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Jacobus Conlon and Maria Kilkenny ©

Very little is known about Jacobus & Maria, except it is believed they were both born around 1795.   A marriage for a Jacobus Connellen and Maria Thilkenny in the Boyle Catholic Church Roscommon on 9^th November 1814⁴, witnesses were Edmund Henry & Ellinor Phillips. 

It is known that they had at least two children: Maria (Mary) 1830, baptized in Boyle, County Roscommon^{1 & 2}; and Margaretum (Margaret) 1833, baptized in Killucan, County Westmeath³.  References to a Jacobus Conlon baptised in 1818: a Brigida baptised 1823; a Michael baptised 1826; and a Joannem (John) baptised 1829, all in Aghanagh, Sligo, may also be Jacobus and Maria’s children.  Aghanagh is approximately 5km north of Boyle and roughly 60km east of Rosscommon.  Named after the town of Roscommon, County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin) is a small county, almost in the centre of Ireland, located in the province of Connacht, in the Western Region.  The name Roscommon is derived from Coman mac Faelchon who built a monastery there in the 5^th century.  The woods near the monastery became known as Ros Comáin (St. Coman's Wood). This was later anglicised to Roscommon.  Boyle sits roughly 40kms north of the town of Roscommon, near the northern border of the County, and Killucan is about 50km to the south-south-east of Roscommon, in the County Westmeath.  Named after the ancient Kingdom of Meath (Old Irish: Mide), Westmeath is part of the Midlands Region and the province of Leinster.

It is believed Jacobus died in July 1837 and was buried on the 27^th in the Boyle Catholic Church, Roscommon.  It is not known when Maria died but it is thought it was before 1847, either from the effects of the Potato Famine or maybe from Cholera which swept Ireland during the mid to late 1840s.  We do know two of their their daughters: Mary & Margaret were in the Roscommon Workhouse, and they both immigrated to Australia in 1849, from there³.  It is not known just when they entered, or if their parents or any other siblings entered with them. 

References:

1. Family Story
2. FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/search/

3. Shipping Records – Lady Peel & Digby via NSW State Archives
4. Parish Marriage Record via Ancestry.co.uk https://www.ancestry.co.uk
5. Parish Burial Record via Ancestry.co.uk https://www.ancestry.co.uk

Other Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk https://www.ancestry.co.uk

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