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Mar 272025
In 1666/7 James Heade was in Farranrory. By the 1820s there was a Patrick Heade at Boula, this borders Farranrory as can be seen from the map above.
At the time of the 1850 valuations, the two families living at Boula were John and Lawrence Hayde. I believe they were the sons of Patrick and Catherine Hogan. The Catholic parish records for the area (Gortnahoe parish) started in 1805 and there were many baptisms recorded in 1805 and 1806 without parents names noted. It seems that there was a mass move to baptise everyone including adults as the parish started. Patrick was one of these in 1806.
In 1850 there was also a Bridget Hayde in Knockalonga, who is probably related but I have not been able to trace her in the parish records.
This page is devoted to the families that are linked to Boula.
No DNA tests have been done on descendants from this area.
In Griffiths in 1850 John Hayde was occupying 39 acres owned by Edward Cooke Esq. The valuation records showed:
- Patrick Hayde occupying 23 acres in the 1840s, that he was leasing for 31 years from 1837
- Lawrence Hayde on a small plot in the 1840s
- John Hayde occupying 46 acres into the 1870s. His descendants continued on this site into the 1900s as well as further plots of 34 and 32 acres. The Griffiths map below shows the location of plot 28 (the 46 acres) circled in blue.
Patrick Heade b abt 1780 and Catherine Hogan
Their children were:
- Elena Heade b 1806
- Michael Heade b 1808
- John Hayde b 1810 Coalbrook, who was farming 46 acres in 1850 in Boulea and by 1890 was farming 100 acres. He married Mary Croake and their children were:
- Patrick Hayde b 1853. Mar Hannah Finane
- John Hayde b 1892
- Denis Hayde b 1895
- Mary Hayde b 1898
- James Hayde b 1853
- William Hayd b 1854
- Johanna Hayd b 1856
- John Hayd b 1858
- Mary Hayde b 1859
- Michael Head b 1861
- Hannah Hayde b 1862
- Patrick Hayde b 1853. Mar Hannah Finane
- Nicholas Heade b 1812 Coalbrook
- Patrick Heade b 1815
- Laurence Hayde, who was also in Boulea in the 1850s. He married Mary Butler and they had 8 girls. (note Laurence was not in the parish records and I have assumed this connection).
- Thomas Hayde b 1817 Glengoole, who married Mary Hennessy and had moved to Clonmel by the 1850s. They had:
- John Hayde b 1848 Ballingarry
- James Hayde b 1849 Ballingarry
- Thomas Hayde b 1852 St Mary’s, Clonmel parish
- Catherine Hayde b 1854 St Mary’s Clonmel
- James Hayde b 1856 Powerstown parish
- Mary Hayde b 1859 Grallagh, Moycarky parish
I have found no living male descendants of Patrick. The family in Boula seems to have died out in the late 1900s.
In Boula there was also the following:
1) Lawrence b 1812 who moved to Cardiff and settled there
Lawrence (b 1812) and Ellen Doran arrived in Cardiff around 1836. Descendants are in Cardiff. Their Irish origins are unknown but the most logical assumption is that they came from this area as Doran families were neighbours of the Hayde families in Boula. The descendants of Lawrence and Ellen are described further in the Welsh Family Posts.
2) William b circa 1795, who was a teacher at Lisnamrock in 1824
William married Catherine Walsh and they had the following children bap in Ballingarry parish (which started in 1814):
- Richard Heade b circa 1815
- Thomas Hayes b 1816. D before 1854 as not mentioned as a sibling of Henry’s in 1854
- Henry Heade b 1818. A pedlar in New York in 1854. Mar Catherine Duffy
- William Hade b 1858, Chicago
- Michael Hayde b circa 1860. Living South Amboy, Middlesex, NJ in the 1860s
- Catherine Hade b 1866 Chicago
- William Hade b 1823. D before 1854 as not mentioned as a sibling of Henry’s in 1854
- Ellen Hade b 1823
- Cath Heade b 1828
Henry and Ellen were in New York in the 1850s.
Richard, was transported to Australia in 1843 for 14 years. He was convicted of appearing armed and assaulting habitation. He lived with his widowed mother Catherine at Lisnamrock at the time. Richard arrived in Tasmania in 1843 and was pardoned and went to Melbourne in 1854. An advert in the Boston Pilot by Henry indicated that Richard was sailing to America in 1872.
