Before Irish names were translated into English, Mullony had a Gaelic form of O Maoldhomhnaigh, which means descendant of a servant of the Church.
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MacLysaght, Edward, Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins 4th Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1982. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2364-7)Early Origins of the Mullony family
The surname Mullony was first found in
County Clare (Irish: An Clár) located on the west coast of
Ireland in the province of
Munster, where O'Moloney, "were chiefs of Cuiltenan, now the parish of Kiltonanlea, in the barony of Tulla."
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O'Hart, John, Irish Pedigrees 5th Edition in 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0737-4)
Early History of the Mullony family
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Mullony Spelling Variations
One explanation for the many variations is that scribes and church officials frequently spelled the name as it sounded: an imprecise method at best. Understandably then, various spellings of the surname Mullony were found in the many archives researched. These included Molony, Maloney, O'Maloney, O'Molony, MacLoughney and many more.
Early Notables of the Mullony family (pre 1700)
Prominent amongst the family at this time was Father Donough O'Molony who was tortured to death in 1601. John Mullowney
(c. 1690-1726) was born in Derrew, near Ballyheane,
County Mayo who began his career as a horse thief and was sentenced to death in Castlebar in his youth. The Grand Jury...
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Migration of the Mullony family to the New World and Oceana
Suffering from poverty and racial discrimination, thousands of
Irish families left the island in the 19th century for North America aboard cramped passenger ships. The early migrants became settlers of small tracts of land, and those that came later were often employed in the new cities or transitional work camps. The largest influx of Irish settlers occurred with
Great Potato Famine during the late 1840s. Although the immigrants from this period were often maligned when they arrived in the United States, they provided the cheap labor that was necessary for the development of that country as an industrial power. Early immigration and passenger lists have revealed many immigrants bearing the name Mullony:
Mullony Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- James Mullony, who landed in New York, NY in 1811 [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8) - Owen Mullony, aged 40, who landed in New York in 1812 [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Mullony Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century
- Anastasia Mullony, who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1829
- Mary Mullony, who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1834