James & Gabrielle McAndrew

Christina:

Can you give us more information regarding James and Gabrielle? Years of birth, parents names, maiden name for Gabrielle. Thanks!

The 1901 census for Callow showed one McAndrew family  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Callow/Callow/1593203/

I asked another volunteer to comment on your message but we do need more info.

Roger McDonenll

I'm the person whom Roger asked to respond to your inquiry.  One of my grandmothers, Anne Marie McNulty, was born in Callow in 1885, and one of her grandmothers was a Bridget McAndrew.   I know of several James McAndrew's in branches of my family tree (including a great-uncle of my grandmother), but none married to anyone named Gabrielle.  That's a pretty uncommon name for rural east Mayo, at least in the 19th century, but you may be talking about a later period.  If you can give more info about the time frame, I may be able to help further.  In that census record which Roger found, the eldest child was born just a year before my grandmother, so she undoubtedly knew him, and I suspect he was a cousin.

For now, I can tell you that the local MacAndrew's (in my grandmother's time), were actually from the next townland to the east of Callow, Coolcashla (also called Coolcastle in some records), with Callow and Coolcashla both being in the parish of Killasser.  The local sub-church is in Callow, and the people from Coolcashla would likely have attended mass there.  You can see more info about Coolcashla at this link:

https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/gallen/killasser/cuildoo/coolcashla/

In Irish, the surname McAndrew is Mac Aindriu.  It was adopted by a branch of the Barrett family in Mayo.  The Barrett’s were an Anglo-Norman family which became fully Hibernicized (the name was sometimes re-Anglicized as FitzAndrew).  The McAndrew’s became like a native Irish sept (or “sub-tribe”), having a well-defined territory on the eastern side of Lough Conn in northeastern Mayo, in the area of the current parishes of Backs and Attymass, which are just to the west of Killasser.  They intermarried with the other families in the area for centuries.  In Griffiths Valuation, in the early mid-1800’s, there were 232 McAndrew tenants or landholders listed in all of Ireland, of whom 186 were in County Mayo, and 19 in adjoining parts of County Sligo, with a few also in Roscommon, and all 16 of the McAndrew births registered in 1890 in Ireland were in Mayo.

Thank you Kevin.  I have no information on them other than land at Knockaganny Callow was transferred into their names in 1975 & I think they may have been brother & sister.  The address given for them at that time was Callow .

I live at Callow but can find nobody who knows of them

Regards

Christina

Oh, I see.  That's interesting.  My grandmother grew up in Corthoonduff/Cartronduff, which is right next to Knockaganny.  My mother had cousins who still lived there when I visited many years ago, but they were McNulty's and McDonnell's.

My grandmother was McNulty from Carrick next village to Knockaganny.  If you in Ireland call