OBJECTIVE OF THESE PAGES
These pages aim at furthering genealogical research on individuals with the Lennan surname (principally in Dublin, Ireland). It is hoped, eventually, to integrate material on all varieties of the L*nn*n surname, or, at least, to provide links to resources available from other researchers of the many versions of the name in Ireland and other areas. The Dublin city area is also featured with several resources. Navigation facilities are to be found at the end of each page. Unfortunately there are no fancy side bars or applets but icons to a site map are to be found on each page.
LENNAN: THE NAME
Limited material on the origin of the Lennan name, drawn
from many sources, is provided on a Lennan bits and pieces page, which
contains early references, a discussion of Lennan/Lennon,
some Scottish emigrés, and my father's
manuscript research which stimulated my interest in
genealogy. This has been developed on the basis of sources
consulted in Salt Lake City in July 2002. Notes taken are
on a early sources sub-page.
There is also a sub-page with maps on
Irish Lenn*n distributions, as well as Lann*ns, in the
1850s. A page looking at L*nn*n
variants in GRO data was added in October 2003 and
early Irish manuscripts were
expanded, and Irish language
interpretations commenced in November 2003. A Lenn*n
DNA study was commenced back in 2001, in collaboration with
Glenn*ns and Lenn*ns and Y-DNA
participants are now invited. In this connection, maps
have also been added on the Glenn*n
distribution in Ireland. Pages will be added to
progressively, and hopefully, eventually, organized more
efficiently. For the moment, if lost, click on the
'Site Map' 
icon at the end of each page for navigation
choices. You will also find a site search facility on that
page.
For those, probably most visitors, attempting to trace their own ancestors, it is undoubtedly best to skip to the data index page. Here, in addition to Dublin L*nn*ns, there are diverse surnames of partners (to be found in the last column of the data). So, to emphasise this message, check out your own surname interest in the data, starting from the index to the data and continuing with the aggregate .pdf file, if your internet connection is slow. Otherwise brave the .html files. If nothing is found, try the specific Donnybrook names on page 3, Donnybrook scouts, or altar boys listings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DUBLIN DATA
My research over the past six years has been more or less concentrated in the Dublin South/Rathdown area of Ireland. In my quest for ancestors, I have progressively built up a spreadsheet database of over 11000 L*nn*n events, mainly in that focussed area, with the addition of Dublin North (and with all other Irish Lennans found included). The information has been extracted from many sources (but primarily the Irish GRO births, deaths & marriages indexes from 1864, in addition to about 700 certificates from the same source, plus material from diverse parish records, Dublin directories, gravestones, convict records, etc.). A subset of this data (over 8500 entries), excluding individuals born in 1900, or after, or marriages after 1920, is available on this website. Failure to construct my own tables (after experience two years ago of hand coding a far simpler one), leaving Excel to do the tedious job for me, meant that these pages were generally quite a download (with many around 1 Mega). These have now been reduced to a maximum of 530k. For those wanting more compact data, alphabetical files in .pdf format can be downloaded (sizes range from 4k for 'UV', to 129k for the John, James and Joseph intensive 'J', and the Marys, Margarets in the 'M'). Possibly, it is even easier to download all the data (at present just over 600K, nearly as small as two of the individual alphabetical pages in html). But do not forget to print out also a copy of the key to the data, which can sometimes be quite cryptic, even to the original compiler! If you just want all the data, without the key download the full 717K pdf data file. The pdf files were several months in advance to start off with. The html files were brought into line in January 2000 (with updates in November 2000 and February 2001) but the pdf material is likely to be added to more frequently than the standard web pages, given that the process is relatively simple. Hopefully, as supplementary information is gathered, this can eventually be added to both sets of pages. I would stress that the data is, at best, a secondary source (even tertiary for the limited material included from the IGI and from Irish Heritage Centres), and subject to all the usual transcription risks - I often find errors in the existing data! However, hopefully it will point readers in the direction of the appropriate primary material. Some comments and statistics on the data are included on a supplementary page.
MY LENNANS, OTHER SURNAMES, DONNYBROOK, D&K.RAILWAY, PLUS LINKS
A truncated family tree of my own Dublin Lennans is included, and some material on my other lines of current research (surnames: Toner - Drogheda, Casey - Dublin & Iowa, USA, Conlan - Kildare, Carroll - Dublin, Kildare and New Zealand) was added in January 2003. Reminiscences of my late father on the Donnybrook area of Dublin South (with a reservation on published work on this subject) are included on separate pages, as well as some research material I have carried out on the coming of the Dublin-Kingstown railway to Dublin. Main links to other L*nn*n data available on the internet are set out on the links page which also gives some other internet resources found to be helpful.
While I am always particularly interested in hearing from
those researching the L*nn*n surname at
home or office.
I would stress that I have little or no information on US or
Canadian L*nn*ns, and only slightly more on one or two
branches in Australasia. For these areas, try the experts
noted on the 
page.
DUBLIN INFORMATION
As of March 2000 some information was put on line on Dublin City. As a first effort, some transcripts from the 1888 Thoms' Dublin directory are now included. This may enable obscure Dublin streets etc. to be found and often their corresponding registration districts, parishes and wards. Eventually it is hoped to include references to cross streets and, ultimately, maps of selected areas. Dublin county data was also included.
