James Fox. was born in 1849. He was a farmer and could read and write. He married Briget Daly and had many children. He died in 1916 in Clonmacnoise, Offaly, Ireland. The only Fox I am seeing in Griffith's Valuation is Michael Fox who was pretty well-to-do, renting at least one house, office and plot from Robert Lawder.
There were 2 Michael Foxs born in Meath in the 1820s, Michael son of Michael and Mary and Michael Son of Michael and Thoma.
Bridget Daly was born around 1851 in Ireland. It is said that she was a midwife and that she said her hair turned white when her daughter Sabina moved to America. She died in 1936.
I don't know who Bridget's parents were, but I can make some guesses. There were 21 Dalys in Clonmacnoise during the Griffith's Valuation (1855). Only Hugh Daly lived in Clonfinlough. One of the users of Ancestry has a Hugo Daly as Bridget's father. If in fact Hugh Daly is Bridget's father, this is what we know. Hugh Daly lived in a nice house on 4 acres which he rented from Robert Lawder. In fact there were 8 house, roughly the same in size, on one large plot: Egans, Kellys, Molloys and Hugh Daly. Robert Lawder appears to have pretty much owned Clonfinlough.
There was a Bridget Daly born to a Hugh Daly and Mary Egan who was baptized in Clonfinlough, Clonmacnoise on Sept 26th, 1848.
This is pretty awesome, because it was in latin. It looks like her godparents might be Thomas Horan and Anna Feehely?
There is a record of Hugh Daly and Mary Egan getting married on Feb 2, 1833 in Clonmacnoise. James and Bridget Rigney were the witness, but no parents were transcribed.
I can't find any Hugh Daly's being born in Clonmacnoise, until Bridget's brother Hugh Daly was born one year after she was. There was a Hugh Daly born in Oldcastle in Meath to Andrew Daly and Ann Gargan.
The only Mary Egan I can find born in Offaly is in 1812 to Edward Egan in the Church of Ireland with no mother recorded.
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