Welcome! If this is your first visit to our blog, please read our Intro post here. To date we have written posts about all known members of the first, second, and third generations of descendants of William Loney of Co Longford, Ireland, their spouses, and their spouses’ families.
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We hope that the information you find here will be helpful to you in your genealogical research, lead you to an “aha” moment, or help you find a missing ancestor or branch of your family tree. And, we have loved hearing from everyone who has contacted us.
While we make every effort to ensure that what we post is accurate (based on source documents or “reliable” family information), we would be silly to think that we haven’t made any mistakes. If you run across one, please, please, please let us know so we can correct it.
If you are planning a trip to Ireland, visit our section on What to do in Ireland. It provides a brief overview of where you might go and what you might do if you are interested in genealogical research on the Loney Family.
You could not have found three more excited Loney family history researchers than when we found the name of the father of our five Loney siblings (William, Charles, John, Robert, and Ann Loney Cunningham) who immigrated to Ontario, Canada from Ireland in the mid-1840s and are also the reason for this blog.
His name was William and he is what connects us o the Emerald Isle. If you’d like to know more about how we found him, read this post from 2012.
Unfortunately, we have never been able to determine the name of William’s wife. However, we have come to speculate that it may have been Margaret. You can read how we reached that conclusion here.
As we are adamant about having source documents to support what we post, we were apprehension about sharing our Margaret theory. In the end, we decided that doing so (with lots of disclaimers) might end up being the clue needed to take our Loney family research in Ireland to the next level.
Not surprisingly, there is now an abundance of online family trees (shared from one person to the next) now showing (as fact) William married to Margaret. Hopefully that really was her name as, if it was actually Tilly or Shannon or Rose, we owe her an apology.
So, why this post? Well, recently we found an online family tree purporting that William’s wife was Margeret Heron. The source document is a Loughgall, Co Armagh, Ireland marriage record. However, the date is 10 Nove, 1853 – years after our Loney ancestors were born and almost a decade after they left for Canada. So, this is not our William and not our Margaret.
We post this not as a criticism (good heavens we’re certainly mixed up and confused records over the years), but in the hopes that someone researching this couple will read it and know not to follow our particular branch of the family tree.
We did find this entry from 1999 on Gennealogy.com. Perhaps it will be helpful to those who are descendants of Willian Loney and Margaret Heron.
Finally, we have found a Templemichael, Co Longford church burial record for a Margaret Loney, who died 9 Jan, 1847. She is listed as living at Carrickglass near Creeve (where other family relatives have been found). Perhaps she could have been William’s wife and our five siblings’ mother. If you have any information, we would love to hear from you!
Loney Family from County Longford, Ireland 