112,066 Global O'CONNOR Family Members

Peter Whitson

The ruins of a Connor family member's County Louth farmhouse. About a km east of the carpark at the end of Gyles Quay Road in Maddoxland on the Cooley peninsula. A truly emotional visit!

Peter Whitson

In Galicia and Asturias, Celtic languages are not spoken and in ancient times the majority language there was not Celtic

"(...)Lusitano-Gallaecian,non-Celtic language (...)" / "(...) lusitano-galaico, lengua no-celta (...)": VARIA PALAEOHISPANICA OCCIDENTALIA, Blanca María Prósper, Universidad de Salamanca, Palaeohispanica 4, (2004): ]https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/23/23/10prosper.pdf

(Image: "Un pays celtique est un pays où l'on parle une langue celtique. Il y en a six dans le monde et pas un de plus

A Celtic country is a country where a Celtic language is spoken. There are six in the world and not one more": NHU, votre média breton indépendant, 18 de febrero de 2024: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=839935224811163&set=a.704620998342587

"Galician is not just a Romance language, as stated above, but rather one of the most faithful representations of Vulgar Latin, that was implanted in the country between the 1st and the 6th centuries of our era.(...)": HISTORY, OPEN GUIDE TO GALICIAN LANGUAGE, CONSELLO DA CULTURA GALEGA: http://consellodacultura.gal/cdsg/loia/historia.php...

"Asturian, which is also known as Bable, is a Romance European language evolved from Latin (...)": Multilingualism in European Language Education, Cecilio Lapresta-Rey, ?Dr. Ángel Huguet, Multilingual Matters; Illustrated edición (9 mayo 2019): https://books.google.es/books?id=x8aqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72...

"Lusitanian (Lus.), also Lusitano-Galician, is the modern exonym for a fragmentarily attested IE language in the West of the Iberian Peninsula, extending from the Atlantic Coast to the western borders of Castilia and from the Douro in the north to the Guadiana and the lower Tajo in the south. The name is derived from the ancient Lusitani in whose area the inscriptions were found.(...) The position of Lusitanian within Indo-European

The IE character of Lus. is immediately apparent from the inflectional endings. It clearly belongs to the Western IE linguistic area and represents a rather typical “old-IE” language, but its genetic relationship to other IE languages remains disputed. Divine names are shared with the Gallaeci, north of the Lusitani.

A special relationship to Celtic has been suggested, but cannot be substantiated: similarities with Celtiberian in derivational morphology could reflect mutual influence (the potentially shared thematic gen. sg. in -o is remarkable, unless the Lus. forms are instrumentals); lexical correspondences with Celtic (Lus. Crougeai~ OIr. crúach ‘hill’) rest on etymological speculation. More recently, similarities of Lus. with Italic have been stressed.(...)": Lusitanian, David Stifter, Maynooth (Ireland), 2018, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: https://www.academia.edu/19947011/113._Lusitanian

"(...) the Indo-European but clearly non-Celtic language that we today call Lusitanian.(...)": Book Reviews: Alejandro G. Sinner, Javier Velaza (eds.). Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies. Oxford University Press, 2019, Juan Luis García Alonso, University of Salamanca, Spain, Journal of Language Relationship, ? 19/3-4, 2021: https://www.academia.edu/.../Alejandro_G_Sinner_Javier...

"An unprejudiced look at the available evidence shows that Lusitanian is genetically closer to Italic and incompatible with Celtic at any stage.(...)": The Lusitanian oblique cases revisited: new light on the dative endings, Blanca María Prósper, Universidad de Salamanca, Curiositas nihil recusat. Studia Isabel Moreno Ferrero dicata, Universidad de Salamanca, 2021: https://www.academia.edu/.../The_Lusitanian_oblique_cases...

"(...) in the north-western quarter of the peninsula there were hardly any Palaeohispanic inscriptions. Writing took a long time to reach this area, the most distant from the Mediterranean; it only did so in the form of the Latin alphabet under Roman rule. The languages spoken there are known through the place-name evidence, and through the names of people, gods, and communities that appear in Latin inscriptions. For the moment, suffice it to say that the linguistic situation must have been complex, with a fairly homogeneous Indo-European horizon that included the language that we call Lusitanian, which is barely known from an epigraphic point of view with only half a dozen inscriptions in the Latin alphabet; the language or languages spoken in Gallaecian territory, to the north of the River Douro, almost certainly close to Lusitanian; and finally, various Celtic enclaves, the consequence of a movement that was only brought to an end by the Romans.(...)": Method and methods Studying Palaeohispanic languages as a discipline, J. de Hoz, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies, pp. 1-24, 2019, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: https://www.academia.edu/.../J_de_Hoz_Method_and_methods...

