Person in this family
James Ryan
Dates not recorded
James Ryan was a **labourer** of **Coole**, County Cork, and is named as the father of **Mary Ryan** on her marriage register of 7 September 1865 — where she is entered as *'Resident with her Parents'*, so he and his wife were living there at that date. Sixty-eight people in this archive descend through his daughter. Nothing else about him is recorded.
Family story - not yet proved
James Ryan is named as Mary Ryan's father in her 1865 marriage record; little else about him is established.
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s great-great-great-grandparent
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's great-great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-great-great-great-grandparent
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s great-great-grandparent
Kevin Leahey’s spouse's great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
How this person is related to Andrew:
James Ryan is your 3× great-grandparent.
Life
James Ryan is named in the 1865 marriage record of Mary Ryan and Patrick Condon. Mary was recorded as a 22-year-old spinster, "resident with her Parents" at Coole, and the daughter of "James Ryan," a "Labourer."
Our family tree assigns Ellen Madden as James's wife, but this archive contains no original record confirming that relationship. His birth, residence beyond the association with Mary's home at Coole, and death are unknown.
How we know this: Limited: Mary's marriage record establishes a father named James Ryan and his occupation, but little more. [1]
Family
Spouse
Children
See this family in the family treeWork and occupation
- Labourer
Where they lived
- 1865: Coole, County Cork, Ireland
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Places listed on this page
- Castlelyons, County Cork, Ireland
- Maghna, County Cork, Ireland
- County Cork, Ireland
- Coole, County Cork, Ireland
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Original records
Tap to open a larger copyCivil marriage register, Patrick Condon and Mary Ryan, 7 Sep 1865, Castlelyons
Civil registration means an official government record of a birth, marriage, or death. It matters on this page because it records information connected with James Ryan.
What the records say
1 record transcribed.
Record exhibit
Irish civil marriage register — Patrick Condon and Mary Ryan, 7 September 1865
Civil registration means an official government record of a birth, marriage, or death.
Proved by a record
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
[RECORD] “Seventh September 1865” | “Roman Catholic Chapel of Castlelyons” | “Patrick Condon” | “25 years” | “Bachelor” | “Labourer” | “Maghna” | “John Condon deceased” | “Mary Ryan” | “22 years” | “Spinster” | “resident with her Parents” | “Coole” | “James Ryan” | “Labourer.” [INFERENCE] Patrick’s age implies birth about 1839–1840. [COMPILED][CONFLICT] The row names no mother of the groom, so it does not prove Mary Cashin as John’s wife or Patrick’s mother.
Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
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What we still don't know
- Birth and parents
- Whether Ellen Madden was his wife
- Marriage and other children
- Death and burial
- His wife, whom the marriage register does not name — the form records fathers only.
- **Coole, County Cork**, in September 1865, is the one place and date attached to him. Note that this archive has already been burnt by Coole: an earlier attempt geocoded it forty miles from where this family lived, and it is deliberately left unmapped.
- This record appears to combine two people of the same name from different generations (it listed itself as its own spouse). They have not been separated because no record yet distinguishes them.