BOURKE, MOONEY, ROBERTS and GETHINGS in Wexford, Ireland
30 July 2003
One Ellen BOURKE married John MOONEY a cooper (one of my pairs of great-great-great grandparents) in the late 18th century. A son James MOONEY was born about 1787; he became a farmer at Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.About 1808 (or 1810) in Dublin he married a Dorothea GETHINGS, daughter of Wexford farmer Thomas GETHINGS and his wife Mary (nee ROBERTS).
In 1852 James MOONEY, his wife Dorothea and most of their children emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to join one of their sons, James MOONEY jnr, who had become a successful hotel proprietor there.
James MOONEY snr died in Melbourne 23 Sept. 1873 aged 86;Dorothea had died there 3 May 1866, aged about 74.
I don't know anything about:
1. Ellen BOURKE's parents and siblings (if any);
2. James MOONEY snr's parents and siblings (if any);
3. Dorothea GETHING's siblings (if any);
4. Thomas GETHING's parents and siblings (if any);
5. Mary ROBERTS's parents and siblings (if any).
If any of these names seem familiar and the dates and places correspond to those of your ancestors, please contact me.
Tony Rainer
Melbourne, Australia
[email protected]
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