Ellen Murphy Family History
Ellen Murphy's McAloon Grandaunts 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
Thomas
Thomas married Mary Cadden 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.
Owen
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. Margaret married Joseph Connolly from Stramackilroy, Monaghan in 1910 and they had five sons, at least two of whom emigrated to the New Jersey area. Patrick emigrated to Glasgow where he married Catherine Flynn in 1901. She also came from the Roslea area. They had eight children, five of whom survived to adulthood. Three of their children went on to have families in the Glasgow area, while the other two appear to have moved to Sussex.
Mary
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”. Mary emigrated to the USA about 1875 with her daughter and lived in the Springfield area of Illinois, where her brother Terence also lived. She is recorded as widowed in the 1880 U.S. census.
Terence
Terence married Mary Cusker and lived in the family home in
Eshnaglogh, Corragunt.
They had five children in Roslea parish between 1868 and 1880.
The whole family emigrated to Springfield, Illinois sometime before 1886,
when they had one more child, Laura, who appears to have died in childhood. They were difficult to trace as they adopted a new spelling for their surname – McLone. Terence was working as a pitman in an engine works when he was fatally crushed under an engine in 1898. The sad episode was reported in the local newspapers – (photo). His children all settled in the USA, two in Springfield, two in Missouri and one in New York.
Hugh
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 eight children baptised in Tydavnet parish in Monaghan and all lived in the Co. Monaghan area, except for Mary Anne who married James McCaffrey and lived in Corcloghy, Co. Tyrone. Many of their grandchildren emigrated to the United States.
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.
Isabella died in 1922, and Hugh in 1926.
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.