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<\/a><\/p>\nI was given all of the usual low-hanging items. \u201cYup, got it.\u201d \u201cNope, doesn\u2019t appear there.\u201d It wasn\u2019t long before the full story of what I was looking for was brought to the fore. A very knowledgeable woman decided enough was enough and she \u201ctook the bit in her teeth\u201d. She worked almost non-stop for a week! I wouldn\u2019t say we (well, she) finally solved the problem, but we (she, really) collected so much data that we were able to build out an entire nuclear family and his brother, the grand uncle, and his little family, too. But I don\u2019t think that we ever figured out who the witness to Annie Moore\u2019s burial was. Nor did we actually make the link to my branch of the family. We got damn close, though. I am convinced that I am missing one person. This would be the brother of the grand uncle and his brother, who was turned up during this frenzied week of digging. This missing brother would be the father of my father\u2019s father\u2019s father. He seems to be like the silhouetted figure in an otherwise clear family photo.<\/p>\n
My father\u2019s father\u2019s father has been an unbreakable brickwall since I started doing genealogy all those years ago. In fact, he has been a brickwall since I was in seventh grade doing my first family tree! The man leapt from the water, fully formed and with a wife and child, onto the southern bank of the River Liffey. There are simply no other records of him to be found, so this mythological origin story makes the most sense, because Occam\u2019s razor. But here we had his uncles and their families. And they left records. <\/p>\n
During the course of the frenzy, a Hannon family in Dublin, that was not mine, kept popping up. They had similar given names, but lived in a different section of the city. Is it possible that there is a connection? Very possible. It is just going to take some digging to find the link.<\/p>\n
I received quite the education on 19th Century Dublin while doing all of the previous digging. I learned about places I had never even heard of before. Kimmage and Cabra leading the charge here. I\u2019ve seen maps that few have. I\u2019ve been exposed to conspiracy theories regarding the state of Catholicism in Dublin South at the time. I probably spent more time conversing with this Dublin woman that week than I did with my own wife! Jenny is a very understanding woman.<\/p>\n
So, there we are. Poised to strike\u2026at some point when Life is calm and I am able to hear the voices of the ancestors from across the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can\u2019t believe I never got back to this! Sorry about that. So, when we left off, we were in a cemetery in Dublin. 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