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Glenda is correct that Bryant (not Bryan) O'Bannon from Ireland had no middle name. ALL known records in all of Virginia refer to him simply as "Bryant."
Somewhere down the line someone started a myth that Bryant O'Bannon was "descended" from Brian Boru (Brian Boroimhe in Gaelic), First and Last High King of Ireland, 940-1014, famous for ridding Ireland of the Norsemen, Vikings and Danes. Brian and his son were both killed in that final battle in 1014, and it is debatable if any heirs were left to continue the line, although the O'Briens claim descent.
The first known appellation of the name "Brian Boru" to any descendent of our Bryant O'Bannon was in 1878 when Laurens Wilbrandt O'Bannon (1822-1882), of Barnwell, SC, named a son Brian Boru O'Bannon. Laurens was a great, great, great grandson of, and five generations down, from Bryant. The line runs:
(Bryant(1), Samuel(2), Thomas(3), John Ambrose(4), John Lewis(5), Laurens Wilbrandt(6).
About this same time, two Texas descendants came up with statements that "tradition had it" Bryant was descended from Brian Boru. One descendent was Jennings Alexander O'Banion (1815-1891), of San Marcos. The other was Dick O'Bannon (1875-1953), of Sherman.
From training as a history major during my college days, I make it my practise to stick with known documents, not myths. So does my colleague, Patrick O'Bannon, who has a PhD in history.
Paul O'Bannon
Vallejo, CA
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