A brunch is being arranged for the descendants and relatives of the Dr Isidore M Blake of Towerhill, Galway and Yass NSW and his wife Winifred Byrne, daughter of Hugh Vesty) and Sarah Byrne of Wicklow and Campbelltown NSW.
10 November 2012 at Circular Quay in sydney 10.30am.
MY NAME IS DIANE AND I AM SEARCHING FOR ANY INFOMATION FOR SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS WHO MIGRATED TO NEW YORK LATE 1800'S AND EARLY 1900'S.
THEY ARE ALL SYBLINGS FROM THE BYRNE FAMILY, BORN IN DALYSTOWN, AND LATER MOVED TO DOOLYSTOWN, COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND. THEY ALL ATTENDED THE BATTERSTOWN SCHOOL JUST OUTSIDE TRIM IN COUNTY MEATH.
THEY ARE ELLEN BYRNE BORN APPROX. 1880, JULIA BYRNE BORN APPROX 1887, MARY ANN BYRNE BORN APPROX. 1877 (WHO LATER RETURNED TO IRELAND AND MARRIED), AND MATTHEW BYRNE BORN APPROX. 1899.
THEY LEFT BEHIND THEIR MOTHER CATHERINE MOONEY, FATHER MATHEW BYRNE, AND SYBLINGS KATE, MARCELLA (WHO MOVED TO AUSTRALIA IN 1913), ALICE AND MICHAEL.
I DO NOT KNOW THE MARRIED NAMES OF ELLEN AND JULIA AND THIS IS WHERE I HAVE HIT A BRICK WALL
I AM AWARE THAT ELLEN LIVED IN NEW JERSEY AT ONE STAGE AND HAD AT LEAST ONE CHILD, A BOY NAMED BRENDAN OR BRENNAN.
ALSO JULIA MOVED AROUND NEW YORK A FAIR BIT INCLUDING LIVING IN THE BRONX, SHE HAD AT LEAST TWO CHILDREN, CATHERINE AND ALICE.
AND MATTHEW LIVED IN NEW YORK AND HAD AT LEAST ONE CHILD, A BOY NAMED MICHAEL OR MICKY.
