Roll Call, what is your Irish family on Geni ?

Example:

Healy, Donoughmore and Mallow co. Cork
Some emigrated to New York and Ohio (1914-1924)

Breen , Dublin,Ireland originated from County Kildare
One person emigrated to South Africa around 1910

With a name like Kelley/Kelly, they must be Irish, but I can not yet attest to it... As I have hit a brick wall on his father, from the git go. But, added, who knows, maybe someone who knows more, will see this.
Great idea, btw, Anne-Mariw, to start this thread on the Irish ancestry!!!

xoxoxoxTheresa Renée

James Kelley

p.s. My grandmother had told my Mother, that they were Irish, as well... But as previously mentioned... I have had no luck, as of yet, finding more information, thereof.

Anne-Marie... Sorry, finger slipped and I failed to proof read before sending. :-/

Families I attempt to discover are Delahunty, Kavanaugh,O'Connell, and Hoar. I am presently concentrating on Michael Kavanugh(Kavanagh) born about 1792-1795. Wife possiblyy Mary. At some point they both ended up in Pennsylvania. I'm guessing he may have been born in Kilkenney and am basing that on the numbers of Kavanaughs versus other counties. Any information or possible leads would be appreciated. I'd also be happy to get any leads on other ancestry names I've mentioned. As to Delahunty, my brick wall is determining the circumstances of Thomas Delahunty's death in July of 1859(member of RIC,death is suspect) and where he is buried. Planning a brief trip to Ireland this spring so any info. to go on is helpful. Thank you, Maureen Delahanty Calder

The one I am researching is McCully..I have hit a brick wall in the 1750's and further before....

Theresa Renée Eléna Tossas-Cox My Kelly's ( County Antrim - Pennsylvania mid 1800 ) were Scots, not Irish, according to my maternal grandfather. They were Presbyterian. My brick wall.

Hello Maureen, I have a distant HOAR path here on GENI, I can offer the link to check out the profiles of said, surname. Plus, somewhere on another genealogy site, I know I have added a wife of, either my Whitney lines or my Grosvenor side, from like Roxbury, CT or Braintree or Woodstock, Mass., by the name of Thankful Hoar. (No pun intended, however, I myself, did have to chuckle... when I said it out loud.), I will see, if I can't locate that one and add the line, to GENI, as well.

http://www.geni.com/path/Theresa-Renée-Eléna-Delgado-Tossas+is+rela...

Kristen, I'm thinking McCully might be the Immigration abbreviation taken on, from a McCullough branch. This however is pure speculation.

xoxoxoTheresa Renée

Thank you, for that bit of Kelly info, Eldon!

Here's another possibility, for Kristen.

Possibly, a McColly/McCauley branch

http://www.geni.com/path/Theresa-Renée-Eléna-Delgado-Tossas+is+rela...

Duane,Lisballyhay:
Roche,Clogher,Shanballymore.
Nunan,Gurteenroe,Churchtown.
Dorgan,Liscarroll.

thank you Theresa, but no. Samuel McCully we have info on after he immigrated from Northern Ireland to Nova Scotia then to New Brunswick Canada, but I have nothing from his irish root...we have records to his correct name once in canada and his 3 sons etc...but before it I am stuck. Missing records, burned records etc are always an issue. (and John McColly (Mccauley) is my 8th great uncle's 7th great niece's husband's father.! LOL)

Hi Kristen, Don't lose hope, yet, as, sometimes, a sibling has simply not yet, been listed. I will Keep My eyes open for you! I have a couple of (Killen/Killien) Nova Scotians, in My branches, too! ;-)

The Cruce family is Irish. Great-grandma Mary Jane Cruce Robertson always said the family had a castle in Belfast, but I've not been able to find it. She could dance quite a jig & she believed in hexes and little people. The Cruce's are well documented in America, but I haven't had a lot of luck in Ireland. My Cruce family was in Gwinnett County, Georgia before migrating to Texas in 1800's. Any cousins out there with more information?

Tamara Shan Brown Wright there are three variants of the name :
Cruise
Cruice
Cruise
No Irish record for the name Cruce

Sorry the last one should have read Cruse.

