John Hallinan

Dear Mike:

Thank you for your query to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the site.

I live in Tulla County Clare, and the Hallinan name was in the East Clare area (as well as in other Clare areas!).  I have looked at the Clare Library website and I see that there was a Patrick Hallinan listed as occupying lands in the following parishes:  Inniscealtra (Mountshannon) Killokennedy (Broadford) and Feakle in  Griffith's Valuation which was taken in 1855 for County Clare.  One of these listings may be your Patrick Hallinan so it may be a clue as to the parish.  The parish registers for all 3 parishes are available on the Clare Library website (for free), however, the earliest register is Broadford (1844) so it may not be a big help to you.  However,  it is worth noting that in most cases pre-Famine, both parents were often neighbours and I would  recommend that you look for both surnames (Hallinan and Coughlin) in the same townlands.  I do see a William Coghlan in Mountshannon village (which was also part of Inniscealtra parish), so this may be a good area to begin with.  

If you have any further information such as siblings' names, etc. please let me know.  I do see several civil death records for a Patrick Hallinan and a Bridget Hallinan from Scariff, but nothing that is definitive.

Kind regards,

Jane

Dear Jane,

Many thanks for your reply. I have no information about possible names of siblings of my Great Grandfather John Hallinan - I have more information about the siblings and parents of his wife, my Great Grandmother, Johanna Ryan who was born about 1859 in Newport, Co. Tipperary. She was the daughter of George R Ryan and his second wife Bridget Gleeson (according to my G-Grandparents marriage certificate). Johanna passed away on the family farm, "Lalla Rookh", at Duri, New South Wales on 4 SEP 1927

Johanna Ryan was encouraged to emigrate to Australia by her 2 half sisters, Mary and Bridget Ryan who had arrived seperately in New South Wales sometime during the mid to late 1860's. Mary (c1843-1924) and Bridget (c1850-1890) were daughters of George R Ryan and his first wife Johanna Dwyer. Goerge R Ryan is variously listed as Labourer, Farmer and Fishing Inspector on his 3 daughters' marriage and death certificates. (I posted more extensive information about the sisters on the Ireland Reaching Out messag board on Wednesday 3rd June 2015, 02:59AM under the title "Johanna Hallinan (nee Ryan) - A Tale of 3 Sisters")

I have included the above information seeing your surname is Ryan and also as the name Halloran and Hallinan have been interchanged by several families out here in Australia - One HALLINAN family registered their first 9 children as Hallinan but the 10th was registered as Halloran and, subsequently, all members of the family, and their descendants, use Halloran as their surname.

Cheers,

Mike Hallinan

Dear Mike:  

Thanks for the reply and for the further information.  That is further complicating your research with the fact that Hallinan and Halloran were interchangeable!  Do you think that there is a possibility that John Hallinan might have known Johanna Dwyer before he left Ireland?  If that’s the case, it may be worth looking at the East Clare/Tipperary records out there for Hallinan.  

There are other Hallinan researchers on the message board and one who visited here from Australia several years ago.  Her Hallinan were from  the Kilshanny area.  I can forward your post to her to see if she can offer any further information or if you two can work  out any possible connection.  

If you need any further information or assistance,  please let me know.  

All the best,  

Jane