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Archive Six
03 January 2000 -07 December 2000 
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Hello from Brad Murnane in Australia 

G’day. My name is Brad Murnane from Australia. I'll tell you a bit about myself.

I'm 19 years old, I love Engineering. I have a heap of close relatives who are fantastic with their hands. My great grandfather invented a new type of wire stainer, my grandfather was a aircraft mechanic in New Guinea in the Second World War.

He used to use a punch to make a worn piston larger, just to get that little bit extra out of them. My uncle runs a pub in north Melbourne, and I have another who does sculptor. My dad is a farmer, welder, policeman, and now he is a builder.

My brother plays squash, he's third in the state for his age group. My sister is studying at university. She won a $25 000 scholarship. There are two sets of twins in my family. And I think Murnane is a cool name to have. I would love to be part of your web site. Feel free to reply.

I live in Melbourne, Australia.

Looking For David Patrick Murnane (86 years old) of Cork 

My farther Michael Patrick Murnane is searching for the whereabouts of his dad, David Patrick Murnane born July 6, 1914 in Newmarket, County Cork. At present we do not know if he is alive or deceased. Any assistance on this would be very much appreciated.

Also a Michael Murnane and Kate Murnane, nee Martin, from Charleville, County Cork, who are believed to be David Murnane’s parents.

Any information, no matter how small, would be very much appreciated.

 Murnane (Murnan) Link in New Jersey-New York 

My name is Elizabeth Murnane Borden. I found your site accidentally and was intrigued. I don't know a lot about my family heritage but I do know that we came from Tipperary county. My grandfather's name is Jeremiah Murnane (born 1890's) and he lived in New Jersey until he died (Chatham). I think it was originally Murnan, and my great-grandparents settled in upstate New York or Maryland. I don't know the first thing about searching out ancestry, but your site said you were interested in anything Murnane, so I thought I could pass this along to you for whatever it's worth.

Thank you for an interesting site!

More About Murnane-Warren Connection, 
And Murnanes in County Kerry

I am related distantly to the Murnanes of Glenflesk, County Kerry, specifically, a daughter of my grandfather's nephew, Dan O’Donoghue from Glenflesk (Derreenacollig Townland ), Cait ni Dhonoghue, married Mike Murnane of Aneebeg, Glenflesk about 1880. There were many Murnane families in that part of Kerry, smack up against the Cork border in the Derrynasaggart Mountains.

Oddly, they answered to two names, more or less indiscriminately-Murnane or Warren. It is a fact, little noticed in genealogical circles, as far as I can tell, that Irish-at least in that part of Munster often had two, wildly different orthogaphical versions of their surnames- e.g., Murnane/Warren, Healy/Kerrisk.

Grand-Mom Was Johanna Murnane of Killonan, Limerick   

I have just spent the last couple of hours (!!!) visiting your web site. I am just starting to compile a family tree for my mother. Her mother’s maiden name was Johanna Murnane from Killonan, County Limerick born about 1888 died 1936. She had a brother, William Murnane, who married a Molly (or could be Nora my mother is not too sure!!) Ward who left William in the late 30's (?) to live somewhere in the U.S. They had no children here.

My mother also remembers a 1st cousin on her mother’s side, Margaret Hickey, who married a Frost and another 1st cousin, William Hickey. She also remembers her mother having a sister (name forgotten) who married a Walsh. It gets a bit confusing here – Johanna Murnane also had a stepbrother, Paddy Collins, who went to England and joined the army. It is shrouded in mystery whether Johanna's mother (nee Fitzpatick) was widowed and remarried and therefore became Collins or if Paddy was born out of wedlock.

As my mother was only 12 when her mother died she didn't get the full story. My mother has only one remaing sibling alive and we will be contacting him to see if he can enlighten us! Johanna was married at a young age to Joseph Patrick Hourigan, had 6 children and lived in Limerick City until her death. All the older kids used to be sent out from Limerick City to Killonan to their grandmother (Johanna's mother) for safety during "the troubles."

I’ll update soon!

Hello From Some Dublin Murnanes   

I would like to introduce myself to you from my friends the Gaults in Coleraine, County Derry, Northern Ireland.

My name is Hilary Murnane, daughter of Denis. We live in Dublin and I am here on holiday. Unfortunately I am computer illiterate but should you wish to contact me Greg Gault will be happy to collect my e-mail . His address is gjgault@yahoo.com

I look forward to hearing from you when you have time.

I found your address on the Internet and `Murnane' comes up from Marrinan - is this correct - or are these two completely different names? I believe both are Irish. Which would be correct? The Marrinans I am interested in (my father's family) live in Belfast.

Enid Irving
UK
IrvingE@ace.org.uk
13 July 2000

 Edward Murnane of Castleconnell (Limerick) Connections? 

