Ellen McSwiney

Her father's name was probably Roger (Lane) and mother's name "Mary".*

Ellen was born c. 1762, married before 1787?

Children (21 year span)

• c1787 son Daniel was born (1st son, named after his paternal grandfather)
• 1789 son Roger was born.(*2nd son - named after mother's father)
• 1791 son Patrick was born. (3rd son, named after his father)

(The following children as listed on p.4156 of Registry of births of St. Mary’s and St. Anne’s):

• 1793 daughter Mary was born (*1st daughter, named after maternal mother)
• 1795 daughter Julia Anne was born (2nd daughter named after father's mother) - remained unmarried.
• 1797 son John was born
• 1800 son Denis was born
• 1802 son Michael was born (not mentioned by Dean Denis in his correspondence)
• 1808 son Callahan J. McSwiney

[The Archive - The Journal of the Cork Northside Folklore Project - Issue 15, 2011 article by Breda Sheehan] The Coppinger family owned Ballyvolane House and its lands from the 17th century. In 1795 they leased the house and lands to the Roman Catholic church for Cork's first RC seminary. In the 1820s the lease passed to the McSwiney family.

20 December 1842 "Death of Ellen

• at her house on York Street, Relict of the late P. McSwiney of Ballyvolane, in her 80th year."
• (i.e. she would have been born c. 1762)
• [Source: Cork Examiner:, December 23, 1842, pg 3]

Other

1791 Patrick McSwiney and his wife Ellen (nee Lane) were sponsors at the baptism of Ann Jackson (source: Ken Long)

Son Callaghan McSweeny, Distiller, was living at Avenue B in New York in 1855. His Emigrant Savings Bank record number 113 for Sept 6 1855 lists his mother as Ellen O'Callaghan. Quite possibly O'Callaghan was her middle name, named after her mother's family name.