Corrections:-

Corrections to The Family O’Beirne

By Bryan P. Beirne

There is an inexplicable major error on page 146 where I confused and combined the careers of two innovative computerologists by attributing to Pat Beirne, son of Dr. Patrick Fintan Beirne of Toronto and now with the Corel Video Project in Ottawa. Canada, the achievements of Patrick R. O'Beirne, now of Gorey, County Wexford.
Here is his career:- Patrick R O'Beirne graduated from the National University of Ireland in 1966 and for the next 15 years worked for NET, now known as Irish Fertilizer Industries, first in quality control and later, after obtaining his M.A. in Systems Management from Lancaster University in England in 1973, as Business analyst for applying operational research techniques and financial modelling for optimization of production, distribution and marketing. He wrote one of the earliest financial modelling packages for computers in the 1970s.
He has been Managing Director of Systems Modelling Limited since 1981. Its main activity is computer systems consultancy to national bodies, commercial organizations, and private companies. He promotes the use of the Personal Software Process and is a qualified TickIT lS09000 auditor. His experience in Clipper training and development is currently being applied to assist organizations address their year 2000 problems with legacy xBase applications. Since 1982, he has contributed to training courses in the Information Technology, Materials Management, Management Information, Chief Executive, and Management Development programs of the Irish Management Institute where he also is the sole presenter of three different popular courses on computer skills. From 1988 to 1991 he lectured in computer applications in the Management Science School of the Trinity College, Dublin, Department of Statistics and collaborated in research projects on Infomatics for Third World Development. Since 1994, he has been involved in a project to provide remote regions with low-cost access to the world-wide Internet via low-earth-orbiting satellites. (Ed: You, should see his travel schedule: Gothenburg, London, Brussels, Budapest and on, and on. He's one of the reasons Ireland is now the "Celtic Tiger."]
He is married to Margaret O'Beirne, poet and watercolorist whose many poems have been published, broadcast, and read at festivals in Ireland and abroad.

Admiral Frank O'Beirne and William O'Beirne (son of Admiral Emmet) have pointed out errors in my description of their family in The Family O'Beirne, pages 99-104. Here are the corrections. Admiral Frank was christened Frank and never named Francis. His grandfather William emigrated to New Haven, not Hartford, and his twin sons William and Edward were born there, not in Elgin. What I termed the "Cleveland, Air Show" should be the National Air Races, Cleveland. Ohio" and the "U S. Naval College" should be the U S. Naval Academy." In retirement Admiral Frank was consultant to North American Aviation and Aeronautical Radio Inc., not to United Air Lines. Frank Jr. commanded the Gold Crew of the nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver. The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown. at one time commanded by Admiral Emmet, is now a floating museum at Charleston, South (not North) Carolina.

Other corrections: P. 23, Maelechlainn should be Maelschlainn; P. 29, Lawler should be Lawder; P. 41, County Down should be County Armagh P. 120, Kate Walsh Beirne should be …O'Beirne; P 148, 1824, should be 1834,

The Early Beirnes of Virginia:

Clarifications and Surmises

by Bryan P. Beirne

Confusion, some of it in The Family O’Beirne, has existed about relationships among the Beirnes of Virginia during the first half of the 1800s. Reasons are that there were up to nine named Andrew and up to six named Ellen. Two documents in particular have now provided some clarifications: a transcript of the Articles of Agreement drawn up in 1846 between the heirs of Andrew, the 1793 immigrant who died intestate in 1845; and the 1997 genealogy and history of the family of 1812 immigrant Patrick, a relative of that Andrew, by Professor D. Randall Beirne.

Patrick and his first wife Elizabeth McClung had two sons named Andrew: one died in infancy and the next born was given the same name. He was the only son of those parents to have had descendants. Unlike descendants of Patrick’s second wife Elizabeth Foulke, they never amounted to anything according to Randall Beirne. They thus did not include the distinguished Beirne Blair Carter family, as I had surmised incorrectly in The Family O'Beirne. There were two more Andrews in that Andrew’s family: a grandson born about 1879 who went to live in California where he had a son, Patrick who had a son Andrew.
To reduce confusion we will term the 1793 immigrant Andrew I he married Elinor (Elanor, Elener, Ellen) Keenan (Kenan). They had seven children. Andrew II was the eldest. Another version is that he was the Youngest of nine. Andrew III, who’s full names were Andrew Plunkett and who served in the Confederate Navy and was captured, obviously was son of Andrew II because after the Civil War he occupied for life the extensive property that Andrew II had inherited from Andrew I under the Articles. His mother was not Ellen Gray but Frances Evlyn Smith, daughter of Judge Daniel Smith of Rockingham County who was grandson of the Colonel Daniel Smith who died at Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. As Andrew III was born in 1842 it is possible that by 1846 Frances had died or otherwise departed as Andrew II was then undoubtedly married to Ellen Gray. Who then were the Francis E. Beirne and the Mary F Beirne who were living in Rockingham County at time of the 1850 census when Andrew was living at Union?
The Anderson Beirne mentioned in the Articles evidently was a transcribing error as the context shows him to be Andrew II, though at one time Andrew I had a business partner named Anderson. The Andrew Beirne who was recorded as marrying M.A Alexander at Union in 1827 most likely was a recording error: those two probably were merely the official witnesses at the marriage at that place and year of Andrew I's brother George to Delilah Alexander. Andrew Beirne, age 4 in 1846, and George Beirne, 2, were slaves identified in the Articles as inherited from Andrew I’s estate by his son George P.
Now for the Ellens. Andrew I’s wife Elinor was also known as Ellen. An Ellen was their eldest daughter and the third of their seven children. However the Ellen Beirne, who married William F. Turner in 1845 was described in the Articles as the youngest daughter of Andrew I. They had a daughter, Ellen Turner. An Ellen Beirne, born in 1832, married George A Gordon, date unrecorded, in Huntsville, Alabama, which implies that she was a daughter of Andrew I's son George P. who lived at Huntsville, Carter family tradition has it that it was the daughter of Andrew II and Ellen Gray, also named Ellen, who married Adolphus Blair and was ancestor of the prominent Beirne Blair Carter family. There might have been an additional early relationship to that family as Andrew II's brother George P. married Eliza Carter Gray and there was a Carter Beirne living at Union, Virginia, at the time of the 1850 census - but this might have been a recording error for Eliza