Hi
Don
I'm afraid
that I will have to disappoint you with my Chamney connections. At present
we do not know exactly how my Chamney family connects to the Lanark Co Chamneys
though we were all in Co Wicklow. I can but construct a theory as to how
we may be connected to Edward Chamney and Jane Twamley. The problem lies
in the fact that too many of the essential church records are missing and, even
back in the early 1900s, some were indecipherable when William Chamney put
together the pedigree for the John Chamney, 1650-1733, and Jane Bacon line to
which none of Lanark Co, Huron Co nor Perth Co, Ontario Chamneys belong.
We are all most likely descendants of John's brother, Edward, of Tykillen, Co
Wexford.
My family,
traced back to William Chamney and his wife, Jane Annesley, who married at St
Kevin's C of I, Dunganstown Parish, Co Wicklow in 1826, was probably connected
to John Chamney of Ballymoat & Ballymanus Lower, Glenealy Parish, Co Wicklow
who most likely was William's father. William was living at Ballymoat at
the time of his marriage and John Chamney was there for the Tithes in
1827. All William and Jane's sons were baptised at Glenealy. Pretty
conclusive, I should think. I think that John may have been the son of
another John Chamney and his wife, Mary (may have been a Bradshaw). The
latter John had died by 1789 and his wife, Mary was living at Kilnamanagh,
Glenealy Parish probably with a son, William (1765-1840). John and
Mary's son, Christopher, married Anne Driver about 1805 in Co Carlow, just
across the border from Aghowle Parish, home of the Lanark Co Chamneys.
Can't be a coincidence and the Kilnamanagh Chamneys may have been from Aghowle
Parish at one time. My family and Christopher's attended the Church of
Ireland church in Glenealy Parish though Christopher's lived at Conniamstown,
Dunganstown Parish. The Glenealy Parish church was closer to the Chamneys
at Conniamstown and Ballygannon.
My family
definitely did not come out to Ontario at the same time as the Aghowle Parish
families, having departed sometime in the spring of 1834 and they settled in
Simcoe Co, Ontario for 21 years before heading to Perth Co, Ontario,
specifically Wallace Twp. William and Jane travelled with their 5
children and probably John (1772-1854). John was buried at St John's
Anglican Church, Tecumseth Twp, Simcoe Co. We do know that the Huron Co
Chamneys, Richard Chamney and Euphemia Mason, were some sort of "cousins" to the
Wallace Twp Chamneys. I believe that Richard was the son of William,
1765-1840, just have no proof.
There was
certainly a connection between the Lanark and the Huron Co Chamneys and
Richard spent time in the Kingston area, not far from Henry Chamney of
Elizabethtown Twp, Leeds Co, Ontario.
I personally
do not have a website. I did publish my own Chamney family history last
year and held a reunion for the Perth Co family which was well attended.
The
information that I have on the Lanark Co Chamneys comes from Lorna McLean,
Eleanor Henderson and Eileen Jackson as well as from sources like the census and
BDMs.
I'm not sure
that I can help your group, however, if you would like me to join then that is
fine.
Isn't it a
small world when one of your Halpenny members lives in the same city as
me!
Thanks for
your time, Don.
Cheers
Deb
Flanagan
Dear Graham and Deb,
Sherry
Twamley forwarded your email on the Orangemen to me. I have a website, www.halpenny.net. We
currently have about 100 Halpennys, Jacksons, Halfpennys, and Twamleys. I would
like to have connections to all of the families on the website. The more familes
that we have that came over together the more we can share and learn. I would
like to invite you to join our group to share your Chamney info. If you are
interested all you have to do is let me know and I send a welcome email with
your email address to everyone in the group and then you have all of those
emails.
I hope that you will decide to join us and share whatever Chamney
info that you would like to. Also, if you have a Chamney Website please send me
the address and I will add it to our website.
I forgot to tell you. We
have a Patrick Halpenny and his family at Christchurch, NZ in the group. His
email address is halpenny_family@xtra.co.nz.
Thanks,
Don
Halpenny
13359 Friendship Rd
Pilot Point, TX
76258-7611
940-440-2995