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Information on the Irish surname Milmo

  • 01-05-2018 11:13am
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    Snickers Man
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    Perusing an interview with the British Labour Politician Chuka Umunna and noticed that he offered the titbit that he was of partly Irish origin.

    On to Wikipedia and it turns out his grandfather was a distinguished judge, called Helenus Milmo. (Ever met an Irish person called Helenus? Or Milmo?)

    He was born in Limerick but spent his youth in the Galway Gaeltacht. The 1911 Census reveals that his mother was an Irish speaker called Kathleen and that he had brothers named Domhnall, Peadar and Dermod.

    Helenus went on to become a lawyer and judge, served on the prosecution team at the post war Nuremberg trials and settled in England.

    Where on earth did a name like Milmo come from does anyone know? They seem to be the only such family in Ireland in 1911. Wikipedia also mentions another ancestor from Sligo who made a fortune in central America where he founded a company which still bears the Milmo name.

    Descendant of a Spanish Armada survivor, perhaps?

    Just curious.


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