Ancestors of Christopher John Augustine Morry

Patrick Joseph O'Brien

      Sex: M

AKA: Joe O'Brien ⁷³⁰⁸

Individual Information

Birth Date: 17 Mar 1900 - Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁷³⁰⁹ ^,7310 ^,7311 Christening: 18 Mar 1900 - Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁷³¹² Death: 21 Jan 1979 - Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ( at age 78) ⁷³¹³ Burial: After 21 Jan 1979 - Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland ⁷³¹³ Cause of Death:

Events

• Occupation: Farmer, Grawn, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Property: Grawn, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Religion: Catholic.

• Minister/Priest: Father D. O'Meara, 18 Mar 1900, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Sponsors: Cornelius and Eliza O'Brien, 18 Mar 1900, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. Cornelius O'Brien was his uncle. I'm not sure which Eliza O'Brien was his godmother.

• Census: 1901 Census - Household of Thomas O'Brien, Farmer, 31 Mar 1901, Garrane, Latteragh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. (Household Member)

• Census: 1901 Census, 31 Mar 1901, Garrane, Latteragh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Census: 1911 Census of Ireland, 2 Apr 1911, Garrane, Latteragh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. (Household Member)

• Census: 1911 Census of Ireland, 2 Apr 1911, Garrane, Latteragh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Military: Volunteer in what was later called Oglaigh na h-Eireann (IRA); then during the Civil War fought on the side of those opposed to the Irish Free State compromise, 1917-1923, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. 2nd Battalion, Tipperary, No. 1 Brigade.

• Military: Quartermaster, Toomevara Company, Irish Volunteers - 2nd Battalion; No 1 Brigade, Cir 1920-1921, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. As a result of some suspected theft of money by the leadership of the Toomevara Company, on June 15, 1921 Joe O'Brien was appointed Quartermaster to replace one of the suspected thieves.

• Military: Raided Toomevara PO and took telephone Apparatus, Cir 1920, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Military: Lay in ambush on three occasions prior to shooting of 2 RIC, Feb to Apr 1920, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. Testimony of Sean Gaynor as well as Joe Himself

Joe says the 3 dates were 11 Feb., 11 March, 11 April (the nights before the fairs when the RIC patrolled the streets.
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• Military: Burning of Ballymackey Barracks, Apr 1920, Ballymackey, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Military: Participated in Attack on Borrisokane Barracks, 26 Jun 1920, Borrisokane, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. On 26 June 1920 about 200 IRA volunteers attacked an RIC barracks at Borrisokane, currently the town's Garda Station. The attack was unsuccessful, but the building was so badly damaged that it was evacuated the next day. One Volunteer was killed in the action, and a plaque commemorates him today as Micheál Ó Cinnéide, Uncle of the former Government Minister Michael O'Kennedy.

• Illness: Bullet wound in right knee; during a sniping attack on the RIC at Barnane Barracks, 29 Jun 1920, Barnane, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. 3 commanding officers, Sean Gaynor, John Hackett and John Harty, attested to his service and made particular note of his being wounded in this attack on British forces and the RIC.

• Military: Participated in shooting of two RIC (one, William Maxwell, was killed)., 30 Nov 1920, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. An IRA operation on November 13, 1920, in Cloughjordan, Tipperary, resulted in the fatal shooting of RIC Constable William Maxwell by Joe O'Brien, Bill Kelly, Bill Meagher, and Paddy Whelehan at Tooher's hotel bar. This incident, part of broader IRA strategy against the Royal Irish Constabulary, occurred amidst increasing violence during the Irish War of Independence.

This action was one of several similar attacks by the IRA in reprisal for the Bloody Sunday massacres by the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries on 21 November 1920.

• Illness: Severe stomach condition as a result of being on the run and eating irregularly, 1921-1922, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Military: Joseph O'Brien testimony of various actions with Flying Column, Cir 1922-1923, Ireland. "I was called on the Column on different occasions awaiting ambushes for the enemy i.e. Ballingarry, Offaly; Redwood, Offaly; Creamery, Toomevara, Tipperary; Knocknacree, Cloughjordan, Tipperary. I, with William Meagher, arrested the spy that got one of our men shot dead."

• Military: Sniped Toomevara Barracks four times, Oct to Dec 1922, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.

• Military: Captured and arrested; served 7 months internment, Jan-Jul 1923, Templemore, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. After initial arrest he was relocated to what he referred to as the Tintown internment camp, located near the official army's Curragh Camp in County Kildare. Other records show he served time in the infamous Kilmainham Gaol but this may have been a misunderstanding.

Interestingly, a collection of signatures and sometimes poems composed by the internees between November 1 - December 12, 1923, after Joe's release, has been acquired at auction by the University of Kansas (https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5354).

