Descendants of John Byrne, Doonooney, Adamstown, Co. Wexford

In family tradition, either John or a predecessor “married into” Doonooney and had family links with the Byrne families of Bonagrew, Ballycapple and Ballymanus in County Wicklow , also Muchtown, Newtown , Grasscur and Ballylibernagh in County Wexford . Information about the descendants of the Third Generation is very slight, just the children of Patrick and Nicholas.

This page was created by Kevin Nicholas Byrne, son of Patrick Joseph 1908-1975. Last update was 23 September 2021. More detailed information can be found on another page about Byrnes of South Wexford and elsewhere about my own Byrne & Walsh family. In March 2012 I added more detail about the Darcy connection, the antecedants of my grandfather's wife.

Interested persons may wish to know that further reading may be found in a chapter of "The Byrnes and the O'Byrnes" by Daniel Byrne-Rothwell published 2010. See House of Lochar Publishers http://www.houseoflochar.com A dedicated site describes the entire four-volume publication at www.byrnehistory.com and copies are available at the main copyright libraries, also at National Library of Ireland. A major DNA study of the Byrne name is very successful and additional participants will be welcome, especially from South Wexford.

Please contact Kevin Byrne colonsaybyrne@gmail.com with any corrections or additional information.

First Generation 

John or Patrick Byrne , b. 1729 d. 1776

Children:

Patrick Byrne b. 1762

Second Generation

Patrick Byrne b. 1762 d. 1842 buried: Monachan, Taghmon

Children:

James Byrne b. 1800

Daniel Byrne b. ?

William Byrne b. 1805 in Newtown

Edward Byrne c. ?

Third Generation

James Byrne b. 1800 d. 1872

Children:

Thomas Byrne b. 1845 d. 1871 (any descendants?)

Robert Byrne b. 1849 d. 1870 (any descendants?)

Daniel Byrne married Anty (Anastasia) Byrne, lived in Newtown

Children:

Margaret Byrne b. 1818 (any descendants?)

Thomas Byrne b. 1820 (any descendants?)

Thomas Byrne b. 1822 (any descendants?)

Unnamed Byrne b. 1825 (any descendants?)

James Byrne b. 1829 (any descendants?)

William Byrne b. 1805 in Newtown , married Margaret Lambert 1838 in Rathangan (daughter of Thomas Lambert and Bridget Whitty); William died 1889, widower

Children:

Mary Byrne (any descendants?)

Anne Byrne (any descendants?)

Patrick Byrne b. 1844 in Grasscur (for issue see Fifth Generation, below)

Mary Byrne b. 1846 in Grasscur (any descendants?)

James Byrne (any descendants?)

Anne Byrne, born in Grasscur (any descendants?)

Nicholas Byrne, born 1854 in Grasscur (for issue see Fifth Generation, below)

Edward Byrne married Bess Pender

Children:

Fanny Byrne b. 1838, d. 1892 – married Marks Walsh 1863 in Rathangan (any descendants?)

Fourth Generation

Patrick Byrne b. 1844 Grasscur married Bessy Dillon 1865 in Kilmore (Bessy was b. 1842 in Brideswell, Mulrankin, d. 1889; Patrick died 1909)

Children:

Margaret Byrne b. 1866 in Newtown , Kilcowan, married Nicholas Whitty 1889

Patrick Byrne b. 1868 in Grasscur, married Margaret Roche of Ballynaglogh 1892 in Cleariestown

William Byrne b. 1870 in Grasscur

Thomas Byrne b. 1873

John Byrne b. 1874 in Grasscur

John Byrne b. 1876 d. 1944

James Byrne b. 1877 in Grasscur married Anne Eliza Rossiter 1911 in Duncormick (b. c. 1889 in Horesland Duncormick, daughter of Richard Rossiter)

Nicholas Byrne b. 1854 Grasscur married Margaret Walsh 1896 in Cushinstown. Margaret was born 1869 in Ballymacar, daughter of John Walsh and Margaret Hanlon, and died 1921. Nicholas died in 1928.

Children:

Margaret Anne Byrne b. 1897, d. 1967, married Owen O'Callaghan, Ballynacoolagh

Frances Byrne – went to England

William Byrne b. 1901, d. 1968, married Bridget Brien, lived Ballymacar

John Byrne b. 1902, d. 1966 – bachelor, Ballymacar

Bridget Byrne married Walter Bedding – went to England

Mary Kate Byrne b. 1906, d. 1995 married Arthur Edward Bryan – went to England

Patrick Joseph Byrne b. 1908, d. 1975 – went to England

Any additional information will be welcomed by Kevin Byrne colonsaybyrne@gmail.com (son of Patrick Joseph Byrne 1908 - 1975)

The Byrne DNA project is at Clan O'Byrne site