Molly and Thady's Children: Mary Ann Manning, b 11th May 1898 died 1st May 1933

Mary Anne was the fourth child of Timothy and Mary Brann (Thady and Molly).  She was born in Kilrush on 11th May 1898.  The Kilrush Parish records show her parents as 'Thady' Manning and Mary Brann but the Parish Priest had written Mary 'Crotty' by accident then changed it to Brann later.  

 

 A Maria Crotty was married to a Patrick Manning living in Crofton Street in the 1901 Census.  Below is an amalgamation of three Kilrush household records from the Census of 1901 and in the second family we see Timothy 'Thady' as head of household and Mary Ann recorded as a 3 year old child while Ellen is only a 7 month old baby.

We also have some Census 1911 records for the same families and Mary Anne was at home that day.  We see the family is growing and my grandfather Jimo (James) is there and he is only 3.  There is a lady named Mary Brann there who is 69 years of age and is labelled 'Boarder' - this could be Molly Brann's mother or aunt.

We see that by this time, Thady and Molly had had 8 children,  6 of them living.  We have records for a Christopher born in 1894 who doesn't appear later and we also we have the baptism of a Thomas born in 1904.  Since these people don't turn up on the 1911 Census we are assuming they were deceased by that time.

Mary Anne's Confirmation in 1911 a few months after the Census was taken:

She went to the U.S. at some point but we don't know how old she was then or why she went.  Below is a photograph of herself and her brother Joseph smiling in the back but the other people don't look too happy!  It may have been the Roaring Twenties from the appearance of what Mary Anne was wearing.

We have no other images of this woman besides this one above and the photos of her below with her other sisters.  There is probably no one around today who has any memories of this lady but it looks like she might have been good fun and she certainly mingled with her family on this side of the Atlantic and the other.

Mary Anne died of tuberculosis on the 1st May 1933 at the age of 35 and is buried in Kilrush.