Cooney / Farrelly

Bridget Boyle

Dates not recorded

She witnessed the marriage of **Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle** at Miltown chapel, Killeshandra, on 8 May 1879. Sharing the bride's surname, she is very likely Margaret's sister and another daughter of Patrick Boyle of Gartbratten — which the register does not say and which nothing yet proves.

Doreen Bridget Rodgers

about 1908 – 1991

Doreen Bridget Rodgers was born about 1908 at Ipswich, Queensland, a child of Michael Francis Rodgers and Bridget Elizabeth Hickey, and a grandchild of John Hickey of Limerick Junction. She married a Boyle. Doreen died in 1991, aged about 83.

Margaret Boyle

about 1858 – 9 April 1928

Margaret Boyle appears in our family tree as the wife of Patrick Farrelly and the mother of a large Farrelly family.

Patrick Boyle

Ann Cooney

Anne Cooney

Born 11 August 1888; death not recorded

Anne Cooney was born at Derrycriff on 11 August 1888; the archive’s former identification of her as Andrew Farley’s wife was overconfident.

Bridget Cooney

Born 16 February 1886; death not recorded

Bridget Cooney is presented by our family tree as a daughter of Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham and later as Bridget Horan.

Ellen Cooney

Born 1 August 1894; death not recorded

Ellen Cooney is presented by our family tree as a daughter of Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham and later as Ellen Corcoran.

Helen Cooney

Born 22 May 1895; death not recorded

a claim recorded heres Helen Cooney was born on 22 May 1895, but the record may conflate her with Ellen Cooney, born at Derrycriff in 1894.

Mary Cooney

about 1886 – 29 August 1949

Two civil records identify Andrew Farley’s wife as Mary and one names her as Mary Cooney; an Army card instead calls her Annie.

Mary Cooney

Born 11 December 1884; death not recorded

Mary Cooney was born at Derrycriff, County Mayo, on 11 December 1884 to Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham.

Peter Cooney

possibly 16 October 1890 – 14 October 1918

Peter Cooney was born at Derrycriff, County Mayo, in October 1890, emigrated to New York, and was killed in action as a Sergeant of the Fighting 69th on 14 October 1918, days short of his twenty-eighth birthday.

Peter Cooney

About March 1854 – 29 December 1943

Peter Cooney, recorded as Peter Coony, married Margaret Needham in 1884 and was a farmer at Derrycriff, County Mayo, through at least 1894.

Thomas Cooney

Born 15 February 1887; death not recorded

Thomas Cooney was born at Derrycriff, County Mayo, on 15 February 1887 to Peter Cooney and Margaret Needham.

John Coony

Dates not recorded

John Cooney was a labourer of County Mayo. He is named as the father of Peter Cooney in Peter's civil marriage register of 26 February 1884 at Islandeady, where his occupation is given as labourer. Nothing else about him is documented.

Anna Frances Farley

December 1924 – 12 June 2011

Anna Frances Farley is said in our family tree to have lived from December 1924 to 12 June 2011, but no record found so far confirms those dates.

Eileen Teresa Farley

12 September 1927 – 15 January 1984

Eileen Teresa Farley was reportedly born in 1927; indexes record an Eileen Farley marriage and Eileen Cunning death but do not prove they were the same woman.

Helen Bridget Farley

19 June 1921 – 21 June 1921

Helen Bridget Farley was born in Manhattan on 19 June 1921 and died two days later.

Margaret Mary Farley

13 February 1920 – 31 May 2005

Margaret Mary Farley was recorded as Andrew and Mary Farley’s six-month-old New York-born daughter in the 1920 census and died in New Jersey on 31 May 2005.

Patrick Farley

Dates not recorded

Patrick Farley appears in our family tree as a son of Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle.

Andrew Farrelly senior

Andrew Joseph Farrelly

10 July 1880 – 5 September 1969

Andrew Joseph Farrelly, born in County Cavan on 10 July 1880, headed his own Manhattan household in 1920 and was self-employed in Jersey City by 1942.

Bernard Bennie Farrelly

1 September 1881 – 8 October 1915

Bernard Farrelly died at Clara in County Cavan on 8 October 1915, aged thirty-two, of a spinal injury from a fall from a cart.

Ellen Farrelly

Born 29 January 1884; death not recorded

Ellen Farrelly appears in our family tree as a daughter of Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle and the mother of an O’Brien family.

Josephine Farrelly

Dates not recorded

Josephine Farrelly appears in our family tree as a daughter of Patrick Farrelly.

Kathleen Farrelly

Kitty Farrelly

Mary Farrelly

Dates not recorded

Mary Farrelly appears in our family tree as a daughter of Patrick Farrelly.

Patrick Farrelly

about 1857 – 10 June 1927

Patrick Farrelly is presented in our family tree as Margaret Boyle’s husband and the father of a large Farrelly family.

Terence Farrelly

Dates not recorded

Terence Farrelly appears in our family tree as a son of Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle.

Margaret Needham

about 1851 – 17 March 1922

Margaret Needham married Peter Cooney at Islandeady in 1884 and was recorded as the mother of six children born at Derrycriff through 1894.

Thomas Needham

Birth not recorded; died before 26 February 1884

Thomas Needham was a **landholder** — not a labourer — of the Islandeady country in County Mayo, and was **dead by 26 February 1884**, when his daughter **Margaret** married Peter Cooney at Islandeady chapel and the register recorded him as deceased. That entry is the only record of him this archive holds, and until 9 August 2026 nobody had read it.