honor Mr. Acting Justice HEYDON and a jury of 12.) BIGAMY. Arthur McBrien pleaded guilty that he did on the 22nd May, 1885, at Parramatta, marry Annie Julia O'Shea, and that Arthur McBrien while he was so married did, on the 21st October, 1890, at Goulburn, marry Agnes Turnbull Porter, Annie Julia being then alive. Prisoner was remanded for sentence."
Parramatta's The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate of Saturday 9 April 1892 (p4) noted:
"At the Central Criminal Court. Sydney, before Mr. Acting-Judge Heydon, Arthur M'Brien was arraigned on Monday on an indictment charging him with bigamy, and pleaded guilty. The indictment set forth that the prisoner was married to Annie Julia O'Shea, at Parramatta, on the 22nd May, 1885, and that whilst he was so married he did, on October 21, 1890, at Goulburn, marry one Agnes Turnbull, his wife being then alive."

It is probable that Agnes was the daughter born to WILLIAM J and CAROLINE S PORTER in 1867 in Sydney ; a William J Porter had married Caroline Sophia Bowen in Sydney in 1864.
Arthur and Agnes were the parents of the following children (all born near Goulburn):
Although Arthur's 1929 death certificate makes no mention of an earlier marriage or issue than that to Agnes, it has been suggested, with detail, that:
The death of Agnes T McBrien nee Porter, daughter of WILLIAM P and CARRIE, was registered at Goulburn in 1923; no other details of this are known at present.

Arthur McBrien lastly wed Myrtle Susan Vening, the marriage registered at Auburn NSW in 1928. There was no issue to this marriage. Myrtle's birth to WILLIAM VENING and RUTH GREGORY had been registered at Welshpool in Victoria in 1893. Victorian Electoral Rolls list Myrtle [home duties] at 58 Elgin st., Hawthorn in 1919, and with George Gear Vening [labourer], Gregory Vening [labourer] Ruby Mabel Vening [home duties], Ruth Vening [home duties] and William Vening [farmer] at Welshpool, Gippsland, in 1924.
Carpenter Arthur McBrien, aged 69 years, late of 30 Nicholson Street Chatswood in Sydney's mid-northern suburbs, died at Liverpool in Sydney's southwest on 28 November 1929; his death was registered at Liverpool on 12 December 1939.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Myrtle Susan McBrien [home duties] at 30 Nicholson street, Chatswood in 1930, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1943 and 1949, and Nathaniel Pemberton [barman] and Myrtle Susan Pemberton [home duties] at 30 Nicholson street, Chatswood in 1954. The marriage of a Myrtle Susan McBrien née Vening and Nathaniel Pemberton was registered at Chatswood in 1949. The death at Collaroy Plateau on 1 November 1969 of Nathaniel Pemberton, aged 80 years, 'late of Salvation Army Homes, Collaroy', was noted in The Sydney Morning Herald on 3 November 1969. Victorian Electoral Rolls list Myrtle Susan Pemberton [home duties] at 2a Albert av., Oakleigh, Henty in 1963.

In 1893 Annie Julie formerly McBrien née O'Shea married Hyram Smith Gallard, the son of an English farmer and Sarah (nee Smith) from Pennant Hills. Hyram and Annie had two children ~ Marjorie Sabina (born 1894) and Charles Edward (born 1897). Hyram had bought land in Carlingford in 1890, with the intention of having a commercial orchard. The death of Hyram Smith Gallard, son of EDWARD and SARAH, was registered at Ryde in 1938. The death of Annie Julia Gallard formerly McBrien née O'Shea, daughter of MICHAEL and ELIZABETH, was registered at Rockdale in 1948.

L-9.2.1.1  Ursula Clarice McBrien (1891…1978)

Ursula Clarice McBrien, daughter of ARTHUR McBRIEN and AGNES TURNBULL PORTER, was born born 15 April 1891 at Goulburn in NSW's Southern Highlands: her Goulburn birth registration noted her parents as WILLAM A and AGNES. She was noted as aged 39 in 1929 on the death certificate of her father Arthur.

Ursula was brought up by uncle Jonathan McBrien and his sisters Annie and Margaret (all unmarried) at their home at Parramatta. Ursula never married. She deposited some items in a “time capsule” buried at Parramatta.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Ursula [dressmaker] with her uncle Jonathan McBrien [grocer's assistant] and aunts Annie McBrien [dressmaker] and Margaret Jane McBrien [dressmaker] at 355 Church street, Parramatta in 1930, 1933, 1936, 1937. Ursula [dressmaker], Jonathan McBrien [grocer's assistant] and Annie McBrien [dressmaker] are shewn at 503 Church street, Parramatta in 1943, Ursula and Annie in 1949, 1954 and 1958 and Ursula only in 1963

A notice regarding the death on 6 November 1978 of Ursula Clarice McBrien, “at Chesalon Nursing Home, Harris Park”, was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 8 November 1978.

