The BRADY Family from Caherhurley, Bodyke

It’s been a long time between “drinks” here at East Clare Emigrants and I’m finally getting back to posting about some of my discoveries on Trove. As I’ve mentioned before, I search for place names from east county Clare and see what bobs up.

On this occasion it was a marriage notice in 1889 of James Brady, eldest son of Anthony Brady of Bondi, Sydney but formerly of Caherhurley, Bodyke Clare (Parish of Kilnoe). James was marrying Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Thomas Morriss of Scurrbeg, Elphin, Co Roscommon.

Searching for immigration records revealed that the family had arrived much later than I anticipated. The whole family arrived in Sydney on the ship La Hogue, on 16 September 1879. The members of the family were father Anthony 45, mother Bridget 43, and children James 19, Ellen 16, Mary 14, Anthony 10, Margaret 7, Michael 5 and Bridget 3. All came from Co Clare and all could read and write except for Anthony and children Michael and Bridget. Anthony’s illiteracy is fairly typical for someone born circa 1834. Anthony, James, and William were all listed as labourers while Ellen and Mary were f(arm) servants.

State Records of NSW. Bounty Immigrants Reel 2141, [4/4804] p.44

Family Search[i] has indexes for the Irish births registrations of the younger children as follows:

Anthony 10 June 1969

Margaret 29 August 1871

Michael 8 September 1873

Bridget 4 November 1875.

The parents are listed as Bridget Walsh/Welsh and Anthony Brady.

Turning to the Clare Library Genealogy page and the 1855 Griffith Valuations at Caherhurley, there are three Brady men listed. They are James, John and William. It seems highly likely these are close relatives to this emigrating Brady family.

I went back to Trove to see what else I could find about the Brady family and located father Anthony Brady’s death notice in 1893[ii] on which all the children are mentioned (directly or indirectly) except Mary. Anthony lived at Bay St, Bondi and was buried at Waverley Cemetery. On the NSW online indexes no parents’ names are stated for him but the Waverley cemetery indexes on FindMyPast show he was aged 61. He has a gravestone which says “of Co Clare, Ireland. Erected by his wife and children”[iii].

Bridget Brady died on 4 January 1910 at the Sacred Heart Hospice, Darlinghurst and was buried at Waverley Cemetery also. There were obituaries for her in both the Catholic Press[iv] and the Freeman’s Journal[v]. She had previously been living at Euston Rd, Alexandria, presumably with son William. Sands Directory for Sydney[vi] shows Anthony had been a farmer at Bay St, Waverley. He had formerly been listed at Waverley St (1883) and Bondi Rd (1884).

The Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1942) 13 Jan 1910: 29. Web. 12 Aug 2014 .

Anthony and Bridget’s daughter, Margaret Brady later Toohey[vii], also had an extensive obituary in The Catholic Press in 1936 which confirms much of what has been found in other sources. One puzzle though is the appearance of Delia Morris as a surviving member of this family. I haven’t put a lot of time into this but so far I have been unable to link her in to the family.

he Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1942) 14 May 1936: 18. Web. 12 Aug 2014 .

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[i] Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881,” Index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPXN-2BY : accessed 12 Aug 2014), Anthony Brady, 10 Jun 1869; citing Clare, Ireland, reference v 19-1 p 465; FHL microfilm 101198.

[ii] Family Notices.” The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) 5 Jul 1893: 10. Web. 12 Aug 2014 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13932087 (Death)

[iii] www.findmypast.com.au Indexes by the Society of Australian Genealogists.

[iv] “OBITUARY.” The Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1942) 13 Jan 1910: 29. Web. 12 Aug 2014 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105022908&gt;.

[v] “OBITUARY.” Freeman’s Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1932) 13 Jan 1910: 16. Web. 12 Aug 2014 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108025477&gt;.

[vi] Ancestry.com Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1858-1933 [database on-line].  1886

[vii] She had married Michael Joseph Toohey in 1897. Obituary A FINE CATHOLIC LADY.” The Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1942) 14 May 1936: 18. Web. 12 Aug 2014 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106380430&gt;.