Mary Moloney (1832)

Born Feb 1832 in Tullabracky, Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland

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Biography

Mary Moloney was born in Febrary 1832 at Tullybrackey House in the townland and civil parish of Tullybrackey near Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland. She was the 7th child and 3rd daughter of Patrick Moloney and Margaret Cleary of Tullybrackey House. Mary was baptized on 23 Feb 1832 in Bruff Catholic Parish, with baptismal sponsors Patrick Moloney and Margaret Moloney.^[1]

The lease of Tullybrackey House and farm was inherited by Mary's older sister Bridget and her husband Joseph Gubbins Kirby in 1857, when Mary was 25. We know that Mary lived to adulthood because the marriage settlement included the names of her mother ("Margaret Molony of Tullybrackey in the County of Limerick widow" and Mary ("Mary Molony of same place daughter of the said Margaret Molony") as two of five negotiating parties.^[2]

Research Notes

I've been unable to find what happened to Mary Moloney after 1857.

In case Mary didn't emigrate, didn't marry after 1857, or didn't die before Irish death registration started in 1864, I seached Irishgenealogy.ie for unmarried Mary Moloney or Mary Molony women among Irish civil death records, 1864-1910, in Kilmallock, where Bruff records were reigstered.

Needless to say, many women with that name died during that time. I eliminated all of them, due to wrong age, married name of Moloney, etc.

The only possibility was a Mary Moloney, spinster, servant, age 47 (born 1828), who died 24 Jan 1875 in Bruree (seven miles southwest of Bruff), informant John O’Keefe, occupier, Bruree, in Kilmallock (where Bruff records were registered).

However, whether or not that is the same Mary Moloney is pure speculation.

Perhaps another researcher will find unearth more information.

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

Sources

1. ↑ Rootsireland.ie. Baptism, Mary Moloney, 23 Feb 1832, Bruff Parish, Co. Limerick, Ireland, Patrick Moloney and Margaret Cleary, Sp. Patrick Molony, Margaret Molony
2. ↑ 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].