James Moloney (1820)

Born Dec 1820 in Tullabracky, Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland

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Biography

James Moloney was born in December 1820 at Tullybrackey House in the rural townland and civil parish of Tullybrackey near Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland. He was the 1st child of Patrick Moloney and Margaret Cleary of Tullybrackey House. James was baptized on 29 Dec 1820 in Bruff Catholic Parish, with baptismal sponsors Michael Cleary and Catherine Moloney.^[1]

According to a 1845 newspaper article, "Grand Repeal Demonstration in Bruff," James, aged 24 at the time, was referred to as attending a political event with his father Patrick, brother Patrick Jr. and relative John who lived across the road in Tullybrackey:

“John Molony of Tullabracca Castle [which refers to a house built near castle ruins], Patrick Molony, Tullabracca; Patrick Molony jun; James Moloney” are “among those on platform” (including 25 men, such as MPs, parish priests, and men of standing). “On Sunday last might be seen thousands upon thousands darkening the roads from every point of the compass towards Bruff, the place of rendezvous, where the people of that district of the county of Limerick resolved to give the initiative in a new and a glorious campaign of Repeal Agitation …”^[2]

Research Notes

I've been unable to identify further or find what happened to James Moloney. If he was the James Moloney attending the 1845 Bruff political event^[2] (referred to in the above biography) with his father Patrick Moloney, we know James lived to at least age 24.

There were at least 8 couples with the name James Moloney of the same generation that baptized a child or children in Bruff Parish, in unidentified townland residences:

• James Moloney and Mary Higgins • James Moloney and Mary Butler • James Moloney and Mary Moloney • James Moloney and Mary Hennessy • James Moloney and Mary Dooley • James Moloney and Ellen O'Donnell • James Moloney and Johanna Casey • James Moloney and Margaret Dundan

Some of these couples most likely emigrated.

Emigrated?

The lease of Tullybrackey House and farm was inherited by James' little sister Bridget and her husband Joseph Gubbins Kirby in 1857, when James would have been 37.^[3] She was the 6th child, so it is reasonable to consider that her older siblings (four older brothers and one older sister) may no longer have been in the area.

Research notes by (Joan Stewart Smith), James Moloney's GG grandniece

Sources

1. ↑ Rootsireland.ie. Baptism, James Moloney, 29 Dec 1820, Bruff Parish, Co. Limerick, Ireland, Patrick Moloney and Margaret Cleary, Sp. Michael Cleary, Catherine Moloney
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} “Grand Repeal Demonstration in Bruff.” Freeman’s Journal, 11 Sep 1845, Dublin Evening Mail, 10 Sep 1845, Limerick Reporter, 9 Sep 1845. Article referred to “John Molony of Tullabracca Castle, Patrick Molony, Tullabracca; Patrick Molony jun; James Moloney” as “among those on platform” (including 25 men, such as MPs, parish priests, and men of standing)
3. ↑ Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929, FamilySearch. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJ4-7948-4) Page 16 of the Deeds (not the index) > Deeds, etc., v. 1-3 1858, film 535348, DGS 8094579, image 242 of 565. 1858 memorial deed of 1857 marriage settlement of Joseph Kirby of Rathjordan, Co. Limerick, and Bridget Moloney of Tullybrackey, Co. Limerick. Agreement was between Margaret Moloney, bride’s mother [who just died Jan 1858]; Bridget Moloney, bride; Mary Moloney, bride’s sister, all of Tullybrackey; and groom Joseph Kirby of Rathjordan, and Daniel Riordan, surgeon, of Bruff, and Michael Ryan of Rathnavene. Witnesses include Richard Nunan, Catholic curate, and Patrick Laffan [groom’s brother-in-law].