Ellen Murphy Family History
Ellen Murphy's McAloon Great Aunts and Uncles
Michael McAloon
c. 1800 - <1862
Mary
James Cassidy
Catherine Quigley
Mary
c. 1842
Terence
c. 1830 - 1909
Hugh
c. 1846 - 1926
Isabella
c. 1851 - 1922
Thomas
c. 1830 - 1909
Owen
c. 1833 - 1913
Terence married Mary McCusker and lived in the family home in Eshnaglogh. Records survive for the birth or baptism of five children in Roslea parish.
Mary married Patrick Farmer in Roslea in 1862. He was from Inishammon in Co. Monaghan. They had a daughter Mary Jane in 1866, and on her birth records, Patrick is shown as “away in America”. The family may have followed him.
Owen married Mary Maguire (or McGuire) of Greaghnagore on 20th February 1870. We have records of three children – Patrick, Margaret and Michael. Michael married Marianne Quigley from Greaghawarren – a sister of the James Patrick Quigley mentioned here. They had seven children – Owen, Elizabeth, Michael, Mary, James, Hugh and William. The stories of Patrick and Margaret will be explored in a future update.
Thomas
married Mary Caddan on 11th May 1870 in Roslea.
He died on 13th February 1909, based on headstone details. Thomas moved to
Eshnadarragh
townland and took over the lease of land from a Mary McAloon in
1887, probably indicating a family link, but this has not been verified.
Their son Michael was born 18th May 1871. He married
Mary Lawler (Lalor) from
Carnmore
in 1909, a first cousin of Ellen.
Shown is his headstone in Roslea.
Hugh
married
Isabella Cassidy,
sister of Ellen’s grandmother Bridget
(i.e. her granduncle on her maternal grandfather's side married her grandaunt on her maternal grandmother's side)
in Roslea in 1866.
They moved to
Barratitoppy
in Monaghan. They had seven children baptised in
Tydavnet
parish in
Monaghan. Isabella died in 1922, and Hugh in 1926.
Hugh’s son Joseph was born c. 1880 and moved back to Corragunt, as evidenced by the 1911 census. Joseph (Ellen's mother's first cousin) married Catherine Murphy, Ellen's first cousin from uncle Henry, and took up the lease of plot 24 in Corragunt in 1918, based on the valuation revision books. They had nine children, five of whom emigrated to the United States. Joseph died in 1947 and his headstone is also in Roslea cemetery. On the gravestone are three of his children. The story of the family is told in this appendix.
Joseph was known to the Murphy family as “Uncle Joe” and ran a local shop,
on either side of the border. Family rumours about smuggling are confirmed by a
newspaper article from the Ulster Herald of Saturday, February 2nd 1924.
One shop continued to operate on the Monaghan side of the border. It was
run by Joseph's grandson
John Tom McAloon until his
death on 10 July 2024.