UPDATES
The Donnybrook section had some
additions in September 99. It now has a searchable list of
surnames. If you have ancestors hailing from there, a lot
more is to come. Although much of it may be mundane, the
odd nugget may be there for your family. Check it out. Some
additional data on L*nn*ns was added in October 99 and the
html markup was validated in early November (so now you
will see more or less what was written!) There were some
additions to the Lennan/Lennon discussion on page 2 in
December, and post October entries were integrated, in both
html and pdf form, to the data pages in January 2000. Some
extras were added in February, as well as expanded links.
March saw quite a bit of activity, with early data
references in the data now substantially standardised and
available in both html and pdf format. Dublin street
finders were a new feature in March. 100 extra events were
included in the data pages (in the extra category) and
links were checked in November 2000, with another 100 being
added in February 2001. The Donnybrook page from May 2001
had full details of the
disposal of a large tract of land there by the Earl of
Clonmell in 1933. Links were checked in July 2001, the
crest replaced, as well as including some others (Carroll
and Casey), and some more information was added to the
Lenn*n bits and pieces page on
early Gaelic Lennans. Additional crests (Toner,
O'Herlihy and Foley) were added on the John Lennan descendants' page in
mid-July. New data was added to the extra pdf file on 1
November 2001. All links were checked in March 2002. Additional photos
were added to daughter, Deirdre,
and grandson, Lorcan ,
pages in June 2002. Irish material on the Lenn*n surname,
gathered in Salt Lake City in July 2002, was transcribed here and integrated into the
bits and pieces page in
early-September. Links to a site map (where there is now a
site search facility) were added to the end of each page to
ease navigation. Lenn*n data, now over 9400 entries, by
initial, in .pdf and .html form, is up to date on the
data page from 20 September. Links
on the Y-DNA page were added to on
30 November 2002. Photos of ancestors began to be
integrated on a separate descendants
subpages in January 2003 and other lines, plus photos,
progressively included. The Donnybrook page was extended in
March 2003 to sub-pages on scouts
and altar boys. A further
Ken photo page was added in April
and links were checked and added. Africa trip pages were added in July 2003. A page
looking at L*nn*n variants in GRO
data was added in October 2003. In early November links
were checked and added. In addition the L*nn*ns were
extended back to 606 A.D. on a new early manuscript sources page. This has links to
photos of the original sources in the Annals. Work also started on a
very basic Irish language page with relevance
to variants of the name. Further information and links were added to the
early manuscript sources page in January 2004
and the general links page was updated. There
were several other minor updates to individual pages through
January/February 2005. Two extra pages of Dublin Lennan saddler
genealogies, James and
William & John were added in May, together with photos of James descendants. In June, the African
visits' pages were improved, and a page of photos from others added. In
November, Gl*nn*n death and marriage entries in the Irish GRO, from
1864-78, were put on line on the Glenn*n page.
In March 2006 the Y-DNA page was updated and
further South African new visit pages added (including one on Lennons there) as well as Sri
Lanka & California trips. There was a
further update to the DNA pages in September 2006 and
February 2007. In May 2007 additional data was added to the world data page. Pages for various trips (Namibia and the US and
Italy) were added in August 2007, with another update to the DNA
pages in September. Further pages were added in March/April 2008
covering recent travel - Montenegro, Turin and
La Thuile 2008 and Florida 2008 holidays.
Additionally more material was added to the world data page on L*nn*n passenger movements from
1920-60. More data was added to the Irish and world data page in May (including Dublin L*nn*ns in
the 1911 Census and bmd data, available for purchase, from the Irish
Family History Foundation). L*nn*n entries on this page now number
around 21500 (more than double the number on the original data page).
Further photos of Carrolls were added to this site and several corrections
were made to the ancestor pages in the autumn. The main site
had photos added from a California summer trip and an
October visit to England. More data was
added to the world data page
in December covering L*nn*ns in the 1911 Census in Kerry, Antrim and
Down, as well as Longford entries from the IFHF. 
During 2009 and
early 2010 holiday photograph pages (Italy, Ireland, US, Mali and,
laterly, Florida) were added.
OTHER INTEREST: IRISH RAILWAYS
Web pages on the totally different topic of Irish railwayana, one giving regularly updated auction prices of Irish memorabilia, the other involving a more detailed insight into the many Irish railway companies, as well as pictures of signs, etc. used, are to be found at the sites set out below. If your ancestors were involved in Irish railways, it could be worth a look. Possibly start off with the historical site. Then if you really want to buy a cast iron sign, which your ancestor may have been familiar with, try the auction prices here for an idea on what you might have to pay.
This page has been accessed
times since it went on line.
Go to
page 2, "The Lennan
surname" for basic textual material.
Or to
data for the index to entries.
Alternatively, go to my
railwayana.com pages
for Irish railway data
Or even, go to my railwayana auction
price pages on this site
RootsWeb
Lennan site
Lennan
Skynet mirror Site
Lennan
Scarlet mirror Site
This site's URL:
http://www.lennan.be/len001.htm
Main genealogy site:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lennan/
Pointed to by:; http://www.klennan.com/
1st Railway URL: http://gallery.uunet.be/ken.lennan/ now
http://home.tiscali.be/be040028/ and:
http://users.skynet.be/ken.lennan/ and: http://www.lennan.eu/
2nd Railway URL: http://www.irishrailwayana.com/
