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Ebrill of Limerick city

References

Notes by Patricia Lavelle in [PAT/2] and [PAT/31].
Ebrill papers.
Ebrill family grave, Garryowen, Limerick city.
Ebrill family tree, by Brian Ebrill.
Family tree research of Bill Ebrill.
Family tree research of Gail O'Sullivan.
Letters of Tot Waldron of Limerick
- Thomas "Tot" Waldron was born in 1885 in Nenagh. Lived Limerick from at least 1898. He worked briefly before 1907 in Ebrill's Auctioneers. He emigrated to the US in 1907. He died in the US in 1937.
- Paddy Waldron has offline electronic copy of Letters of Tot Waldron. Letters have mentions of the Ebrills.
- Two 1903 letters are on Ebrill Bros notepaper.

Origin of Ebrill

The family tradition is that the Ebrills were of Huguenot origin (Protestants from France fleeing persecution).
Though it looks like John Ebrill raised his children Catholic (i.e. they were Catholic pre-1805).

William Ebrill (bapt 1869) thought they were Huguenot.
Brian Ebrill's family thought they were possibly from the Brittany region. Charles S. Ebrill thought the Lyon region.
Felicity Ebrill said the family name had originally been d'Avril, and that her father Charles Ebrill had Protestant cousins.

Our family

Our family starts with:

John Ebrill,
born 1780.
He was a feather, skin and wool merchant in Mungret St, Limerick.
His wife was possibly born Protestant.
Their children were Catholic.

Close-up of Ebrill stained glass window, Redemptorists church, Limerick city.
It is obscured here, but it actually says "EBRILL", not "EBRIL".
Photo 2006. Light adjusted digitally. See full size and original.

Must be related

James Ebrill.
He sp the bapt of the son of Catherine Ebrill in Limerick in 1842.
George Ebrill.
He sp the bapt of the dau of Catherine Ebrill in Limerick in 1848.