"(...) Justin says that Gallaeci had a Greek origin (Gallaeci autem Graecam sibi originem adserunt) (...)": MYTHICAL ORIGINS OF GREEK TOPONIMY IN THE NORTHWEST IBERIAN PENINSULA, Domingo Plácido, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 192 Electronic Antiquity 11.1, 2006:

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/.../ElAnt/V11N1/pdf/placido.pdf

"(...) we do have Greek (Ptolemy II. 4.11 in the Baetica province; II.5.5 in Lusitania) and Latin (Pliny 3.13) references, as we have already mentioned, to certain groups of ‘Celtici’ (in the Northwest or in the Southwest) that our sources seem to consider recent offshoots from Celtiberia proper.

Celtiberian is a quite well known member of the Celtic language family and there is nothing controversial about its classifcation as such. Its relation to other possible varieties of Celtic in Hispania (for which we use the vague label of Hispano-Celtic) is difcult to assess, since there are no epigraphic attestations of any other Celtic language or dialect in Hispania, as far as I can see.(...) We have no certainty about the linguistic reality of the regions within the Indo-European section of Hispania beyond Celtiberia or the Lusitanian region for which we do not enjoy the luxury of having a native epigraphy. We might assume some regions were wholly or mostly Celtic-speaking, but the evidence of the presence of Lusitanian as well makes the specific delimitation of both language areas on a map uncertain, without forgetting that, apparently, Celtic speakers were settling in lands where the previous language was possibly Lusitanian.(...)": The South-West of Ancient Hispania in its Linguistic and Epigraphic Context, Juan Luis García Alonso, Universidad de Salamanca, 2023, Journal of Celtic Linguistics: https://www.academia.edu/.../_The_South_West_of_Ancient...

"Ancient Celtic-looking place-names (...) Nearly half of the relevant peninsular names contain Celtic versions of the Proto-Indo-European root *bhr?gh- ‘high’ which in Celtic developed the distinctive form *brig-, whence the Celtic words *brig-s and *briga, which gave Old Irish brí and Welsh bre respectively. These Insular Celtic words mean simply ‘hill’, but on the Continent the meaning seems to be ‘hillfort’ or ‘oppidum’ and in northwest Hispania briga is often translated as castellum in Latin sources (Luján 2011; Sims-Williams 2006, 49–53, 307, 328; Untermann 2018, 136). For occurrences in the Barrington data (Talbert 2000), see Figure 4. Out of my 153 locations in Hispania with ‘Celtic-looking’ names (Sims-Williams 2006, 142–51), 62 (41 per cent) included BRIG (or its variants BRIC, BIRIK, BRIS, BRIA), the next most popular string being SEG (or SEK) ‘power, victory’, in 17 locations (12 per cent). Thus the Celtic-looking toponymy of Hispania is heavily weighted towards BRIG and is much less varied than that of areas such as France and Britain. This monotonous lack of variety suggests that it lacks chronological depth. Moreover, alongside true Celtic compounds like Sego-briga ‘power-hillfort’ (in Celtiberia) we find many hybrids with non-Celtic or even Latin first elements, e.g. Conim-briga (now Coimbra, Portugal) and Flavio-briga (Castro Urdiales, Spain), the name of the latter colonia having replaced Amanum portus according to Pliny (Natural History 4.20.110). Such hybrids may sometimes indicate no more than an awareness of the prestige of Celtic culture in the way that modern English-medium creations like Bourn-ville and Minnea-polis reflect the prestige of French and Greek. It is well known that foreign place-name elements can be borrowed in bilingual communities and then spread into non-bilingual areas, a case in point in Welsh toponymy being cnwc ‘hill’, from Irish cnoc (Wmffre 2007, 54-6). Another example is *burg- from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhr?gh-. This was borrowed by the Romans from Germanic (or from a language such as ‘East Alpine Indo-European’) as burgus ‘watchtower, citadel’, a word that then turned up in Latin place-names as far afield as north Africa (Sims-Williams 2006, 4, 317–18). In the same way, Celtic briga may have been current as a term for various types of hillforts and oppida in Iberia well outside the Celtic-speaking regions (cf. Gorrochategui & Vallejo 2019, 340 n. 11; Luján 2019, 327–81; Sims-Williams 2012b, 44). And in areas where Celtic names are otherwise rare, briga/castellum may indicate relatively recent Celtic intrusions (Luján 2011). Given the chronology of hillforts in the peninsula (Arenas-Esteban 2012, 36; Fernández-Götz 2018, 146-7; Lorrio & Ruiz Zapatero 2005, 222), it is hard to imagine that many of the peninsular -briga names are much older than the first millennium BC.(…)”:

An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West’, Patrick Sims-Williams, Aberystwyth University, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2020: https://www.cambridge.org/.../4F186F087DD3BE66D535102484F...

