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« on: Thursday 01 October 09 20:00 BST (UK) »
Hi Christine,
Apologies for not replying earlier. I've had no Internet for months.
I'm afraid I've very little on the O'Haras and no idea where Mary O'Hara was born on Achill Island. All I know is that her father was a Martin O'Hara and oral history was that she lived in Newport before emigrating to England between 1850 and 1868. She was born around 1850.
I've done very little on this side of the family, so sorry not to be able to help. There could be a connexion - who knows - but I've too little info to make one I'm afraid.
I do actually have a photograph of Mary O'Hara who married a Thomas Gallagher in Rochdale 1868.
Eagleye