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Re: Napoleon baptised in Kenmare...what the heck?
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 19 September 19 18:53 BST (UK) »
Hello, I had another answer from the Napoleon Foundation in Paris. The person who first answered explained that she'd talked to her colleagues and they're under the impression that it is a spoof, a "fervert Napoleonist" is their opinion.
Rathmore, the Bonaparte/Wyse people are Corsican (as was Napoleon 1st) and most of them seemed to have gone off eslewhere, but some descendants may have stayed in Ireland. Also you said it was dangerous times for folks to be travelling around. The baptism in Paris definately didn't have any notable Irish people there. And finally, the Irish Brigade had been disbanded by 1823.
As for the Ancestry forum message, it was very curious but Father O'Callaghan wouldn't have married and had children, he was a priest. However, he may have had a brother.
My preferred conclusion is the one suggested by the County Kerry archivists; that Charles O'Callaghan wanted to mark his matriculation in 1823 and somehow managed to get the registration made and that he was a passionate follower of Napoleon. In his lifetime there had been a lot of Irish support for Napoleon.