Thomas Harney (1794 - abt. 1883)

Born 1794 in Drum, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ancestors

Died about 1883 at about age 89 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [uncertain]

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Biography

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THOMAS HARNEY (1794-1880s) Ireland, America and Australia

It is thought he may be the author of the Old Harney Letters Space: Old Harney Letters found in an attic in the old Harney home in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He was a seaman and traveled extensively around the world. He letters were dated in the 1870s and 1880s from Sydney Harbour, Australia. He mentions many family members in these letters and his regret that he could not return to Cambridge, MA, for a family wedding.

Name: Thomas Harney. He used the name Hearne in ports where there was animosity against the Irish.

Born 1794 parish of St Peter's Drum, Athlone, Roscommon, Ireland

Baptism: 2 Sep 1794. St Peters & Drum parish, Co Roscommon, Ireland.

Sources

• Source: Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 2533
• Old Harney Letters written by Thomas Harney a seaman. Copies in the possession of Linda Harney MacDonald. They were found in the attic of a Harney home in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, by the late Edward Ted Harney of Cambridge and Billerica, MA.