"We could add that -briga names are paradoxically more frequent in the West (see this 2005 map of mine) most likely for reasons having to do with the actual meaning of the word (‘hill-fort’), which made it very appropriate for place names in perhaps hostile new lands. -Briga is more frequent overall in Spain than in Gaul, where -dunum is more frequent, but it is less frequent in the most clearly Celtic areas of Hispania (Celtiberia), where Celtic speakers had been established for centuries, than in areas where, it seems, Hispano-Celts were recent newcomers and had spread only thinly.(...)": The South-West of Ancient Hispania in its Linguistic and Epigraphic Context, Juan Luis García Alonso, Universidad de Salamanca, 2023, Journal of Celtic Linguistics: https://www.academia.edu/.../_The_South_West_of_Ancient...

"Besides Roman soldiers they had active Asturians and nimble Vettones, and Celts, emigrants from an ancient tribe of Gaul, who added their own name to that of the Hiberians.[3]" (Lucan, Pharsalia IV, 8-10), [3] Celtiberian was the compound name, Lucan : the civil war books I-X (Pharsalia): https://archive.org/stream/lucancivilwarboo00lucauoft...

"In the Iberian Peninsula in antiquity, several languages were spoken of which certainly one, Celtiberian, belonged to the Celtic family; it is possible that there were other Celtic dialects spoken there for which we do not have direct evidence. Celtiberian is named after the Celtiberian people, a tribe which, when the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 218 BC, occupied part of the valley to the south of the river Ebro, in the current province of Saragossa, the province of Teruel, and the eastern part of the northern plateau. The name “Celtiberians”, of Greek origin, probably means “Celts of Iberia”, in contrast to the inhabitants of the “Keltiké”, modern-day France. Their language is found in a series of inscriptions (see below) which has been identified as a Celtic language.(…)”: Celtiberian, Javier de Hoz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Wieser Enzyklopädie. Sprachen des europäischen Westens, 2008: https://www.academia.edu/11086410/2008_Celtiberian_Keltoiberisch_Wieser_Enzyklopädie._Sprachen_des_europäischen_Westens_U._Ammon_and_H._Haarmann_eds._Klagenfurt_pp._83-90

"This paper outlines the individual histories of the attested ancient Celtic epigraphic traditions, Italo-Celtic, Celtiberian, Gaulish and Ogam-Irish.(...) The South-Western or ‘Tartessian’ corpus, almost 100 inscriptions from the very South-West corner of the Iberian Peninsula, does not belong to Celtic, although there have been attempts to show that they are evidence for an early Celtic language (Koch 2009, 2011). Their linguistic affiliation is unknown and only highly speculative interpretations have been proposed so far.(...)": The Early Celtic Epigraphic Evidence and Early Literacy in Germanic Languages, David Stifter, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, North-Western European Language Evolution, 2020:

https://www.academia.edu/.../The_Early_Celtic_Epigraphic...

"The study and consideration of the Celts in Spain over the last 20 years may be summed up by two key but very different facts: on the one hand, academic archaeologists have focused on the Celtiberian world on the eastern side of the Iberian Plateau (Meseta) and the right bank of the River Ebro and on the general process of Celticisation of the Iberian Peninsula, and, on the other hand, popular Celticism has grown strongly in the northern regions (Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria), areas where the majority of archaeologists have simultaneously ignored the issue, and have excluded the term Celtic from their research agendas (...) It is interesting to compare the popular and the academic perceptions of Celticism in Galicia. The popular perception is only interested in pre-scientific Celticism, the invented and esoteric Celticism which expresses itself in a multitude of ways. Thus there are processions and festivals of Celtic origin and invented festivals which claim to be Celtic; there is a breed of Celtic pig, Celtic bowling games and board games, Celtic song festivals, Celtic magic, and even a Celtic Golf Route in the Rías Bajas.(...)": THE CELTS IN SPAIN. FROM ARCHAEOLOGY TO MODERN IDENTITIES, Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero, Complutense University of Madrid, Pré-actes du colloque du Collage de France, juillet 2006: http://www.academia.edu/.../The_Celts_in_Spain._From...

