My understanding and I'm not a historian is the Byrne original area is the Wicklow Mountains. You need to look up some history of the Early Kings if that is the right word.
There are a lot of Byrne's in Wicklow and everywhere else as well.
Because this family moved to Lanark County in Ontario around Perth you could consider that likely they came from the Estate of the Earl Fitzwilliam called Coollattin located Shillelagh, The Estate also had border Parishes from both Carlow and Wicklow. If you go to the website
www.bytown.net you will find information that I have posted there from a Petition signed by people of the area in 10/1837. Its is a small booklet that was put out in 1997 by the Dun Laoghaire Genealogical Society. From the Official Papers (O.P. 1837/133) National Archives of Ireland, Dublin.
These were the Lee's on the Estate that signed the 10/1837 petition:
Thomas Lee, Cappagh;
Henry Lee, Carnew;
Andrew Lee, Knocknaskeagh;
William Lee, Tinahely.
I listed all the Byrnes that signed the petition to move the court (assizes) from Baltinglass to
Shillelagh on
www.by-town.netI also have a photo copy of a 10/1830 Petition to the Earl Fitzwilliam that was signed by about 1500 tenants to ask that Fitzwilliam not rush the amalgamation of the lands that a Estate Manager that
was a 'nasty and evil' man. William Haigh who replaced a much love Estate Manager William Wainwright. They understood the reason but not the rush and were begging to be given more consideration.
Wicklow Parish records both Church of Ireland and Catholic are listed on a History Foundation on line, this is a pay membership. If you can't find the Foundation by googling, contact me
codeannette@yahoo.ca and I will give it to you. Ancestry/rootsweb policy is not to put commercial
websites on line and they consider this a commercial entity.
There were both Catholic and Anglo/Irish Protestant tenants, some could sign their names and other's couldn't, like all petitions I'm sure that not every one signed. Fitzwilliams built both religions churches and unlike other landlords provided school for both as well. He was a Lord Lieutenant(sp)/governor
of Ireland and passed or try to pass Bills in the UK Parliament to consider giving lands back to the Iris Irish. If I remember rightly he was removed after that. I've spent many hours and days at both the
Sheffield Archives in the UK and the National Library in Dublin researching the Estate records and have some copies of leases.
I can look through for Byrne signatures and places these folks lived and and even scan and send
these to you. There are just so many Byrne's.
I also have many Byrne's found in Parishes registers but only Church of Ireland, many of the Byrne's were also Protestant.
The Estate Manager got the approval of the Earl to start 'assisting' tenants to go to Canada from New Ross, Wexford first and then some from Dublin. The Earl would pay for any improvements to the land and properties while they were his tenants. He also gave some spending money for food etc.
He provided local people to transport these folks as well.
Jim Rees wrote a book about 'assisted' passengers and list the family with ages and names and their townland. You can see his list from the National Archives (Coollattin) records on CANADA COME HOME 1847-1856, also I did early research on assisted names from the account books, I put
these on the Wicklow message board about 2009, go backwards to them as see passengers from
1830+ to 1847.
We did a successful matching of DNA with a Codd family in Wicklow. Parts of the family left the estate in 1818.
Annette Code
Canada.