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Dear Patricia
I am an Australian descendant of Irish Berminghams and I have been given a family tree which describes very briefly the origins of the Berminghams in Ireland:
The Berminghams were prominent in Irish and English history from 1100 to 1799 when the last titled one, Thomas Earl of Louth died. This Thomas was the 22nd Baron of Athenry in the County of Galway, Ireland, the first being Pierce (Peter) de Bermingham in 1234. On 23 April 1759 he was made Earl of Louth and by this title he took his seat in Parliament seven months later on 23 November. When the Earl died in 1799 the Earldom of Louth became extinct and the Barony of Athenry was suspended.
It appears that an ancestor of Thomas, namely William de Bermingham was prominent int he time of Henry I of England (born 1068 died 1135) when he had a castle at Birmingham. The first of the family to go to Ireland was Robert de Bermingham who accompanied Strongbow in the Anglo-Norman invasion of that land. In 1235 Peter de Bermingham took part in the conquest of Connacht, where the family acquired a great territory in the Barony of Dunmore, County Galway, which came to be called Bermingham's country.
In the fourteenth century the Berminghams were vert prominent, particularly JOhn who was the victor at the famous Battle of Faughert (1318) where Edward Bruce was defeated and Richard (from whom the Bermingham Tower in Dublin Castle is named) when he won the decisive victory at Athenry in 1316.
--all this information was compiled by my uncle Jack Callaghan who was married to Alma Bermingham.
The Australian branch of the Bermingham family began with the arrival of John Bermingham (son of James and Mary, nee Hambrook)born Rosscommon, Ireland on October 7, 1849. He arrived at Port Albert Australia in 1867.
Hope you find this information helpful, please contact me if you have anything to add.
Kerry
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