For many years, other family researchers have added Joseph Mallett and Sarah Jordan of Pettistree to their trees as the parents of my direct ancestor, Thomas Mallett 1761-1838 from Lowestoft and Kessingland in Suffolk. THIS IS NOT CORRECT!! Joseph and…
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Patrick and Ellen Barrett: The Long Journey from Gushedy “Every family story begins with a choice — to stay, or to go.” Patrick Barrett was born in December 1777 in County Fermanagh, the son of Owen Barrett, a farmer, and…
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The California Gold Rush began in January 1848 with the first announcement in Australia on December 23, 1848 in the Sydney Morning Herald. The news of the discovery soon spread around the world and by the end of January 1849,…
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Our Earliest Known Ancestors – Owen Barrett and Ann Logan Dr Brian Turner, Director of the Down County Museum and the Ulster Historical Foundation suggested, in reply to my enquiry: “Barrett [name] is uncommon in Fermanagh, but it is much…
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County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland What was County Fermanagh like when our Barrett ancestors lived there before making the enormous decision to emigrate to the other side of the world in 1841? In the early part of the eighteenth century the…
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Michael Barrett was a Fenian patriot. Accused of murder he was the last man to be publicly hanged in England in 1868. When I visited County Fermanagh in May 1994, on asking the locals for information on the Barrett family…