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| Date of Birth | 1st Aug 1827 (circa) | VIEW SOURCE |
| Date of Death | 1st Jan 1881 (circa) | |
| Father (First Name/s and Surname) | Owen Brady,father,Catherine Farrelly mother | |
| Mother (First Name/s and Maiden) | Catherine Farrelly,maiden name | |
| Father (First Name/s and Surname) | Owen Brady | |
John Brady died as a result of an accident while ploughing a field by horse .This account was carried down in the family saying he was bedridden until his death .His death certificate confirms his death from Paraplegia 3 months. He left behind his wife Bridget and six children the eldest being 16 years old and the youngest 3 years old . My grandfather Thomas was 10 years old at the time .
Well I don't know how they got through it, but I'm here his great grandson and the rest of us .
Hi brioso,
An Owen Brady with wife and 2 children emigrated to South Australia on the Lady McNaughton, arriving 13 October 1847. It is possible they were a part of Sir Montague Chapman's plan to settle people off his estates in SA. Owen has proven elusive in my researches of the passengers of that ship. My great great grandfather Philip Reilly with wife Catherine Fox and sons John andPatrick were on the ship as well.
The closest I can find in the Clonmellon RC Parish records is an Owen/Eugene Brady M Rose Hyland 31 July 1839 with children Elizabeth, 1840, Clonlough, peter, 1842, Clonlough, and Patrick 1845. However these don't match up with data in SA. An Owen also died 17 Oct 1847. I have come across a few references to Typhoid in some other passengers on arrival. That is as far as I have got.
Do you think he might be connected?
Regards
Bill O'Reilly
Hi Bill,
I remember coming across this information a couple of years ago, and I think there is a great possibility that Owen Brady never went!
I also think Sir M Chapman transactions were sometimes questionable. Remember there was money involved I think he got 30 guineas for each head he sent for agricultural activities. ,that is something I picked up somewhere in my searches.
The Owen Brady in our family was born in1785 and he died in 1848 in Ireland ,Killua Westmeath. So he would be 62 in 1847
He may have been on the manifest which Chapman had to present to authority and perhaps not known by Owen Brady .
But perhaps it's another Owen Brady not connected with our family as I don't recognise any of the other family names you mention.
I thank you very sincerely for your interest and would be delighted to hear from you again .I'm just thinking I could be speaking with an Australian accent . It just shows how delicate life can be.
Thomas Brady.
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Thanks Thomas
There is no data to show that he was connected to your lot - just a possibility. I found more than one passenger/family on the passenger lists that just disappear! There is a possibility that the Owen that supposedly travelled had a wife called Ann. Which may explain why I couldn't follow Rose Hyland nor the kids. As to Chapman there are a couple schools of thought. One that he was clearing his estates, another that he was wonderful in helping out his destitute poor and starving, and some say it was a bit of both. From the various sources I think he was more in support of emancipation etc than some give him credit for. Certainly his local agent, Richard Dyas of Heathstown was not well liked with someone taking a shot at him.
The other factor with Owen was that he may have been protestant, so we would be looking at a whole different family group.
Regards
Bill O'Reilly
ps there is a dialogue running on XO under Westmeath, Chapman
Bill
Thanks Bill ,
Nice to hear from you again
I don't think the Chapmans were bad people but he was very astute. Compared to other landlords he helped the poor in some ways .They were under pressure from the government with taxes and the likes . There's a new book called Killua a History,by Andrew Hughes .it's available through Amazon .
Cheers Thomas.