"This investigation presents an overview of ‘Celtic’ nationalism in northern Spain (...) The development and recovery of folk music, now denominated as ‘Celtic’ through cultural labelling processes, has performed a fundamental role in the popularisation of the ‘Celtic factoid’ (sensu James 1999: 136). In this regard, the acceptance of Asturias as a fully-fedged ‘Celtic’ country in the Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France) in 1982 was a turning point. Almost everything has become ‘Celtic’ in Asturias: from music and crafts, to local pig breeds.

We would like to underscore the significant role played by certain elites in the dissemination of ‘Celtic’ ideas and labels (...)": Building nations in the XXI century. Celticism, Nationalism and Archaeology in northern Spain: the case of Asturias and León, Carlos Marín Suárez, Department of Prehistory, University Complutense of Madrid, David González Álvarez, Department of Prehistory, University Complutense of Madrid and Pablo Alonso González, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Volume 27.2 . November 2012 Archaeology and the (De)Construction of National and Supra-National Polities: http://www.academia.edu/2436299/Building_nations_in_the_XXI_century._Celticism_Nationalism_and_Archaeology_in_northern_Spain_the_case_of_Asturias_and_León

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Kali

Any connections to family of Timothy O'Connor b.1826 Castleisland, C. Kerry married widow Mary O'Brien (b.1823 Murphy) Cloyne, Doneraille, C. Cork. met in Australia. His son my great grandfather, Daniel O'Connor married Mary Ann Kelly b.1861 (C. Clare) in Australia.

Burns

Hello dear readers,

My name is Mary Therese Burns, if those who read could kindly help me find a Beloved friend, David O'Connor, who I know from having lived in Italy, in the Rome area for many years, and we met long ago, he has returned to the New York area in 2023, I believe, ans I am very sad, having missed him for so long, wish to find my friend again, who I believe, is in New York's Long Island. I saw him from afar in Bologna, Italy and on a few occasions in Rome over the years, though really met him as my driving instructor in the Sabine Hills, north of Rome, Italy. In believe he may have been born in Britain. I do very much miss him, please help me find him again, my email is here, I am on LinkedIn and Facebook, please contact me, friend, life is not the same without you, I am ill without you, hoping to heal and return in contact with you, David O Connor, Beloved friend, much missed, forever in my heart.Maanent cuorem nostram....?

Samantha O'Connor

Hello! My name is Samantha and on my paternal side, my grandfather and great aunt were both O'Connors. From what I have been able to deduce, our branch of the O'Connor clan came from County Cork and were split in thirds during the famine. Some went to Spain, some came to the U.S. and some stayed in Ireland (where my great aunt visited them in the 1960s).

My great-grandfather immigrated to the U.S. when he was two and my grandfather was born in the U.S. in 1917.
I know my brother once went through Ancestry and was able to trace the O'Connor side of our family through the late 1700s, which I always thought was really neat. I'd love to connect with any cousins and distant relations. ??

https://archive.org/details/americanfamilyan00well/page/n347/mode/2up???

Peter Whitson

NOLLAIG SHONA to my O'Connor and Connor family!

Our family is an ancient and rightfully proud bunch. I am sure glad those 7 kids got swimming lessons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SafCMJ-ZVkg??

Peter Whitson

In preparation for my family's trip to Ireland in the spring of '24, I have been viewing and then passing on videos like this for my adult children to view and review prior to their first trip to the home of one of their g. grandmother Connor's ancestors. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. The Hill of Uisneach and Beltane are on our agenda.

Matt Oconnor

Hello

my name is Matt O'Connor. My great grandfather, Jeremiah Patrick O'Connor left dingle around 1890 and emigrated to Springfield, ma. My grandfather and my father George O'Connor were both born and raised in Springfield, ma. I'm looking to see if I can connect with any family members for the dingle/blasket islands area??

Peter Whitson

More from Cloalis House

Peter Whitson

The latest from Clonalis House.

Raymond PEERS

does anyone have any information about Lillian Maude o'Connor born Sydney around 1911 died 16 March 1948

Peter Whitson

It is once again 'CHAT' Sunday. Come and find the 'craic' that is our bi-monthly virtual Tribal gatherings. Do tell family and interested friends to drop by and join the fun and learning!

