William Henry Nealon (Neilan)
1802-1902
Born: Kilmurry McMahon, 5297, Ireland
Died: Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States
1802-1902
Born: Kilmurry McMahon, 5297, Ireland
Died: Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States
<p>In 2004, I met two "<em>cousins</em>" one a(LYNCH descendant) and one a (BARRETT descendant) on GENFORUM.com. Before I was introduced to Ancestry.com that was a FAVORITE/Wonderful site to "meet" people. They have both been researching their LYNCH and BARRETT ancestry which greatly fits in with mine. Sally's gr-gr-grandmother, Anna LYNCH was sister to my g-g-grandmother, Mary, wife of William Henry NEALON ! Helen was a gr-granddaughter to my Wm & Mary's daughter, Martha NEALON Barrett, daughter of their daughter, Marie BARRETT Broker ! WOW, what a thrill to find that your "<em>cousins</em>" are <em>truly out there,</em> we just have to be persistant.</p><p>In the County Clare information of William & Mary's marriage 14 February 1844. (NEILAN is the way they spelled NEALON in Co Clare) and that is the way it is spelled on the marriage of Wm & Mary (LYNCH) NEALON....apparently it was changed when they came to USA, whether by them or officials in immigration, and they kept it..??? </p><p>On Marriage Records - It stated: </p><p><strong>""</strong>William <strong>NEILAN</strong> of Kilmurray to Mary <strong>Lynch </strong>(<u><em>Michael</em></u>) of Carhufree married <u>at <em>her</em> father's</u> <u>house in the presence of <em>her</em> father</u> <em>John NEILAN</em> , and <em>Matilda Purtill</em>. <strong>""</strong>(I take that to mean that <u>MARY'S father was <strong>Michael</strong></u> and was <u>in attendance</u>, along with her mother, <strong>Matilda</strong> (Maggie) and <strong>John NEILAN</strong>)as <u>witnesses</u>.............(I am thinking <em>John</em> was possibly a brother to William as the death record for William-1902- states that his father was Patrick-- but definately NOT SURE of this) </p><p>I am told that it was customary at that time to be married in the bride's home instead of in church. Mary's parents were Michael LYNCH & Matilda (Maggie) PURTILL. (Purtill is a variant of Purcell). </p><p>They probably then went to Derrynalecka, to where William's family was, which was also customary. John NEILAN (father/brother?)was a farmer there, Parish of Kilmurry-McMahon, Co Clare. The birth of Wm & Mary's first daughter, Susan, abt 1845, does not show up in records as her birth would have been before the records started-1846-in that Parish. Their second child, Susan, is in the Parish Records, baptised, 17 Sept 1846, in Derrynalecka, Kilmurry-McMahon, Co. Clare. They came to USA soon after that.</p><p><em> </em>I do not know when William changed it to NEALON or why. I have found it spelled various ways in the US Census since they came to USA in abt 1846-48. <!-- SN:TREESUI17 --></p>
<p>In 2001, I met "cousin" Sally O'Meara on the Internet. She recognized me as a "cousin" because her gr-Aunt Marie (granddaughter of Anna LYNCH & Timothy Burns) had her mother's copy of the book of Poems "Silver Rifts" written by the son of my gr-gr-grand mother, Mary LYNCH NEALON; her huband and her son was named William Henry NEALON. Sally and my ancestors were sisters! Her family had said that WM H NEALON (jr) had died of tuberculosis-1899, 29 yrs(which we knew) and he was a Jesuit Priest...unknown)</p><p>Sally's daughter was living in Dublin, Ireland, an Irish history scholar in Medieval Irish history. They had this info on the NEALONS:</p><p>RE: irishsurnames.com; goireland.com: The name Neilan-Nealon in Ireland is derived from the native Gaelic Sept O'Niallain who were based in the Province of Connaught and in County Clare in particular. This name is seldom found with the O nowadays, usually spelt Neilan in Connac(ug)ht and Neylan in Co. Clare-the O'Neilans being the original owners of Ballyally Castle. It originated in Thomond (Co Clare): three of the name are listed as persons of importance in Co Clare in "Composition Book of Connacht" in 1585, though they are not described as chiefs. (Clare being West of the Shannon was included with Connacht for the purpose of that survey. 1659 they were very numerous in Co Clare and scarcely met elsewhere. They are still found chiefly in Connacht and Clare. </p><p>The O'Neilans -O Niallain in Irish- have not been prominent in Irish history: Only the tanist abbot of Clonmacnois (1093); John O'Neylan (according to the Clongowes Manuscript) a principal gentry in 1598; Nicholas O'Nelan, abbot of the Augustinian Order in Clare, diocese of Killaloe in (1613); Father Daniel O'Neilan, in the roll of martyrs for the Faith(d-1580); and father Denis O'Neillan was a distinguished general in the Austrian Imperial Army, became colonel in 1717. </p><p>It is thus essentially a Clare name even though it is now rather more numerous in the Connac(ug)gt counties to the North of it. The majority of descendants can still be found near the ancestral home. Our Nealons, Lynch, Burns, ancestors were all Catholic and were "Famine Immigrants". Most of Ireland was - and still is - except for Northern Ireland, which has been part of Great Britan since 1922. Co Clare (and the West of Ireland) was especially hard hit by the great Famine, as well as the "Evictions" that occured before it. The Irish had been oppressed for centuries by the Protestant-Anglican English (who ruled them until they fought and won their independance in the early 20th Century) and the "Penal Laws" were especially harsh against Catholics. It was in that political and cocio-economic climate that our ancestors immigrated (and it is easy to understand now why they did so).</p>
