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My family tree I have been researching my family tree since 1984, though really this started in 1983 when I started researching the history of the Thomond motor car that my grandfather built. How to read my narrative family trees: The format I am using is a hypertext version of the Burke's Peerage narrative format. Basically, to move around the tree you click on the "structural" links that use this style. Surnames I descend from the following families. This tree is not yet fully online: Humphrys (or Humphreys) of Co.Limerick and Co.Tipperary Everything is online except: Humphreys of Doonane (evicted branch) Humphries of Ballyvarra The history of the Thomond motor car These trees are fully online: Flanagan of Co.Dublin Collins of Crumlin, Co.Dublin Stack of Co.Kerry O'Callaghan of Co.Kerry O'Mara of Limerick Foley Casey Pigott of Limerick city Ebrill of Limerick city Gould of Limerick city Cashel (or Cashell) of Co.Kerry Kickham of Mullinahone, Co.Tipperary Armstrong Lyons O'Rahilly (or Rahilly, or O'Rahilly "Fionn", or The O'Rahilly) of Sliabh Luachra (and Ballylongford and Dublin) O'Sullivan (or Sullivan) of Meentoges, Co.Kerry McEllistrem of Ballylongford, Co.Kerry McCarthy of Ardfert, Co.Kerry Mangan of Shanagolden, Co.Limerick Nolan of Waterpark, Shanagolden, Co.Limerick Donovan of Lisgordan, Shanagolden, Co.Limerick Ryan (Ryan "Tim" or Ryan "Cadea") of Newross, Co.Tipperary One gateway ancestor My probable connection with the World family tree. Blennerhassett Cashel, son of George Cashel, probable descendant of Edward III. George Cashel is my gateway ancestor (my possible connection to the World family tree). George Cashel's mother is said to be "Letitia Blennerhassett". This Letitia is probably identical with Letitia Blennerhassett of Tarbert but this remains unproven. See Evidence that Letitia Blennerhassett of Tarbert is the mother of George Cashel. I descend through George Cashel from: Blennerhassett of Co.Kerry If Letitia Blennerhassett of Tarbert is the mother of George Cashel, then I descend from the following families: Goddard of Wiltshire Beale Mullins of Burnham House, Co.Kerry Rowan of Co.Kerry Dunlop Fitzgerald of Dunmaniheen, Killorglin, Co.Kerry. Leader Cross Eveleigh Caldwell Boyle Conway of Castle Conway, Killorglin, Co.Kerry Ryeves Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk, and of Co.Kerry Browne of Awney, Co.Limerick Tuchet Denny of Tralee Castle, Co.Kerry Roper, Viscount Baltinglass Harrington Champernowne Stoughton Nugent, Baron Delvin Lynne of Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire Kirkham of Northamptonshire Forrest of Morborne, Cambridgeshire And many other families that my wife also descends from. Hence I have separated these as our common family tree. These include a Royal Descent.

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My possible Royal Descent

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My relations

See also Our common relations.

• My grandfather:
  • Dick Humphreys, fought in the GPO in the Easter Rising 1916.
  • Frank Flanagan, British Army officer in WWI.

• My great-grandfather:
  • James O'Mara, Home Rule MP, Sinn Fein TD, Member of the First Dail.
  • Michael Flanagan, Alderman of Dublin.

• My great-grandmother:
  • Nell Rahilly, Urban Councillor.

• My great-great-grandfather:
  • Stephen O'Mara, Parnellite MP.
  • Richard Rahilly, Justice of the Peace.
  • James Humphrys, Poor Law Guardian.

• My great-great-great-grandfather:
  • James O'Mara, High Sheriff of Limerick.

• My blood relations (i.e. we both descend from a common ancestor):
  • The O'Rahilly, the only leader of the 1916 Rising to die in action.
  • Liam Cosgrave, prime minister of Ireland (Taoiseach).
  • The revolutionary Sighle Humphreys.
  • The Sinn Fein activist and County Councillor, Alice Cashel.
  • The Gaelic poet Aodhagán Ó Rathaille.
  • The scholar T.F. O'Rahilly.
  • The scholar Alfred O'Rahilly.
  • The scholar Cecile O'Rahilly.
  • Joseph O'Mara, the opera singer.
  • The practical joker The Bird Flanagan.
  • The jockey Fred Winter.
  • The pirate radio pioneer Ronan O'Rahilly.

• My blood relations (unproven):
  • The Fenian Charles Joseph Kickham (almost certain).
  • The poet James Clarence Mangan.
  • The Gaelic poet Eoghan Ruadh Ó Súilleabháin.
  • John Joe Rice, TD

• My in-laws:
  • What is an in-law? It means they are not a blood relation - there is no common ancestor. Both of you exist on separate trees which are tied at some point by marriage. We define a 1st-order in-law as meaning that there are just 2 separate trees, tied together by one marriage - a blood relation of yours and a blood relation of theirs married. If there were any children, then people exist who are blood relations of both of you in common.
  • A 2nd-order in-law would mean there are 3 trees, tied together by 2 marriages, and so on. Allowing n'th-order in-laws, probably anyone on the planet can be connected to anyone else.
  • So we will restrict ourselves to listing 1st-order in-laws. And not even all of them - e.g. the entire Royal Houses of Europe are already known 1st-order in-laws of mine (not just that - they are 1st-order in-laws of every single blood relation of mine in all of my family trees). So we will restrict ourselves to much closer sub-categories:

• My grand-uncle:
  • W.T. Cosgrave, the first prime minister of Ireland.

• My only non-Catholic ancestor:
  • It is almost certain that Edward Kickham's father was Charles Kickham, born 1752, Protestant.

My father's family had a telephone in 1898.

My mother's family had a telephone in 1905.

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My most recent non-Irish ancestors

I have no proven non-Irish ancestors.

If Letitia Blennerhassett of Tarbert is my ancestor, then my most recent non-Irish ancestors are:

• Up to 1736:
  I have ancestors in England.
  Capt. Thomas Goddard was born in Wiltshire around 1715. He came to Ireland with the Army in 1736 and married and stayed.

Possibly my most recent English ancestral home: North Tidworth, Wiltshire.
This is where Capt. Thomas Goddard grew up.
His father Rev. Thomas Goddard was Rector of this church 1708 to 1731.
Capt. Thomas Goddard left England for Ireland in 1736.

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"Stadfadsa feasta - is gar dom éag gan mhoill
ó treascradh dragain Leamhan, Léin is Laoi;
rachad 'na bhfasc le searc na laoch don chill,
na flatha fá raibh mo shean roimh éag do Chríost."

"I will stop now - my death is hurrying near
now that the warriors of the Laune, Lein and Lee are destroyed;
I will follow the beloved among heroes to the grave,
those princes under whom were my ancestors before the death of Christ."

- Deathbed poem (est c.1730) of Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granduncle.

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