I've been working on my grandparents line for many many years now...LOL so I wont lose hope. I just keep trying. I'm not new to this so I just take it as it comes :)

James Mulvey from Ireland, Emigrated to Denver, CO in 1866 Married 1893

William Benjamin Irwin MD, William Benjamin was Doctor and Pharmacist, he served as a Doctor for the Union Army during the US Civil War. They family history suggests he was born in Scotland moved to Ireland then The United States, back to England for a few years and finally to Rockford, Floyd, Iowa, United States. I have questions as to his place of birth. William Benjamin Irwin Find A Grave, Riverside Cemetery Also known as: Rockford Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Floyd, Iowa, United States

Welsh, Welch, Walch, Walsh settling in Jamaica, West Indies, 1655 until 1800s.

Jacob Switzer possibly married Mary Ruckle / Ruttle He was a palatine refugee descenddescendent. His sons emigrated to Canada & he died circa 1850.1 believe in Limerick although the family story says castle Blaney -entailed estate.

On the other branch of my tree Christopher McDonnell father of Patrick who was born Ireland circa 1816 & married Ann Fisher in Manchester Office in 1838 and lived in Chorlton Upon Medlock .

Prince Eudbuilg of Ireland is my 58th great grandfather.

I have a family mystery that needs to be solved: It is driving my crazy and I have searched and hit this brick wall, for many years now!
Person:
Old Ancestor Frans Edward O’ Brien – apparently changed his surname from O’Brien to Prins, ( we don’t not know why!), when he arrived in c. 1796 , from North West Ireland (apparently from Calendon.)
He was apparently born in c. 1779 in Caledon Ireland and died in the Cape of Good Hope in c. 1861
We think he was in the Royal Irish Dragoons and that he was maybe in either the 8th, 9th or 10 th to 14th Regiments. No verified.
We think this Caledon place, was from the Province Ulster, County Tyrone, Barony of Dungannon, Parish Augaloo / Ageloo?.
Caledon was called Kennard in the old times and was located more or less 112 kms from Dublin.
He married Catharina Magdalena Fouche, a French Huguenot - in 1807 and they then settled in Robertson, Cape.
Their children’s names etc. are on myheritage and geni.
So - the verbal family traditions and version of the story goes like this:
This old ancestor apparently ran away / deserted his ancestral and family commitments (what they were and where he really came from - we don’t know)
He apparently also deserted from his regiment in Ireland, running away and then deserted to Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa.
We were told that his family were very rich and from noble descent. Castles etc. - hence maybe the name Prins ( maybe it was even spelled Prince in the beginning – to show his apparent noble descent and then it became the Afrikaans version - Prins?
The connection with The Dromoland and Thomond O’ Brien clan, or The O’Niall ( and variants spellings) clans also comes into question. My dad is the spitting image of the current Baron of Inchiquin.(Wishful thinking?)
This Baron of Inchiquin is Conor Myles John O'Brien, 18th Baron Inchiquin, (born 17 July 1943) and is the holder of a hereditary peerage in the Peerage of Ireland, as well as Chief of the Name of O'Brien and Prince of Thomond in the Gaelic Irish nobility.
We are trying to establish this old ancestors' clan in Ireland and if he has actually O’ Brien genes, or maybe rather O’ Niall genes in him, or not.
Anyway - his well to do father in Ireland - then apparently sent a fleet of his own ships, to search for his lost son.
The fleet traced him and they then found him in Cape of Good Hope.
They brought him back to Ireland and his father and family.
He then ran away again (2nd time) and then he went to work as a ’’bywoner/ sheppard ’’ on a sheep farm, of this Huguenot lady, he later married.
It is not sure if he had changed his name already the 1st or 2nd time when he arrived at the Cape, in order to not be found.
He apparently played the violin in his little shack and the beautiful music was heard in the Huguenot family’s house.
There are stories of a Stradivarius violin, somewhere packed away on a farm in the Cape – no trace of it yet and the search goes on!
A copied letter note is in our possession, where it is mentioned - that the Duke of Bedford - in Cape of Good Hope, apparently recognized him, at the inauguration of the town of Robertson, c. 1852 and /or when the Breede river was flooded and he gallantly helped out there in the crisis.
The name Patrick O’ Brien is also maybe becomming an option – not verified yet, as this is also mentioned on the small letter note.
This Duke of Bedford’s house in RSA - is the currently the country manor - called Cascade, in the Breede River Valley.
The Duke Of Bedford said – ‘’he will provide forgiveness and that this F E O’ Brien (Prins) must come back’’- according to the letter note.
So what the forgiveness were (maybe primarily for deserting from the army and The Dukes’ Regiments???) – we don’t know.
We also do not know if this old ancestor was maybe just an old rogue or crook or very shrewd - to tell these stories, only to impress his new to be bride and soon to be in-laws!
He was then asked to move into their house and to eat at their table, instead of having his meals outside the house - as all could see he was from noble descent and fine upbrigning.
So - was this old elusive Frans Edward O’ Brien, really an O Brien, or not - and why did he then changed his name to Prins, of all surnames?
I have now tested my Dad’s DNA with myfamiltreeDNA and am awaiting a few more results, like the 111 and BIGY in a few weeks.
He is:
R M269
R +U106
- L159
WAMH - Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype.