Amongst other topics, we will propose 'in-person' gatherings. Let's find out if there is enough interest to offer and plan an O'Connor/Connor 'REAL'? gathering in Ireland!!!

O'Connor

Sinead O'Connor RIP sadly our clan has lost an big and beautiful soul. Sinead was an incredibly talented and influential Irish singer-songwriter. Sineads son Shane RIP took his own life around 18 months ago which took a huge part of Sineads heart. Sinead always showed courage and determination in her personal life. She fearlessly spoke about injustices in the world. Sinead was an inspiration for and we are blessed to have her beautiful words and songs to be heard by the future generations. I hope Sinead is now at peace and is holding her son in her arms again.

Peter Whitson

We are a AMAZING Tribe!

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Cillian+O'Connor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c7ea7035,vid:fmtZV8NuciM

Peter Whitson

Dear 'virtual tribe' members,

It is 'chat' week again. Please come and join us at Ireland 101 on Sunday, April 23rd for a bit of 'craic' regarding our Irish origins. The meeting is 7:00 PM/19.00 in Irelan, 2:00 PM/14.00 Eastern US, 1:00 PM/13.00 US Central, 11:00 AM/11.00 US Pacific, and 6:00 AM/06.00 Monday, April 24th, in New Zealand.

We are in process of finding individuals interested in helping our 'virtual tribe' in gathering all sorts of information regarding Irish life and history. Come check us out and join in the fun and learning!

Pete Whitson, virtual Taoiseach, 2023/24  Ireland 101

Peter Whitson

This may be of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxivGM_LESk

Pete Whitson???

Peter Whitson

O'Connors and Connors,

I am sorry that I wasn't paying as close attention as I should have been when I scheduled a 'chat' for today. I went on-line just in case someone else shoed up.
Happy Easter to all! Hopefully everyone will make the next gathering on Sunday, April 23rd.

Pete?? ??

Peter Whitson

A look at Clonalis House.?

?https://bit.ly/40j2Zqn

Peter

I had three shirts made with our UNITY crest embroidered on the chest. Sorry the background colors were not included. Hopefully, Lyndsay's contact can do a better job.?

Peter Whitson

Happy St.Patrick's Day to all!

Sean Connor

Hi,

I am Happy to Join this group, with hopes of tracking ?my family hisory. All I was told when i was younger was one of my Grandfathers or
?Great Grandfathers came over from somewhere in Ireland and when they got to the U.S. they dropped the O
on our surname so ?not to be found out they were from Ireland. So we grew up with the last name of Connor.
I would like to connect some of the dots back to Ireland. I am heading to Ireland tomorrow on a group tour and would love to check out a Shamrock Rovers game if possible. If anyone is in the Dublin area and can point us in the right direction to check out a match.
Thanks
Sean???

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O'Connor

Hello / Dia Duit

I am Lyndsay Ní Conchobhair (O'Connor) and am one of your family that is still here holding the fort in Ireland awaiting the return of clans. I am one of the leaders of our online group and am currently the Tanaiste (vice Cheiftan) of our online group with our Cheiftan Pete (Connor) Whitson.

Our group is a little different as the O'Connor/Conner's are infact 5 clans that are coming together and uniting the Tribe for our ancestors. We are the Descendants of the 5 Conors of Hibernia/Eire/Ireland. Some of us will know the clan they come from and some of us won't. We are a Unity Tribe so come along and find your clan within our Tribe.

Now a little about my own link to the O'Connor surname. I have traced my family back to my gg Grandparents Jeremiah O'Connor and Mary O' Mahony from county Cork. Their son my g grandparents Michael O'Connor met his wife Kathleen Moody/Coonan from Co Kildare and eventually moved their family to the UK leaving my grandfather here in Ireland, their eldest son was my granda Jeremiah (Doc) O'Connor and I was blessed to have been rared in his home and got to call him Daddy and I still carry his surname with pride. Below is a photo of Michael, Kathleen and Jeremiah O'Connor (my great grandparents and my granda).

Peter Whitson

Sean, Enjoy the 'craic' and please call me when you return.

Cousin Peter Whitson??

Peter Whitson

Based upon a recommendation from Pyers O'Conor Nash of Clonalis House our 'Unity' crest was slightly amended. This is the finished product. My hope is that our Tribe 101 members like and approve of it

Peter Whitson

I hope all will accept our new TRIBAL CREST - O'Connor Ireland 101!

