John and Catherine Grady Flannery FamilyJohn and Catherine Grady Flannery FamilyBeth Watson, Lynn Carroll Funk, Mary Jo Dammen, Audrey Flannery Wilhelmson, Colleen D. Flannery, and Lorcan O'Flannery contributed to this family history.
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John Born in 1788In Summer 2006, Marilyn and I went to Argyle in Green County, Wisconsin, where we knew Marilyn's Flannery ancestorsd had lived and farmed a long time ago. The first farmer we saw to happened to be a Flannery. He said "I'm a Flannery." He referred us to his grandmother down the road. My wife was thrilled to meet some distant relatives for the first time. We met Mary Jo Dammen down the road. She put us in touch with her mother, Audrey Flannery Wilhelmson (1933-2016). Audrey was the Flannery genealogist and provided us with Audrey's Tree. In 2010, we went to a Flannery family reunion in Argyle and met genealogist and Flannery descendant, Beth Watson.
The year of birth is based on his tombstone. The 1857 Griffith's Valuation shows:
There are two separate Flannery clans in Ireland: one from County Mayo and the other from County Limerick.
Flannery DNA Project. Flannery Clan sponsors a Flannery DNA project at Family Tree DNA. The Aglish (Castlebar) Cluster in the Flannery project includes two testers who have ancestors from the townland of Sarnaught, which is nearby Derreenmanus: kits 36430 and 221086. The testers in this cluster have done only minimal testing (Y37) and are projected by FTDNA to have a mutation called R-M269, born around 4450 BC. The Aglish Cluster resembles the "Irish Modal Haplotype." Testers with this haplotype have a later mutation called R-M222, born around 100 BC. No descendants of John Flannery are known to have been tested yet. If you are or know a male Flannery descendant, you may want to consider testing at Family Tree DNA. FTDNA has the largest DNA database in the field. The Flannery Clan Y-DNA Project, however, is not recommended because it limits testing to Y-37 because it was started when that was the maximum testing. Instead, it is recommended that you join the R-M222 Project and test Big Y-700. By testing the Y-chromosome DNA, males can determine the origin of their paternal line. Note that the Y-chromosome DNA strictly checks the paternal line, with no influence of any females along that line. Females do not receive the Y-chromosome, and therefore females cannot be tested for the paternal line. If you are a female and would like to know about your paternal line, you would have to find a brother or a male relative from that line willing to be tested. See Deep Ancestry for examples of what I have learned with Big Y-700. |
Catherine Born in 1798
Catherine is assumed to have been born in Castlebar. The year of birth is based on her tombstone. Catherine's nickname was Kitty. |
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John and Catherine Marry circa 1820, Have 6 ChildrenJohn Flannery, 32, and Catherine Grady, 22, were married in Castlebar, County Mayo, around the year 1820. This year is based on the year their first child is estimated to have been born. Castlebar. John and Catherine's first child James was born in Castlebar in 1823. John and Catherine's second child Thomas was born in Castlebar in 1825. John and Catherine's third child John was born in Castlebar in 1827. John and Catherine's fourth child Patrick was born in Castlebar in 1828. John and Catherine's fifth child Richard Francis was born in Castlebar in 1836. John and Catherine's sixth child Peter was born in Castlebar in 1844. He was baptized May 23, 1844. Sometime before 1845, John and Catherine's second son Thomas married Mary. On February 3, 1848, John and Catherine's first son James married Mary Murray. The witness was Bridget Flannery. Baltimore. The Flannery family immigrated to America over a period of years. In 1852, two of their sons, James and Patrick, immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland, arriving there aboard the ship William Patten on May 10, 1852. The 1855 Baltimore directory shows James Flannery, a laborer, living at 170 Columbia. Records of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad show James Flannery working in the Rd. Way Department in 1855 for $1 a day. In 1855, John and Catherine's fourth son Patrick married Mary Conway. In 1856, John and Catherine's third son John married Catherine Gallway in Baltimore. Sometime before 1860, John and Catherine's fifth son Richard married Bridget Ann Slavin. They stayed in Baltimore and never moved to Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Sometime before 1860, John and Catherine Flannery moved from Baltimore to Wisconsin near the Illinois border. They were living with their youngest son Peter in Brodhead, Decatur Township, Green County, in the 1860 census. Their sons Thomas and John and were living in Brodhead with their families as well. The obituary of son John Flannery says he moved to Brodhead in 1857. John and Catherine's sons James and Patrick also moved to Wisconsin. James moved sometime between 1855, which was when Patrick was born in Baltimore, and 1857, which is when Catherine was born in Wisconsin. They went first to Leyden, Porter Township in Rock County. By 1870, they were in Adams Township in Green County, the next county west of Rock County. Patrick settled in Jordan Township in Green County. | |||||
John Widowed at Age 73Wisconsin, 1861-1863. John was widowed upon the death of his wife Catherine in 1861. He was age 73. They had been married 41 years. |
Catherine Dies in 1861 at Age 63Catherine Grady Flannery died September 17, 1861. She was age 63. She was buried in Old Calvary Cemetery in Green County, Wisconsin.
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John Dies in 1863 at Age 75John Flannery died in 1863 at age 75. He was buried in Old Calvary Cemetery, Monroe Township, Green County, Wisconsin.
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John and Catherine: 6 children, 36 grandchildren, 87 great grandchildren
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Castlebar, 1788-1820. John Francis Flannery was born in 1788 in Derreenmanus, a townland in Aglish Civil Parish, about two miles northwest of Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.