L-9.2.1.2  Margaret Annie Muriel McBrien (1895…1978) m. John Ewert Giovanni Foxall (1893…1987)

The birth of Margaret Annie Muriel McBrien on 10 March 1895, daughter of ARTHUR McBRIAN and AGNES TURNBULL PORTER, was registered at Goulburn, though her age was noted as 36 (sic) in 1929. Margaret's marriage to John Ewert Giovanni Foxall was registered at Goulburn in 1921. John had been born on 17 July 1893 at Goulburn, the son of WILLIAM SAMUEL FOXALL and JANE LAKE GRUBB [Jane died at her residence in Kenmore Street, Goulburn, on 20 August 1928, in her 69th year].

Margaret and John had two children:
NSW Electoral Rolls shew John [draftsman] and Margaret [ home duties] at 15 Clement st., Forbes in 1930 and 1936, John [public servant] and Margaret at 87 Griffith street, Balgowlah in 1937, 1943 and joined by John Anderson Foxall [toolmaker] in 1954, John Ewart Giovanni Foxall [draftsman], Margaret, John Anderson Foxall [clerk] and Margaret Judith Foxall [nurse] at 23 Urunga street, Balgowlah in 1958 and 1963; the Victorian Rolls shew Margaret Annie Muriel Foxall at 3 Bellett St., Camberwell in 1977).

The death of Margaret Annie Muriel Foxall née McBrien at Newcastle was registered in NSW in 1978. John Ewart Giovanni Foxall died in Sydney on 18 January 1987.

rf also http://trees.ancestry.com.au/tree/26588006/person/1874379359.

L-9.2.1.3 Arthur William Clive McBrien (1896…1960) m. Dorothy May Spratt (1896…1968)

Arthur William Clive McBrien, son of ARTHUR McBRIEN and AGNES TURNBULL PORTER, was born 2 May 1896 at Goldsmith Street, Parramatta. An unmarried carpenter aged 19 years, of Grafton Street, Goulburn nsw, a Methodist, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 11 January 1916 for duty in World War 1. Given service number 1952 and ranked Private, he was assigned to 55 Infantry Battalion (3rd Reinforcements (April-September 1916)) and embarked on HMAT Barambah (A37) on 23 June 1916 at Sydney. He had previous military service in 43rd Infantry. His next-of-kin was noted as his father, Arthur McBrien of Grafton Street, Goulburn. He returned to Australia on 23 June 1919.

Arthur married Dorothy May Spratt in Sydney on 15 January 1921. Dorothy, born 26 September 1896, was the daughter of railway labourer AUSTIN ANDREW SPRATT (born c1863, Martock, England; death registered at Hurstville NSW in 1923, son of JOHN and SARAH) and MARY [MARGARET] ANNIE HICKEY, who had married in Sydney on 18 July 1888. Dorothy’s siblings were Mabel Beatrice Spratt (born c1889; death registered at St Leonards in 1968), Austin John Spratt (born c1891) and Arthur Gavin Spratt (born c1894).
The Sydney Morning Herald of Monday 15 April 1935 noted (p9 and p10):
SPRATT.-The Relatives and Friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. McBRIEN and FAMILY, Mr. and Mrs. A. SPRATT and FAMILY, of Hornsby, and Miss M. SPRATT, are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their late dearly beloved MOTHER, MOTHER-IN-LAW, and GRANDMOTHER. Margaret A. Spratt: to leave her late residence, No. 9 King George-street, McMahon's Point, THIS (Mondayl AFTERNOON, at 2.30 p.m., for Catholic Cemetery, Northern Suburbs.
MODERN FUNERALS LIMITED., 126 Walker-street. X2288. North Sydney.
SPRATT.- April 14, 1935 at her residence No. 9 King George-street, McMahon's Point, Margaret Annie Spratt, beloved mother of Mrs. Dorothy McBrien, Austin Spratt, and Mabel Spratt, aged 77 years. R.I.P. Late of Narrandera.
 
Children born to Arthur and Dorothy were:
 
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Arthur William Clive McBrien [salesman] and Dorothy May McBrien [home duties] at 9 King George street, Milson's Point in 1930, 1936, 1937 and 1943. In 1949 they were joined there by Bruce Llewellyn McBrien [elec. mech.] and William Arthur McBrien [elec. fitter]. In 1954 all four were joined on the Rolls by Jean Edith McBrien [stenographer]. In 1958 the Rolls shew Arthur and Dorothy at 9 King George street, North Sydney (Milson's Point).

The death of Arthur William C McBrien, aged 63 years, son of ARTHUR, was registered at North Sydney in 1960. The death of Dorothy May McBrien née Spratt, daughter of ANDREW and ANN, was registered in Sydney in 1968.

