(O)Ryan;
Variant Spellings; O’Mulrian, O'Mulryan, Rouane, Royan, Ruan, Ruane.
There were two distinct septs of the Ryans; one is in Co. Carlow and the other in Co. Tipperary. Ryan is one of the ten most common names in the country and of the two septs that of Tipperary is the most numerous.
While in English the surname Ryan is common to both septs, the Carlow sept in Irish is O Riain, i.e. descended from Rian, while the Tipperary sept is translated as O Maoilriain meaning descended from the follower of Rian.
Nowadays Ryan without the O prefix is the common form of this surname: O’Mulryan is obsolete.
Edmund O’Ryan (1680-1724 ap.), know as Eammon a ‘chnuic (Ned of the Hill) was a Gaelic poet: Luke Ryan (1750-1789 ap.) was an officer in the Irish Brigade in France; two Abbes called O’Ryan were executed during the French Revolution.
In the United States Father Abraham Joseph Ryan (1838-1886) was a Confederate poet in the Civil War; Patrick John Ryan was Archbishop of Philadelphia, while Stephen Vincent Ryan (1826-1896) was Bishop of Buffalo. Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851-1928) went from rags to riches becoming a millionaire.
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(O)Ryan
Where the Family Lived (Blue Area)
Addresses for More Information
Ireland
Centre for Irish Genealogical and Local Studies, Carraig, Cliff Road, Windgates, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. (Sean Murphy, MA, Director)
General Register Office, 8-11 Lombard Street East, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone (01) 671 1000
Website http://www.doh.ie/manual/chap4/gere.htm
National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Telephone (01) 478 3711
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone (01) 603 0200
Website www.heanet.ie/natlib
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 66 Balmoral Street, Belfast BT9 6NYY, Northern Ireland
Telephone (01232) 251319.
Website http://proni.nics.gov.uk/index.htm
University College Dublin, Adult Education Office, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Website http://www.ucd.ie/delltti
Britain
Family Records Centre, London, England.
Website http://pro.gov.uk/about/frc/default.htm
Public Records Office, Kew, Surrey, England.
Website http://www.pro.gov.uk
General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Website http://www.open.gov.uk/index.html
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales.
Website http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.htm
North America
Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, Family History Information, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Website http://lds.org/en/ 2 how do I begin/0- how do I begin.html
Family Tree Maker’s Genealogy Site
Website http://www.familytreemaker.com/index.html
The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA), P.O. Box 619 Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.
Website http://tiari.ie
Irish Genealogical Society International, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Website http://www.rootsweb.com irish/index.html
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston Massachusetts, USA.
Website http://nehgs.org/main-01.htm
Australasia
Genealogical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Website http://www.alphalink.com/au/esv
National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
Website http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Home_Page.html
National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Website http://www.archives.dia.gov.nz
List of Links
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet: Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Website http://www.cyndilist.com/ireland.htm
UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service.
Website http://www.genuki.org.uk
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