This page contains some additional information about the Hanratty Family of Courtbane in Co Louth. |
Edward Hanratty |
Married July 1824 in Crossmaglen to Bridget Hanratty[Back...] |
Thomas Hanratty |
Born 16 March 1841. Married 2 November 1867 in Crossmaglen. Witnesses- Edward Murta and Owen Sherry. Died 6 April 1926.[Back...] |
Mary Hanratty |
Born 21 June 1844. Father - Parents John and Bridget Murtagh (nee Dawdall), Shila (probably 'Sheelagh', Co Louth.) Siblings: Margaret (b. 30 December 1840), Nicholas (b. 14 January 1842) and Patrick (b. 25 March 1851). Died 17 September 1934 aged 90 years [Back...] |
Edward Hanratty | Born 20 August 1868. Only details available taken from a family history written as a school exercise by the children of Catherine Thornton in Philadelphia. By this account he stayed in Ireland and was a taxi driver. [Back...] |
James Hanratty | ![]() James was baptised in Crossmaglen on 8 May 1870. According to |
Mary Thornton | Born 18 July 1872. Married twice. First, on 30 August 1884 in Crossmaglen, to Thomas Thornton of Slieve, Kane, Co Louth. [His father was Thomas]. Witnesses were Owen Thornton and Brigid Hanratty. Thomas died on 14 February 1901 -- "killed by a tree which he was in the act of felling.' His age is recorded as 35. |
Owen Thornton | Baptised on 25 January 1863, Bridge-a-Crin. Age on Death Certificate 89. Died 23 Decamber, 1950. [Back...] |
Bridget Deerey | Born 26 May 1899. Brigid and Edward are buried in Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin. [Back...] |
James Gerald Thornton Sr. | Married 30 September 1931 in Our Lady of Victory R.C. Church, Philadelphia, Pennsyvania to Katherine McLaughlin, Moville, Co. Donegal. Witnesses - Katherine's sister, Anne McLaughlin and John Cochrane. Both James and Katherine are buried in Saint Agnes' Cemetery, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA [Back...] |
Alice Josephine Ahern | Married on 26 January 1937, in Bridge-a-Crin, to William Joseph Ahern, Cobh, Cork. Witnesses Brian McEnaney and Katie Thornton. Both Alice and William are buried in Cork City.[Back...] |
Owen Thornton | Died on 10 May 1962 at the family farm in Slieve where he had always lived.[Back...] |
John Hanratty | Born 20 September 1874, died 7 January 1957. Emigrated to New York in the late 189os. Worked for Con-Edison Power Company for many years. Buried in Calvary Cemetary, Queens, New York with his wife Maggie. [Back...] |
Edward Laverty | ![]() ![]() Married Margaret Hanratty on 1 November 1908, in Crossmaglen. Witnesses James Brennan and Mary Murtagh. Father was Daniel Laverty, farmer, from Clarnagh. Edward (Ned), was a stone mason.[Back...] For completeness the following information about Edward's brother Patrick (who inherited the Laverty homeplace) is included (with thanks to Anne Murphy)-
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Anne Murphy | ![]() ![]() Emigrated to the USA aged 16. Married Michael Murphy in New York. Returned to Ireland in 1989. Michael died in 1991[Back...] |
Alice Hanratty | Born in 1888. A letter from Holy Faith Convent says - in part-
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Thomas Hanratty | Baptised 24 December 1880. Emigrated to New York. Family story says that he vanished one night and was never heard from again. May have been married to a Brigid McAnaney.[Back...] |
Brigid McEnaney | Married 27 February 1900 in Crossmaglen to Patrick McEnaney [his father Patrick, Rathmore]. Witnesses Mary A. Ryan and Thomas ???land. [Back...] |
Owen Hanratty | First Owen (b. 28 July 1826) must have died.[Back...] |