L-9.2.1.3.1  William Arthur McBrien (1921…1993) m. Shirley Lillie Scowcroft (…)

William Arthur McBrien, born 10 November 1921 at North Sydney nsw, was a son of ARTHUR WILLIAM CLIVE McBRIEN and his wife DOROTHY MAY SPRATT. William enlisted into the Australian Army (service number NX44823) on 15 September 1941 at Paddington, when resident at North Sydney; his next-of-kin was Arthur McBrien. A Sapper, he received his discharge on 18 April 1946 at 2/3 Australian Ind. Fld. Sqn.

William Arthur McBrien's marriage to Shirley Lillie Scowcroft was registered at Gosford in 1952.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Arthur William Clive McBrien [salesman], Dorothy May McBrien [home duties], Bruce Llewellyn McBrien [elec. mech.] and William Arthur McBrien [elec. Fitter] at 9 King George street, Milson's Point in 1949, joined there by Jean Edith McBrien [stenographer] in 1954; Jean was also listed at 7 Warrega streeet, Katoomba in 1954. The Rolls shew William Arthur McBrien [carpenter] and Shirley Lillie McBrien [home duties] at 2 Serpentine crescent, Balgowlah in 1958. William was with his mother Dorothy at at 9 King George street, North Sydney in 1963. William Arthur McBrien [carpenter] was listed at 1/32 East Crescent St., North Sydney in 1980.

A notice regarding the death on 24 December 1993 of William Arthur McBrien, aged 72 years, “late of Norah Head [nsw]”, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27 December 1993.

L-9.2.1.3.2  Bruce Llewellyn McBrien (c1927…2005) m. Jean Edith Dearin (…1998)

Bruce Llewellyn McBrien, born 16 February 1927 in Sydney, was a son of ARTHUR WILLIAM CLIVE McBRIEN and his wife DOROTHY MAY SPRATT. Bruce enlisted into the Royal Australian Navy on 19 April 1945; his next-of-kin was Dorothy McBrien. An Able Seaman, he received his discharge on 10 February 1947 at HMAS Rushcutter in Sydney.

Bruce's marriage to Jean Edith Dearin was registered at North Sydney in 1952. Bruce and Jean raised two daughters:
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Arthur William Clive McBrien [salesman], Dorothy May McBrien [home duties], Bruce Llewellyn McBrien [elec. mech.] and William Arthur McBrien [elec. Fitter] at 9 King George street, Milson's Point in 1949, joined there by Jean Edith McBrien [stenographer] in 1954; Jean was also listed at 7 Warrega streeet, Katoomba in 1954. The Rolls shew Bruce [electrical mechanic] and Jean [home duties] at 119 Gondola road, Narrabeen in 1958 and 1963.

A notice regarding the death of Jean Edith McBrien on 15 July 1998, “late of Narrabeen”, appeared in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph of 17 July 1998. Notices regarding the death of Bruce Llewellyn McBrien, who died aged 78 years on 17 June 2005, “late of Narrabeen”, were published in the Daily Telegraph (see below) and Manly Daily of 18 June 2005 and regarding his funeral (cremation at at Northern Suburbs Crematorium) in the Manly Daily of 21 June 2005.

L-9.2.1.4 Cecil B McBrien (1898…1927) m. Mary Elizabeth Lacey (1896…1968)

The birth of Cecil B McBrien son of ARTHUR McBRIEN and AGNES TURNBULL PORTER, was registered at Goulburn in 1898. Cecil's marriage to Mary E Lacey at Boggabri in northern NSW in 1925 registered at Ashfield. The birth of Mary E Lacey, daughter of WILLIAM and MARTHA J, had been registered at Goulburn in 1896.

Although his noted as 29 years old on his father's 1929 death certificate, the death of a Cecil B McBrien, son of ARTHUR and AGNES T, was registered at Young in south-western NSW in 1927.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew a Mary Elizabeth McBrien [home duties] at Brayton, Marulan in 1930; the marriage of a Mary E McBrien and James Martin Barry or Barrey was registered at Goulburn in 1932. The birth of James M Barry to MICHAEL and MARY had been registered at Taralga in 1888.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew James Marton Barry [labourer] and Matilda Ellen Barry [home duties] at 22 Opal street, Goulburn, in 1930. The Rolls shew James Marton Barry [shire employee] and Mary Elizabeth Barry [home duties] at 23 Belmore st., Goulburn in 1933, James Martin Barry [labourer] and Mary at 32 Kinghorne street, Goulburn in 1936 and 1937, at 66 Auburn street, Goulburn in 1943, 1949 and 1954, joined there by John William Barry [labourer] in 1958. Mary Elizabeth Barry and John William were still enrolled at that address in 1968.

The death of James Martin Barry, son of MICHAEL and MARYANNE, was registered at Goulburn in 1961. The death of Mary Elizabeth Barry formerly McBrien née Lacey, daughter of WILLIAM and MARTHA JANE, was registered at Goulburn in 1968.