I am seeking information on my father in Castleconnell, Ireland.  I am Edward’s daughter-in-law, and I said that I would try and get some information from the Internet. He plans on going to Ireland this year. His dad (Edward Murnane) owned a pub in Castleconnell, which is now called or was called Tom Maher (either place or restaurant not sure) and we have a picture of it. Can you e-mail me if you have any thoughts, your name is Edward Murnane the same as my husband (49 years old) and his dad Edward Murnane (71) Looking forward to hearing from you.

Jessica Murnen (Ohio) Looking For Connections 

Hello, my name is Jessica Murnen. I am Ray Murnen's granddaughter. Ray and his wife (my grandma) live in Toledo, Ohio. They have six boys. Marty, one of their sons, is my father. I have two older brothers, Kent and Scott. I am curious to know more about my family tree and so I thought I would visit the web and look around. I thought I would write since you said you enjoy hearing of more Murnen's or "Murnane's" I hope to get a response. Thank you and take care.

 John Anthony Murnan of Chicago Connections? 

John Anthony Murnan was my grandfather. He was born 8/25/1901, and was the son of Thomas F. Murnan and Nellie Mahon. Thomas was born in 1870 in Chicago, also. He died about 1906. He had three sisters and several brothers, names and locations unknown. I have a chart from my mother showing an Edward Murnan as being the father of Thomas, with a side chart of John, William, Mike (who has a notation "Denver" next to his name) as siblings to Edward, however, I cannot be certain of the accuracy of this information.

Please post this data to your website, and I look forward to contributing with anything else I can find!

Mark and Wendy Murnan
West Palm Beach, Florida
Murnan@quixnet.net
13 July 2000

My name is Robert J Brehl. I married Deirdre Anne Murnane in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1972. We reside near Frederick, Maryland. She has one brother, Dennis Francis Murnane, who continues to reside in Waterbury. Their father, Dennis Francis Murnane, Sr., was one of several children, including James, May (probably for Mary, married Bernard O'Grady, from Chicago, who died shortly after the marriage), John, Eleanor (who married US District Court (New York, Vermont and Connecticut) Judge J. Joseph Smith of Hartford), and Edward.

All have since died except Eleanor who has been on life support in Hartford for many years. Their parents were Dennis Francis Murnane and Mary Thompson Murnane of 45 Farmington Ave, Waterbury, Connecticut, who died probably about 1940.

Dennis Francis Murnane, Sr., my wife's father, died in 1980, and my wife remembers some family history. I have limited information on the family.

Judge Smith's granddaughter may have some more. There are currently descendants alive of John Murnane, Eleanor Murnane Smith, and Dennis Murnane Sr.

Looking for Info on James B. Mernan  

My wife is Iris Berlier, whose mother was Lillian Berlier (Mernan), whose father was James B Mernan, born February 04 1849, presumably in Canada, who came to the USA during the Civil War ...bring down horses for the Union Army. Settled in Louisiana. Married first to Mary Jane Powers of Michigan. He is now buried in New
Orleans cemetery. We have really no further info than that except that he was a private in company G 41 St Wisconsin enlisted 16 April 1862, discharged 25 April 1865. Address Springfield Louisiana. Remarks: "shot in left leg." But Married Mary Jane in Nov 20 1881 in Manistee County, Michigan.

Please let me know if this is the same James B Mernan that was mentioned on your site.

(Horace,
Hopefully, one of the Mernan visitors will see your inquiry and respond.
-- Ed Murnane)

Seeking Link to Our Site  

My compliments on your site!

We have added a link to it on the Irish Family Names page at Island Ireland, an Internet directory to Irish art, culture and environment which includes hand-picked links to Irish history, literature, folk culture, language, music, architecture and more.

Our site is aimed at an intelligent but not highbrow audience who may be planning a trip to Ireland, searching for their 'roots', or just wanting to learn more about Irish culture.

Looking for Murnane-Minahan Connection  

My name is Susan Minahan Borgerson. I see that a John Murnane was married to a Julia Minahan and they had children around 1865. Do you have any more info on Julia? My ancestors from Ireland (I think County Cork) are Mary McCarthy and Dennis Minahan who left Ireland around 1872 if that helps to make a connection. Please e-mail me at home: borgerson@visi.com

Murnaghan Connection?   

My family name is very uncommon in Canada - except for Prince Edward Island, where I was born and raised.

Somewhere in my mind I recall that it is a derivative of Murnane. Can you verify what is the truth here? I'm glad to have found your site and can feel your enthusiasm

Murnane vs Murnan/Mernon in Wisconsin    

 My ggg-grandparents were John and Bridget Mernan or Mernon or ??.

I've seen so many different spellings of their last name. Other than census records, I have not found any other records with the Mernan or Mernon name. Their name, as pronounced, may sound like Murnane so I'd like to post this information to your web site.

