Gerard Brandon
1861
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Given Name: Gerard
Last Name: Brandon
Died: 3 Mar 1861
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Age: 67 Years
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From: MCGLEW
Subject: Irish Brandons
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:32:10 -0700
Dear Theresa:
To answer your question as to who were these Irish Brandons, please
consider the following.
Edward MacLysaght in his "Surnames of Ireland," briefly, shows the
following: "BRANDON In Kerry this is Mac Breandain, a branch of the
Fitzmaurices; elsewhere de Brandon, of English origin."
Now, the Fitzmaurices, who came to Ireland in 1167, and afterwards,
during
the time of Henry II, were part of the "Geraldines," descendants of
Gerald
of Windsor, a mixed group of Norman, Welsh and English descent. They,
over the next several centuries, along with an ongoing immigration
of later English settlers, became the ruling class of Ireland, and,
after
successive defeats of the native Irish, the landed aristocracy. Many of
this group, as English power waxed and waned in Ireland, over the
centuries, became increasingly identified with the native Irish through
inter-marriage and cultural assimilation. Many became, as they say,
"more Irish than the Irish." Several of the leading Geraldine families,
including the Fitzgeralds and the Fitzmaurices, found themselves in
opposition to English rule and over time lost their titles and lands as
a result. This Brandon family, as the name later became Anglicized,
either
from the French or later Irish form of the name, were and still are
today,
to the best of knowledge located in the counties of Killarney and Kerry
in the southern province of Munster.
The other Brandons, or "de Brandons," as described by MacLysaght above,
were decidedly English. They may have come to Ireland from England as
early as the thirteenth century when King John shirred what was to
become County Louth, an area located north of Dublin. The earliest
mention of this family that I have thus far found is of an Augustine
friary being donated by the Brandon family in the town of Drogheda,
County Louth, during the reign of Edward I. No doubt other English
Brandons arrived in Ireland in the centuries that followed especially
after the Plantation of Ulster in 1614, Oliver Cromwell's invasion in
1649, and the defeat of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1691.
These Brandons basically became members of the landed gentry and
established themselves over time in many places in Ireland, primarily
in Ulster and County Meath, west of Dublin. In a classic work on
Irish genealogy by John O'Hart ("Irish Pedigrees; or, The Origin and
Stem of The Irish Nation," 1915) the Brandons are listed among the
principal families of Ireland. Many opposed Cromwell and were attained
and had their estates confiscated in the early 1650's. Of these most
were pardoned and to a certain extent had their lands restored after
the restoration of the Stuart monarchy under Charles II in 1660. Most
of the Brandons, those who had not done so already, converted from
Catholicism to the Church of Ireland (Anglican) at this point. One
Brandon family, descendants of John Brandon of Athlone, County Meath,
stubbornly clung to the old religion, lost their lands and were
transported west to Connacht, in the early 1650's where I have records
of their remaining Catholic to this day in County Galway.
My ancestor Brandons eventually settled in County Fermanagh and
nearby areas of counties Donegal and Tyrone in northwestern Ireland,
in Ulster. We believe, but have as yet been unable to prove, that they
came to this area from either Meath or Louth in the middle of the
seventeenth century. They were decidedly Church of Ireland, that is
Protestant, several being members of the clergy. The earliest hard
evidence that we have dates to the 1740's and 1750's. I have at least
a hundred records of baptisimals, marriages and burials of those with
the Brandon surname mostly from the Barony of Lurg in County Fermanagh,
particularly in the parishes of Derryvullan, Magheraculmoney and
Drumkeeran.
I just got a note from a cousin of mine doing research in Salt Lake City
that he discovered evidence of the family being in Fermanagh in the
the 1640's which I am eagerly awaiting and will pass along when
received.
Our specific Brandon family, at least as far as we have thus far traced
them, lived primarily in Magheraculmoney parish which is located around
the towns of Kesh and Ederny north of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh,
just to the east of Ballyshannon should you wish to locate in on the
map. My oldest ancestor, though not proven conclusively, was one
Francis Brandon born c. 1729 who died and was buried in 1805. He names,
in a property deed we have, Gerard Brandon, who may be my emigrant
ancestor in America, though we have yet to find any evidence of his
actually coming here or his death anywhere, either in Ireland or
America.
His family, his wife Mary and numerous children, emigrated to America
aboard the ship Serpent of Baltimore in 1804 from Londonderry. You may
have seen the passenger list of this ship, it is on numerous sites on
the
Internet. I am descended from William Brandon who is listed,
incorrectly,
as being twenty-one years of age. I was fortunate enough to find a
property lease date 1784 that names William as a son of Gerard while
doing research at the Public Records Office in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, this past June. William and several of his brothers,
specifically,
Gerard, John, and Edward settled in Huntington Mills, PA, as I E-mailed
you a week or two ago, and appear, at least William and Gerard, in the
1810 census there. What happened to their father, Gerard, mother Mary
and their other siblings (Henry, James, Isabella, Christopher, Jane and
Thomas, and perhaps a younger Mary) we have absolutely no idea. My
great-grandfather, Edgar Brandon, was born in Huntington Mills in 1821,
moved in the mid-1840's to Lee County, IL, and from there to California
in the early 1850's.
Numerous Brandons emigrated from Ireland to the United States and
Canada during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the
nineteenth century many more emigrated to Australia and, a few,
to New Zealand. One of my cousins corresponded with some of
our Brandon kin in Australia several years ago. I have an interesting
reference to a Gerard Brandon, father of the Gerard Chittocque
Brandon, who was governor of Mississippi several times in the early
nineteenth century, as being born in either County Fermanagh or County
Donegal. I have seen several references to members of your family which
seem to indicate that the sons and brothers of John Brandon (b. 1691),
your
ancestor, may perhaps have been born in Ireland. Has this issue ever
been fully resolved? My wife and I also spent several days in County
Fermanagh in June. The Brandon name is basically unknown there today,
though there is one listed in the area telephone directory. I visited
the townland of Drumbrick where I believe my great-great-grandfather
William was born in 1780 and have pictures of what was perhaps
the family home at that time. The present occupant has never even
heard of the Brandon name, though.
All of the above is as much a question as a statement. There is still
much to be learned on these Irish Brandons. I would be more than
happy to share what information I have and would be equally pleased
to receive any comments from any of you on the above.
Regards,
Richard Brandon McGlew
San Francisco
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