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Catherine QUINLAN (1796 - 1880)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Ellen DONOVAN (1831 - )
Bridget DONOVAN (1833 - 1925)
Catherine DONOVAN (1837 - 1904)
Michael DONOVAN (1839 - 1884)
James DONOVAN (1842 - )
John DONOVAN (1844 - )
Catherine QUINLAN (1796 - 1880)

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John DONOVAN (1792 - 1844)





























b. abt 1796
m. Apr 1829 John DONOVAN (1792 - 1844) at Kilteely, Co Limerick, Ireland
d. 22 Aug 1880 at Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland aged 84
Children (6):
Ellen DONOVAN (1831 - )
Bridget DONOVAN (1833 - 1925)
Catherine DONOVAN (1837 - 1904)
Michael DONOVAN (1839 - 1884)
James DONOVAN (1842 - )
John DONOVAN (1844 - )
Grandchildren (7):
Patrick Joseph CONWAY (1866 - 1947), John CONWAY (1868 - 1920), Michael CONWAY (1870 - 1951), Catherine CONWAY (1873 - 1957), Catherine DONOVAN (1879 - ), Ellen DONOVAN (1881 - ), John DONOVAN (1883 - 1963)
Events in Catherine QUINLAN (1796 - 1880)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1796 Catherine QUINLAN was born 18
Apr 1829 33 Married John DONOVAN (aged 37) Kilteely, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
abt 07 Dec 1831 35 Birth of daughter Ellen DONOVAN Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
abt 19 Dec 1833 37 Birth of daughter Bridget DONOVAN Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland
abt 16 Apr 1837 41 Birth of daughter Catherine DONOVAN Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
abt 09 Nov 1839 43 Birth of son Michael DONOVAN Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
abt 17 Jul 1842 46 Birth of son James DONOVAN Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
19 Jul 1844 48 Death of husband John DONOVAN (aged 52) Ballinlough, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
abt 27 Sep 1844 48 Birth of son John DONOVAN Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
22 Aug 1880 84 Catherine QUINLAN died Castlefarm, Co Limerick, Ireland 18
Death of daughter Ellen DONOVAN Ireland 18
Death of son James DONOVAN Ireland 18
Source References:
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- Reference = Gay Woodhams 22 Dec 2018 (Death)
- Reference = Gay Woodhams 22 Dec 2018 (Birth)
- Reference = Gay Woodhams 22 Dec 2018 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = Gay Woodhams 22 Dec 2018 (Marriage)
- Notes: Bridget's parents were John Donovan and Catherine Quinlan. John was born in 1792 calculating from his gravestone. He died on 19 July 1844 and is buried in Ballinlough cemetery on the road between Kilteely and Hospital in eastern county Limerick. (To see his grave go to http://historicgraves.com/ballinlough/li-blgh-010/grave.) We do not know where he was born but assume it was somewhere in the area as there are records of lots of Donovan families. Catherine was born in 1796 calculating from her death certificate. She died on 22 August 1880 at Castlefarm where she lived. We do not have any record of where she is buried. Like John we do not know where she was born but there are Quinlan families in local records of the time. They were married in April 1829 in Kilteely (the parish register is too damaged to show the day), and as people usually married in the bride's parish we can suppose Catherine was from there but there are no records to show this.

They settled at no. 3 Castlefarm, a townland just north of the small town of Hospital. This is considered the best dairying area in Ireland and the Griffiths Valuation records shows them as dairy farmers. The farm stayed in the family until the 1950s when it was sold to buy a bigger farm in the area. The name of Hospital is a strange one, but derives from the Knights Hospitallers who had an abbey there in the medieval period. The ruins are still there next to the modern church and graveyard. Hospital is a typical one street country village in rural Ireland.

The Donovans had 6 children, all born at Castlefarm and baptised in Hospital, as follows -

Ellen (bapt. 7 December 1831), Bridget (bapt. 19 December 1833), Catherine (bapt. 16 April 1837), Michael (bapt. 9 November 1839), James (bapt. 17 July 1842) and John (bapt. 27 September 1844). There is another child, Thomas, mentioned on the gravestone in Ballinlough cemetery, but no evidence that he was John and Catherine's child except for that. We do not know when the stone was erected and wonder if it was long after John's death; there was a grandson Thomas who died young (1873) and we wonder if there is a mistake.

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