Henry Hayde had a bank account at the New York Emigrant Savings Bank by 1854. It recorded his birth in 1828 as being the son of William and Cath Walsh from Ballingarry. The parish records however show his birth in 1818 and that they were from the village of Boula in Ballingarry. The bank records stated that he arrived on the Leviathan on 7 March 1853, although these arrival records are not on ancestry.com.
An 1860 entry in the bank records shows his address as being NJ and his wife as being Catherine Duffy with Michael, a child. He enlisted in the army at Albany in 1849 aged 25 (b 1824) and discharged 1854. He again enlisted in 1861 (aged 29 – b 1832) and was discharged July 1864 only to enlist again in Sept 1864. He died 1880 and Catherine was awarded a pension in Ohio in 1890.
Catherine (b 1847) was in the 1900 census with William (b 1871), Mary (b 1875), Ellen (b 1877), Anne (b 1880) and Helen (b 1882). She was described as having arrived in 1866 and as having had 7 children with 4 living.
Margaret was in the Toledo city directories for 1877 and Catherine was in this directory in 1887. William Hayde was also in the 1887 directory at the same address as Catherine.
The 1900 Toledo directory recorded Catherine, Annie C (a seamstress), Mary E (also a seamstress), Nellie and William P as all living at the same address.
A James H Hade was in the Toledo directory in 1910 and could be a child of William.
I have found no descendants of any of these people.
3) Patrick and Mary Deen
Patrick and Mary had a child bap in the Ballingarry parish:
- Judith Heade b 1817 from Boula
Patrick was probably (but not positively) the Pat Head in the Boula Tithe records farming 25 acres in 1834 as they were described as being from Boula in 1817. (rather than the Patrick who married Catherine Hogan). Given that there were no other children baptised to Pat and Mary, they may have been born in something like the 1770s and Judith was their last child.
4) John and Ellen Connelly
Like Pat and Mary above, John and Ellen had a child bap in the Ballingarry parish shortly after it opened:
- John Heade b 1817 from Boula
I think John (as Hayde) arrived in New South Wales on 18 Oct 1840 on Isabella. Mary Hayde b 1820 was also on board. I’m not sure what connection she had with John but must have been a close relative. I have not found any trace of them in Australia after they arrived.
I have constructed a tree around these families in Boula (Tree # 2) and this can be seen at the following ancestry web site https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/52746022/family
Nov 262017
Lawrence b 1812 and Ellen Doran
As was mentioned in the Ballingarry posts page, Lawrence was probably born in Ireland in 1812 and moved to Cardiff with his wife, Ellen Dorman/Doran/Dearan/Davern, in circa 1835. They had 5 sons and 3 daughters. The civil records had 1 birth recorded as Hade and 2 as Hayd. The rest were recorded as Hayde.
According to a descendant, Lawrence was a groom on an estate in Ireland and Ellen was apparently the daughter of the house and that they eloped together. This probably explained why they ended up in Cardiff. Lord Bute was recruiting labourers at the time to help build the wharves in Cardiff. It appears that Lawrence continued to work with horses around the docks in Cardiff.
The marriage of Laurence and Ellen appears in St David’s Catholic church records for Cardiff on 3 Sept 1840 (but not in the civil records). This was several years after they had three children, the later two of which were baptised in the same church. Their first child was born in 1835 (date unknown) and some records suggest she was born Cardiff others Ireland. It is possible that they left Ireland as Ellen was expecting their child and this did not go down well with their families.
Lawrence is not a common name in the Hayde family. It was used in Tipperary and in Wicklow in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It can also be found in the Galway area as part of the Heade families there.
To find a connection to Ellen, I have:
- Searched the list of Irish landowners in 1876, owning 1 acre and more, looking at Doran, Dorman, Davern, etc to find out where they were located.
- Searched Griffiths (1850 ish) indexes looking at variants and followed up on ones that lived in the same villages (or close to) where a Hade/Hayde/Heade family lived at the same time.
- Then looked at Tithe (1830 ish) records for the village identified from the Griffiths.
The list of landowners in 1876 showing relevant landowners and their locations did not really provide any conclusive clues. The Griffiths showed only one entry in Townlands close to where Hade/Hayde/Heade families lived. This was for Boula, Ballingarry.
This showed James Doran owning 2 house and garden plots and Michael Doran owning a house. John Doran owned a house and a house and office. It also showed John occupying 34 acres owned by Ed Cooke and James occupying 8 acres also owned by Ed Cooke. At the time of the Tithe in 1834, James occupied 8 acres as did John. A few houses away are John Hayde and Lawrence Hayde. On the basis of the evidence outlined above, I have concluded that Lawrence and Ellen were from Ballingarry.
