WILLIAM OSBORNE born about 1828

Joanne O Meadhra

Sunday 27 May 2007 1:04:51 pm

Osbornes

hi Malcom, I am not sure if the connection is the right one but I am also trying to trace the Osbornes of Wicklow. My grandmother was a born a McCarroll but her mother was born an Osborne. I know that there was subsequent connections with Ballyknockan in Wicklow and granite production and quarrying. Could it be a coincidence that your ancestors were also masons? My grandmother was called Sheila Conroy nee McCarroll but her mother was I think Brigid Osborne before becoming a McCarroll.

David McCarroll

Monday 08 October 2007 3:49:33 pm

McCarroll

Brigid McCarroll (also called Bride) was part of the Osborne family who owned a very large quary in Wicklow - i mean a big quary, sourced granite for many an important building. She became a McCarroll when she married Hugh McCarroll. He was a solicitor in Wicklow. There is still a firm there today that bears the McCarroll name.

Hugh was the son of a man named Joseph McCarroll from Tyrone. Joseph was on the Wicklow Council with Briget's father - William Osborne, of Balyknockan House Blessington. Joseph was a staunch supporter of the Home Rule and Land League and was apparantly a personal friend of Charles Stuart Parnell and Michael Davitt.

Hugh McCarroll fought in the first world war and fell ill after that. I believe Sheila is his daughter. I think. If so, we're related as her brother was Patrick McCarroll - my grandfather. Did she have a brother called Des and Joe and another sister called Peggy??

Helen Osborne

Wednesday 30 April 2008 6:27:55 pm

Robert Osborne

hi joanne

we are the osborne family of ballyknockan. My father who is recently deceased was thomas osborne son of Thomas(red lads)and kathleen farrington. His grandfather was Robert osborne and his great grandfather was also Robert Osborne. they were all stone masons of the ballyknockan quarries.Plenty more info if you need it.