Flanagan/Mannion family

Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left, who they mighthave travelled with..etc.? Generally more information was given at the port of arrival rather than theport of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g. Liverpool, Ellis Island), this could be agood place to find more information, and perhaps even find out an exact place of origin. Shippingmanifests can be checked ?which may lead to more clues. The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml Also try these links sir they mite be usefull in your seach good luck. The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The National Archives UK ? genealogy search:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/ The Public Records Office of Northern Irelandhttp://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm

Hello,

I see this is quite an old message so hoping Angela you are still keeping in touch. I have been researching my Manion ancestors for years. My gt Grandmother Bridget Manion was born in Kilbeacanty c. 1852 to parents Patrick Manion and Bridget Donohue. Patrick was a herdsman and some time later they moved to Crusheen in Clare, where Patrick worked as a herdsman on the Butler estate. I always knew that they came to Kilbeacanty from somewhere else and by a strange coincidence had a recent DNA match through my brother's DNA which strongly suggested the parish of Boyaunagh and nearby Clonberne and Kiltullagh where in the 19th century there were significant numbers of Manions/Mannions. I  have had other DNA matches from this general area also. I notice that in Griffith's Valuation for Ballinastack Patrick Mannion at 9(b) was second next to David and Patrick Flanagan. There were two Anne Manion baptisms in 1845 - one to Patrick Manion and Sally Comer and one to Andrew Manion and Margaret Lyons. There is a record in Boyounagh for the marriage of a Michael Broderick to a Maria Grimly (possibly Gormley or Gormally) on 8/11/1857. John Flanagan was a sponsor. (I should explain that I am a subscriber to findmypast.ie).

I hope this information is still of help,

Deirdre Carroll, Dublin

Deirdre (and hopefully Angela) 

Have you joined the Mannion by DNA FB group and the East Galway Ancestry & DNA group ?

There are several Mannions in the groups both from the original home land of Menlough and also further north in Clonbern, and Glenamaddy 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/259339384445890

https://www.facebook.com/groups/eastgalwaygenealogy

If not please do and also upload your raw DNA to the free site gedmatch.com and join the Ancestor Projects there for Mannion and East Galway 

Happy New Year

Martin

I would sugguest that you look at the Parish Register for Kiltullagh in the Archdiosess of Clonfort in Galway looking for their baptisms 

They begin with the date of June 25th 1844 so they may be of assistance

These reords are on line at the National Library of Ireland Unfortunately they are not cataloged as of this date

Kiltullagh, Clonfert - Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI

Fred Jaeger

Thanks to you both for your replies. 

I have looked at the Kiltullagh records in findmypast.ie - there are indeed lots of Manions in that general area.

I will certainly look at that FB group!

As an adendum, one of the points about my Manion forbears was their longevity - many living well into their nineties. I checked Manion death records for this area and was amazed but nor surprised to note some very long living people (findmypast.ie).

Deirdre