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Tetrachloride

(8,408 posts) Thu Sep 22, 2022, 10:02 PM Sep 2022

Irish testing: Kirkpatrick, O'Malley

if you have this in your family tree, you might be Irish.

We had Kelly.

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Irish testing: Kirkpatrick, O'Malley (Original Post) Tetrachloride Sep 2022 OP

Try Fitzgerald, ambiguous Irish/German Shellback Squid Sep 2022 #1

First generation yankee87 Sep 2022 #2

My Dad's paternal grandfather and grandmother were born BlueKota Mar 2024 #3

Shellback Squid

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1. Try Fitzgerald, ambiguous Irish/German

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Thu Sep 22, 2022, 10:11 PM

Sep 2022

yankee87

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2. First generation

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Fri Sep 30, 2022, 08:23 PM

Sep 2022

Both parents from County Cavan, Cotehill. Now famous for trout fishing and a medicine factory. Came over after the war.

BlueKota

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3. My Dad's paternal grandfather and grandmother were born

Reply to yankee87 (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 8, 2024, 05:31 PM

Mar 2024

in County Down and married in the Killinchy Presbyterian Church. His maternal grandmother was also born in County Down and also had ties to Killinchy.

Interesting that his maternal grandmother married an Italian Catholic, and his Mom (Irish/Italian Catholic) married into in Irish Presbyterian family.

Then my Dad married my Mom whose parents were born in Italy and were Catholic.

A curator at the museum told me since both groups experienced discrimination when they arrived in the U.S. they often bonded together over the shared experience so it wasn't that unusual. Also that it was common that the Presbyterians wh wanted to marry Catholics agreed to convert. Don't know if this was true all over, but according to her it was here in Western NY.

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