• Military Service: Awarded £45 single payment for wound to knee (20% disability), 14 Jun 1934, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

• Military Service: Received a monthly pension of £51.76 (originally £53 6 shillings and 8 pence), 1936 to 1978, Grawn, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. For service between 1917 and 1923 with Irish Volunteers, IRA 2nd Battalion, No. (Tipperary Brigade), also Paddy McDonnell's Flying Column, also 6 months of Internment when serving with the anti-Truce forces.

Also his estate (managed by son Tom O'Brien) received a £100 funeral grant payment at the time of his death.

• Military Service: Withdrawal of request for military pension due to longstanding stomach condition, 2 Nov 1939, Grawn, Toomevara, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland. Joe withdrew his request for a military pension because he felt he was no longer 50% disabled - the limit of the disability required to be granted a pension.

Parents

         Father: Thomas O'Brien ⁹⁶²
         Mother: Mary O'Meara ⁹⁶²^,3461

Spouses and Children

1. *Catherine Mary Aloysius Quinlisk ⁹⁰⁰ 
       Marriage: 9 Feb 1932 - Dublin, Leinster, Ireland ³⁰²²^,7314^,7315
Marriage Notes 



250814:

In the register of their marriage Joe's name appears as Patrick evidently or else Ancestry has only copied the first name of each partner as Catherine's other names do not appear either.

290417 from FindMyPast but taken from FamilySearch:

First name(s)   Patrick   
Last name   O'Brien   
Registration year   1932   
Registered Quarter/Year   Jan - Mar 1932   
Registration district   Dublin South   
Volume   2   
Page   367   
MarriageFinder™   Patrick O'Brien married one of these people Catherine Quinlisk, Mary Catherine Mulraney, Bridget Soden, Margaret O'Neill, Valentine Kavanagh  
County   -   
Country   Ireland   
Record set   Irish Marriages 1845-1958   
Category   Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)   
Subcategory   Marriages & divorces   
Collections from   Ireland   
 copyright Family Search

050518:

Here is a new rendition of the marriage record from FindMyPast, taken from the Irish Civil Marriage Registers Index. Her Townland is misspelled and Joe is still only referred to by his first name, but here we learn for the first time where the marriage actually took place:

Ireland Civil Marriage Registers Index Transcription

First name(s)Catherine
Last nameQuinlisk
SexFemale
AgeF
Marital statusSpinster
Condition (as transcribed)S
ResidenceLoughaney Cloughjordan Co Tipperary
Marriage year1932
Marriage date09 Feb 1932
DenominationRoman Catholic
Church nameSt Kevins
Registration districtSouth City No 3
Superintendent's reg districtDublin South
Parish-
CountyDublin
CountryIreland
Spouse's first name(s)Patrick
Spouse's last nameO'Brien
Spouse's ageF
Spouse's marital statusB
Spouse's occupationFarmer
Spouse's residenceGrann Toomevara Co Tipperary
Father's first name(s)John
Father's last nameQuinlisk
Father's occupationFarmer
Spouse's father's first name(s)Thomas
Spouse's father's last nameO'Brien
Spouse's father's occupationFarmer
Registration year1932
Registration quarter yearJan - Mar 1932
Volume2
Page367
SourceView the source record
Record setIreland Civil Marriage Registers Index
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryCivil Marriage & Divorce
Collections fromIreland
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Ireland Marriages 1845-1958 Transcription

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First name(s) Catherine
Last name Quinlisk
Registration year 1932
Registration quarter & year Jan - Mar 1932
Registration district Dublin South
County Dublin
Country Ireland
MarriageFinder™ Catherine Quinlisk married one of these people
Patrick O'Brien, Valentine Kavanagh, Peter Maxwell, Thomas Joseph Hayes
Volume 2
Page 367
Record set Irish Marriages 1845-1958
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Civil Marriage & Divorce
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       Children:
                1. Mary Gertrude Patricia O'Brien
                2. Living
                3. Thomas Francis O'Brien
                4. Bridget Vincenta O'Brien
                5. Gerald Majella O'Brien
                6. Elizabeth Christina O'Brien
                7. Living
                8. Living

Notes

General:

Description: Toomyvara is a village in the parish of Aghnamadle, situated about 6 miles from Nenagh and 13 miles from Roscrea on the main road from Dublin to Limerick. Founded by Saint Donnan in the 7th century, the village now has a population of 362 (1996 census).

Copyright: Tipperary-Central.com

081108: The sponsors at his baptism were Cornelius and Eliza O'Brien. Cornelius is obviously his uncle (his father's brother). But Eliza is a bit of a mystery. She could be his grandmother, Eliza Reidy O'Brien. But it is unusual to ask an elderly relative to be the godmother at a Catholic baptism since they are ostensibly to look after the child's Christian upbringing in the event of the death of the parents. She may have been a cousin of the father not as yet identified.