(Note: Because the Y DNA of this supposedly F E O’ Brien – ( surname then changed to Prins) cannot go through the daughters of this elusive ol man and my dad’ s link to him - is through the matriarchal line of Maria Elizabeth Prins (born Kok) - Dad’s DNA cannot show O’ Brien DNA. Someone else who is close family and bears the Prins surname and who is more closely linked to this elusive old forefather, has however been tested and his DNA shows more a link towards the O’ Niall clans and not the O’ Brien clans!)

So - was this old elusive Frans Edward O’ Brien, really an O' Brien, or not - and why did he then changed his name to Prins, of all surnames?Can you or anyone else help with any information on this mystery?

Thanks Wilma

Not sure if this would be of interest to any of you...

Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland

VIII. The Laigin

The Laigin, or Dumnonii, were the third ethno-tribal group to come to Ireland, coming from Gaul shortly before the Gaels themselves, sometime during the first century B.C. Branches of the Dumnonii settled first in the Devon-Cornwall area before others moved on to Ireland (Chapter III).
In southern Britain their kingdom gave its name to Devon (Dumnonia). In the time of King Arthur (ca. A.D. 500), as the tribe most closely associated with that great Pendragon, these Devon Domnonii established a dual kingdom which included the north coast of Brittany (Domnonie), from whose royal house eventually sprang the House of Stewart (which house inherited the crown of the Scots in 1371 and that of England in 1603). The Stewarts are covered under the chapter on the Normans, having come to Scotland in the wake of Norman conquest of England, in which they served as allies of the dukes of Normandy.

In Ireland the Dumnonii were generally known as the Laigin, and originally became overlords in the southeastern and central regions, and in Connacht. From there they later spread to other parts of Gaeldom, as we shall see. Visit the link below for additional information and the:

Tribes of the Laigin -

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mallorybrody/Eire...

On the 18th of January I posted names of families I'm researching. One that I mentioned was Kavanaugh and I indicated possibility that Micheal came from Kilkenney. Looking over various county names again, I think Wexford might be a better hunch. Again, the names are Micheal Kavanagh, Catherine Hoar/Hoare (possibly Dingle), Timothy (Lunathy) O'Connell from Cork, And lastly, Thomas Delahunty who I have lots of info. on just still trying to determine cause of death and where he's buried. Lots of ghosts out there being evasive.;) Thanks for any ideas. Maureen

Kelley / Kelly not sure of the original spelling. I do know that there were 7 brothers that came from Ireland together and settled in then North Carolina but is now Tennessee. Also known as the State of Franklin. My great x 5 was John Kelley. He fought in the American Revolution. He was awarded several hundred acres in East Tennessee that area is still known as Kelleys Gap. My grandfather was William Joseph Kelly. His father was Joshua Green Kelley. Not sure why my grandfather dropped the 2nd "e".

Lesa Renee Kelly the original name would have been KELLY.

Jane Marshall McCarthy from Clodane Ireland born around 1596 and died Va around 1662

Researching Katharine Kavangh bortn 1836
St Kevin Church, Glendalough, Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
the Walsh's MCcarthy's Blake's Martins all from southern Irelnd somewhere maybe Clare or Galway

From County Antrim O'Hara's , Hyland's , O'Connor's McCarten's