Stories Of My Irish Families

Irish Native/Planter Stories

Sunday, 21 June 2015

A 1789 Letter that defines - "Images Tell Stories" One of the greatest pieces of Family History that I came across, were 2 Photographic Negative Glass Plates and the story of a letter on how it managed itself to Australia. On these 2 Glass Plates, sat 2 pages of a letter that was photographed, most...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Sunday, June 21, 2015 No comments
Images can depict so much of a story, beyond our thoughts. Over the years of my research and being able to get into photography, is that I have learnt that a Portrait / Photograph of one's Ancestors or any image of any type, depicts not only the person, but defines a snapshot in time to a lost era. Images...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Sunday, June 21, 2015 No comments

Sunday, 31 May 2015

Maternal Lineage to the Persse's of Roxborough - Co. Galway It was explained to me about 18 years ago by a family tree that was supplied by Great Aunt, that we had connection to the Great family of the Persse's of Co. Galway. At first I didn't know what this meant, but now I do. A link to help a bit...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Sunday, May 31, 2015 3 comments

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

 Battle of Waterloo 200 Years Anniversary - June 1815 - June 2015 Family history research, gets quite involved when you can dig up stories this far back. It's even more involved when multiple family members are involved with the same story, albeit a few years apart. The Battle of Waterloo...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Wednesday, May 27, 2015 No comments

Sunday, 10 May 2015

My Direct Male Lineage to Ireland - Fitzgerald What is known that 2 Generations (William and son Thomas) were from Cork City, it is unsure where William's Father originated. I'm suspecting he may have traveled from Far West Cork, or from Limerick to be placed in Cork City by the 1800 era. (image...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Sunday, May 10, 2015 No comments

Saturday, 9 May 2015

My Direct Female Line to Ireland - Blood/Persse/Newenham/Blakeney/Burton/Davies Anne Blood is the Daughter of Neptune Blood and Marianne Davies. They are the Blood's of Applevale - County Clare and distant relatives of the famous Thomas Blood, who went on to steal the Crown Jewels. It isn't known...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Saturday, May 09, 2015 No comments

Friday, 1 May 2015

Understanding my deep "Irish" connection between Protestant and "Young Irelander-ism". I am now at a weird, but deep phase on understanding this Irish Family History of mine. So deep, that I am having trouble with the complexity of 2 'very different' cultural lines of "Irish". One being Protestant...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Friday, May 01, 2015 No comments

Friday, 17 April 2015

Maternal connection through my Newenham / Burton Line to the Usher's In recent weeks, through DNA technology, I have been able to identify, a little bit more of my lineage. Almost of "untold proportions" and this connection, also connects to more of a Lord Mayor of Dublin link than I ever thought...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Friday, April 17, 2015 No comments

Saturday, 28 March 2015

In search of who killed Lt. Charles Burton Newenham - 1793 Departing from Genetic Genealogy for a bit, I wanted to focus on a story that I can't keep my mind off. With the 200 years anniversary of the end of Napoleon's reign, coming up in June 2015, I wanted to step back a further 22 years...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Saturday, March 28, 2015 No comments

Monday, 9 March 2015

Am I of "Native Irish" Blood or I am of Norman Blood? Since I last posted, I'm getting into something much deeper, than I expected. That is, my Paternal Line (Y-DNA) has shone a light to mostly being of "Native Irish" descent, but I struggle to comprehend how deep this goes. I have placed myself in a few DNA projects and finally seeing a trend, that doesn't seem to fit with what I know of. My surname is supposed to carry the story of the Norman Conquest of Ireland in 1169 AD. But interestingly, I do not show the Y-DNA Haplogroup to Normandy or any other earlier European/African DNA structure. When...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Monday, March 09, 2015 2 comments

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Part 2 - Y-DNA & Autsomal DNA Picture Maps Well, here is my Y-DNA & Autosomal details as based in images. (Please click on the images for separate viewing) FTDNA - Ethnic Origin   Gedmatch Details - Admixture with Oracle (4 Populations) : FTDNA Details of my Y-DNA 67...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Tuesday, January 06, 2015 No comments

Saturday, 27 December 2014

Part 1 - Y-DNA and the Irish Fitzgerald connection. About 10-11 Months have passed, quite a lot of data has been collated, but still not fully understood (would have to be a professor to understand it?). But it has shone a light, that I am on to something, quite extraordinary, particularly heading to my Paternal heritage. In essence, I initially used the DNA to trace connections to my Maternal heritage, but after a while it seemed to become stonewalled, because I could not connect with surety, of other Family DNA matches other than the Irish "Galway" Persse family. I had no other people who I...
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by Stories Of My Irish Families Saturday, December 27, 2014 No comments

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