Miscellaneous possibly related families
Miscellaneous Flanagans in the area
(note though that it is a common surname):
-
William Flanagan,
mealman, Dublin,
will pr 1746
[NAI].
-
William Flanagan,
"gardener", Rathfarnham, Co.Dublin,
will pr 1760
[NAI].
- William Flanagan, born 1775,
of Thomas St, Dublin,
mar Ann ----,
died 12 Apr 1803, age 28 yrs,
she erected grave
[St. Maelruain's graveyard, Tallaght].
- Michael (poss.Flanagan),
mar Elizabeth --- and had issue:
- Catherine (poss.Flanagan), bapt 1st Jan 1831 [Rathfarnham parish records],
sp (poss.Rourke) and Margaret Doyle.
Michael Francis Doyle thought he was a cousin.
[Frank Flanagan's memoirs] say he was:
"A relation of mine".
Nothing to Joe Doyle's family though.
(Left) Michael Francis Doyle and his wife Nancy,
after audience with
Pope Pius XII,
Jan 1951.
(Right) Michael Francis Doyle
with the new
Pope John XXIII,
1958.
See full size.
Michael Francis Doyle,
born c.1880, Irish-American,
international lawyer, very wealthy,
mar Nancy ---, no issue,
came from America to advise
Roger Casement's
defence in
1916,
friend of George Bernard Shaw,
devout Catholic,
he was a
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre,
he left about £40,000
to repair the roof of the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
in Jerusalem,
close friend of
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
adviser to Harry S. Truman, US President 1945-53,
at start of Cold War,
"Truman's right-hand man",
NUI
conferred Doctorate of Laws on him,
Nancy fl 1951,
he was part of an American syndicate that purchased
Kenmare House, Killarney, Co.Kerry in 1957,
he fl 1958.
Listed as cousins of Sr. Padua
at her funeral 1936:
Mr. J. Byrne, and his wife.
Dev's wife:
Eoin O'Mahony,
the scholar, traveller and
amateur genealogist,
and friend of Frank Flanagan,
claimed that Eamon de Valera's wife was a relation
of these Flanagans.
Liam Cosgrave says this is not true:
"As far as I am aware the views of Eoin O'Mahoney are based on his vivid imagination
which had great flights of fancy".
Think W.T. Cosgrave said
"That was the only thing that Dev and I ever had in common,
was that we both married Flanagans.".
John Flanagan
remembers hearing as a child that De Valera was somewhere in the family tree.
Laurence Flanagan,
of Carbery, Co.Kildare, had issue:
- Sinéad Flanagan,
born 1st June 1878 [grave],
born Jane or Janice Flanagan, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin,
mar Eamon de Valera
(and here
and here)
and had issue
[see DE VALERA in [Burkes Irish, 1976]].
See
their grave, Glasnevin
(and here
and here
and here).
The singer
Sinéad O'Connor
was named after her.
Lamphier and Lawlor:
Frank Flanagan said that
Lawlor of Irishtown House, Clondalkin, Co.Dublin,
were relations.
But Dody Lawlor said they weren't.
She said the Flanagans were gardeners to the Lamphiers
when the Lamphiers lived at
Drimnagh Castle,
and that is how the 2 families knew each other.
However John Byrne says there is no record
of the Lamphiers ever living at Drimnagh Castle.
In fact, it seems that the Flanagans knew the Lawlors
from before they were connected with Lamphier.
Whether related or not,
Liam Cosgrave says
the families
were always very good friends:
Lieut. Joseph Lamphier,
NOT Lanphier, French,
mar Bridget --- [born 1788],
he was bur Goldenbridge cemetery,
Inchicore, 7th Nov 1838,
family lived 142 James's St, Dublin, before c.1850,
Bridget bur Goldenbridge, 23rd Feb 1870, age 82 yrs,
had issue:
- Marianne Lamphier [or Maryanne],
born est c.1820,
mar John Lawlor
[born est c.1810] and had issue.
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