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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Westmeath => Topic started by: Lizzy55 on Friday 11 July 14 07:30 BST (UK)
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Looking for information on my Hassetts. My 3x-great-father John Hassett (b.c.1806) m. (1835) Catharine Batterby aka Catherine Battersby b.c.1800 Ireland. listed in Clonmellon Parish marriage records as John Hassen (also Hassan in kids' baptismal records).
John & Catherine Hassett had 4 children- Eleanor / Ellen b.1836, Mary b.c.1839/1841, John Jr. b.1843, and Catherine b.1847. The family emigrated to the US February of 1849 (ship Huma, landed Castle Garden, NY, USA 26March1849).
I was recently playing with my DNA results on GEDmatch & GEDCOM. It seems I match exactly 0 individuals researching Hassetts and I match a whole bunch of individuals researching Blennerhassett. Hence it appears that this Westmeath John Hassett is a Blennerhassett descendent. I'm really hoping for more information regarding his origins because it's questionable whether he was a Westmeath native.
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Have you seen the Blennerhassett family trees on the internet?
http://www.blennerhassettfamilytree.com/pages/BH52_MISC_USA_U.pdf
might be worth getting in touch and seeing if they can help make any connections :)
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Thank you, I have been recently in touch with the Blennerhassett researcher and informed him of my info, and he updating his research. But I needed a link to a tree and so I greatly thank you for that!