<p align="left"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">William was my mother's (Clara Mae (BURROUGHS) DEAN) Maternal gr-grandfather. I remember as a child she would cross two brooms and dance with her hands on her hips, saying "This is our <strong>IRISH</strong> jig", her mother taught her. But where did her <u>IRISH</u> </font><font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">mother Adaline M(ELLIS) BURROUGHS have the proof of this? She did not have any stories to tell me other than that, and when she died in 1984, I still did not have the answers.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">In 1990, I got re-married in the small town, Lebanon, Oregon, where my BURROUGHS grandparents lived since about 1925. They lived before that in Huntington, Oregon, and before that lived in Draper Co., SD when they removed from Winona, MN. </font><font face="Georgia" size="3"> I got alot more that day than a wonderful husband. My mothers youngest sibling, Frances (Burroughs) Cook, was the only one yet living in my mother's family. The wedding present she gave me (in a cardboard box) was one the most <font face="Georgia" size="3"><em>precious gifts of my</em> </font><em> life</em>....family <strong><em>history & keepsakes</em></strong>. She had placed in this box a <u><em>small gold vase</em></u>, which had my mother's name engraved on the bottom, as she had made this vase in ceramics when I was 7 years old, and had given her parents on their <em><strong> 50th Wedding Annniversary in 1952.</strong> Also,</em> there was a small <u><em>book of Poems</em></u>, written by a <em><u>William Henry NEALON</u></em>. Come to find out this was written by a son of WilliamSR, who diedof TB @ 29yrs, Tacoma, WA. I still am trying to find the documents that he was a <strong><em>Priest,</em></strong> as I have been told. <strong>Here</strong>, is where I found answers that I had been asking for years...glued into the covers of this book.... hand written notes of births, deaths & newspaper obits of my gr-grandfather, of his travel to the <strong><u>US from IRELAND.</u></strong></font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">And last but <em>certainly</em> not least, was an old fragile, leather bound <u><em>photo album</em></u> <strong>FULL </strong>of our family pictures, most of them </font><font face="Georgia" size="3">unidentified. </font><font face="Georgia" size="3"><strong>HERE</strong> is where I would like to <em><u>ask for yor help</u></em>........... </font><font face="Georgia" size="3">I am placing a tree here to give us the direction that I think these pictures are taking us:</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">1)William Henry NEALON, (my gr-gr-grandfather) B-25 May 1802, POSS-Derrynalecka, Kilmurry-McMahon, Co Clare, Ireland. Married Mary LYNCH 14 Feb 1844, Carrowfree, Kilrush, Ireland, @ home of her parents, Michael & Margaret "Maggie" (Purtell/Purtill) LYNCH.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">He came to USA in 1846 with wife Mary & their two young daughters, Bridget & Susan,b-1845-46 (ship/arrival UNK) & went to Boston. Per OBIT, 1848 removed to Elmira, New York. My gr-grandmother, Sarah B NEALON, and siblings were born in NY. . They removed in 1866 to Winona, Minn., where William died 14 June, 1902 and was reported in Winona newpaper "A Centenarian Dies" Oldest Man in this Section Passed Away on Saturday afternoon, @100 yrs 14 days. Mary preceeded him in death on 21 March 1899, in Winona. Thier Children :</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Susan NEALON.b-17 Sept 1846, IRE...can't find a marriage. Census records show her in Tacoma, WA.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Bridget NEALON.b-1845, IRE...married 10 Jan 1877 to Edward P O'Connor, lived in Winona, and Omaha & Benson, Nebraska</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Sarah B NEALON..(my gr-grandmother).b-29 Sept 1856, Elmira, NY..marr-03 Sept 1873..Wm B ELLIS..lived, MN & OR</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Mary NEALON..b-1857 NY..marr-17 April 1887...Charles Preston Van Alstine...Lived in Winona, MN</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">John R NEALON..b-1858 NY..marr-1883..Elizabeth "Lizzie" Donahue..lived in MN</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Martha M NEALON..b-Oct 1860 NY..marr-30 Jan 1883..James Ted BARRETT..lived Winona & St Paul, MN Grand Forks, ND</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Katherine NEALON..b-Nov 1864 NY..marr-1890..Eugene DURKEE..lived, Winona, MN, Wyoming, Texas</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">William Henry NEALON, JR..b-1870 Winona, MN...lived several years in Tacoma, WA</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">I find that the different locations that the NEALON siblings reside in are because their husbands were all tied to the Railroad as engineers, conductors, etc.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">I am using these locations to hopefully identify with some of these photo's: RE-the location of the Photographer's Studio. This is, of course just a hopeful possibility. If any of you that find this site are denying or questioning my rational/irrational means please let me know. This site is strictly to lure you in, hoping that you might relate to or know of someone who might be of some relation to one of us. I think these old photo's are wonderfully beautiful, make MY heart stop a minute, and need to be shared with other descendants, too. </font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">My sincere thanks for letting me ramble on....those of you who share my love for family genealogy know how it is. But please enjoy and locate on of your loved ones, also.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">Betty Jean (DEAN) Bubrig</font></p><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3">b_bubrig2@q.com</font></p><p><font face="Georgia" size="3"> </font></p> <iframe src="http://view.atdmt.com/iaction/ancestrycom_non_secure_universal_v3/v3/atc1.-lib-TinyMce_2_1_0-blank_htm/" width="1" height="1" frameborder="0" scrolling="No" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"></iframe> <!-- SN:TREESUI18 -->