Early Brawleys in Chester County, PA
"Hugh Brawly of Corke" died in 1732 and left a will, which was destroyed in 1922 during the Troubles.He was probably from Derry, as no variant of the name is native to Cork except the Englisy Brayly's of Bandon.
Thomas Brally, master of the brig Pennswood, is reported in the Pennsylvania Gazette as entering and departing from the Port of Philadelphia from about 1719-1721.
A Thomas Brawley died in Philadelphia in February 1733 and is buried in the cemetery of Christ Church (Episcopal) in downtown Philadelphia.
A Hugh Brawley is recorded on the Tax Rolls of Chester County, PA (C-18/45) for the year 1749/50 (old style) as a "freeman," which means he was at least 21 and had been free of servitude or apprenticeship for at least 6 months.He resided in West Nottingham.
Hugh Brawly is recorded again in West Nottingham for the year 1751 (C-19-37) again as a freeman.
Thomas Brawley is found in West Nottingham, Chester County, PA in 1753, as a freeman.(C20/43)
Thomas Brawley is recorded in West Nottingham, Chester County, PA in 1754, as a freeman.
The John Braly, who turns up in Rowan County, NC, probably arrived there with other families from the Nottingham Company in the early 1750's.
John Bralley (progenitor of the Wythe County name) was there by 1761 and left for Virginia in the summer or fall of 1769.His wife, Mary Guy's father, Samuel, had died in 1768.Her brother was Richard Guy/Gay, a blacksmith who had married into the Porter family.
I believe John Braly of NC had apprenticed under Joseph Parker, Clerk of the Court of Chester, which prepared him for his Register position on arriving in NC.Incidentally, John Braly (spelled Brally) witnessed several documents in Chester before his departure.
Vern Braly has generously conducted a Y-DNA study of our various branches and concluded without hesitation that the NC Braly's and the VA Bralley's have the same genetic haplogroup.They were closely related and at the same place at the same time in Colonial America.
The VA Bralley's claim a Cork ancestor and Greek Braley of Tennessee also was recorded in a newspaper in McMinn County as having an ancestor from Cork, Ireland.
Could the "Hugh Brawly of Corke be our common ancestor?
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