230811: Documents of witnesses (William Meagher and John Hackett) who were active members of the Toomyvara Company, Irish Volunteers and the Tipperary Brigade of the IRA during the War of Independence, 1920-21 in particular, link Joe O'Brien to two killings of members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Two RIC men were shot on March 15, 1920 in Toomevara and one on November 2, 1920 in Cloughjordan. Though others were involved and probably were the "trigger men" in the earlier ambush, the evidence seems to implicate Joe directly in the killing of Constable William Maxwell in Cloughjordan. This ties into the story of how Joe met his future wife Kitty Quinlisk. There would have been no other reason for him to have been in Cloughjordan. However it is possible that he met her later when he was a regular member of the Tipperary Brigade Flying Column opposed to the Treaty in the Civil War in 1922-23.

040925:
Transcript of Funeral Card:

JESUS, MARY, JOSEPH
SACRED HEART OF JESUS
have mercy on the soul of
JOSEPH O'BRIEN
Grawn, Toomevara, Co. Tipperary
who died
on the 21^st January, 1979
Aged 78 Years
R.I.P.

All I ask is that you will remember me at
Mass and Holy Communion.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for
us who have recourse to thee.

Lonely is the home without you,
Life to us is not the same;
All the world would be like heaven,
If we could have you back again.
--- † ---
A light is from our household gone,
A voice we loved is still,
A place is vacant I our home,
That never can be filled.
--- † ---
May the God of Love and Mercy,
Care our loved one who is gone,
And bless with consolation,
Thos left to carry on.
--- † ---
The happy hours we once enjoyed,
How sweet their memory still,
But death has left a vacant place,
The world can never fill.
--- † ---
How dearly we loved you,
And prayed you might live,
But Jesus just beckoned,
And we had to give.
--- † ---
God gave us strength to bear it,
And Courage to fight the blow,
What it has meant to lost you,
God alone will ever know.

Patrick Mott O'Brien

      Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Mar 1841 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ⁷²⁶⁶ Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:

Events

• Alt. Birth: Cir 1841.

Parents

         Father: William O'Brien ³¹⁵
         Mother: Mary Walsh ³¹⁵

Spouses and Children

1. *Joanna Furlong
       Marriage: 

2. Margaret Alyward ³¹⁵ 
       Marriage:

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: Patrick Joseph O'Brien
         Mother: Catherine Mary Aloysius Quinlisk ⁹⁰⁰

Pauline O'Brien

      Sex: F

Individual Information

Birth Date: Christening: Death: Bef 30 Jan 2007 - Newfoundland ¹⁴⁷⁰ Burial: Cause of Death:

Events

• Death: Bef 30 Jan 2007, Newfoundland. (Person)

• Alt. Death: Bef 29 Sep 2018.

Parents

         Father: Dennis O'Brien ¹⁴⁶⁹^,1470
         Mother: Mary Johnson ¹³⁵^,1823

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: John Joseph O'Brien ⁵
         Mother: Living

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: Wilfred O'Brien ¹¹³⁷
         Mother: Mary Hennessey ¹¹³⁷^,4552

Philip John O'Brien

      Sex: M

AKA: Philip O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹

Individual Information

Birth Date: 5 Mar 1939 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland ⁵²⁶⁰ Christening: Death: 12 Feb 2014 - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada ( at age 74) ⁵²⁶⁰ Burial: After 17 Feb 2014 ⁵²⁶⁰ Cause of Death:

Events

• Alt. Death: Bef 26 Aug 2019.

Parents

         Father: John O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹
         Mother: Angela O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹^,5259

Spouses and Children

1. *Lidwina Harvey ³³⁰² 
       Marriage: 
Marriage Notes 



Lidwina Harvey was married to Philip OBrien of Cape Broyle, son of John O'Brien (CB) and Angela OBrien (Bay Bulls).  They weren't married long and were living separate lives.

       Children:
                1. Living
                2. Living

Pius O'Brien

      Sex: M

Individual Information

Birth Date: Between 1935 and 1945 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland ⁵²⁶⁰ Christening: Death: Between 1935 and 1945 - Cape Broyle, Newfoundland Burial: Cause of Death:

Events

• Alt. Death: Bef 26 Aug 2019.

Parents

         Father: John O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹
         Mother: Angela O'Brien ²⁵⁷⁹^,5259

Living

      Sex: M

Parents

         Father: Eugene F. O'Brien ⁵²⁶⁶
         Mother: Living

Redmond O'Brien

      Sex: M

Individual Information

     Birth Date: 
    Christening: 
          Death: Bef 13 Aug 2025 - Newfoundland ²⁷⁹⁴
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents

         Father: Michael J. O'Brien ²⁷⁹⁴
         Mother: Catherine Cantwell ²⁷⁹⁴

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