Cathal Brugha - Possible Burgess leads to explore

Great article as not much is known about the family. btw I am an editor for Wistorical the page is created by Turtle Bunbury the Irish historian. I agree we should try and connect him if the Irish records allow this and then move the research to France

Oh, excellent! Not surprised that you're involved. :)

The site is slow for me at the moment, so I'm not going to do much adding of profiles yet. But I did recently put in an ILL request for the most recent UCD MA thesis on Brugha, so maybe I'll get some info out of that. And I have Catherine Jennings Brugha's contact info somewhere...

I wonder if we could tie Cathal in through the South African tree due to his brother Edward "Eamon" Burgess. Sharon Doubell, would it be possible to track him down with just a death year? I'm not sure how common Burgess is as a surname there.

Yes Burgess is a known surname in SA. I'm not sure about death records on line that recently. I'll put a request in to the South African project that is actively looking for documents - maybe they can find something.

MH seems to think that they have extra siblings for him?

cf https://www.geni.com/discussions/168935

Thanks...I would not have know to ask in that particular project.

Yes, there were 11-14 children in the family, but I haven't added everyone yet. The best hopes for connecting Cathal would seem to be this South African path, or maybe his first cousin once removed Roseanna Love who went to Chicago. I plan to work on the Chicago possibility later.

I did try looking for Edward last night in some on-line South African trees, but no luck.

:-) I was checking whether any other siblings came to SA.

We do now have a super wonky path, but it's all through in-laws:

Cathal Brugha is your 6th great uncle's second great nephew's wife's first cousin once removed's husband's second cousin once removed's husband's grandfather.