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Hugh born about 1745.

His son Thomas, born about 1770, married Ellen Flanagan.
          Thomas’ family ;
          Hugh (1797)^�
          Ellen (1799)
          Edward
          Christopher

^� Hugh first married Ann Sheridan.  Their daughter Catherine was baptized August 27^th, 1826.  Their son James^‚ was born Feburary 22^nd, 1831.  Ann died in childbirth.

Hugh married Bridget Kerrigan November 23^rd, 1831.  Their son Hugh was born August 6^th, 1832.  Their daughter Mary was born October 13^th, 1833.

There is a gap of 17 years in the parish records from 1833 to 1850.  My^Œ Father, James Bruton, said there were four other children.  In 1844 James‚ went to Claremorris to be apprentice to a carpenter.

 Note not included on the original hand written document:

Interestingly enough, Thady (Tee) Bruton, Son of James Bruton , also went to Claremorris to serve an apprenticeship, but as a Blacksmith.

 ^Œ     The subject “My” is Eddy Bruton, son of James Bruton and the author of the original document from which this text is copied.

Hugh owned a stallion – evidence that he was a wealthy farmer.  He rented his land from Featherstone-Haugh (Fanshaw).  His land extended from Little Knockeoin to Bishops’ Lakes.

Between 1845 and 1850 the potato blight swept Ireland with the consequent Great Famine.  Communications were non-existent.  In 1850 James returned from Clairmorris only to discover that his father had died some years previously.

He found out the details of the death.  Hugh went to the fair of Castlepollard on his stallion.  Since this was the time of the famine it’s possible he had little or no stock on his land.  The fair was the place where he regularly collected the stud fees for his stallion.  This and the money from the sale of his cattle would make up the rent which was to be paid to the landlords agent, Thady Lynch.

On his way home Hugh was robbed and murdered.  His stallion was killed.  The story was that the stallion would not allow anyone to approach the body, and so had to be put down, but the possibility is that he was killed as the proceeds of his sale would pay the rent.  As it was, there was no money to pay the rent.  The widow and her children were evicted, but somehow she managed to put together the fare to America, and so joined the other millions of Irish emigrants.

Thady Lynch, the landlords agent, now held the Bruton land.  James suspected that Thady had been implicated in the robbery and murder to get hold of the land.

On January 18, 1852 James married Margret Murtagh.  He gave his address as – Froghanstown as a claim, although his land was now in the possession of Thady Lynch.  James and Margaret lived in Ranahinch, where the thatched workshop was.  Margaret had a school there and James had his carpenters workshop.  They had no children.

Margaret died in the 1860s.  James married Anne Kelleghan on August 15^th, 1869.  There children were;

James and Anne were Irish speakers, but used Irish only when they wanted the children not to know what they were saying.  James died in 1889.  Anne sometime after 1910.

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