Hannon - O'Hannon and Related Names

I am working on a Hannon line and am looking for any assistance on this that is available.

For a brief history of the name, here is some information from RootsWeb Irish Surnames. Please feel free to let me know about additions, corrections, leads or connections. I am happy to share information and check through to see if there are matches from ours to yours.

(O)Hannon, (Hanneen)

Although there are many substantial families of Hannon in Munster and Connacht, the Annals and other sources of information regarding the septs of mediaeval Ireland seldom mention the name O'Hannon. The death of Maelisa O'Hannen (O hAnain), prior of Roscommon, in 1266 is one of the few such. According to the census of 1659 the name was then numerous in the barony of Athlone, Co. Roscommon; while Haneens were found in considerable numbers in the barony of Bunratty, Co. Clare. The prefix O, dropped in the submergence of Gaelic Ireland, has not been resumed. Strictly speaking Hannon is the anglicized form of the Gaelic O hAnnain. This name is chiefly associated with Co. Limerick. Another Gaelic surname, O hAinchin, that of a family of Siol Anmchadha belonging to south east Galway, nominally anglicized Hanneen, has, by attraction, become Hannon in most cases, though Hanneens are also found in western counties. It is of interest to note that older people in Clare and Galway call this name Hanheen thus keeping close to the Irish pronunciation O hAinchin. Further there is O hAnnachain which is called Hannon rather than Hannahan in Co. Limerick. The name Hannon to-day is principally found in Co. Limerick and in Counties Galway and Roscommon. Patrick Hannan (1842-1925), who was born in Co. Clare, discovered the Kalgoorlie goldfield in Western Australia which contains "the richest square mile of gold in the world". The supply of water to this goldfield, which entailed on engineering undertaking of great magnitude, was conceived and carried out by Charles Yelverton O'Connor (1843-1902), who also built Freemantle Harbour. He was born in Co. Meath.

Here are some of the folks I am seeking more information on.

Outline Descendant Report for Matthew Hannon

..... 1 Matthew Hannon b: Abt. 1780 in

..... + Mary Meehan b: Abt. 1780 in Ireland, m: Abt. 1800 in Ireland

........... 2 Michael Hannon b: May 1810 in Roscommon, Ireland, d: 14 Nov 1900 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA

........... + Eleanor Milligan b: Abt. 1810 in Ireland, m: 1842 in Ireland, d: 02 Mar 1896 in Porter, Indiana, USA

................. 3 Mathew Hannon b: 1842 in Indiana or Ireland, d: Bef. 07 Jan 1920 in

................. + Julia Callahan b: 1850 in Ireland, m: 13 Apr 1868 in Laporte, Indiana, d: 21 Jan 1920 in Illinois, USA

....................... 4 Michael Hannon b: Abt. 1870 in Indiana, USA, d: 15 Apr 1939 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

....................... 4 John Hannon b: Abt. 1871 in Indiana, USA, d: Aft. 1960

....................... 4 David W. Hannon b: 1872 in Indiana, USA, d: 11 Mar 1950 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

....................... 4 Anna Hannon b: Abt. 1876 in Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Julia Hannon b: Abt. 1877 in Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Ellen Hannon b: Abt. 1880 in Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Thomas J. Hannon b: Abt. 1882 in Indiana, USA, d: 26 Nov 1941 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

....................... 4 Margaret Elizabeth Hannon b: 25 Nov 1883 in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 31 Aug 1953 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

....................... + Thomas J. Minoughan b: Abt. 1878 in Belmullet, Mayo, Ireland, m: Bef. 1912, d: 13 Jun 1956 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

....................... 4 Mary A. Hannon b: Abt. 1884 in Indiana, USA, d: 27 Sep 1959 in Crystal Lake, McHenry, Illinois, USA

....................... + ? Hunt

....................... + Herman Studtman d: Bef. 27 Sep 1959

................. 3 Mary A. Hannon b: 1849 in Indiana, USA, d: 1889 in Indiana, USA

................. + Thomas Forrester b: 1833, m: 30 Apr 1866 in Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 1913

....................... 4 Edward Forrester b: 1869, d: 1871

....................... 4 John A. Forrester b: 29 Aug 1873, d: 02 Jan 1916 in

....................... + Mary Cole b: 27 Nov 1875, m: 1896, d: Aug 1966 in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Ella Forrester b: 23 Jan 1875, d: 06 Oct 1934

....................... + William Sullivan b: 07 Jan 1871, m: 1905, d: 12 Dec 1944

....................... 4 Margaret Forrester b: 1876, d: 1948

....................... 4 Genevieve Forrester b: Aft. 1876, d: 1962

....................... 4 James Forrester b: Aft. 1877, d: 1954

....................... 4 Blanche Forrester b: Aft. 1878, d: 1904

....................... 4 Bertha Forrester b: 26 Jan 1885, d: 03 Nov 1962

....................... + Joseph Krueger b: 14 Dec 1886, m: 16 Aug 1920, d: 27 Oct 1948

....................... 4 Matthew Floyd Forrester b: 05 Sep 1887 in La Porte, Indiana, USA, d: 1957

