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I looked up my family tree and found out...

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  • #32
    donegal__road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    My family are big into this, we can go back directly to 1540, and indirectly to 1270 when the surname first appeared in Ireland with the Normans. I have participated in family DNA projects where I sent DNA samples off to the US to see if matched any participants with the same surname.. I was an exact match with 5 males in the US who were part of the same project.. they all share slightly different variations of my surname.

    My great great ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, grandfather was an Irish chieftain who was hanged by Cromwell.


  • #33
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    donegal__road wrote: »
    My great great ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, grandfather was an Irish chieftain who was hanged by Cromwell.

    the auld Ulster army led by eoghan roe o'neill?


  • #34
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    KKkitty wrote: »
    You cannot be serious!! Me I found a grand uncle was killed by the Black and Tans.
    Used to love the way Myles na gCopaleen used to boast about his father being one of them

    before it was popular or profitable


  • #35
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    My family got it's name from the King of France after the crusades because apparently we were excellent at butchering muslims.

    That's nice.....


  • #36
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    I know someone who looked up her history and found her Great Grandmother was a prostitute. Not to judge or anything, but that put me off delving into mine,

    Heh


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  • #37
    Brinimartini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Brinimartini


    D1stant wrote: »
    I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

    I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

    You mean the 1922 fire at the PRO at the Four Courts.


  • #38
    Brinimartini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Brinimartini


    D1stant wrote: »
    I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

    I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

    You mean the 1922 fire at the PRO at the Four Courts.


  • #39
    amorphous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭amorphous


    Mines a stump!


  • #40
    Brinimartini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Brinimartini


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Fcuk , The Mansion House had records too , I thought they were all in the Custom House when it was burned.

    Nope, it was the 1922 fire at the Four Courts when the gov forces attacked the rebels holed up in the Public Records Office which was in the cupola at the top.


  • #41
    Brinimartini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Brinimartini


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Fcuk , The Mansion House had records too , I thought they were all in the Custom House when it was burned.

    Nope, it was the 1922 fire at the Four Courts when the gov forces attacked the rebels holed up in the Public Records Office which was in the cupola at the top.


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  • #42
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    donegal__road wrote: »
    our surname is from the other end of the country.. grandfather got transferred north you see.. but Eoghan Roe O'Neill is of the same era and died around the same time as my g,g,g,g,g,g,g, grandfather

    how did you get back to the 1500's? i have as far back as early 1800's and it's the period between 1600-1830 that is the big problem,


  • #43
    donegal__road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    orangesoda wrote: »
    how did you get back to the 1500's? i have as far back as early 1800's and it's the period between 1600-1830 that is the big problem,

    We could go back that far because the original family were given land in the west of Ireland (barony) by the government in Dublin in 1270, and like other Anglo Norman families of the time, acted as a type of landlord for the government.. so land dealings were recorded by way of court records which kept account of who was acting landlord at the time, and who they were related to etc.


    *there is a book called The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght which is a great resource for anyone researching Irish surnames. You should be able to get a copy at the library.




    .


  • #44
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    One of my great-great grandmothers smoked a pipe and was a bit of a formidable woman in her day.


  • #45
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    If in five hundred years time, some descendant of mine finds me in the family tree they are going to be so fcukin' disappointed.


  • #46
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    I'm a somewhat distant relation of Che Guevara. His grandfather was from Galway (a descendent of one of the 14 Galway tribes). Can't remember the exact link.


  • #47
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    orangesoda wrote: »
    there is some northern division Ra, British army, emmigration and plenty of gaelic war fare stuff in there as well

    your mans ambush was mentioned in the adelaide star in 1922, orders were given by the famous sean larkin for the attack


  • #48
    donegal__road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    LordChessington wrote: »
    I'm a somewhat distant relation of Che Guevara. His grandfather was from Galway (a descendent of one of the 14 Galway tribes). Can't remember the exact link.

    the Lynch family


  • #49
    turnikett1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭turnikett1


    I'm a freak for history so I would LOVE to find out my family history. I dont know much beyond my grandparents. I know my great uncle fought in the War of Independence and then as an anti-treaty IRA volunteer during the civil war. He was hunted by the Free State authorities and went on the run in England, fugitive for the rest of his life! Died and buried in England with full IRA funeral. My great-grandfather was in the Spanish navy during the Spanish Civil War, he was conscripted into Franco's forces unfortunately.

    My recent Irish history was probably just farmers in rural Cavan. I'd love to find out about my Spanish side though, I wonder if I'm descended from some murdering pillaging conquistadores... :) I dont know how to go about doing it though


  • #50
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    My family tree seems to be full of nothing but 'Country Gents' or as I think they were called in them days 'peasant farmers'


  • #51
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    D1stant wrote: »
    I'd be very interested in doing this. You can look up the old census records online, but they lost most of the older records in the Mansion house fire

    I'd imagine its pretty expensive to do it properly.

    "The Mansion House Fire" ?? Tell us more about that one


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  • #52
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    LizzieJones wrote: »
    One of my great-great grandmothers smoked a pipe and was a bit of a formidable woman in her day.

    Reminds me of my own grandmother, she used to keep racing pigs & had a three speed walking stick!


  • #53
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Have names and approx dates as far back as around start of 1800s for my family name. Probably mid 1800 for my mums side.

    On my Family name side, my Gran before she died was able to tell me so much detail on both my Grandfathers side, as well as her own, in terms of just names and dates, and appox places of birth.

    Learnt that one of my distant relations also fought in The Rising, and was executed for his part in it.


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