L-9.2.1.5 Stella Vera McBrien (1900…1967) m. Harold Stanley Mark Gray (1896… 1975)

The birth of Stella Vera McBrien, daughter of ARTHUR McBRIEN and AGNES TURNBULL PORTER, was registered at Goulburn in 1900; her age was noted as 27 on her father's death certificate in 1929. Stella's marriage to Harold Stanley Mark Gray was registered at Goulburn in 1923. Harold had been born about 1896 at Goulburn.

Stella and Harold had four children:
NSW Electoral Rolls shew Harold [limeburner] and Stella [home duties] at Albert street, Goulburn in 1930, at 23 Victoria street, Goulburn in 1936 and 1937, at 140 Nicholson street, Goulburn in 1943 where they were joined by Joan Turnbull Gray [teacher] and Ursula Vera Gray [bank clerk] in 1949; Harold, Stella and Brien Gray [carpenter] were at 140 Nicholson street, Goulburn in 1954 where Harold and Stella remained in 1958 and 1963.

The death of Stella Vera Gray née McBrien on 13 March 1967, aged 66, 'at Goulburn, late of Goulburn', daughter of ARTHUR and AGNES TURNBULL McBRIEN née PORTER, was noted in the Goulburn Post on 14 and 17 March 1967 and in The Sydney Morning Herald on 15 March 1967. Harold Stanley Mark Gray, aged 79, son of MARK and EMILY FRANCES MARGARET, on 11 October 1975 at Goulburn.

L-9.2.1.6  Cyril Keith McBrien (1903…1986) m. Rita Ellen Scholz (1905…1980+)

Cyril Keith McBrien (born 9 December 1903 at Goulburn) married Rita Ellen Scholz at Goulburn in 1924. The birth of Rira E Scholz to FREDERIC W and LOUISA had been registered at Germanton in 1905. Rita and Cyril appear to have had five children:

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Cyril [carpenter] and Rita [home duties] at 21 Clifford street, Goulburn in 1930, 10 Federal street, Queanbeyan in 1936, 31 Lamrock street, Bondi in 1937, Cyril [steward] and Rita at 32 Gould street, Bondi in 1943,where they are joined in 1949 by Lionel William Keith McBrien [salesman] and Laurie Rita Agnes McBrien [tailoress], in 1954 Cyril, Rita and Lionel were at 32 Gould street with Beryl Helena McBrien [table hand] and Valma Patricia McBrien [home duties], in 1958 and 1963 Cyril and Rita were there with Kevin McBrien [carpenter] and in 1980 Cyril [no occupation] and Rita were at 11/22 Bartlett St., Ermington.

While residing at North Bondi, Cyril enlisted into the Australian Army (service number NX27732) on 10 June 1940 at Paddington; his next-of-kin was Rita. A Sapper, he received his discharge on 22 November 1943 at 2/1 Australian HQ GD Battalion.

A notice regarding the death of Cyril Keith McBrien on 1 October 1986, “late of Yowie Bay, formerly of Goulburn and Bondi”, was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 2 October 1986.
Further details of this generation and related families are on Lianne Hogan's WebSite.

L-9.2.1.6.1  Lionel William Keith McBrien (1925…) m. Beryl Helen(a) Horsey (…)

Lionel William Keith McBrien (born  March 1925 at Goulburn NSW, son of CYRIL KEITH McBRIEN and his wife RITA ELLEN SCHOLZ) enlisted into the Australian Army (service number NX176999 (N465759)) on 1 January 1944 at Cowra; he was then a resident of North Bondi, and noted his next-of-kin as C McBrien. A Private, he received his discharge on 5 May 1944 at the Recruit Training Centre.

Lionel's marriage to Beryl Helen Horsey was registered at Albury in 1954.

NSW Electoral Rolls shew Cyril Keith McBrien [carpenter], Rita Ellen McBrien [home duties] and children Lionel William Keith McBrien [salesman] and Laurie Rita Agnes McBrien [tailoress] at 32 Gould street, Bondi in 1949; Cyril, Rita and Lionel were at 32 Gould street with Beryl Helena McBrien [table hand] and Valma Patricia McBrien [home duties] in 1954. Lionel and Beryl were at 30 Kenneth ave., Kirrawee in 1958. Lionel [salesman] and Beryl [home duties] were at 16 Meldrum ave., Caringbah in 1963 and 1968, where they were joined by Stephen Fredrick Keith McBrien [- -] in 1980.

L-9.3 Mary Ann(e) McBrien (1838…)

 
Mary Ann(e) McBrien was born 28 March 1838 and baptised 1 April 1838, the daughter of ARTHUR McBRIEN and JANE BELFORD of Tiranagher in the parish of Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh Ireland. What bacame Mary Anne is unclear. It is possible that she emigrated to Australia and married Henry Tunks in Sydney, 1872, with five known children, though it is thought more likely that Henry's wife was Mary Anne McBrien, born circa 1841, daughter of John and Elizabeth - rf. Lineage L-24 (lineage descriptions altered September 2003)].