Pete Whitson

Dear Tribe,

As of 11.33 US Eastern and 16.33 Irish time here is our Crest. I will describe the changes which are in progress. Starting at the top, The knight's helmet will be replaced by a golden crown. That one should be obvious as to why. On the shield (thanks Lyndsay) from left to right there will be a green background with a golden two-tailed lion wearing a crown, facing the center. Below will be a white background holding an oak tree with acorns, and on the right will be a copper-colored background holding the defiant silver stag. At the bottom, on the scroll, will appear the tribal motto, "O Dhia gach an cabhair" on the green scroll in gold lettering. We had a time constraint to get this done without losing payment. It's the best I could do and I think IT WILL ROCK!!!

Peter Whitson

This is the quality of work that the designer produces.

Your thoughts?

Pete???

Peter Whitson

The oak tree with acorns.

Peter Whitson

The lion

Peter Whitson

By the way, here's what each of the three images that were included in the 'New Crest' represents.

Peter Whitson

This is a crude representation of a unique take on all 5 O'Connor sept's crests. The idea was to take at least one element from the Don, Sligo, Offlay, Clare, and Kerry crests and marry them into a 'UNIFYING' O'Connor crest we could display as our own at Ireland 101's O'Connor chat site. Again, this is a crude and initial version. A professional designer has been contacted and commissioned to give our symbol a 'BOOK of KELLS' treatment. My hope is that the professional work will be displayed at Sunday's, 26/02, O'Connor Chat (14.00 Eastern US and 19.00 Ireland time). Please stop by and make your opinion regarding this project known.

Buiochas,

Pete Whitson, Taoiseach 2023/24???

Peter Whitson

Here is some interesting background information regarding the O'Connor name.

https://selectsurnames.com/oconnor/?

Peter Whitson

ENJOY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5rQQTIjJw??

Peter W. Whitson

Happy St. Brigid's Day!

Peter Whitson

A very interseting read that tells the story of some post American Civil War Irish lads who wanted to invade and capture Canada and then bargin with Canada as the 'chip' that would free Ireland!

Peter Whitson, grandson o

Yesterday was my 73rd birthday. I spend the day with my wonderful wife Sally. I am truly a blessed man.

Peter Whitson

Dear O'Connor/Connor/Conner Tribe members,

Yhis is a rendering (? from a photao ?) of my g grandfather, John. A. Connor. Does anyone in the group recognize the rendering or maybe also have one like it??

BarbaraJo O'Connor Caisse

my O'Connor line looks like this.

My Generation:

I'm the eldest child born April 6, 1962 (Bruce Caisse) in Brooklyn, NY, USA

my parents: William James O'Connor and Bonita Jo Lambruschi.

My siblings are: Deborah Lynn b. 1964 (Michael Meyer), William Joseph b. 1967 (Jessica Hale) and Donna Marie b. 1968.

My dad's generation: William James O'Connor

He is the eldest child born Dec 6, 1939 in Brooklyn, NY, USA

his parents: William Vincent O'Connor and Elizabeth Mary Nolan

His siblings: Rosemary Elizabeth O'Connor b. 1944 d. 2021 (Donald Lillie)

My dad was raised in Brooklyn, NY and met my mom at their Catholic elementary school. They married and had myself and my sister there in Brooklyn. They bought their first home 2 hours east out on Long Island and moved us 4 out there when I was 3 years old. My other siblings were born there. We were raised in that home in Farmingville, Suffolk county on Long Island, NY.

My Grandfather's generation: William Vincent O'Connor

He is the 5th born of 11 children. He was born Jul 12, 1893 in

Tynendinaga Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada

His parents: Bartholomew O'Connor, Jr and Mary Ellen Barry (O'Baire)

His siblings:

Catherine b. 1886 (Timothy Murphy), RoseMary b. 1889 (became a nun Sis. Caroline Rose), James Leo b. 1890, Margret Agnes b. 1892

(Grandpa), John Edward b. 1895 (Mary Marguerite Gough), Clara Frances b. 1897, Frederick Joseph b. 1898 (Grace Mary Lynch),

Ernest Augustine b. 1900 (Annie Irene McCambridge), Eric Francis b. 1902 (Irene ?), Michael Edwin b. 1904

He was raised on a farm in Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to the United States via Detroit, Michigan on Oct 15, 1916. He stayed there for a few years but eventually worked his way east to NYC (I have him documented in NYC 1935). He settled in Brooklyn where he eventually met my grandmother sometime after 1930. She had immigrated from Ireland in 1930 to Brooklyn, NY. They met at some point at a parish dance and married in 1939.

