Bernard Bennie Farrelly

Life

How we know this: His birth, both censuses and his death are all documented. The word “probably” is the registrar's own: nobody medical examined him, so even the cause of death is a considered guess written down by the people who were there. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Work and occupation

• farmer's son — 1915

  Farmer's son

  Citation: Irish civil death register, Bernard Farrelly, 8 October 1915, Clara, Co. Cavan [6]

• farmer's son — 1901

  Farmer's Son

  Citation: 1901 census of Ireland — Farrelly household, Claragh, Bilberry DED, Co. Cavan [7]

• labourer — 1911

  Labourer

  Citation: 1911 census of Ireland — Ferrelly household, Claragh, Bilberry DED, Co. Cavan [8]

Where they lived

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The pins show approximate places. The line only joins them in time order; it does not prove the route travelled. 2 of the places listed above are recorded only as a county or country, so they are not pinned. Cemetery and burial places have red pins.

Historical context

These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.

What we still don't know

• Where the cart was, and whether he was working or travelling.
• Whether he is buried in Kildallan parish; no burial record has been found.
• [CONFLICT] The civil record contains “Bernard” and surname Farrelly but not the nickname “Bennie.” The separate Bernard Farley profile may be a duplicate; do not merge without proof.
• [OPEN — FAMILY REPORT] The family reports that Bernard died in an accident; that report is being researched and is not presented here as proved.
• [EXCLUDED] An 1881 civil death for “Bernard Farelly,” age five (born about 1876, before Patrick and Margaret’s 1879 marriage), is not this child born 1 September 1881.
• [UNRESOLVED POSSIBLE MATCH] A Templeport burial transcription records Bernard Farrelly of Kilsob on 11 October 1881, forty days after the proved birth. It gives no age or parents and its Kilsob address conflicts with Clare, so it is not attached or excluded.
• The register's age figure is written ambiguously and reads as either 32 or 34; the irishgenealogy.ie index transcribes it as 32. His documented birth on 1 September 1881 makes his true age 34. All readings are recorded; the identification does not depend on the age.
• A Templeport Catholic burial of a “Bernard Farrelly of Kilsob” on 11 October 1881 was once considered as this Bernard dying in infancy. It is now clearly a different person, since this Bernard lived until 1915. It should not be attached to this family.
• [SURNAME] The family used Farrelly in Ireland and Farley in America, and both spellings appear for the same people. This archive had ended up holding some of Patrick Farrelly and Margaret Boyle's children twice, once under each surname; those duplicates are now merged. The change was not made at Ellis Island — inspectors there worked from passenger manifests written at the port of departure and did not record names at all. What actually happened is the ordinary thing: an Irish name got shortened in American mouths and American paperwork over years, and the family went with it. Andrew's own records show the whole transition, Farrelly in the Cavan registers and Farley on everything after.
• Is this a spelling-variant duplicate of Bernard Bennie Farrelly? The civil image records one child, Bernard Farrelly, not two sons.
• [MERGED] This person existed twice in the archive's data under the same id — once as a thin "Farley" stub and once as the fuller "Farrelly" record — a leftover from the earlier Farley/Farrelly merge. The generator silently kept whichever came last, which for one of the three meant publishing the poorer record. The two are now folded together and both spellings kept as alternates.

References

1. [1] Civil birth registration — Bernard Farrelly, 1 September 1881Back to citation 1a Back to citation 1b Back to citation 1c
2. [2] Bawnboy and Templeport genealogy sweep — controlled Farrelly/Boyle negativeBack to citation 2
3. [3] Bawnboy workhouse death-register extraction audit — registers 1–13Back to citation 3
4. [4] Templeport Catholic burial transcription — Bernard Farrelly, 11 October 1881Back to citation 4
5. [5] Irish civil death-index candidate — Bernard Farelly, age five, 1881Back to citation 5
6. [6] Irish civil death register, Bernard Farrelly, 8 October 1915, Clara, Co. CavanBack to citation 6a Back to citation 6b Back to citation 6c
7. [7] 1901 census of Ireland — Farrelly household, Claragh, Bilberry DED, Co. CavanBack to citation 7a Back to citation 7b Back to citation 7c
8. [8] 1911 census of Ireland — Ferrelly household, Claragh, Bilberry DED, Co. CavanBack to citation 8a Back to citation 8b Back to citation 8c

See also

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