L-9.4 Andrew McBrien (1841…) [?m. Trefenia Maddick (…)]

Andrew McBrien, born 3 or 5 January 1841 and baptised 10 January 1841, was a son of ARTHUR and JANE McBRIEN of Tiranagher. A carpenter aged 20 years, son of ARTHUR McBRIEN and JANE BELFORD of Lower Ardees in the parish of Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh, Arthur emigrated to Sydney aboard the Sirocco, arriving 28 January 1864 with his younger brother, labourer Arthur McBrien aged 17 years. Both were described upon arrival as adherants of the Church of England, able to read and write, and in good health. Their brother Thomas McBrien was already resident at Parramatta west of Sydney.

An Andrew McBrien married Trefenia Maddick in Sydney in late 1870 or early 1871. They were the parents of:
No other details known at present.

L-9.5 Arthur McBrien (1846…) m. ? (…)

Arthur McBrien, born 28 October 1846 and baptised 29 November 1846, was a son of ARTHUR and JANE McBRIEN of Tiranagher. Labourer Arthur McBrien with his elder brother Andrew McBrien, sons of Arthur McBrien and Jane Belford of Lower Ardees in the parish of Inishmacsaint, County Fermanagh, emigrated to Sydney aboard the Sirocco, arriving in 1864. Both were described upon arrival as adherants of the Church of England, able to read and write, and in good health. Their brother Thomas McBrien was already resident at Parramatta west of Sydney.

Note that on 17 July 1881 the Peterborough delivered immigrants Arthur McBrien and his sister Eliza McBrien from Fermanagh to Sydney. Both Arthur, a labourer aged 33 years (born circa 1848), and Eliza, a servant aged 28 years (born circa 1853), were members of the Church of England, could read and write, were in good health and made no complaints regarding the passage. Both noted their mother as Jane, still living in Fermanagh, and their brother Thomas already a resident at Parramatta. This Arthur and Eliza could have been the children born 1846 and 1852 to Arthur McBrien and Jane Belford in Fermanagh. Alternatively, Thomas may have been Thomas born c1848 about Enniskillen who married Mary McDonnald and Jane Whiting in Sydney, and whose children's birth and death registrations indicate he resided at Parramatta in 1881. This is the more probable scenario since Arthur is unlikely to have been allowed assisted immigrant status a second time for a passage in the Peterborough after the 1864 passage on the Sirocco. Refer to Lineage L-8.

L-10 James McBrien (…c1841) m. Margaret Eaton (1807…1883)

James McBrien from about Enniskillen Co Fermanagh, reportedly a cousin of Mary McBrien (above), was a surveyor who spent some time in Australia in the early 1820s before returning to England for family reasons. CAN . James MacBrien was appointed Fourth Assistant Surveyor in the NSW Lands Department on 5 June 1822 by order of the Governor General Sir Thomas Brisbane, with a salary of £150 per annum (with no housing or rent allowance), initially “Employed surveying the Western Country, dividing the land in the neighbourhood of Bathurst into Square Miles, and placing Grantees in possession of their Grants” . The Wentworth Papers record that he received £165 as salary between 1 July and 31 December 1822 . In 1823 he reported the first European discovery of gold in Australia, along the Fish River above Bathurst. [The first payable deposits were reported by Edmund Hammond Hargraves at Ophir near Orange, 50 miles to the west, in 1851; Hargraves mentions McBrien's discovery in a letter to Henry Parkes (regarding payments to noted early Australian geologist the Revd ?Tebbutt) with which he enclosed an extract form McBrien's field book noting the 1823 discovery, suggesting it be forwarded to the museum for posterity]. The Surveyor (April 29, 1916) wrote of McBrien:

SURVEYOR JAMES McBRIEN
Surveyor McBrien visited Shoalhaven and Jervis Bay in 1824. This was the surveyor who in February, 1823, when on the Fish River, above Bathurst, first recorded the discovery of gold in Australia, Mr. E. H. Hargraves, in 1851, reporting the discovery of payable gold at Ophir, near Orange.
McBrien's entries when near Shoalhaven, in 1824, give some idea of the amount of adjusting which had to be resorted to owing to the variation and irregularities of the old link-chain. One entry reads:— “These traces are taken with a chain sixteen inches too long.”
James' name was not regularly in the Lands Department's establishment list, though in Governor Darling's despatches of 1828 he was listed as one of the nine Assistant Surveyors serving in 1826, though not amongst the eleven listed in the 1828 establishment . He was also mentioned in the court account books of W C Wentworth, when on 27 June 1826 James McBrien as defendant was ordered to pay plaintiff Andrew Byrne £7/9/8 costs and £1/10/- (reason not given) . Several of James' maps are still held by the NSW Archives Office and Lands Departments, and in 1863 another surveyor prepared a map based on James' 1823 gold discovery field notes.
James, after a farewell party perhaps involving the Masons, returned aboard the Mangles to Great Britain, from whence in 1826 he wrote to Earl Bathurst seeking assistance in securing a grant of land in the antipodean colony on favourable terms :
Application of J. McBrien for land grant exempt from quit rent
Earl Bathurst
Nelson's Hotel, Aldgate, High Street
London
17th October, 1826
My Lord,
I most respectfully beg leave to address your Lordship and state, that I was appointed Assistant Surveyor of Crown Lands to the Surveyor General of the Territory of New South Wales (John Oxley Esqr.) at the resignation of Mr. James Meehan, formerly Deputy Surveyor General, and that I have acted in that capacity during the administration of His late Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane; K.C.B., to whom I beg leave to refer your Lordship for a testimony of my zeal and faithfull discharge of my duty in that department.
But, family circumstances rendering it imperative on me to return to Europe, and now being disposed to return to that Colony [NSW –ed.], I hope your Lordship will be pleased to cause a grant of land to be made to me of such extent, as your Lordship shall think fit. I beg to state that I have property in that Colony to the value of fifteen thousand Spanish dollars. I have, therefore, to request that your Lordship may be pleased to order me a grant of Land, and entertain a hope that, from my services you will be pleased to exempt such grant from the Conditions relative to the payments of quit Rent, that is to say, five per cent, per annum on the Value of the land selected which payment amounts nearly to the purchase of the fee simple inheritance.
Relative to my services for a period of four years and six months, I can confidently refer your Lordship to Sir Thomas Brisbane or Fredrick Goulburn Esqr., lately Colonial Secretary.
I further beg leave to request that your Lordship may be pleased to grant me permission to purchase from the Colonial Government five thousand acres of land in New South Wales Territory.
I have, &c.,
James McBrien
Under Secretary Hay soon replied :
Under Secretary Hay
Downing Street
26th October, 1826
Sir,
I am directed by Earl Bathurst to acquaint you, in reply to your letter of the 17th Instant, that your application for a Grant of Land in New South Wales will be forwarded to the Governor of that Colony, who will no doubt make you such a Grant as will be in proportion to your Capital; but I am, at the same time, to observe that your services in the Surveyor's Department can by no means be considered as entitling you to a Grant of Land upon any other terms than those specified in the enclosed Memorandum.
I am, &c.,
R W Hay
James apparently never received the Grant (though there is one report of his receiving a grant at Kelso east of Bathurst ). It is not known what assets James had had in the Colony, and unclear what family circumstances had precipitated his return to Great Britain or what became him. Apparently James hailed from Enniskillen [or that district], surveyed [part of] the site of present-day Sydney, and according to some sources had returned home to marry his fiancee Margaret Eaton, but she would not come back to Australia with him; one of their sons was called Australia, and was known as “Uncle Australia” to J J (Joseph) MacBrien of Toronto, a nephew of Sir James Howden MacBrien (discussed below).
Prior to June 2002 this author noted James' wife as Margaret Howden, and that they had married after James' 1826 return to England. Chris MacBrien (June 2002) reported James' wife as Margaret Eaton, and noted the birth of James' son Australia McBrien as 1820:
Margaret Eaton emigrated to Canada with her children in June, 1842 from Donegal Bay in the "Springhill of Irvine" and arrived on 28 August at Whitby Township in Ontario and lived for a while with their cousins, the Howden's in East Whitby. Mrs. Richard Howden, Elizabeth Jane Dundas, was a sister of Margaret Eatons mother, Margaret Dundas Eaton......This shows the connections of all of these families.The McBriens, Hylands, Howdens and Dundas' were all related and knew each other in Ireland.
When my father and I visited the old church in Derrygonnelly the McBriens, Howdens and Dundas' dominated the graveyard. Many more McBriens. We have a letter from Kathleen McBrien Howden ( daughter of James McBrien and Julia Madden) identifying her Grandmother as Margaret Eaton and we also have a photograph of her tombstone. In Memory of Margaret Eaton, Wife of Jas. McBrien, Died Dec. 9, 1883, Aged 76 Years.
Sources on Margaret Eaton … are many. We have photos of Mary Jane Eaton who was her sister. Mary Jane married Alfred DeHart Mulloy. We have several letters in regards to her death most notable from James McBrien (son of James McBrien and Margaret Eaton). We also have a letter from Kathleen Howden [nee McBrien] (youngest of the nine children of James McBrien and Julia Frances Madden) who was married to Henry (Harry) Dundas Howden (the youngest of the six children of John Dundas Howden and Louisa Hyland). I have more on this. Kathleen refers to Margaret Eaton and her oldest son as being Australia. We also have a book written by William Ferguson whos mother was a Hyland. The book is on the descendants of John Hyland.
From where Sir James Howden MacBrien got his Howden we can not be sure but there is obviously a strong family connection to the name…
As far as we know according to the records we possess … Australia was born in 1820…
Her tombstone indicates that Margaret McBrien nee Eaton was born in 1807; this would suggest a birthdate later than 1820 for her son Australia McBrien; note also that the identified birthyears of her other children span 1829 to 1843.

