THE GLYNN FAMILY

The Glynn/Glenn/McGlynn family originating in Culkeen, Co. Roscommon 1825 - 2009

Biography - Williamstown sisters.

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        B25 Anna (Annie) Glynn

    
Anna (Annie) Glynn was born on 25 April 1901 in Williamstown, the sixth child and second daughter of John Glynn and Mary Anne Coyne. Her godparents were Thomas Coyne (her mother's brother) and Catherine Conneely, her mother's sister, Kate who had married John Conneely. Annie contracted TB and died at the tender age of 16 on the 26 May 1917. In the family photograph taken in 1916 she looks awfully frail and obviously ailing. She must have been ill for sometime before she died and this was very likely a tough time for all the family.
Annie is buried with her mother and father in Templetogher Graveyard, off the Williamstown-Glenamaddy road, next to St. Patrick's Well.

                 B26 Katherine (Kathleen) Glynn

    
Kathleen Glynn was born on 5 April 1903 in Williamstown. She was the seventh child and third daughter of John Glynn and Mary Anne Coyne. Kathleen married John (Jack) Quinn (born 4 June 1900, Dromorr, County Leitrim) on Saturday 31 December 1933 in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin. Fr Murphy officiated. Jack was a member of the Garda Siochana and had been stationed in Williamstown, which is how he came to know Kathleen. He wasn't considered a very desirable match however, and Kathleen, despite being thirty years old at the time, had her engagement ring for over three months before she dared show it to her mother.
Jack had been a bit of a rebel in his youth and like many Irish men of the time was fired with patriotic fervour. A Royal Irish Constabulary member was shot while defending Jack Quinn from the Black and Tans, during the civil war in Ireland in the early 1920s. Jack and others were taken to Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim and later transferred behind wire in the Curragh Internment camp. They were very badly treated there and were plagued with bouts of dysentery and pestered by lice and fleas. Once the war was over Jack joined the Garda Siochana on 24 March 1922 and died while still serving in the force on 5 December 1963. He had been promoted to sergeant on 1 March 1923, the rank he still held when he died.
Jack and Kathleen had a baby Ford car of which they were very proud. They drove it all the way to Dublin for Kathleen's brother Joe's wedding in October 1936. Jack and Kathleen never had children.
Kathleen died on 16 April 1996 having spent the last few years of her life in a nursing home in Ballymoe, County Roscommon.

       B27 Honoria (Nora) Glynn

    
Honoria Teresa (Nora) Glynn was born in Williamstown on the 6th of January 1906, the eight child and fourth daughter of John Glynn and Mary Ann Coyne. Nora trained to be a nurse in Dublin and went on to become Matron of Mountjoy Prison and later matron of Ballyhaise Agricultural College in County Cavan. When she retired she came back to Williamstown to stay with her sisters, Kathleen and Mollie and her brother Joe in Mollie's house beside the church.
Nora was tall and imposing, wore her hair pinned back and was always impeccably dressed. Although she was kind, she often looked severe and humourless. It was easy to believe that she had been a prison matron.
Sean Glynn recalls that Nora was always free with advice on the bringing up of children, despite her own childless state. "I always felt I was on parade as she looked me up and down and advised my mother to put some vitamins into me. She was especially hard on unpolished shoes and I remember resentfully polishing mine before a visit to Williamstown as I had failed previous examinations of the same shoes," he said.
Nora never married and died on the 14th of January 1978, aged 72.

            B28 Sarah Angela (Cis) Glynn

    
Sarah Angela Glynn, who was always known as Ciss, was born in Williamstown on the 12th of August 1906, the ninth child in the family. She fell in love with Terence Casey, a garda sergeant in Ballymoe, five miles from Williamstown. Terence and Ciss eloped in 1924 when Ciss was only 18 years old - her parents would never have countenanced her marriage at such a young age. Her brother, Joe, chased after the pair and saw to it that they were properly married in Howth church, county Dublin on the 21st of August. Terence had been born in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. The couple immigrated to the US and settled in Boston, Massachusetts where Terence got a job in the Fire Department.

B30 Rose Delia Glynn

    
Jack Glynn remembers Rose as a jolly, sporty girl, not bad looking, good company and always game for a laugh. Although he was her nephew (Paddy Glynn's eldest son) she was not in fact much older - 14 years. Her first marriage to Jack Firzmaurice took her to Cloonfad (about seven miles from Williamstown). Jack's mother was a widow and ran a large shop in the village. Jack was a "mummy's boy" and spoilt. He had problems with alcohol and was frequently violent towards Rose. When word of Jack's mistreatment of Rose got back to the Glynn family in Williamstown, Paddy and Joe took it upon themselves to visit Cloonfad. They confronted Jack, blows were exchanged and Jack was warned to keep his fists to himself in future.
Rose and Jack had three children. Myra, the eldest, was brain damaged at birth and was cared for in a home in Clonsilla, Dublin for more than 60 years. She died in 2009, of complications following an operation. Fintan died of cancer in 1982. Pauline lives in Manchester.
After Jack's death in 1959, Rose, Pauline and Fintan went to Manchester. Rose got a job in Lewis' Department Store where she worked until her retirement. Late in her life (55) she married Tom McTiernan. She died in Salford, Lincolnshire in 1995.