....................... 4 Annie M. Forrester b: 1860 in Indiana

....................... 4 Mary E. Forrester b: 1872 in Indiana

................. 3 David Garland Hannon b: 31 Oct 1851 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 16 Jan 1925 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

................. + Jane Conlon b: 24 Mar 1850 in Ireland, m: 28 Mar 1875 in Laporte, Indiana, d: 10 Mar 1911

....................... 4 Mary Roberta Hannon b: 19 Mar 1876 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 24 Jul 1956

....................... + Royal L. Jessup b: 07 Mar 1872 in Indiana, USA, m: 27 May 1899 in LaPorte County, Indiana, d: 15 May 1951


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Outline Descendant Report for Matthew Hannon

....................... 4 Thomas James Hannon b: 22 Dec 1877 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 19 Aug 1963 in La Porte, Indiana, USA

....................... + Mary Murray b: 30 May 1879 in Ireland, m: Abt. 1897, d: 19 Apr 1943

....................... 4 Bernard Aloysius Hannon b: 27 Nov 1880 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 28 Feb 1937

....................... + Katheryn Conry b: 23 Dec 1884, m: 1922, d: 12 Jan 1968 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

....................... 4 Eleanor Teresa Hannon b: 30 Mar 1882 in New Durham Township, LaPorte, Indiana, d: 01 Dec 1944 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

....................... 4 Edward Lawrence Hannon b: 24 Apr 1883 in New Durham Township, LaPorte, Indiana, d: 04 Apr 1981 in Westville, LaPorte, Indiana

....................... + Ethel A. Dodd b: 07 Feb 1888, m: 17 Feb 1909, d: 10 Jul 1977 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

....................... 4 Katherine Devota Hannon b: 10 Jun 1887 in New Durham Township, LaPorte, Indiana, d: 11 May 1969 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

....................... 4 David Paul Hannon b: 11 Sep 1889 in New Durham Township, LaPorte, Indiana, d: 26 Jul 1957

....................... + Florence Ann Warnke b: 31 Mar 1899, m: 21 Jun 1921, d: 16 Jan 2001 in La Porte, La Porte, Indiana, USA

................. 3 John Henry Hannon b: 27 Jan 1852 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 13 Mar 1926 in Hammond, Lake, Indiana, USA

................. + Johanna Hartnette b: 11 Jul 1857 in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, USA, m: 18 Feb 1879 in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 05 Mar 1923 in Hammond, Lake, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Mary "Mayme" F. Hannon b: Sep 1879 in Indiana, USA, d: 14 Dec 1959

....................... + Frank F. O'Brien b: Sep 1875 in Indiana, USA, m: 30 Jun 1902

....................... 4 James Thomas Hannon b: 22 Apr 1881 in Indiana, USA, d: 10 Aug 1947

....................... + Elizabeth English b: 19 Feb 1891 in Indiana, USA, m: Abt. 1901, d: 23 Mar 1986 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Michael Hannon b: May 1883 in Indiana, USA, d: 1942

....................... + Elizabeth Schraff b: 28 Oct 1884, m: Abt. 1903

....................... 4 Edward Richard Hannon b: 06 Aug 1885 in Indiana, USA, d: 16 Sep 1918 in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Claire Hannon b: 27 Apr 1888 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 29 Oct 1954 in Hammond, Lake, Indiana, USA

....................... + Dr. Wallace O'Keefe b: 15 Jul 1881, m: Abt. Jan 1909, d: 26 Nov 1972

....................... 4 Nellie Hannon b: Jun 1890 in Indiana, USA, d: 24 Nov 1959 in Hammond, Lake, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Frances "Fanny" Hannon b: Jun 1893 in Indiana, USA, d: 06 Jan 1975 in Indiana, USA

....................... + Marten Dwyer m: Abt. 1927

....................... 4 John Henry II Hannon b: 02 Aug 1894 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 22 May 1963 in Crown Point, Lake, Indiana, USA

....................... + Claire Sullivan b: 14 Dec 1898 in Morocco, Newton, Indiana, USA, m: 17 Jun 1918 in Monterey, Pulaski, Indiana, USA, d: 04 May 1970 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA

....................... 4 Genevieve Hannon b: 18 May 1899 in Indiana, USA, d: 01 Nov 1952 in Indiana, USA

....................... + Clarence Brown b: 1894 in Indiana, USA, m: Abt. 1919, d: 1958 in Indiana, USA

................. 3 Thomas J. Hannon b: 15 Jun 1855 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 09 Apr 1929 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA

................. + Ellen O'Donahue b: 28 Nov 1858 in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, USA, m: 15 Jun 1886 in Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 08 Jan 1930 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 John Florence Hannon b: 09 Jun 1887 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 13 Nov 1949 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA


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Outline Descendant Report for Matthew Hannon

....................... + Julia Bernadette Gannon b: 30 Dec 1894 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA, m: 14 Feb 1917 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA, d: 14 Apr 1958 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA

....................... 4 Mary Cecelia Hannon b: 28 Sep 1891 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana, USA, d: 12 Feb 1945 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

....................... + James Thomas Kelly b: 06 Jun 1886 in Wilmington, Will, Illinois, USA, m: 15 Jun 1920, d: 31 Dec 1966 in LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana

........... 2  b: 03 Jul 1866 in Gurteen District, Sligo, Ireland

Hannon Family Reunion

Here's a crew of Irish folks form 1935 at the Hannon farm in Kouts, Porter, Indiana.