In the 1800s they lived in central Cardiff in what is now Barrack Lane plus Mary Anne Street and John Street. These streets are shown on a map from this time period below:
Two sons had families in Wales. Descendants are mainly in Wales.
A grandson, John Lawrence, served as a stoker in the Royal Naval Reserve Force on HMS Coleen from 1914-1919. Another grandson, Thomas, was killed during WW1.
The early descendants of Lawrence and Ellen are:
- Mary Ann Hayde b 1835, d 1882. The 1841 census shows her as born Cardiff but in 1851 and 1861 her birth was recorded as Ireland. There is no sign of her baptism in Ireland or Cardiff. Mar John Noyes
- John Hayde b 1837, Cardiff d 1891. Mar Catherine Howells
- Anne Hayde b 1864 d 1923. Mar James Sampson
- Laurence Hayde b 1868. d 1868
- Mary Catherine Hayde b 1870 d 1928. Mar Vito Florentiri then Lawrence Mellia
- John Lawrence Hayde b 1872 d 1956. Mar Ellen Griffiths then Agnes Byron
- John Hayde b 1902 d 1922
- William Lawrence Hayde b 1910. Mar Shirley Perry then Shirley Rowe
- Michael Hayde b 1839, Cardiff. Mar Margaret Christopher
- John Lawrence b 1876. D 1876
- Thomas Hayde b 1842, Cardiff. Mar Catherine Coughlin
- James Hayde b 1864. Mar Margaret Ruby then Ellen Heap
- James Hayde b 1888 d 1948. Mar Clara E Anderson
- Nancy Hayde b 1905
- Catherine Hayde b 1913. Mar Reginald Scott
- Ellen Hayde b 1867 d 1933. Mar John Mohoney
- Thomas Hayde b 1869 d 1916
- James Hayde b 1864. Mar Margaret Ruby then Ellen Heap
- Ann Hannah Hayde b 1844, Cardiff d 1905. Mar Mark Blundell
- James Hayde b 1847, Cardiff d 1888
- Richard Hayde b 1849, Cardiff d 1849
- Ellen Hayde b 1850, Cardiff d 1952
A more modern map with Barrack Lane pin pointed is below:
There is an interesting connection to Malta with this family. In the 1800s Malta was a British naval fortress and the great coaling station of the Mediterranean. After the Suez Canal opened in 1869, nearly every steamer between Europe and the East coaled at Valletta’s Grand Harbour, and Maltese men by the thousand learned the trades of the steam age. Cardiff was at the end of the coal run. Cardiff at the turn of the century was the greatest coal port on earth.
Two of the daughters of John Hayde (b 1837) married into Maltese families.
Further details are available from the ancestry web site at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/52746022/family
The UK census records containing more details on this family are:
England, Wales and Scotland Census Extracts 1841 – 1911 {add latest}
The Family Posts page for Ballingarry covers more detail around other descendants from Ballingarry.
Mar 272025
The first map above is the Catholic parish map while the second is the civil parish map for the same area. The Title and Griffiths records follow the civil parish structure while the Catholic church records are structured according to the catholic parish.
The Ikerrin land that Robert Heade was on in 1666/7 was owned by Pierce Butler, the 4th Viscount Ikerrin. His grandnephew, Somerset Hamilton Butler, the 8th Viscount, was created the Earl of Carrick in 1748. He owned large estates in the Tipperary civil parishes of Lismalin, Twomileborris. Killavinage and Templetuohy as well as estates in Kilkenny and Limerick.
In 1834, a widow Headon farmed 7 acres at Lismalin, a Pat and John Headon farmed 7 acres and Thomas Headon farmed 6 acres. This was all land owned by the Earl of Carrisk. Thomas Headon could possibly have been the Thomas Hayde below.
By the time of Griffiths in 1850, there was a Thomas Hayde on a small plot at Islands, in the civil parish of Lismalin. This was reflected in the valuation records for the 1840s. He married Bridget Cuddihy in 1832 and had four girls in the 1830s and 1840s. It is possible that Thomas was descendant from Robert. The surname of his wife, Cuddihy, gives a clue to another connection. The name Cuddihy was prominent in Bolintlea in the 1830s.
In 1850, Thomas Hayde was on the small plot highlighted in blue in the map above. It was just a house with no land. The valuation records for the 1840s showed that he was a workman for Richard Cormack who owned the land his house was on.
It appears that Richard Cormack leased the land from the Earl of Carrick.
There does not appear to be a male descendant from this area.