Re: Hennessey / Walsh 1851 Nova Scotia
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Re: Hennessey / Walsh 1851 Nova Scotia
Sheila Matheson 2/13/11
So glad to hear from you so soon!
I think I found some kind of documentation on familysearch.org but the website has been buggy on me lately. The internet is crazy because within a day I phoned my mother with what I had found and it almost caught up to what my family had taken months and years to find through communication with each other. What I have via family lore is Ellen Welsh (born Molloy) 1793-1878 married John Welsh 1786-1807. This is confusing to me as the dates that were given to me do not make any sense with their daughter Ellen as I have her being born in 1823.
Ellen Molloy is the name that my mother gave me through what family has passed down. I believe that there I found soemthing on familysearch.org but it was some time ago. However there is some kind of crazy story that she descends from the daughter of a wealthy Englishman named Ellen(?) Tucker and she married Thomas(?) Molloy, who was an Irishman who worked in the estate and they ran off to Canada. However I am skeptical if that story is even remotely true (I actually found a story in hilariously similar detail involving a Lynch so I feel like there is much variation in this "legend" of sorts.)
You may have an easier time looking up variations of Walsh such as Welsh (which is what I had been told it was) and possibly even Welch.
But I have noticed that nearly all the Lynch's ended up in Boston. I could only find 9 children through free records. 12 sounds quite interesting. Michael Lynch and Elizabeth Hennessey's son Mark Lynch is my great great grandfather. My great grandfather, also Mark Lynch, had 5 kids and all the cousins are in good touch with each other. I have quite a bit of family in New England (still a bunch within an hour of Boston)that descends from the Lynch's however I only know the descents of my great grandfather.
What I have been trying to do is trace the names back as far as I can. Do you have any further information on Timothy Hennessey. Possibly where his parents are from?