John was born in Ireland about 1808 and Bridget Dorn or Doran was born in Ireland about 1810. They immigrated to Canada before 1844 and United States after 1851. In 1870, they owned a farm in the Town of Howard in Brown County, Wisconsin where they lived at least until 1885. They had at least 4 children who were listed on the Wisconsin census in 1870:

• Anna was born in Canada around 1844. She married a man named Abrey and had one son named Charles in 1867;
• Margaret, who is my great-great-grandmother, was born in Canada in 1846. She married Charles Risch in 1864 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Charles and Margaret moved their family to Manistee, Michigan around 1889. After 1910, Charles and Margaret moved back to Wisconsin and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they lived until they died in 1925 and 1921 respectively;
• James was born in Canada about 1848. After 1870, James seems to have fallen off the face of earth. I have not located any record of his life.
• Bridget was born in Canada about 1850. Like James, I have not found any record for Bridget after the 1870 census.

The Griffith's Land Valuation listed about 15 Mernan families in Counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow and Wicklow. The current Ireland telephone directories do not list any Mernan or Mernon families.

Could the Mernan's be Murnane's?

(Edie,
I bet the Mernans could be Murnanes and I suggest you broaden the scope of your search.
-- Ed Murnane)

I'm Sarah Murnane, my family's from Cork and we are interested in getting in contact with you, but we are not on the internet (this is a friend’s). If you would like to know more about us, 'cause we would like to know more about you, please write to:

26 Golwg-y-Castell
Cardigan
Ceredigion
Wales
SA43 3AP
U.K

Bye for now, hope to hear from you soon!

Sarah Murnane
3 July 2000

I Am Another Murnane  

Thank you so much for maintaining the amazing Murnane web site. My name is Anesha Murnane and I have just started researching my father’s side of my family. I know very little because the name "Murnane" was not the original name. The history of the name is something like this: the original name was Murnain, it was then changed to Murnin by some unknown ancestor. This was my great-grand father James Patrick Murnin.

His name changed because of a military transfer to Murnan. My grand-father John Patrick was born as Murnin but his name changed to Murnan like his father's.

John's name changed again with a military transfer to Murnane. This is what my father figured out about the name but we are not positive that the name changed because of military changes. James Patrick, b.? d., May 1962, married Hazel Willis and they had four children, John Patrick b. March 15, 1924; Billy; Gretta; and Gerard. I have not been able to trace the family back any further because of the name changes and I was wondering if you have found any of these people in your research.

Thank you for any help you can give.

Anesha Katherine Murnane (daughter of Timothy James)
"Duffy Murnane" duffymurnane@hotmail.com
3 July 2000

(Anesha,
Good luck. I hope your message here will be seen by someone who can fill in some blanks.
-- Ed Murnane)

Marriage of Thomas Curtin and Johanna Murnane  

I attempting to do some family research and I was hoping you could assist me with this effort. I'm looking to find as much information as I can on Johanna Murnane married to Thomas Curtin on February 18, 1871 in the Parish of Knocklong.

Please e-mail with any information you have on these two individuals.

Mike Mulvihill
sykes94@hotmail.com
3 July 2000

The Murnane Name   

I was Ada Mary Murnane before my marriage in 1939. At that time I was twenty years old and my name became Matthews.

The first information that I have is of a Michael Murnane born in France sometime during the French Revolution, and died in 1818, in England . He only had two children, a son John. He was born in Market Harbourgh in August first 1811. He also had a girl by the name of Wallworth born in 1813, and died in 1860.

This is some of the information I have on the Murnane's but I do have much more if you are interested in it. Please let me know I will forward it to you. I would be most interested in any information that you have if you could send it to me by E Mail.

In all my eighty odd years I have never run across another Murnane except my Brother, Clifford J. I will be looking forward to hearing from you.

(Ada,
You can see from this Bulletin Board that there are lots of Murnanes our here, in Canada, the USA, Australia and, of course, Ireland. We’d love to get any additional information you can provide and we’ll share it will everyone.
-- Ed Murnane)

Information About Sandra L. Murnane  

Someone was looking for Sandra L. Murnane some time ago. I checked back through two or three of your archives, but couldn't find the message. I ran across the obituary of Sandra in the Glens Falls, NY paper. So I got a copy.

Here's what it says:

Sandra L. Murnane -died January 24, 2000 (age 57) at her home in East Greenbush, New York; b. in Corinth, New York. Survived by husband Matthew Murnane. There is a long list of family. Intered in Bloomingrove Cemetery, North Greenbush.

Hopefully this might help someone.

Grand-daughter of Patrick and Mary Murnane of Brooklyn 

My name is Nancy Murnane Madison. I am the daughter of John Arthur and Anna Elizabeth Murnane. My father is the son of Patrick and Mary Murnane who resided in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (where my father was born). My father is one of 12 children, i.e. Mary, Edward, Katherine, Margaret, Helen, Elizabeth, William, Francis, Thomas, Arthur, (plus one more I can't remember). All that remain of the original 12 children of Patrick and Mary Murnane are my father, John Arthur, Elizabeth and Mary. I have one brother, John Arthur Murnane, Jr., who resides in Kingsbury, New York and I reside in Queensbury, New York.

