Owen
Eugene
McDonnell
Born in Ballinsloe Roscommon Ireland
Son of John McDonnell
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth (Brazier) McDonnell
— married
17 Feb 1874 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia
Descendants 
Father of
Ellen (McDonnell) Wall, Mary-Ann McDonnell, Elizabeth (McDonnell) Gordon, Owen McDonald, Isabella Mary (McDonnell) Adam, Hannah (McDonald) Bergin, Emily (McDonald) Keogh, Mary (McDonnell) Kelso, William McDonald, Martin Colena McDonald, John McDonald and Joseph McDonald
Died
at age 81
in Jandowae, Queensland, Australia
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Biography
Owen McDonald was born in Ireland in 1839. He arrived in Moreton Bay in Queensland on the "Fiery Starr" in 1864. As Owen McDonnell, he married Elizabeth Brazier on the 17th of February 1874 at St Johns Church of England, Dalby, Queensland. In the 1905 Census they were living at Colena Farm, Jandowae.
Eugene Owen McDonnell referred to in the family as Owen married Elizabeth Brazier and they had at least 9 children possibly 12.
Sources
Newspaper Clipping - The Telegraph - Monday Evening 1 Feb 1915 P5 - Government Notices - Transmission by Death - Real Property acts of 1881 and 1877 - Notice is hereby given that applications have been made for the Registration of Transmission of Title to the Lands hereinafter mentioned. Particulars of such applications are given below and any person desiring to oppose must do so by lodging a Caveat on or before the day specified at the Principal Office of the Registrar of Titles in Brisbane unless the lands are situated within the Central or Northern Districts in which case the Caveat must be lodged at the local District Registry at Rockhampton or Townsville. - Name of Deceased Proprietor - Owen McDonnell (otherwise McDonald) late of Jondowae farmer. Date of Death - 15 April 1912. Name of Claimant Elizabeth McDonnell (otherwie McDonald) widow of the deceased. Description and Situation of Land - Allotments 1 and 2 of suburban section 45 and allotment 2 of section 17 county of Lytton parish of Jondowae. Estate Claimed to be transmitted - Fee-simple. Particulars of Will or otherwise - will dated 15 April 1912. Date within which Caveat may be Lodged - 7 March 1915.
- Qld Marriage Index #C/81/1874.
- Qld Death Index #C/1078/1912.
- Death registered as Owen McDonnell? Parents registered for his death John McDonnell & Mary Hynes.
- Jennifer Harman from my Grandmother Elizabeth Hellen Farnham nee Chambers
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Owen by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Owen:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Owen by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Owen:
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~6.25%
~6.25%
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In Canada, it was common for McDonnells to be recorded by clerks and enumerators as McDonald, particularly in the 19th century. My Irish McDonnell ancestors were frequently recorded as McDonald, particularly by Scottish-Canadians and in the 19th century.
Can you tell from a gravestone, or marriage certificate with a signature, whether Owen called himself McDonnell or McDonald?
I also found, since the literacy level was higher by the 20th century -- and maybe people asked about spelling or gave it -- that name spellings became more accurate. If the death record was registered as McDonnell, and any of the other records concur, then it may well be McDonnell.
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I have opted for McDonnell Joanna as their marriage & also for Owen's & Elizabeth's deaths, they are all registered as McDonnell. I have checked Find a Grave but no grave on there for either of them. Oddly though, the children's births & deaths are a mixed bunch. 3 births registered as McDonnell & the rest are registered as McDonald.
That mixed set of spellings in the records is exactly what used to happen to my McDonnells. I started paying attention to the name of the registrar on the document and found that those with a Scottish name were more likely to spell it McDonald. Seems only the Irish knew it was McDonnell. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, there were Scots who came to Canada as United Empire Loyalists, and some of those spelled it McDonel or MacDonell.
McDonnell-562 and McDonald-15291 appear to represent the same person because: Again an orphaned profile I took on.
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At family reunions some have McDonnell some McDonald.