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Introduction
I am a direct descendent, on my father’s side, of the Hodgins, Memery and Gray families. In 1819, a small number of Fishermen from Brixham, Devon came over to Ireland at the invitation of the then Harbour Master James Stewart, who was attempting to invigorate the fishing industry in Ringsend, Dublin. The Brixham boats, crews…
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O’Reilly Family
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Lee Family
David O’Reilly Email 15 January 2016 Hi Guys, Attached include: Brouder: In the Newcastle Journal there is an article on Tossie Lee, descendant of our great, great grand parents Ralph Lee & Ellen Brouder/Broder. I also noticed on page 19 a Slater’s Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland 1870. It shows that a Patrick Brouder…
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Delahunty Family
John Delahunty married Brigid Garrahan (?) and they had two children, Mary in 1838 and Thomas around 1857, as found in Ancestry (presumed accurate based on convesation with Keith (?) ) John Delahunty was a farmer. I cannot find a birth record. However they were many Delahuntys around the South East at that time. Delahunty…
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Menzies Family
Menzies Family Margaret Menzies was born in Dublin, in 1900 to William and Annie Menzies . William was the son of John Menzies, and Anne the daughter of Jane Biggar, who died in the Adelaide hospital, Dublin in 1906. I have a letter from an A.C. (?) Chambers, of La Salle Avenue in Chigaco, written…
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Walker/Williams Families
George Walker was my Great Grandfather. I have managed to trace George Walker’s family to Scotland. A James (?) John (?) Stewart married Jane Strachan from Aberdeen and they had a daughter Margaret Garioch Stewart in 1843. Margaret Garioch Stewart was born in 1843 in Scotland (Aberdeen]. Jane Strachan was born c. 1808 and her…
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Millington Family
Phyllis Millington was the daughter of William Millington and Minnie Walker. William was from Liverpool. He came over to Belfast around 1920 to find work, and boarded in a house in the city. William’s mother was Mary Edith Hulme and his father Thomas Millington, who married in 1898. Mary Edith’s father was Robert Hulme, a…
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Hodgins Family
To date I have very little information on the Hodgins ancestors. James Hodgins, my great grandfather, was born in Lisburn according to the 1901 census. According to his marriage Certificate his father’s name was Robert, a mechanic. James was a minor so therefore less than 21 (assume 20 or 19?). FMP has a death of…
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Gray Family
My G Grandfather was John Gray, born in 1841, who married MaryAnne Memery (See Memery family chapter). Tracing backwards, its seems my G G Grandfather was also John Gray. This seems to be John Gray, a shipwright, born c. 1822, and married to Jane. He died in 1899, at age 77. I cannot find any…
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Memery Family
Memery Family My great grandmothers were Memerys, and were sisters. Both were daughters of a William Memery who it seems was the first Memery in the migration, although there is no actually record of his re-location to Dublin. Irish Geneological records show only one Memery before this time who may not have been resident (an…