Maxine McBryan commented:
“a newspaper article … printed in 1946 about the James McBrien family … says Margaret settled in the Howden Settlement when she came over to Canada with her children. This Settlement was in the Port Perry Area where Sir James Howden MacBrien was born. I've been led to understand that James Howden MacBrien's middle name was his grandmother's maiden name. Is this correct? I'm not sure. [I was told] … that Eaton might be wrong.”
Chris McBrien added: “What happened to James is a mystery but there are two stories: one that he died in Ireland in 1841 at the age of 42 at Corktoon, County Fermanagh and the other that he died of Cholera on board ship headed to Australia”.

Jack Patterson (10jan2004) commented that James, son of JOHN McBRIEN, died in 1842 and is buried at Churchill, Fermanagh, where he had had a farm.

In June 1842, James' wife Margaret sailed with the children from Donegal Bay for Canada in the Springhil(l) of Irvine and after twelve weeks, on 28 August 1842, arrived at Whitby township in Ontario, settling at East Whitby in Whitby township ONT near (about 10km from descendants of the McBriens of Rosscor, discussed below in Section L-11). Children of James and Margaret McBrien included:
Maxime MacBryan (October 1998) also had:
Phyllis Springer (May, 2001), found a notation in the family Bible of her great-grand-father William Frederick MacBrien inferring that Alfred N. McBrien also went by the name of Australia McBrien :
The first page is hand-written to designate the family of "A.N. McBrien (b. 1842 in Ireland) and Elizabeth Susan Hyland (mar. april 8, 1868 in Toronto). Beneath it, someone has typed a notation that the 8 children listed on the 2nd page are actually the children of Wm. F. McBrien and wife Hester Ann Fisher (which is true, b/c this is my line), and the notation further says that "these names are NOT the children of Australia N. McBrien & Elizabeth Hyland, but that they are the children of Wm. F. and Hester Ann Fisher".

L-10.1 Australia McBrien (c1820…1916)

Australia McBrien, born circa 1820?, died 1916; a soldier in the Crimean War and in the Chinese Rebellion and was a teacher for 17 years at S.S. No. 1 in Cartwright Township, Canada. Australia never married and had no children. As an older man he went to live with his brother James and his wife Julia Madden McBrien. He is buried in Union Cemetery outside Port Perry, Ontario.

L-10.2 William Frederick MacBrien (1829…) m. Hester Ann Fisher (c1840…1912)

William Frederick MacBrien, MD, born Enniskillen 1829, married Hester Ann Fisher (1840…1912) in Ontario, Canada on 2 May 1859; their eight (?nine) children listed in the family Bible were :

This family migrated to the E. St. Louis, Illinois area about 1900, and set up their medical practices there.
Nota Bene (1): An entry on www.familysearch.org has FREDRICK LINCOLN McBRIEN as the father of William Fredrick McBrien, with William born circa 1843 in Ireland and dying at East St. Louis, St. Clair County. William's spouse was Hester Ann Fisher; they were the parents of:
Nota Bene (2): Bill Barber forwarded (16 September 2002) the following message from sjmarsh (9 September 2002):
#001734-99 (Toronto) Alfred A. McBRIEN, 30, Whitby Ont, St. Louis Illinois, b, Physician, s/o William F. & Hester A. McBRIEN, married Mabel L. BARCLAY, 23, Oshawa Ont, Toronto, s, d/o George J. & Sarah BARCLAY, witn: Walter E. BARCLAY, Mabel F. BENJAMIN, both Toronto, married 1 June 1899).
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Mickie Admire nee McBrien? wrote [22mar2002] :
"My great grandfather was a William FrederickFrederick … married to a Hester Fisher.”
Maxine McBryan wrote [22apr2002] :
“I've been corresponding with a descendant of Wm F. McBrien oldest son of James and Margaret Howden McBrien. …The original spelling is McBrien. I've seen the name in Port Perry articles and in a local history book. As far as know, the only one who changed it to MacBrien was Sir James Howden MacBrien. Wm. F. McBrien became a Doctor and went to the Missouri. Phillis told me that Alfred N and Australia were the same person.”

