Walsh Family of Carradoogan

The name Thornton in Ireland is usually of Anglo origin having been brought to the country by settlers in the seventeenth century.  Some Irish adopted it as the anglicized version of their Gaelic name Ó Draighneáin, Mac Sceacháin, Ó Toráin. The connection is: draighean, blackthorn; sceach, whitethorn; tor, a bush.
 

Walsh is a translation of the Irish surname Breathnach, meaning 'Welsh' or 'Breton', also sometimes anglicized as 'Brannagh'. The name came into use to describe the Welsh people who came to Ireland during the Norman invasions.  Their surname in Gaelic was Breathnach the Irish word for Briton or Welsh, which was later to become anglicized as Brannagh and Walsh
 

walsh old house

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Walsh old House

Walsh New House

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Walsh new House

Descendants of Thaddeus Thornton

A : Thaddeus Thornton, born in Breaffy, Ballina in 1799, died the 8 January 1879 in Carradoogan see copy of death certificate (son of Anthony Thornton of Breaffy).

He had 2 children :
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B.1 : Michael Thornton, born in Carradoogan in 1841, died in Stokane the 12 December 1923, married see copy of marriage certificate Bridget Boland (born in 1846 in Stokane and died in 1918 in Stokane).

they had 2 children :
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C.1.1 : Maria Thornton, born in Stokane, died in Ballyogan, married Owen Gaughan.
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C.1.2 : Bridget Thornton, born in Stokane in 1877, died in Killanley in 1975, married Pat Missett (born in 1885 and died in 1921 in Stokane).
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B.2 : Mary Thornton, born in Carradoogan 1849, died 13 March 1882, married JAMES WALSH the 2 March 1869 See copy of marriage certificate (Born in Kilgellia died the 20 November 1912 in Carradoogan, son of Anthony Walsh and * Dempsey).
they had 6 children :
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C.2.1 : (1)  Maria Walsh, born in 1875, married Charles Clark.
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C.2.2 : (1)  John Walsh, (See Photograph right) was christened in Attymass Church the 3 September 1877, died the 2 August 1955, married
Katherine Quinn Born 1888 in Glendaduff (see photograph below,  daughter of Pat Quinn and Bridget
They had 9 children :
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C.2.3 : (1)  Anthony Walsh,(See Photograph Below) born in 1878, married Ellen Loftus of Graffy
He had 7 children 
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C.2.4 : (1)  Elizabeth Walsh, (See Photograph Below) was christened in Attymass the 14 December 1879, married William Melody.
She had 5 children :
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C.2.5 : (1)  Bridget Walsh, born in Carradoogan in 1882, married Mark Durkin (born in 1872 in Byhalla and died in 1959).
She had 5 children :
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C.2.6 : (1)  James Walsh, was christened in Attymass the 9 December 1884, died in an accident in Pittsburgh P.A. USA in 1911.
A window(see below) in Attymass Church commemorates his death)
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John Walsh, photograph taken in York
England about 1939 
with his eldest son James(L) 
and  youngest son Anthony (R)
John & Katherine Walsh (nee Quinn)
Elizabeth Melody James Walsh Window.
Anthony and Ellen Walsh