County Longford, in the province of Leinster, is bordered by
the counties of Westmeath (also in Leinster), Roscommon and Leitrim (both in
the province of Connaught) and Cavan (in the province of Ulster). The county is covered by three registration
districts: Granard in the north-east (which extends also into Cavan and
Westmeath), Ballymahon in the south (which extends into Westmeath) and Longford
in the west. Unlike for Co. Cavan across the border, the Co. Longford CONDR*NS
appear all to be Catholics. From the beginning of universal civil registration
until 1910, the only births, marriages and deaths in the county are to be found
in the Granard registration district, and the baptisms of the period are found
in the parishes of Abbeylara and Edgeworthstown.
The 1901 and 1911 censuses show CONDRONs in just two
households (apart from a Gerald CONDRON who shows up also in his grandparents’
household in 1901, and a servant called Mary CONDRON, born in Co. Westmeath,
who appears in the 1911 census). One family is that of James CONDRON , born
about 1872, who married Mary Ann KELLY in 1895. Their children, who were mostly
baptized in Edgeworthstown, include Gerald (born 1896), James (1899), Bridget
(1900) who married in 1924, Peter Joseph (1904), Mary Catherine (1906) who
married in 1926, Elizabeth (1909) who died in 1911, Agnes (1912), Christopher
(1913) and William (1918). The other family is that Anne CONDRON (nee ARKINS),
widow of Patrick CONDRON (born about 1852). Patrick married Anne in Delvin, Co.
Westmeath, in 1886, and died at the age of 40 in 1892. The couple had a son,
William Joseph CONDRON (born 1890) and baptized in Abbeylara. I believe that
William married Rose Anne CASSIDY in 1920 and proceeded to have a number of
children who were all baptized in Abbeylara: William Joseph (1923), Emily (1926), Brendan Thomas (1929) who
married Gertrude “Cherry” JOY, Ernest Philip (1933), Aidan Augustine (1935) who
married Mary O’LEARY, and Anna (1939).
As usual, I’d be very happy to receive any corrections to
the above information, or to hear from any descendents of these families: Condran [AT] one-name.org .
2 comments:
My father was Brendan Thomas Condron son of William Condron and Mary Ann Cassidy. I was just writing to let you know that there are three mistakes in your info. The eldest son born was Kevin Condron then William known as Bill or Liam then Emily Ernie Aidan (Augustine does not appear on his birth certificate) and the youngest was Olivia known as Ollie. There are two surviving members Aidan and Ernie. My father was buried in the family plot in abbeylara with his father mother and older brother Kevin.
So pleased to have found this info as my uncle Aidan was asking what relationship the family had with the Arkins!
Very interesting, thsnks
I have been told by my uncle that his mothers name was Rose Ann Cassidy not Mary Ann so that needs to be updated.
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