Do you have HANLON & O'HANLONs - interested in working on a One Name Study?

Question

Hi all, 

If you have anyone with the Hanlon/O'Hanlon surnames or their variants, just wanted to let you know that there is a brand new One Name Study and you are invited to come take a look and join in.

Anyone with an interest in the name is welcome, anywhere in the world. If you would like another geographical category added or a subproject for your interest area, please let me know. It's only a few days old, so plenty more to come - also, suggestions in general are welcome as I am new to this.

Annemarie

Answer 1

Could you please include the variation Hanlan? In Canada, Edward "Ned" Hanlan was a famous athlete.

His Wikipedia page can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Hanlan.

Here is his WikiTree page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hanlan-11.

His family members today use the spelling Hanlon.

Thank you.

Anne

Comments

Hi, I just saw my original reply somehow never got posted, sorry about that.

So yes, the study does absolutely does include Hanlan!  And any other spelling variation we come across. The links for Hanlan are set up already - links to Hanlan profiles, orphaned Hanlan profiles up for adoption, unattached profiles etc. In fact, Ned Hanlan comes up top of the list for profiles with the Hanlan surname. :)

The intention is to include all spelling variations as many of these guys were (at best) semi literate, meaning whoever heard them say it got to choose how it was written. Might be a bit ambitious, but it's off to a nice start.

Answer 2

Hi to all the lovely Hanlons out there. My Hanlons came to Australia from Dungloe in Donegal Ireland and we have bred like rabbits; possibly a 'make hay while the sun shines' following the dark times in Ireland (the famine, the troubles etc). I am interested in the migration of Hanlons across Ireland and in particular the migration across Northern Ireland following the 'flight of the Earls'. Does anyone know where I may study this in more detail and post my findings here.

Comments

Hi Pete!

Yes, I have a theory that our lot were being persecuted  in the 1600s for misdemeanors and nonconformist religion, so migrated across Ireland from the ancient O'Hanlon homelands in County Armagh/Louth to seek refuge in County Donegal. Of course, I have yet to find the nice, neat proof I keep hoping for.

A good place to look for this period is British History Online. It has an outstanding collection of transcriptions and scanned images of genuinely historic documents. It used to be free but now it is a mix of some free sections and some paid.

Intriguingly, I heard that some correspondence from the O'Hanlon family from around the time of the Flight of the Earls survived in the Catholic institutions which had been approached to help evacuate them and house them in Europe. From memory these were a seminary in Rome, and the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. If you find any reference to these documents that would help pinpoint the relevant names or dates I could go visit their archives to photograph and transcribe them.

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Hi Pete, a quick follow up: I had a look at your tree and updated the profile for your oldest known ancestor, Patrick Hanlon (1806-1890), the Petty Sessions Clerk for Dungloe. It has every source I could find, including a lovely little map from 1857 showing his house in Dungloe down by the river. Hope you like it!

If you click on "edit" you will see the categories added to include him in the name study.

Your name is now on the Membership List with your interests. I do love your mention of rabbits :)

Oh, and if you want to, you can display a little sticker on the Biography section of your own profile, just paste this anywhere in that section:

{{Member|ONS|name=Hanlon}}

Answer 3

Hi Annemarie.  I am interested.

My ancestors migrated from Kilkenny (some are still there), but may have earlier lived elsewhere in Ireland.

Mark

Comments

Hi Mark,

Grand! I added you to the Membership list with your interests - by all means edit it as you see fit (link above). I had a preliminary peek at your tree, so your oldest ancestor on this line is also mentioned, William Hanlon (c.1804-c.1870).

if you want to, you can display a little sticker on the Biography section of your own profile, just paste this anywhere in that section:

{{Member|ONS|name=Hanlon}}

I've created some new categories for your interests: Kilkenny in Ireland and Queensland & NSW in Oz.

I already added some categories to William and his children so you can see how it's done (look above the == Biography == header). There are two ways of doing it, just copy/paste to change it how you prefer it: with or without a sticker.

As an example, these two profiles were both added to the study in the Kilkenny category: 

• William Hanlon (c.1804-c.1870) with a sticker 
• Michael Hanlon (1832-1915) without. 

You only need to use the template once to get the sticker

{{One Name Study|name=Hanlon|category=Kilkenny, Hanlon Name Study}}

After that you can optionally add as many other categories as you like, using the usual double square brackets.

I'll see if there is anything more I can add over the next couple of days.

Answer 4

My interest is Hanlon’s in Armagh. Forkhill Maphoner area.

Comments

Hi Ginny,

Welcome! I added you to the Membership list with the Forkhill Maphoner interest in Armagh. If you'd like to update it at all just click on the link to that page and edit it, or ask me and I'll do it for you.

I didn't see any profiles in your tree yet (mine aren't linked to me either!), so just let me know when you have an ancestor's profile ready to be added to the study. If you send me the WikiTree ID, I'll create a category for County Armagh for you and add it to that profile. You can then copy/paste it on to others.

If you want to add a sticker to your profile just paste this anywhere in the Biography section of your own profile:

{{Member|ONS|name=Hanlon}}

P.S. I see you are new (I only started this Summer). If you have any questions you can always send me a private message.

Answer 5

I'm late to the party, but I'll do what I can.  Most likely limited to the States.  I have hit a wall at my 4th Great Grandfather, Moses, a more common name then I would have imagined.  It appears he came from Ireland but I have had no luck finding any info on, when or where.

Answer 6

Please add me to the O'Hanlon One Name Project. I am particularly interested in linking New Jersey / New York O'Hanlon / Hanlons to their roots in County Limerick Ireland. Our brick wall has been around / behind John O'Hanlon b. Ireland, who d. in 1846 in New Jersey, USA. Note wife Catherine (Landers or Launders) was Catholic. There were apparently no Catholic churches in the area of New Jersey where they resided, so their children were sent to Methodist sunday school. Both sons, Thomas and John, became Methodist ministers. Their daughter, my gg grandmother Katherine O'Hanlon married a Methodist minister, my gg-grandfather John Atkinson, in Freehold, NJ in 1855. The family story is that John O'Hanlon, the elder was estranged from family, including his sibling Philip, a physician, who resided in New York.  - Ann (Atkinson) Sawusch 27 Apr 2023

Answer 7

Sure!
My O'Hanlon, Hanlon family is mainly the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania.  I would love to be able to find out exactly where in Ireland the family came from.

Jennifer

Answer 8

Hello,

My Hanlon ancestors came from Cork.  I believe the oldest Hanlon, James, may have come from Wexford.  James and his family were part of an immigration project in 1825 from Cork to Ontario, Canada commonly referred to as the Peter Robinson Immigration.  In the Peter Robinson Papers the families surname was recorded as Handlon, Handlow, Handlan, etc.  By the 1830's and 1840's the spelling had settled to Hanlon.  

Best regards, Tyne