- Allen H. BRADY
- F. Howard BRADY
(b. 1901 Guthrie Center, Iowa;
d. 1966)
- David Thomas (Tom) BRADY
(b. 1847 Monroe County, Ohio;
d.1928 Guthrie County, Iowa)
- Ebenezer BRADY
(b. 1817 Mahoning Township, Indiana County, PA;
d. 1879 Guthrie County, Iowa)
- **John BRADY
(b. circa 1777, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania;
d. 1834, Pennsylvania)
- Ebenezer BRADY
(b. circa 1750 Cumberland Co. PA;
d. 1804 Westmoreland County, PA)
- Hugh BRADY
(b. circa 1709, Ireland;
d. before 1776, Hopewell Township,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)
- BRADY Irish Ancestry
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
For further information including descriptive and entertaining stories about
related Brady family members also descended from Hugh Brady, Pioneer, of
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania consult the
BRADY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
published in 1909 by William Gray Murdock and now available in the
Google scanned books collection.
Click on MIDDLE SPRING to see
the Hugh and Hannah Brady memorial in the old cemetery of the
Middle Spring Presbyterian Church near Shippensburg, PA.
0200 15 Sept. 1997 (Updates: 21 Nov. 2003, 10 Aug. 2005, 4 May 2009,
28 June 2009, 4-6 Sept. 2010, 29 February 2012)