A smaller gathering of some descendants of the 1935 crew in 2005 in Kouts, Porter, Indiana.

John Henry Hannon - Biography

John H. Hannon, Biography
Porter County biographical sketches . . . .
Transcribed biography of John H. Hannon

JOHN H. HANNON was born in Porter County, Ind., January 27, 1852, and is a son of Michael Hannon, of Pleasant Township, Porter County. He was married, at Valparaiso, Ind., February 18, 1879, to Johanna, daughter of Edward and Bridget Hartnett; she was born at Valparaiso July 11, 1857. Shortly after his marriage, he moved on the farm where he now lives. He has two children - Mary and James. He and wife are members of the Catholic Church.



Source: Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. 771 p.
Page(s): 376

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Biography transcribed by Steven R. Shook

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Essex Township - Indiana - Hannon

To see a much larger version of the play map, click on it and the map will open in a window. This is a fairly large file so may take some time to load depending on your computer connection speed.

The Michael O Hannon family farm is located on the bottom portion of this image. I find it interesting that in 1876 this is Essex Township. John Remster shared that there were some people in the community looking to secede from the township which apparently happened for a short while, hence Essex, and then was absorbed into Morgan Township. I love that the farm never moved, yet when starting to document the family the farm's township location was a bit dicey.

Another note of interest was Michael's name. Sometimes Hannon, Hannan and with the "O" falling in a variety of places. On this map it seems to be as a middle initial, this also happened on a variety of Census records too. "O" as middle initial and "O" as part of last name. Isn't family history fun!

http://ingenweb.org/inporter/Data/Maps/1876Plats/Essex-1876.jpg Plat Image

From Whence We Came

Mary and John Hannon

One of my cousins -- and I hardly have any -- asked me why our ancestors came to this country. I have some information on why, but as with all things in research, the more information the better on that front. The family she was asking about came to the United States in 1842, slightly ahead of the massive 1845 potato failure. Perhaps they had insight or perhaps they were just lucky.





I still see in my extended family a sense of loyalty that may not be visible on the surface, but exists in ways that surprise many. We come together for events and occasions, and especially those surrounding births, marriages and deaths. This is something that I imagine comes down to us from the boggy western Ireland countryside that much of the family came from.





In Ireland, where our ancestors are from, the majority of young men would have been farmers. By the age of about seven, these youngsters would have learned how to dig trenches for potatoes and a few years later they would have been involved in sowing the fields. The young men would have been working with their fathers. The young girls would have been working alongside their mothers feeding chickens and pigs, tending to the fire and making the noon meal for the men and boys as they returned from the fields.





Every family member would have been participating and all ages would contribute to the cultivating the soil and developing a bond with each other and the land. That bond with family and land continues today.





1845 - Ireland
As most people are aware, the potato in Ireland failed. The potato blight in 1845 caused four successive crop failures. This meant that 1 in 6 peasants died of starvation and that about 25% of the Irish population emigrated.

The potato blight was caused by a fungus that can be treated by spraying a copper compound, however when it first appeared in the fall of 1845, there was no understanding of how to stop the fungus. Weather also factored into the potato blight with unusual warmth in January and February and an unusually wet Spring in 1846. The additional moisture forced farmers to leave potato shoots in the ground longer which then formed millions of new spores. These spores spread through the underground canals which caused rampant spreading from field to field until all the healthy plants had becoming decomposing, blackened, useless, stinking and rotting plants.



The first major exodus from Ireland took place in 1846 and 1847 when the Irish were fleeing the famine and fever. They found their way onto the "coffin ships" to escape a land that they now thought was cursed. The ships were aptly named because of the great numbers of people that died on board.



In family lore, there are stories about Michael Hannon and Mary Ann (Fitzgerald) Hannon being related to our Hannon family. They arrived somewhere around 1848 to 1849 with James Fitzgerald and moved into the small farming community of Acton which is about 25-miles west of Boston. Interestingly, there are also Heffernan families connected to both this family and ours.

Irish Homes
What was a family home like? For the home my mother grew up in, there was a door into the kitchen and that progressed into the main house. The kitchen, however, was the main focus of the house and was the room where most people congregated and most of the entertaining took place. The old house has a steep staircase that leads to the upstairs where there were bedrooms for the children. In her family, there were seven that lived to adulthood.

There was a parlor where other activities occurred. She recalls wakes being held there, piano lessons and Christmas. Seems that this was a special room that was not really utilized for day-to-day activities.

That old house still stands in Indiana and is in the family.

Hannon Family Reunion - 1935 Kouts, Porter, Indiana

If you know any of these people, please let me know and I'll add the names. Thanks!