Original MacDonald settlers in South Africa and their desendants MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are surnames of Scottish Origin. In the Scottish Gaelic and Irish languages they are patronymic, referring to an ancestor with given name Donald. The surname is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic MacDhòmhnaill or Dòmhnallach. The name is a patronym meaning 'son of Dòmhna...
Scope and aims ==Father Patrick Comerford has done a lot of research into the Comerford surname , registering it at the Guild of One Name Studies and posting his findings on his blog. He has cut through a lot of the unsubstantiated older family history and has pinpointed two origins for the name and its variants - Comberford in Staffordshire and Quemerford in Wiltshire near Calne. The Irish Com...
RMS Lusitania=On May 7, 2015 it was 100 years ago the Lusitania disaster took place. This project aims to identify and list the survivors and casualties of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania . The Lusitania project will become an ongoing project with the aim to build all passenger family-trees ==Overview==The sinking of the RMS Lusitania , of the Cunard Line After being torpedoed off the Irish co...
Please relate and index Ireland-based DNA projects here. Ireland DNA Projects (alphabetically) References ”Top 5 Irish Ancestry Surprises All Irish Should Know.” “Here is an infographic to help you visualize Ireland’s genetic roadmap through time:”
=About the Irish Portal=Portal for people who are interested in Irish genealogy.The aim of this portal is to make this a very useful tool for research, and a place to meet other people tracing their Irish ancestors=='''What can you do here?'''==* '''Ask questions.'''* '''Collaborate on your research.'''* '''Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area. '''...
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[ ]University College Dublin (also known as UCD) (Irish: An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath (COBÁC)), formally known as UnIn the years following Catholic Emancipation in Ireland, a movement led by Dr Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Armagh and, later, Archbishop of Dublin (and later created a Cardinal), attempted to provide for the first time in Ireland higher-level education that was both acce...
Many Irish families can trace their lineage back to a particular sept of Irish High Kings, through surname if not generation by generation. The English invasions led to the destruction of specifics, so generally only surname info is available prior to the 1800s."Medieval Irish historical tradition held that Ireland had been ruled by an Ard Rí or High King since ancient times, and compilations l...
This project is to create a Collaborative template to defer to for the Medieval Irish tree on Geni . Please come & help to get it as correct as we can.I've begun by using Charles Cawley's Medlands as the initial format - mostly because he's the best laid out internet resource to cut & paste from. We can edit in / over further sources, as we go, this being a very long-term project an all :-) Sha...
For a comparatively small population of about 6 million people, Ireland has made an an especially enormous contribution to literature. =Famous Irish * Abraham Stoker * Pierce Brosnan * W. B. Yeats * John Jack Butler Yeats * C. S. Lewis * Maureen O'Sullivan * Liam Neeson >>>>>--------------------------------------- Wikipedia
People Connected to County Tipperary====Republic of Ireland See also >===== County Tipperary Burials >===== County Tipperary - Main Page >===== County Tipperary Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards >===== Historic Buildings of County Tipperary
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People Connected to County Wexford====Republic of Ireland See also>===== County Wexford Burials >===== County Wexford - Main Page >===== County Wexford Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards >===== Historic Buildings of County Wexford
Doran is an Irish surname that derives from Ua Deoráin ( Ó Deorain ), a shortened version of Ua Deoradháin ( Ó Deoradhain ). " Deoradh " is a Gaelic word that means "exile", "wanderer" or "stranger". The O'Doran family are known as the chief Brehon (law-makers) of Leinster. They are said to be one of the Seven Septs of Loígis, an off-shoot of the Red Branch who travelled South to defeat a Muns...
Irish Writers=For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature The earliest recorded Irish writing dates from the seventh century and was produced by monks writing in both Latin and Early Irish.The English language was introduced to Ireland in the thirteenth century, following the Norman Conquest of Ireland. The Irish language, howev...
Irish Diaspora=The Irish diaspora Diaspóra na nGael consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil and states of the Caribbean and continental Europe. The diaspora, maximally interpreted, contains over 80 million people, which is over thirteen times the populati...
Peter Robinson Settlers in Canada= 200 anniversary 'The year 2025 will see a celebration of significance in celebration of the two hundreth anniversary of the arrival of the Peter Robinson settlers in the Canadian Peterborough area. ==Scope of this project==This is a project for documenting the Irish settlers brought to Ontario in 1823 and 1825 by Peter Robinson . This project aim is to help de...
IRELAND Place Projects= Fáilte! This is a sub-project of International Places Project Index Every person is born somewhere, marries, lives, works and dies somewhere. Places are a key component to family history research. This project aims to be the starting point in your search for a place in IRELAND on Geni to discover more about your ancestors. If a place you are looking for in IRELAND is not...
The Irish in South Africa==Nineteenth-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities were to be found in Cape town, port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London. As one would expect, a fair number of those in British colonial service in the sub-continent were Irish. A third of the Cape's go...
The Doyle surname comes from the Gaelic name O Dubhghail , which means son ("O") of the dark ("dubh") stranger ("ghall"). The Doyles in Ireland are mainly found in Wexford, Wicklow, Waterford and Carlow. ==Resources==* Doyle at House of Names* Doyle at the Surname Database* Doyle at Irish Central* Doyle on the Ancestry.co.uk forums* The Doyle Clan , for descendants of Daniel Doyle and Anne Carb...
The following is from Richard Wilson's Find A Grave Profile 73681317Birth: 1767, Ireland Death: Apr. 11, 1850 Savannah Jackson County North Carolina, USARichard Wilson was married to Rachel Strain (1773-1851), daughter of Andrew Strain, Sr. and his wife Mary (Burgin?) Strain, about 1794 in North Carolina (either Iredell or Burke County). Together they have nine known children. It has been sai...
Irish emigration to Australia=Irish Australians form the second largest ethnic group in Australia, numbering 1,919,727 or 9.0 per cent of respondents in the 2001 Census.Irish settlers – both voluntary and forced – were crucial to the development of the Australian colonies from the earliest days of European settlement. The Irish first came over in large numbers as convicts (50,000 were transport...
Haplogroup H1am is mostly present in the families with maternal lineages originating in the British Isles, including several families in the United States with their maternal lineages traced back to the early 17th century in the British America. Another group consists of eleven Finnish maternal lineages, of which six are traced back to the 17th century (circa 1620–circa 1700) and the rest five...
The Huguenots in Ireland =Around the start of the eighteenth century, as Irish conditions became more settled, two groups of continental Protestant refugees were settled in the country with official, or semi-official help. The first of these, the Huguenots , were French Calvinists persecuted intermittently by the Catholic rulers of France throughout the seventeenth century. The second group wer...
Battleground Ireland=Ireland became a battleground almost by accident - having left England, James II had de facto handed William the crown on a silver plate. His only hope of restoration was linked to a return to his realm. And only one part was considered secure and sympathetic enough - Catholic Ireland, effectively ruled by the Jacobite Tyrconnel.Tyrconnel was determined to hold on to power ...