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 Constable and the Girl from Clare James Douglas Hendren & Ellen Davin, 1827–1906 “Every life is shaped by choices. His were to serve, to leave, and to love; hers were to follow, to endure, and to begin again.”…
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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…
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Armorial shields are arms that had ancient and tribal significance, as opposed to arms that were later assumed by an individual as a part of a non-hereditary British knighthood. The arms of the Barrett family are based on word play,…
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THE MEANING OF THE NAME BARRETT It must be remembered that it wasn’t until about 1500 that the custom of everyone having one surname only and keeping it was generally established. Edward McLysaght[1] believes that the Irish Barretts were of…
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“Every life is shaped by choices. Eliza’s choice was to take an opportunity, use it to forge a new life: she was brave, courageous and resilient.” Elizabeth Sharkey is my grandmother’s grandmother, through an all-female line. I like to imagine…