John Blennerhassett of Tralee
DNA testing and this family
- How we found this family:
- While pursuing the possible link of my family to Blennerhassett,
we searched the DNA results of my family
for the name "Blennerhassett"
and found the family below.
- The risk of such a search is that the family is DNA related through some other line,
not through the surname you searched for.
- I have included this branch in a
DNA project
to test the DNA of Blennerhassett descendants.
- Here are the
DNA test results:
- DNA suggests this family is related to my family (Cashel).
The spread of matches suggests the match is through the Blennerhassett line.
- DNA suggests this family is related to the descendants of
Edward Blennerhassett of Rossbeigh.
- DNA weakly suggests this family may descend from
Robert Blennerhassett and Frances Yielding.
Conclusion
- DNA suggests this family is related both to Cashel and to the
Edward Blennerhassett of Rossbeigh family.
- But other DNA tests say Cashel is not closely related to the
Edward Blennerhassett of Rossbeigh family.
- So ultimately, we still have no real theory of how this family fits in.
- There is a
John Blennerhassett, baptised 1825
in the Edward Blennerhassett of Rossbeigh branch.
His family did catastrophically fall down the social ladder after their father died in 1833.
Could this be John below?
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To nail down the DNA link, and make sure it is not through some other ancestor of Savage,
we need to collect DNA of other
descendants and relations
of John Blennerhassett below.
John Blennerhassett,
or Hassett.
See
entry
in
tree
by
Brian Savage.
See
entry
in
tree
by
Aoife Fitzgerald.
He was a "labourer".
Lived
Tralee, Co.Kerry.
Probably Catholic. Children were Catholic, illiterate.
He mar pre-1855 to
Catherine Connor [born 1828].
Her maiden name is given at dau's mar 1875.
Children married in RC church. Probably born Catholic.
At dau's marriages 1875-76
family is living
Moyderwell, central Tralee.
John is labourer, alive.
John died 1876-1884.
Catherine died 1884,
Boherbee, central Tralee, age 56.
See
GROI.
John and Catherine
had issue:
- Elizabeth Blennerhassett,
born 1855.
Listed as illiterate, servant, age 20, of Moyderwell, Tralee, at mar 1875.
She
mar 1875 to William Russell.
See mar cert
from
GROI.
See
Tralee RC records
(and transcript).
Mar wit by Timothy Collins and Patrick Collins.
- Catherine Blennerhassett,
or Hassett,
Catie, born 1856.
Listed as servant, age 20, of Moyderwell, Tralee, at mar 1876.
She
mar 1876 to Denis O'Brien.
See mar cert
from
GROI.
See
Tralee RC records.
Mar wit by Timothy Collins and Patrick Collins.
She registered mother's death 1884. She was then living Boherbee, Tralee. She was illiterate.
Denis apparently died 1899.
This is meant to be Catherine
listed
in 1901 census, widow, washer woman, living with children as lodgers in a house in Moyderwell, Tralee.
They had issue:
- Mary O'Brien, born 1878,
mar Michael Savage,
had issue:
- Richard Savage,
born 1906, Tralee,
mar Kathleen Foley [Catherine],
had issue:
- Maurice Savage,
had issue:
- Sheila Savage.
- Richard Savage.
DNA match to (Cashel family):
me and Helen McGrath
on Ancestry.
DNA match to (main Blennerhassett family):
Mary Casey
on Gedmatch.
- Mike Savage.
DNA match to (Cashel family):
Helen McGrath
on Gedmatch.
DNA match to (main Blennerhassett family):
Nigel Wilson
on Ancestry.
- Brian Savage.
DNA match to (Cashel family):
Mitrina Ryall
and Frank McGrath
and Helen McGrath
and Niall Humphreys
on Ancestry.
DNA match to (main Blennerhassett family):
Nigel Wilson
on Ancestry.
- Helen O'Brien, born 1881,
mar Michael Colgan and had issue.
Has descendants who have done DNA.
- Jack O'Brien, born 1891,
mar Catherine Lucy Todd and had issue.
Has descendants who have done DNA.
