Descendants
of Michael Hanrahan
Generation No. 1
1.
MICHAEL2
HANRAHAN (MICHAEL1)
was born April 5, 1874 in Kilbaha, Co. Kerry, and died November 27, 1926 in
Ballineen, Co. Cork. He married BRIGID
O'SULLIVAN
April 25, 1908. She was born in
Cloonamara, Enniskeane, Co. Cork., and died December 6, 1956 in Ballineen, Co.
Cork.
Notes for MICHAEL HANRAHAN:
Michael joined the Royal Irish Constabulary on the 16th
of April 1894 just short of his twentieth birthday. He was first stationed in
Galway on the 14th of November 1894 and was transferred to Cork in 1900. He was
pensioned off on the 19th of October 1920. With his wife, Brigid, he opened a
general store in Ballineen. After his death his twin children, Michael and
Madge, took over the running of the store.
This building was previously the
Hanrahan's general store. (Photo taken in February 2003)
Ballineen, Co. Cork. (Photo taken in February 2003)
More About MICHAEL HANRAHAN:
Baptism: April 9, 1874, James Hanrahan and Honora
Cunningham
Burial: Buried in Castletownkennigh, Enniskeane, Co.
Cork.
Michael's birth registration.
More About BRIGID O'SULLIVAN:
Burial: Buried in Castletownkenigh, Enniskeane, Co.
Cork.
Children of MICHAEL HANRAHAN and BRIGID O'SULLIVAN are:
i. MICHAEL3
HANRAHAN,
b. Abt. 1911; d. October 7, 1981, Ballineen, Co. Cork.
ii. MADGE HANRAHAN, b. Abt. 1911; d. February 3, 1980, Ballineen,
Co. Cork.
iii.JOHN
HANRAHAN,
b. 1914, Ballineen, Co. Cork; d. January 11, 1976, Vancouver, Canada.
The gravestone of Brigid and Michael Hanrahan and their twin children, Michael and
Madge. (Fr.
John was interred in Vancouver, Canada). Castletown cemetery, Enniskeane, Co.
Cork.
Castletown cemetery, Hanrahan gravestone: centre
foreground.
Neither
Michael nor Madge married or had any children while John joined the priesthood.
This resulted in the end of this Hanrahan line.
Notes for JOHN HANRAHAN:
Fr. John was educated at Eniskeane and St. Finbarr's,
Cork. He did philosophy and theology at St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny and also
studied Canon Law at the Irish College in Rome.
He was ordained on April 16, 1938 by Archbishop Traglio. After serving in
Kamloops and Princeton he came to the Holy Rosary Cathedral in 1942 as an
assistant. In 1949 he was appointed pastor of St. Anthony's Marpole where he
stayed for 20 years, after that he served as officialis of the marriages
tribunal.
