Leitrim-Roscommon

I'm trying to find more information on my great-great grandfather, Coote C. Mulloy, who was born in Ireland about 1828, emigrated to the U.S. (possibly in 1849), and died in Iowa in March 1871. He married Mary P. White (b. 23 Dec. 1838, daughter of Francis White) and had five children: Francis Coote, Mary Caroline, Fannie, Coote C., and Caroline Mary.

Coote probably had two brothers, Robert C. (b. about 1829) and the Rev. Charles Mulloy (b. about 1822), as all three can be found living near each other in the small Iowa town of Newton, Iowa, in 1860. Robert and Charles were living in the same house.

I know for certain that Charles died 30 September 1866 in Iowa, and that his father was Rev. C. Mulloy, rector of Collooney, County Sligo (his father was Tobias Mulloy). The elder Rev. Mulloy had three sons: Charles, Coote, and Robert -- matching the names of the three brothers who ended up in Iowa.

I'm trying to make a definite connection between Charles Mulloy (b. 1822) and his brother, my gg-grandfather, Coote C. Mulloy, since the genealogy of Charles is easier to trace. And I'm trying to find out where he was born, where his wife Mary was born, and if any of his children were born in Ireland. I thought I'd discovered that Coote emigrated in 1849, meaning that none of his children were born in Ireland, but census records for 1860-1910 show that some of his children were born there. It's almost as though they went back to Ireland for a time.

Thanks for reading this long post! I'd appreciate any help/ideas anyone has to offer.

Thanks for your reply, Ed. Gaffney. The Coote Charles Mulloy born in 1866 at the LDS site is indeed the son of Coote C. Mulloy, my great-great grandfather.

The puzzling thing is that some of the census records show he (the son) was born in Ireland while others show he was born in Iowa. Same with the rest of Mulloy family. (Including my great grandmother, who was born in Ireland in some records, in South Dakota in others.) I can't imagine them going back and forth between Iowa and Ireland every couple of children! Not only that, but the LDS record shows the younger Coote C. was born in Wexford, but all of the family I've located is from Roscommon and Sligo.

I've run into the name Coote Mulloy Chambers in my research too, but as he moved to B.C., I've never thought about him being related to my Mulloys. Interesting idea. The Coote Mulloy who married is probably my GGGG uncle, but I didn't have a marriage date for him.

Thanks again!
Karin

Burke's Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland has an extensive history of the Mulloy family of Hugestown, County Roscommon. It's on-line at Ancentry.com but I think it's only available on a subscription basis.

It confirms that Charles, son of Tobias, was rector of Collooney, Co. Sligo where he died in April 1832. He married Margaret King May 15, 1820. She was the sister of Sir Robert King of Charlestown, Co. Roscommon. Their children were Charles, Coote, Robert, Mararet, Mary, Arabella and Caroline.

Tobias, who was a lawyer, died Feb 10, 1825 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Coote, who married in 1799 (confirming info supplied by Ed Gaffney) Mary Lloyd of Rockville, Co. Roscommon. Coote died October 1841. Huhgestown, Rockville and Charlestown were all located in the north-west of County Roscommon between the towns of Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon.

The family lost their Roscommon estates in the late 1850s when they moved to London. In 1912 their address was given as 29 Hampstead Hill Gardens, London.

Mike Lennon

Apologies for error in previous post - the location of Hughestown, Charlestown and Rockville is in the nort-east of County Roscommon - not the north-west.

Regrets

Mike Lennon

Thanks very much, Mike. I had some of that information from Burke's Commoners, but not all of it. You wrote that the family lost its estates in Roscommon when they moved to London and you also had an address for them in London. Was this information also from Burke's Commoners? I've only been able to trace the three brothers -- Charles, Coote, and Robert -- who emigrated to America. I've found nothing on the sisters or their mother.

I also discovered that Coote Mulloy did indeed go back to Ireland after emigrating to America. I mention this in case anyone else in their family research notices a pattern similar to the one I did in the U.S. census records and finds it hard to believe.

The census records showed that the oldest Mulloy children were born in the U.S., but two of the younger ones were born in Ireland -- meaning that the parents, or the entire family, must have returned to Ireland after emigrating. Well, after two years of searching I found piece of information in a book on the history of Carroll County, Iowa, that notes that the family did indeed return to Ireland for four years. It doesn't note why they did, though, and it must have been a very costly move.

Karin

Karin - the source for the additional information is page 500 of Burke's "Landed Gentry Ireland" 1912 edition, which gives the lineage of the Mulloys of Hughestown. As the name implies, the Mulloys were a "landed gentry" family from the 1600s to the late 1800s. While income from the estate would have dropped after the Great Famine of 1847-50, the family would still have a good deal of wealth. The return of your ancestor from the U.S. to Ireland may have been in connection with the estate's financial difficulties. The cost of the journey would not have posed a major problem.

There is a long "memoir of the family of Mulloy or O'Mulloy" in a book by John D'Alton published in 1845. It has a very long title but is commonly known as the Annals of Boyle. However, it only brings the story up to the 1830s. It includes the following - "Charles, the second son of Tobias, was successively Rector of Clontarf (near Dublin) and Colooney, at which place he died in 1832; he married 1st Miss Usher; and 2nd Miss King, the sister of Sir Robert King of Charlestown, by whom he has left three sons and four daughters."

Best of luck in your ongoing research

Mike

Landed gentry, eh? Shame they couldn't have passed some of that wealth on to future generations. Thanks for your help, Mike.

Karin