My name is Emma Murnane from Newcastle, England. I hope you do not mind me sending you a little note to thank you for your fantastic website! I have recently met some fellow Murnanes who are desperate to trace their family, but we have been having some difficulty. My Dad is from near Cork and we have family around about, and we visit them from time to time. However, our 'cousins' who we have just met know very little as he has never met his father. The difficulty is that every-bugger is Patrick Murnane (including my Granddad) or Michael and is a blacksmith! We are not even sure how they are related to us. I was wondering if you could offer them some kind of starting point, as their visits to Dublin and Cork have left them with more questions!

E-mail Change for Gerry Del Rio 

I posted a message on August 3, 1998. My e-mail address has been changed from gdelrio@jax-inter.net to gdelrio@mediaone.net.

Murnanes of Waterbury Connecticut 

My name is Robert J. Brehl. I married Deirdre Anne Murnane in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1972. We reside near Frederick, Maryland. She has one brother, Dennis Francis Murnane, who continues to reside in Waterbury. Their father, Dennis Francis Murnane, Sr. was one of several children, including James, May (probably for Mary, married Bernard O'Grady, from Chicago, who died shortly after the marriage), John, Eleanor (who married US District Court (New York, Vermont and Connecticut) Judge J. Joseph Smith of Hartford), and Edward.

All have since died except Eleanor who has been on life support in Hartford for many years. Their parents were Dennis Francis Murnane and Mary Thompson Murnane of 45 Farmington Ave, Waterbury, who died probably about 1940.

Dennis Francis Murnane, Sr., my wife's father, died in 1980, and my wife remembers some family history. I have limited information on the family.

Judge Smith's granddaughter may have some more. There are currently descendants alive of John Murnane, Eleanor Murnane Smith, and Dennis Murnane, Sr.

I found your web page by looking for my brother-in-law's new web page, but he just got his first computer and is not very computer literate yet and we have not been able to get his e-mail address yet. Let me know if you are interested in any more data that we might be able to collect.

Molly Murnane Makes Connections;  
Finds Murnanes in Movies

I was just checking the website to see what was new. I haven't gotten much further, although I did get Thomas Murnane's Civil War pension records which had some useful information, including his wife's maiden name. I've decided that looking for Murnanes is a lot like mining for gold; I have to shift through an awful lot of possibilities, but every once in a while I come up with a nugget of the good stuff. So, anyway, I'm still looking to get Thomas back to Ireland.

I've been in touch with Joe Murnane. He e-mailed me because he had an obituary of my grandfather's from the New York Times in 1950. He'd never run across anyone connected to it. He's also got a Thomas in his family who just kind of "disappeared," so we're looking into whether that could be my Thomas. Wouldn't that be exciting?

The big news, though, relates to my grandfather, Allan Murnane. I'm sure I mentioned in a previous e-mail that he and his wife were actors. She only did stage, but he did movies, too.

Well, last week a son of one of my cousins e-mailed me and said he'd run across one of my postings mentioning Allan Murnane. It turns out that he and his father had been trying to figure out how to find my dad because they have a copy of one of the movies Allan Murnane made!! It was made around 1916 in Ithaca, New York. Somehow Mike (the son) had been able to find a contact at the Ithaca library and somehow he got a copy of the film. We're very excited about this. It turns out he made at least 11 films, mostly serials. Ithaca College is having a film festival in June and they're going to show another of his films with silent movie music and everything. So, we have a Murnane who was a film pioneer to add to all the other accomplished Murnanes out there!!

Please can you change my e-mail address on the Bulletin Board from stevemurn@aol.com to steve@ murnan.fsbusiness.co.uk.

Steve Murnan
Bristol, England
steve@murnan.fsbusiness.co.uk
1 April, 2000

We have just read through the web page and decided to contact you regarding it.

My name is Elizabeth Ann Murnane, nee Scoffin, (21 February 1948) and I've been married to David Patrick Murnane for 30 years now. David is the son of Ian Alan Patrick Murnane (11 January 1905) and Joan McRae Youl (18 January 1912 or 1913). Ian was the son of Patrick Murnane, who was married to Martha McPherson.

David was born in Melbourne, Victoria, 15 March 1947. He has an older sister Lynette Jean (now Maguire) (17 May 1943) and a younger brother Alexander Bruce (known as Bruce) (07 July 1952).

Lynette is married to Frank, and they have three children - Andrew, Caroline and Tiffany. Bruce is married to Helen (nee Shields) and have two daughters - Janelle and Tess.

David and I have a daughter, Meeghan Louise (27 July 1970 – 07 May 1995) and a son, Aaron Patrick (04 July 1973). Aaron is married to Cherie Louise (nee Mitchell) (27 July 1974) and they have two children, Jacob Patrick and Abbey Louise. Jacob is the last in line to carry on the family name on our side.

