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(b. 1901 Guthrie Center, Iowa; d. 1966)

(b. 1847 Monroe County, Ohio; d.1928 Guthrie County, Iowa)

(b. 1817 Mahoning Township, Indiana County, PA; d. 1879 Guthrie County, Iowa)

(b. circa 1777, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; d. 1834, Pennsylvania)

(b. circa 1750 Cumberland Co. PA; d. 1804 Westmoreland County, PA)

(b. circa 1709, Ireland; d. before 1776, Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)

The Irish ancestry of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Hugh Brady is unknown. The widely propagated story that Hugh was the son of a prominent Anglican Cleric is a persistent myth. It is a pure fantasy created possibly as early as 1845, maintained later in print, and now unfortunately kept alive on the Internet gaining even more embellishments. The story has no basis in fact whatsoever and flies in the face of historic religious conflict and documented histories of prominent families! Comparison of yDNA of some families of other early 18th century protestant Irish Brady immigrants to colonial America and that of late 19th century Brady immigrants to the United States suggests a common genetic relationship among these varied Bradys with origins traced to County Cavan, located on the southern edge of the historic Ulster Province of Ireland.

** All our present evidence shows that we are descended from the family of the Scotch-Irish immigrant Hugh BRADY (now confirmed by yDNA comparison) through his grandson John BRADY, son of Ebenezer, the sixth of seven sons of Hugh Brady. The established research on the Hugh BRADY family did not reveal the descendants of this particular John BRADY who was mentioned in his father's 1804 will. (Cf. Brady Annals Vol 1, pub. by William Y. Brady as a series of 12 monographs between 1923 and 1955.) John Brady was known to have lived during the early 1800's in Westmoreland and Indiana Counties, Pennsylvania along with other nearby relatives named "John Brady" who were also descended from Hugh. Of the nine children in John Brady's family, we have so far only been able to identify the three brothers Ebenezer Brady (1817-1879), Daniel Brady (1828-1886) and John Irwin Brady (1831-1865) along with their sister (and John's oldest child) Margaret Brady Brown (1814-1898). The children accompanyed their widowed mother when she moved (circa 1837) from Pennsylvania to Belmont County, Ohio where at least two brothers and a married sister of her late husband John already resided. All of the remaining (yet to be identified) children in John's family appear to be daughters as implied by census data.

We are very interested in information others might have about our great great grandfather John BRADY(1777-1834) and his immediate family. Please send email to