He was 16 years older than her, so she was 30 and he 46 when they got married. He passed away in 1971 when I was just 9 years old.

My Great Grandfather's generation: Bartholomew O'Connor, Jr.

He is the 4th born of 7 children. He was born Feb 13, 1850 in

Camden, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada.

His parents: Bartholomew Connors (O'Connor) and Mary Ellen Barry (O'Baire)

His siblings: Patrick b. 1844 in Ireland, Denis b. 1845 in Ireland (Bridget McVicker), Mary b. 1848 in Canada, my GGrandfather, John b. 1852, Margaret b. 1854 and Thomas b. 1856 (Elizabeth Brennan)

He was raised on his family farm. The family parish was St. Anthony Padua. As a single adult he moved to Tyendinaga and lived with his brother Denis on the farm that Denis bought. When Denis got married he sold his farm to his brother and immigrated west in Ontario to where his brothers John and Patrick had bought a farm. There they lived with their sister, Mary. The youngest brother, Thomas, inherited the family farm upon his father's death but sold it when their mother died and bought a farm in Tyendinaga a few concessions away from his brother Bartholomew, Jr's. Their sister, Margaret lived with Thomas and his family until she died.

Meanwhile Bartholow, Jr met and married Mary Ellen Barry whose family was from Petersborough, Ontario, Canada and had immigrated to Canada in 1832 from western Cork co, Ireland.

They raised their 11 children on that farm and were a founding family of St. Mary's parish in "Marysville" Tynendinaga, Ontario, Canada.

My Great Great Grandfather's generation: Bartholomew Connors (O'Connor)

Let me now introduce you to my brick wall :)

He was born about 1808 in Ireland. At some point he married Margaret Doyle.

They had their first two children, Patrick and Denis there in Ireland.

They immigrated to Ontario, Canada in 1847 aka "Black 47". He had a deed to a 100 acre concession in East Camden township, Lennox and Addington county, Ontario, Canada. From landing in Ontario along the St. Lawrence River he made his way via barge with his pregnant wife and two young sons to his land and began to carve out a farm on it where they raised their 7 children. Their first born in Canada was Mary born in Feb 1848. My Great Grandfather was the first male O'Connor born in Canada.

His parents: ??? Her parents ??? Their siblings ???

I have been to their old farm in Canada and have even seen the old cabin he first built. I went to their church, St. Anthony's of Padua and found their tombstones in the graveyard. It clearly says on it: Bartholomew O'Connor "of Wexford Ireland" and his birth year of 1808 and death year of 1873. Margaret's says "his wife" with her birth and death years.

I have exhausted all research in Canada with the notable exception of going to the archives to retrieve the original deed to the land. I have not been able to afford to hire a Canadian researcher to do that. That is my Holy Grail as I am hoping that it will tell me where in Ireland (other than Wexford co) he is from.

He used both Connors and O'Connor and his Canadian documents. However all 7 children were given the surname O'Connor and on his death certificate both legal and church it says "O'Connor".

My brother's Y DNA I have with FamilyTree. He men he matches all come from Kerry and western Cork. So I am fairly certain that we are of the Kerry sept due to this.

Peter Whitson

My name is Peter Whitson. my paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Connor (1879-1975). Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas (Tom) A. Connor of Highland, Iowa County, Wisconsin and Evanston, Cook County, Illinois (1857-1932) and Julia Hennessey of Iowa County, Wisconsin and Evanston, Cook County, Illinois (1860-1903). Thomas A. Conner's parents are reported to be John Connor and Margaret McGee who undocumented reports credit with Irish birth. My family does not have confirmed dates of birth/death for either John or Margaret nor record/s of their passage to North America.

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Chris O'Connor

Greetings to my fellow O’Connor tribe members. I’m Christopher Dillon O’Connor, I live in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. My Great, Great, Grandfather John D O’Connor immigrated to Canada from Wexford Ireland in early 1800. I have no evidence or oral family history my family came to Canada to escape the famine. All evidence leads to my family being Fenian’s.

I have evidence my Great, Great, Grandfather’s wife nee Goulden were members of the Fenian Brotherhood. In Canada at the time the threat of the Fenian Brotherhood in the mid 1800s was taken seriously by the Government and used to scare bills through parliament. It’s the greatest murder mystery in Canadian political history. Thomas D’Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation and outspoken opponent of the Fenians, was assassinated on an Ottawa street in the early hours of Tuesday, 7 April 1868.

