{"id":1837,"date":"2020-05-21T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2020-06-02T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:23:14","slug":"mary-buckley-proves-tom-hunter-is-a-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/mary-buckley-proves-tom-hunter-is-a-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Buckley Proves Tom Hunter is a Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a recreation of an email that I sent to my father and sister a few nights ago. A few years back, I was caught up in the fever of being Irish-American. I found an unsung hero of the 1916 Easter Rising had really caught my attention, so I wrote a Wikipedia article<\/a> about him. Writing one of those articles is a far more difficult task than most talking heads and comedians would have you believe. This Old IRA man had a similar family name to some of my ancestors and came from the same village, but, at the time, I could not find the documents proving the relationship. I finally found the smoking gun. The below email is about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, so I started by looking at a hint for Mary Buckley. She was the wife of Thomas Hunter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the time, I did not have Mary’s date of death, so I took a look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What caught my eye was that she died in Rathnadarahy, not Castletownroche. I had to look up where this even was. It is just northwest of Castletownroche. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thought this was weird, so I opened up my master spreadsheet for all of the families and was shocked to see that I didn’t have one for the Hunters, so I started one, beginning with Susan Hunter, the most recent Hunter on our tree. By the time I got back to Thomas Hunter and Mary Buckley, something jumped out at me. The family was from Rathnadarrahy, but worked in CTR!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At this point, I started thinking about our old pal, IRA Tom Hunter. I pulled up the tree that I created for the Corbetts and saw the two names at the top: Thomas Hunter and Mary Buckley, but IRA Tom was coming from a supposed son of their’s that I had not found ANY records for. None. Nada. Zip. I had him only on word from Margaret that that was the tree. I noticed that all of the kids born to Hunter\/Buckley were before the start of civil records, so I would have to rely on the Catholic Parish Registers. These have been digitized and released online for a few years now. I am entirely certain that reading through these things is why I now wear glasses. The good news is that they’ve since been indexed, which makes things typically easier. Perhaps I could finally find this guy?
The first three are people I already knew about. They are on our tree (scroll back to top). But what the heck is this mess down towards the bottom here? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why was this guy so hard to find? Well, this might have something to do with it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See what I mean about going blind from this? I LOVE the fact that this thing was indexed! That’s him. That’s our missing link. If you can make it out, one of the witnesses is a William Hunter. He is witness on the other three kid’s baptism records, too. I have to believe that he is Thomas Hunter’s brother, so I might be able to use that to get us back another generation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe it or not, you can’t swing a dead cat in Cork without hitting a Bartholomew Arnold or a Mary Flynn, but there is a shocking scarcity of Cornelius Hunters. There are two, to be exact, and they have a good forty years between their births. Drilling down to IRA Tom was easy work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, this is pretty much the tree on that side. It still needs a bit of cleaning up, but this is the deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IRA Tom is first cousin three times removed (1C3R) to Liz and me, and first cousin two times removed (1C2R) to Pops. There is no doubt that he was a Founding Father of modern Ireland, and we share a drop of DNA with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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