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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Lentaigne family in Ireland
« on: Tuesday 26 December 17 22:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Anne :

I am a relation of John Francis O'Neill Letaigne through the O'Neills. My great-grandfather Charles O'Neill Conroy, K.C. O.B.E. was the only child of Elizabeth, who was the only child of Charles Henry O'Neill, The O'Neill of Clanaboy in the time of John Letaigne.

We descend from Hugh Oge O'Neill, while the O'Neill Letaignes through his brother Owen. Their father was Con mac Brian O'Neill, brother of Shane of Shanescastle, and their mother was a daughter of Sir Arthur Magennis and his wife Sorcha O'Neill, who was a daughter of the Great Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone.

Some good information about their family is available in Burke's Peerage here :

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA862-IA2&dq=mullaghgane%20antrim&pg=PA862-IA2#v=onepage&q=mullaghgane%20antrim&f=false

Here is our O'Neill family tree :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O%27Neill_Conroy_family_tree.jpg

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Dublin / Re: O’Grady & D’Alton living in the Malahide area of Dublin in the 1840’s
« on: Tuesday 26 January 16 10:42 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: dathai on Tuesday 22 December 15 09:11 GMT (UK)
https://www2.rarebooks.ie/shop/books/antrim-castle

O God thanks !  I knew these existed but the last one I saw was £1000, with the personal inscription I may have to buy it.  I have PDFs of it from Dublin University Magazine but this seems to good to pass.

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Dublin / Re: O’Grady & D’Alton living in the Malahide area of Dublin in the 1840’s
« on: Tuesday 22 December 15 01:37 GMT (UK)  »
I found this eulogy for my ggg-grandmother Margaret O'Grady, "Mrs. C. H. O'Neill", daughter of James O'Grady L.L.D., which names her brothers, Dr. O'Grady and Patrick O'Grady, evidently her brothers referred to earlier in this thread, the surgeons Michael O'Grady and P. H.J O'Grady.

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Dublin / Re: O’Grady & D’Alton living in the Malahide area of Dublin in the 1840’s
« on: Saturday 27 September 14 08:57 BST (UK)  »
Hello ! Excited to have found this thread.

I have been trying to find out more about my ggg-grandmother Mary Adeline Louise O'Grady for some time.  Today I found the address 27 Denzille Street for her father James O'Grady, LLD.

She married Charles Henry O'Neill of the Feevagh, County Antrim, who became the O'Neill of Clannyboy in 1855 when the Chichesters changed their name to O'Neill and inherited Shane's Castle due some eccentricities of their legal system utilised by the Earl O'Neill to convert the estate to freehold from estatehold.

Their only child was my gg-grandmother, she married James Gerve Conroy, and they had one son, Charles O'Neill Conroy, and moved to Newfoundland.  Charles Henry O'Neill was a barrister (he is often called "The Barrister") and one of the biggest collectors of Irish manuscripts in his day, and my gg-grandpa James Gerve Conroy was a classical language teacher, lawyer, MHA for Newfoundland, and then judge.

These other O'Gradys have to be the siblings of Margeret Adeline Louise, or I guess cousins, based on the address of her father James, and these surgeons.  So greetings cousins


Rian O'Maoilchonaire

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