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Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.


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O'Connor

  

Letter from Daniel O'Connell to his wife Mary, 12 Aug 1808.
Mentions Ellen and Tom, and also Mary Anne O'Connell.
From Ms 33,565/8. See full size.


  
James O'Connor,
or James Connor.
See wikitree.
He was an attorney.
He mar 1792 to Elizabeth O'Connell [Betsy, bapt 12 Aug 1777].
He was friend and co-counsel of Daniel O'Connell. This is probably how Daniel met Elizabeth's sister Mary, who he began courting in 1800. (Though they were distant cousins, so may have known each other earlier.)
James and Elizabeth lived in Day Place, Tralee.
She died 1815.
He died 1819.
They had among other issue:


  1. Ellen O'Connor,
    born 1793.

  2. James Connor,
    bapt 1 December 1794, Tralee RC church, sp Edward Dunn and Mary Tuohy.
    He died young.

  3. Ricarda O'Connor,
    or Rickarda, born 1796.
    She mar John Primrose.


  4. Elizabeth O'Connor,
    Bess, bapt 1 Dec 1798.
    See wikitree.
    She mar 1817 to Capt. Richard Leyne and had issue.


  5. Thomas O'Connor,
    Tom, Thomas Maurice O'Connor,
    or Thomas Morris O'Connor,
    bapt 1 July 1800, Tralee RC church, sp John Sheehy and Susan Connor.


  6. Rev. Charles James O'Connor,
    born 1801.
    He wrote out an O'Connell genealogy, 1852.
    He died 1861.




Marriage of Elizabeth O'Connell and James O'Connor.
From Freemans Journal, November 6, 1792, p.3.



Marriage of Elizabeth O'Connell and James O'Connor.
Abstracts from Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Nov 1792.




Sources yet to be consulted



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