We all now reside in Darwin, N.T. (Australia) , and can be contacted on e-mail:  dearj@bigpond.com.au

As far as we know, we are direct descendants of Cornelius. Any further information you could supply would be greatly appreciated.

Also, we are aware of three other Murnane families here in Darwin, and the wive's names are all Elizabeth!!!

Still Searching For Owen Murnane’s Brother 

About a year ago I posted a query about a missing branch of my family. My work has produced no real leads, so I thought I'd try another posting to see what I might drum up this time around. Here goes:

"Help me solve a mystery"

Owen Murnane (my great great grandfather) left County Cork in approximately 1845-47 with his wife Catherine Cronin and their one-year-old son Patrick. Family lore has it that they arrived in Quebec, Canada and were processed through Grosse Ile, and then came up the St. Lawrence. We know for certain that they settled in Ogdensburg, NY, which was a common entry point into the US from Canada. We also know that Catherine's brother John Cronin came with them, and brought his 7-year-old daughter Mary with him. Now, here's the part I'm most interested in pursuing. Family lore has it that Owen had a brother who also made the crossing at the same time, but for some reason he ended up in Plattsburgh, NY, and was never heard from again.

Joe Murnane of Williamson, NY tells me that all of the living Plattsburgh Murnanes are accounted for in his family tree, so I can't lay claim to any of them.

So what happened to Owen's missing brother? Where are his descendants today? Do any of these names ring any bells? If you have the other half of this family mystery, get in contact with me.

Looking for Murnane-Idarola-Pierce Connections 

My family originally came from Ireland and settled in Brooklyn and Canarsie, New York. We have since spread out and many of us are in Arizona now. My great-great-grandmother was named Nellie Lynch and arrived in the late 1800's. Her daughter Helen Lynch married Frank Idarola. Their daughter, Doris Idarola, married William John Murnane. He married Eleanor Pierce and produced four children, Michael William, Kenneth Francis, James Pierce and Patricia Kathleen Carter (nee Murnane).

We have branches named Mina, Isroe, Pierce, Idarola and Toomey. Please e-mail if you might be a relative or know of any. We also have an Uncle Frank Idarola who had two sons. I can only remember Stevie and Aunt Marie. They lived in North Beach, Maryland. I have several uncles on my mother's side in the Boston area: John Toomey and Gene Toomey and Harold Pierce in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Cousins Marcia Pierce Berger

and Karyn Pierce Paxton. Please e-mail if you are a relative or know of any. My mother was born in Keene, New Hampshire, my father in Brooklyn, New York. I hope to hear from someone soon as I am new and this is my first attempt to find my "roots".

This is in reference to my grandmother. Although I cannot connect the last name with any document, there has to be a connection somewhere. My grandmother was born 9 May 1895. She grew up with the name Mary Brady. Never knew her parents, had a street address for a place of birth and mother’s name, Annie Murnane and father, Frank Brady. A birth certificate did not exist. That info came from Catholic Charities in New York City to her, in the 1920's, I believe.

After many years of research, I found the following to be the truth. She was born Henrietta O'Farrell at the New York Infant Asylum, New York City, 9 May, 1895. She was born out of wedlock. Although the father’s name is listed as "ow," other info is there. Her mother’s name on her birth certificate is listed as Annie O'Farrell, maiden name, unmarried. She was later baptized Mary Brady, mother being Annie O’Farrell, and father Frank Brady. At 2 ½, she was put in a home, reason being "illegitimate."

I don't understand, nor can I find out where Catholic Charities connected the name Murnane to her. Have you got any loose ends? Also, she was told by someone her parents were from County Cork and County Kerry. I have found conflicting info on this, with no back ups. Just thought maybe she was a missing link to the Murnane family.

My husband's grandmother was a Murnane and I am just beginning to track down who's who!

James Murnane married Bridget Atkinson in 1875 in Boorowa, a small country town in New South Wales Australia. Their children were William Joseph, born 1876; Thomas Michael, born 1878; Mary Lavinia, born 1879; Bridget, born 1881; James, born 1882; Margaret A., born 1884; John, born 1887; and Catherine, born 1888.

Their son, James, married Florence Barrett in 1905 in Grenfell and had two daughters, Dorothy May, born 1906 (husband's grandmother), and Irene Isobel, born 1909.Other descendants follow.

I am unable to find a death certificate of James Murnane, Sr., but his son, James’ Baptismal certificate states his father was from Limerick, as indeed Bridget Murnane's (nee Atkinson, his wife) death certificate places her birthplace.

Bridget's date of birth was around 1851 (estimated from death certificate), so I guess James' birth would have been about the same.

Other various Murnanes are registered at the local cemetery at Boorowa and so far I have not correlated them but enclose for your info.

Cemetery:

    John Murnane, died 27 December 1872, aged 10, son of William and Johanna, born in Limerick, so would have migrated to Australia after 1862.