 

L-10.3 James MacBrien (1832…1909) m. Julia Frances Madden (c1849…1938)

District school inspector James MacBrien, second son of JAMES McBRIEN and MARGARET HOWDEN, was born 16 February 1832 near Enniskillen FER IRL. James emigrated with his mother to Canada in the 1840s, to Myrtle and Prince Albert ONT. He married Julia Frances Madden (born c1849); their ten children were:

In addition James and Julia raised:

L-10.3.1 James Howden MacBrien (1878…1938) m1. Nellie Louise Ross (c1849…1921) m2. Emelyn Battersby Hartridge (c1900…)

James Howden MacBrien, born 30 June 1878 to JAMES McBRIEN and JULIA FRANCES MADDEN in Canada, married Nellie Louise Ross (born c1849) 30 October 1907; their two children were:

Nellie died 7 December 1923. On 8 May 1925 James married Emelyn Battersby Hartridge (born c1900). James and Emelyn had only one child, a daughter

According to an obituary (8 March 1939) in a Toronto paper, the survivors for Sir James MacBrien included three sons and three daughters :

James' career was distinguished; he had been a member of the North West Mounted Police [later known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)] in 1900 until he joined the South African Constabulary in 1901; he started his military career in 1906 with service in the Canadian military (he was instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Department of Defence in 1927) and later served with the RCMP (of which he was Commissioner from 1931 until his death):

Military Matters, pp227-8: [publication name (?On the Shores of the Scugog?) and date not known]
Major General Jas. H. MacBrien
No record of Ontario County's part in the Great War would be complete without a sketch of Major General MacBrien, whose boyhood days were spent in Prince Albert, Ontario.
He is the son of the late Inspector Jas. MacBrien and Mrs. MacBrien. His mother still lives at Prince Albert, enjoying good health, and having a keen interest in current events.
Few men have given themselves more whole-heartedly to their chosen vocation than General MacBrien. He entered military life in his young manhood, (June, 1896), and in the prime of life he occupied with signal credit the highest office to be attained in the Canadian Militia. Work, study, and applied ability have won him this distinction.
He spent some years in the North West Mounted Police, and saw service in the South African War. Later he went to Australia on military service and in the Military College at Camberley, England, studied military technique to such good purpose that he was given a place on the General Staff during the war of 1914-1918.
General MacBrien was Chief of Staff for a year during the demobilization of the Canadian Contingent. He was for some time Chief of Staff of Ottawa, becoming the head of affairs in an executive capacity in the Department of Militia and Defence. He is now head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

LIST OF RIBBONS WORN BY MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES H MacBRIEN, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
C.B. —Commander of the Bath.
C.M.G. —Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
D.S.O and bar —Distinguished Service Order. (The Bar means that he won the D.S.O. twice.)
South African Ribbon —for Service in the Boer War.
Mons Star for service in the Great War, 1914.
General Service Ribbon and Rosette —for service in the Great War. The Rosette means that he was mentioned in the despatches several times.
Victory Ribbon —Allied Victory Ribbon issued by the Allied Powers, jointly
Legion of Honour —Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, conferred by the French Government.
P.S.C. —Passed Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, England.

And with all these honours heaped upon him he is an unassuming gentleman, a high type of Canadian.

Sir James Howden MacBrien was buried at Beechwood Cemetery, 280 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa (plot 63) . A mountain was named after James Howden MacBrien.

L-10.3.1.1 William Ross MacBrien (…) m. Susanne Elizabeth Gaby (…)

The information in this section was provided by D’Arcy Young [DYoung@quadcap.net, 21jun2008]
William Ross MacBrien, son of JAMES HOWDEN MacBRIEN presumably by his first wife NELLIE LOUISE ROSS. William married Susanne Elizabeth Gaby; their single child was:

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L-10.4 Alfred Nelson MacBrien (1842…1875) m. Elizabeth Susan Hyland (1840…1871)

Alfred Nelson MacBrien, [referred to by some as Australia N MacBrien] born 1842 in Ireland, married Elizabeth Susan Hyland (or Highland); their children were:

Elizabeth Susan McBrien nee Hyland died 2 February 1871 shortly after the birth of the twins and was buried in St George's Cemetery in Oshawa, Canada.

During the United States Civil War Alfred Nelson McBrien volunteered for the Union Army and was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg. It was in about 1873 that he started out for Australia possibly to lay claim to his father's land grants but on his way he supposedly died (murdered) in California in 1873 (not in Newtonville). When Alfred Nelson McBrien went claim the grants in Australia, he left Fred with his brother James McBrien to be raised.

[Note: Alfred Nelson McBrien was never known as Australia (that was his older brother). Information prior to June 2002 had Alfred and Elizabeth's surviving daughter as MAUD MacBRIEN (married Col. Dolanure?).]

L.10.4.1 Frederick Richmond MacBrien (1869…1938) m. ? (…)

Frederick Richmond MacBrien, born 23 January 1869 in Canada, was the eldest child of ALFRED NELSON MacBRIEN and his wife ELIZABETH SUSAN HYLAND. Fred, like his father a doctor, had three children:

Frederick Richmond McBrien (Chris McBrien's grandfather) died in 1938 and was buried next to his mother in St. Georges Cemetery, Oshawa.

L-10.5?? John MacBrien (…) m. Miss Donelly (…)

[The following family was included in this lineage per notes of Maxine McBryan's Aunt Jessie who died in 1960, and although now discounted per Chris MacBrien (June 2002) have been left in this position pending clarification]:
John MacBrien married a Miss Donnelly; their children included (at least) :

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