The gun used was traced back to my family. Even so within 24 hours, the Ottawa police acting on a tip, went to the hotel room (owned by my family) and arrested a tailor named Patrick James Whelan.

Even though the Fenian’s made several attempts to invade different soft parts of the British colonies, which these raids continued after the colonies had officially been confederated into the Dominion of Canada. The brotherhood maintained its goal of capturing and holding Canada hostage to blackmail the United Kingdom into giving Ireland its independence for a couple of generations. I still have memories of a tribe gathering with an official Irish flag from Ireland raised on a flagpole.

Like all great causes by my generation and my son the fourth generation we have all maintain our Irish identity in Canada but have let go of the take over of Canada to become Irish-Canadian with many O’Connor’s proud Canadian military, myself spending time in the Army Reserve.

What I have found interesting about my O’Connor family is how involved they’ve been throughout history, but if you don’t know the names and places the family involvement is underreported. For much of my younger years I thought the O’Connor’s were unremarkable. It’s taken me years of asking questions and pressing for answers, as the silent generation quickly fades away.

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O'Connor

My grandfather, orphaned, came to America by ship around 1916, married, had two sons (Kevin and Robert E. O'Connor).

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O'Connor

Lawrence Peter O'Connor 05/26/1956

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Donna O'Connor

I was always told that Patrick H O'Connor was our ancestor that emigrated from Co Clare. We can find no trace f him in Ireland though.

Mary O'Connor Tossell

I've traced back to Hugh O'Connor of Arraglen (Eastern slopes of Mt Brandon on the Dingle Peninsula) documented by the c1827 Tithe with a possible brother Maurice. Hugh's son Hugh married on the western side of Mt Brandon to Johanna Fitzgerald of Ballynavenoorah, Kilquane Jan 1810 and settled in the adjacent townland of Clash, Kilquane. Their O'Connor sons spread out to Ballybrack - Kilquane, Killcooly - Kilmalkedar, and Tigh Tp in Ballydavid. One of thier sons Maurice b 1821 Clash is my GG grandfather and emigrant ancestor. He married Catherine Martin of Garrane in Feb 1846. She emigrated with all her living brothers and unmarried sisters most of whom ended up in Marshall, Mi. Somehow Catherine and Maurice got separated due to "adversities of fortune" as per the add Maurice put in the Missing Persons section of the Boston Globe in Nov 1847. They must have gotten together by Nov 1848 as thier son John was born Jun 1849. Maurice worked laying RR track where the terminus ended in Brattleboro VT and thats where and why Maurice settled there. Afterward he worked as a brakeman jumping from car to car braking by hand on top of the cars. He was on of the first Irishmen to settle in Brattleboro. His second son John was my great grandfather, who was a contractor and is responsible for the Richardson and Herrick buildings on Main St and worked on Kipling's nearby home in the early 1890's.John's first son went to Medial School in VT became a Dr.1898. John's 4th son George moved to Hartford Ct 1924 with his son Daniel where I was born 1952. Newly found cousins in Kerry verified my research and told me our O'Connors were called the Mountain O'Connors and the "Hughie Hughes" due to Hugh the progenitor. They speak Irish as the first language in the home, never dropped the O" or became "soupers" during the famine where giving up the O' got you food from the Protestant's soup cauldrons. The 1810 stone cottage my GGG grandparents settled in still exists... its a cow house now :) Oh and in Kerry they spell our name like this: Ó Conchúir Up the Kingdom! My search story: http://www.igp-web.com/Kerry/adversities.html

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simon O:connor

I'm trying to find information about my grandfather Francis O'connor.I don't have very much information about him all I know for certain is that he was born in Connacht moved to Watford at some point in his early life where he married my grandmother whose maiden name was Flanaghan who was also born in Connacht.they had a son (my father) who was also called Francis.my grandfather died in 1999 and my grandmother died in 1948.because of a family dispute when I was only a baby my father never spoke of his parents very much so I would be grateful for any information about either or both of them

Aaron Conner

Hello, My name is Aaron Conner and I am from Indiana and I traced my DNA back to Rory O'Connor and I am trying to find out more information about my lineage and bloodline going back before our family came to Ireland. I have read that we came from Spain and have ties to a Royal Bloodline from SPain but I would like someone to verify the info and maybe point me to a resource to find out more information on our blood line and the history of where we originally come from. I would appreciate any help you could give.....

Carolie o connor

O Connor a few generations have lived in oughterard, galway