   Margaret Murnane, died 15 March 1864, aged 22, daughter of Alexander Cameron Murnane and McMguiness, so born around 1842.

    Michael Murnane, died 29 May 1874, aged 32, son of William and Bridget, so born around 1842.

    William Murnane, died 6 August 1873, aged 76, son of (Illegible) and Catherine Murnane, so born around 1797 (most likely in Ireland).

Do you have any connections on your database with these Murnanes? I am unable to work out how/when they came to Australia. I have briefly read Paul Murnane's database and can't see any connection.

Hope you have some clues.

I am trying to trace the back ground of the above, and wondered if you could help me or point me in a direction that could provide me with help. I believe Ita was born in the 1920s in Ireland. She worked as a ward orderly in a hospital in Hammersmith, London in 1946 to 48.

I want to pass this information on to the Troy Murnanes, taken from the St. Peters Cemetery in Troy.( I presume these are interment dates):

Lot #795:
    Bolton, Infant 5/28/ 1885
    Murnane, Michael 7/6/1885
    Catherine 10/2/1889
    John J. 1/13/1904
    Anna 3/25/1916 child
    Mary A. 3/22/1947
    Margaret 5/11/1966
    Helen V. 8/1/1968 (b.10/29/1898)

Lot #264
    Murnane, James W. 10/3/1886
    Bessie 12/23 / 1892
    John (infant) 6/20 /1896
    James 4/24/1901
    Annie 12/20/1932
    McGraw, Mrs. Anna 4/12/1955

I hope some Troy Murnanes find this of help.

More News About Troy (NY) Murnanes 

When I started my Murnane research 18 years ago I thought it would be a few years to complete the work. I was surprised to see all the Murnanes out there. I have, with the help of my brother Tim and his wife Mary, completed 5 of eight branches of the Chateaugay, New York Murnanes. Recently, I discovered two Michael Murnanes in Troy, New York one of whom might be the head of one of the missing branches of the family:

    Michael Murnane, died 2 July 1885, age 45, seaman US Navy;
    Michael Murnane, died 28 March 1881.

I think the last one is from our family, but I have no proof . The Troy library is checking this out. I do have a census report for Michael Murnane as follows:

    Michael Murnane age 44 b.1836
    Alice age 42 wife b.1838
        Kate 21 1859
        John 19 1861
        James 17 1863
        Harry 10 1870
        Charles 8 1872
        Mary 5 1875
        Edward 3 1877

Would you add this information to the Bulletin Board so the Troy Murnanes can have a look at this information and see if there might be a connection to their families? I would like to hear from any of the Troy Murnanes about the above.

By way of an introduction My name is Stephen Murnan and my family and I live in Bristol, England.

I have found your site interesting and informative confirming many of the stories my parents and grand parents have told me about our family names and its origins.

My Great-great-grandfather was a ships master from Cork in the 19^th Century. He plied between North America, Boston, New York, South Carolina, the British Isles, Bristol and Swansea and places around the Mediterranean and West Africa (we have a suspicion he may have been on some of the last British slave boats for which Bristol was famous).

He married a Welsh girl he met in Swansea and settled in Bristol, England where a branch of the family headed by my father John and uncle Patrick still lives. In his mid thirties he did not return from a voyage to Boston, the family found out he had purchased land around Boston Harbour, started a lumber business and eventually settled down with another woman and added to or started another offshoot of the family.

My Great-grandfather dropped the 'e' to Anglicize the name some time around the turn of the last century.

I would like to trace my ancestors and relatives and as such wondered if you could give me some advice on how to start?

Trying to Trace Loretta Murnane of Emly 

My name is Kathleen Diane Zawacki. I'm very new at this, however I must begin somewhere. My mother has been helping me with family photos and memories and the following is what we know so far. My maternal grandmother's middle name is the town of her father's birth in Ireland. Her name was Loretta Emly (not Emily) Murnane, she was born 22 March 1905 and died 30 January 1989, in York, Pennsylvania, USA. She married Francis J. Mann in York on 3 September 1925.

Her father was Michael Murnane, born 9 September 1871 and died 18 November 1918. Her mother was Anna L. Classen, born 18 January 1874 and died 17 March 1957. Michael Murnane is the son of Patrick Murnane and Mary Sullivan, a first cousin to the boxer John L. Sullivan. Anna Classen was the daughter of Herman Classen and Mary Stenger.

I believe Emly is County Waterford. Any assistance on where to go next (and how) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I found your site to be most interesting.

Update on Search for Colleen Murnane 

(Response by Tim Murnane to Christopher Stephens’ message of 6 February, 2000.)

Hi Christopher,

If you go back in the archives of the Murnane Website Bulletin Board, you will find a Colleen Murnane from Troy, New York listed on December 14, 1998.

