Ryan - Toomevara
Donna,
My gr gr grandparents were Timothy Ryan and Honor Ryan (maiden name unknown) on my mother's maternal line.
On her father's paternal line gr gr grandparents were William Ryan and Margaret Bourke.
My family are said to be from Nenagh, in Tipperary. My maternal gr grandfather Timothy Ryan (born about 1861) is supposed to have left Ireland with his brother Patrick as a young man for America, but my aunt says all the family could have gone earlier. He met his wife, they came back to England living in Lancashire before eventually settling in Bradford, Yorkshire. He had quite a few Ryan relatives around the area also
My mother's paternal Ryans appear to have been in Bradford or Leeds since about 1840.
Most of them marrying at St Mary's East Parade and living around the little Germany area.
I notice on your Patrick Ryan and Maria Murray marriage certificate you have a Richard Lawler witness.
On my gr grandparent's Robert Ryan and Mary O'Brien's 1891 marriage certificate at St Anne's Church the witnesses are Thomas Lawler and Catherine Lawler. I was wondering what other names of relatives and witness or sponsors you might have in your family.