HUNTER FAMILY

indigo:

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The 1856 Griffiths Valuation head of household lisitng for Bohola civil parish does show two Hunters living in Toocananagh townland. http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/mayo/bohola.php

I also checked Roots Ireland and the only Mary Hunter baptismal record in Mayo with a birth around 1859 was in Bohola RC church and the father was John and the mother was Mary but her maiden name was not Flannery but O'Donnell. However, the female sponsor was a Mary Flanery. Any chance you have the wrong name for the mother's maiden name? See trancription below. NOTE: Address is shown as Treenduff but I can't find that townland. Possibly it was Treanfohanaun in Bohola parish.

Here is the parish register for Bohola which starts in October 1857 so you should be able to find the actual record.

http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0122

Roger McDonnell 

Name:Mary HunterDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:20-Nov-1859Address:TreenduffParish/District:BOHOLAGender:FemaleCountyMAYO
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:John HunterMother:Mary O DonnelOccupation:
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:Jas LyonsSponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Mary Flanery

Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I will look through theses names and see if any others match.

I see that the name Laferty if from Duff?  Is that a different parrish? Perhaps I should turn my search to that area.

Indigo

Indigo:

Not sure what you mean about Laferty from Duff? Can you clarify?

Roger

Yes, Sorry 

When looking at the info in the book for Bohola Parrish  for my greatgrandmother Mary Hunter under the Informants name Mary Laferty her residence is noted as Duff.

I am wondering if I should concentrate on that Parrish as I can understand my Grandfather missing the name of one grandparent (Thomas Hunter vs John Hunter ) but Laferty Vs O'Donnel means getting both incorrect. 

My thinking in another Parrish perhaps Mary Laferty is wed to Thomas Hunter and they too name their child Mary Hunter?

It may be all to far in the past as well. Mayo, Derry and Down had so many that left. Maybe the history of mine has lost some of the facts in it's word of mouth travel.

Indigo 

Indigo:

Maybe your Mary was born before October 1857 in Bohola which would mean that her record would not be available.

There is no Duff parish. Maybe what you saw was Treenduff.

Roger

Good point !

Thank you again for all you help. I will have to stop by next year on my next visit.

Take care Roger.

Indigo

Hi Indigo,  Mary Ann Hunter would be my wife's first great aunt. I have a fair amount of information which I'm happy to share. My e.mail is ajrayson@outlook.com and I'm in the UK  Regards

John

Thanks for your help John!

Patrick McGuiness C 1800 and Bridgett Laferty C 1800 had a child Bridget  C 1830 who married Martin Conboy C 1829 they had Mary C 1847  (Ireland Mayo) who went to the US and married James P.Brannigan C 1845( Derry Ireland) who had my Grandfather James Francis Brannigan C1884 born in the US. Anyone have any info on McGuiness/Laferty?

Indigo, 

I also am searching for information about the Hunter Flanery line and the Brannigan Conboy line. I have Philip Brannigan being born in Downpatrick in 1799 who is the father of James Philip Brannigan who married Mary Conboy. Anything you could add would be helpful. 

If the "Conboy" record you found was from Mayo, the name might actually be Corboy (it's often hard to read the handwriting from the 19th century).  My great-great grandmother, Margaret Curraby, was born in the townland of Treanfohanaun (mentioned in some messages above) in Bohola parish in the early 1800's, and the name was fairly common in Bohola and nearby.

The Curraby surname is a variant of the more common name MacCorboy, coming from the Irish Mac Corrbuidhe, which it is believed may come from the Irish words corr, meaning “crane”, and buí (buidhe in the old spelling), meaning “yellow”.  In origin, it was possibly a nickname for someone with blond hair who was thin and looked like a bit like a crane.  Most Gaelic-origin names are based on an ancestor's given name, nickname, or some characteristic (such as the Scottish name Cameron, which means “crooked nose”).

The name originated to the east, in what is now Laois and Offaly, and an online database showing the frequency of certain surnames indicates that the Curraby variant existed (originally, at least) only in Mayo.  The pronunciation of the name in Irish led to a number of different Anglicized forms.  In my family, it started out as Curraby in earlier records, but drifted later to Creaby, so the use of Corboy (misread as Conboy) would not be unusual.  The handwritten form of the name has also sometimes been misread by researchers in ways such as Curly, Curry, and Kirby, and some scholars think that the surname Corbett is also sometimes a distorted version of the name.

I've got my DNA results psted at GEDMATCH (kit number T780556), in case you have as well and want to see whether there's a match.