Her request as best I can write it up is as follows:

Whether this is the Colleen Murnane that you are looking for, I am not sure. Unfortunately Colleen failed to respond to our several attempts to contact her about connections with our family which also had relations in Plattsburgh and in the Northern New York area. We also believe that one of our Great-great-uncles (Michael Murnane) may have settled in the Troy area. If you are able to get in touch with Colleen will you please ask her to contact us for further discussion of our family Genealogy.

My part of the family is written up on the Murnane Website as "The Murnane's of Upstate New York

Good luck in your search. Please let me know how you make out with your attempts to contact Colleen

(Tim, Thanks for responding to Christopher so quickly; that’s what makes this Bulletin Board so popular with Murnane-hunters!
-- Ed Murnane)

John Murnane in Colorado Looking for Columbus Links 

I want thank you for an interesting and informative site, I have been trying to find the names of my Grandparents which I know very little about. My father and mother were divorced when I was three months old and I never knew either my father or grandparents.

They did come from Columbus, Ohio. My father’s name was Henry J. Murnane, Mother’s name Eleanor A. Trisler. I continue to look for information regarding my father’s side of the family.

A point of information about Colorado is that I've brought a whole lot of Murnanes here with me. A short tree would be as follows:

John G. Murnane Sr.
Sherrill M. Bodge

John G. Murnane Jr.     Richard G. Murnane

John G. Murnane III     Sabrina Murnane

Christopher Murnane
Jessica J. Murnane
Michelle J. Murnane
Samantha Murnane
Nicole Murnane

As you can see there are more than four Murnanes in Colorado. Again thank you for all your efforts to bring the history of the Murnane family together.

Here’s More on Baseball’s Tim Murnane 

I stumbled across your wonderful web site and thought you might be interested in some further information on Tim Murnane - famous 19^th Century baseball player and sportswriter.

Timothy Hayes Murnane moved to Naugatuck, Connecticut from Tipperary Ireland with his family at the age of six. (There is some conflicting info on this. Some sources say he was BORN in Naugatuck.

His first professional baseball engagement was with the Middletown (Connecticut) Mansfield club in 1872. Murnane was one of the star players on the team and was known for his sense of humor and practical jokes on teammates. He went on to have a solid eight-year professional baseball career in the National Association and National League. Tim died February 7, 1917.

At his death Murnane left only a small estate for his widow and six children (two from previous marriage). As a result, a benefit game was held at Fenway Park that raised $14000. The American League also paid for the large monument that was placed at his gravesite. Upon his death the Boston Globe remembered Tim Murnane as "a man of the utmost simplicity of character and of wonderful ideals, which survive all the experiences of a life that make most men cynics. He saw men truly, but he idealized the game with which most of his career was bound up. He believed in baseball sincerely as a former of character and as a great factor in making Americans better men." (Boston Globe 2/8/1917)

I have written a complete history of the Middletown Mansfield baseball club in which Tim Murnane is prominently featured. The book is called "Middletown's Season In The Sun - The Story of Connecticut's First Professional Baseball Team." A photograph of Murnane is also shown on the front cover of the book which I have enclosed as an attachment. (NOTE: Cover of this book appears in the Photo Section of the Murnane Website.) If anyone has any more information on Timothy Hayes Murnane or would like more info from me or would like to purchase the book, they can contact me at DArcidiacono@SNET.NET or 72 Charles Mary Drive East Hampton Connecticut 06424.

Good luck with your very interesting work on your family name!

Looking for Colleen Murnane of Troy, New York 

I graduated high school with a Colleen Murnane in 1990. She had a brother Michael, and a sister Kathy. The father name was John. The family resided in Troy, New York. I was looking to get into contact with her, could you please help me.

Searching for Mary Lou Murnane 

I am trying to help a Legal Researcher locate a Mary Lou Murnane, age probably in her 50's or 60’s. Her mother was a Mary V. Murnane born May 26, 1906 (possibly in Massachusetts) and died in Florida in February, 1993. There were two other children, a Thomas W. and a Joyce Murnane Gelder.

Mary Lou Murnane was never married and her last known address was Chevy Chase Maryland in 1993. She reportedly worked in Washington, D.C. at that time.

I have located a Mary L. Murnane in Minneapolis Minnesota, but doubt that this is the one. I have written to her and am waiting for a response. The possibility of this being the correct Murnane is slim. I would suspect this Mary L. Murnane is related to the Minnesota. Murnanes instead.

Any information would be appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to review this information and to respond.

Murnanes Of Columbus, Ohio 

Hello, I am Stephanie Murnane, Daughter of William J. Murnane, granddaughter of John Murnane, and I just found your website. We have been looking for links to our ancestors for quite some time and we are compiling a huge family tree.

Murnane's from Columbus, if you know/or are related to us, meaning John and Roberta Murnane, or the Murnane/Kiely connection, or the Murnane/Carney connection, please let me know. You Have A Wonderful Site!! Thanks for all the info so far!

Stephanie Murnane
MaesArt6@aol.com
23 January 23, 2000

Note About Tim Murnane, Sportswriter 

Thought you might be interested in this question in ASK THE GLOBE in The Boston Globe on Wednesday, January 12, 2000:

"Q. There's a monument in Boston's Mt. Calvary Cemetery to Timothy Hayes Murnane (1851-1917), which reads: Pioneer of Baseball, Champion of Its Integrity, Gifted and Fearless Writer, This Monument Erected by the American League. Who was Murnane?

"A. Tim Murnane was baseball editor of The Boston Globe for nearly 30 years, from 1888 until the night he dropped dead of a heart attack at the Shubert Theater. A native of Naugatuck, Connecticut, he joined a professional baseball team in Statford, Connecticut, when he was 18. He moved on to teams in Savannah, Georgia, and later played for Philadelphia and Boston.

"He was known for his bouncing run and spectacular catches. In 1886 he launched a small newspaper called the Boston Referee and also briefly took a franchise on a team called the Boston Blues. An important part of his Globe career was his membership on baseball's National Board of Arbitration."

Murnin Family of County Down 

While I realize you are in three southwest counties by description, still, I have Murnin family in County Down, in Kilcoo Parish. And when my great-grandfather immigrated about 1850, he went up to Albany and Troy, New York, and lo! his name became Lawrence Murning.

He was born in 1835, and because records are so sparse (that's a part of the litany), little can be learned of him and his family in Down. He was born in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, and the countryside is beautiful. He moved to Cattaraugus County, New York, where he and his wife, Elizabeth Quinn, reared a family of twelve children on a farm purchased in the early 1860s.

Does anyone know of these people? Are there any resources in that area of Ireland I might tap into? Your help is appreciated. (I have visited the parish and know the Murnins lived in Moyad.)

Want To Connect With Another Minnesota Murnane? 

I found your site by accident this evening. I must say It is quite a nice surprise to see so much information Murnane! I was wondering if you have spoken to my father, George Murnane of Minneapolis. I know that he would really enjoy speaking with a distant relative. His father is from Cork, and he may be helpful in filling in some lost branches on our tree. My father is 79 now, and your call would probably mean a lot to him. You may say that you received an email from his son, Tom, and that is how you got his number. His daytime phone number is (see note below). Thank you for your time, and I look forward to digging deeper into your site!

(If anyone would like George Murnane’s phone number, please e-mail Ed Murnane.)

Looking For Information About George Murnane of Kansas and Texas 

I am doing research for my daughter-in-law. Her grandmother was a Murnane, her great-grandfather was George T. Murnane, who died in El Paso, Texas in 1944. George was 73 at the time of his death. Her Grandmother died when Lisa was quite small and so far we haven't received much information on the family.

Her great-grandmother Murnane died early and the grandfather remarried, the wife was Willie Wave Murnane. As you can see we don't know much about the family other than a newspaper account of the death of George T. Murnane. My daughter-in-law's e-mail address is LisaKisley@cs.com if you could be of any help she would appreciate it. She is new to this family research would appreciate any help we could get.

George Murnane lived in Kansas until approx. 1914, if that helps.

This is the first that I've visited the site in awhile and it looks great! I especially like the pictures and the different family trees.

I haven't been able to come up with much about my Murnanes. My sister and I posted a message last summer about them. To briefly recap (for any new Murnanes out there), my dad, Allan Murnane, was born in New Rochelle, New York. His dad, Albert (later Allan - he was an actor) was born in Philadelphia in 1882. His father, Thomas, was born in Philadelphia in 1857 and he died around 1884-1885. He had one brother, Robert, and three sisters, Mary, Kate and Annie. His father, Thomas, Sr., born about 1822-24 in Ireland, first shows up in Philadelphia around 1847 in a city directory. He is already married to a woman named Elizabeth who the census says is from Connecticut, and their daughter Mary was already born.

I'd like to find out if he was living somewhere else in the U.S. (maybe Connecticut) before going to Philadelphia. He was a printer, he joined the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War (when he was close to 40!!) Also, my dad said his father converted to Catholicism when his wife did, so that tells me they were probably Protestant. Not wanting to start a religious war or anything, but do you (or anyone else) happen to know if any particular branches of the family were Protestant? I thought that might help my search.

I printed several of the pages from the site to take to my dad so he can read them. I think he'll enjoy them. Thanks for all your hard work.

Molly Murnane
Indianapolis, Indiana
mmurnane@indynet.com
16 January, 2000

I am searching for a Kevin Murnane (his address and/or telephone number) who originally lived in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland and emigrated to the USA. He was a member of the Clontarf Boy Scouts around 1950/60. He has or had brothers living in Clontarf. Hoping your family website may be of assistance.

I am looking for info on the Murnanes that left Kilkishen, County Clare, between 1895 and 1925. A John Murnane [priest] went to Colorado. Harry Murnane and Elizabeth Murnane went to New York their brother Michael worked in Wales on the railroad before returning to Kilkishen, County Clare.