KENNEDY – SHEEHAN
FAMILIES
Just under 2 years ago I decided to start researching my family history. At the time I naively thought I’d spend a
couple of weeks surfing the net to see what I could find. I soon learnt that as I’d find an answer and
fill a gap in my tree, the answer usually led to 10 more questions and that any
clue, no matter how small, is very exciting.
With many of my family tree’s branches, I’ve been lucky to come across
folks already researching a family line. Many have generously shared their
information with me or guided me in the right direction. I hope the information contained on this
website will help fill in some gaps in other’s family trees.
The families on this site are my mother’s family line. Her maternal line starts with the Kennedy
family. From there it branches out to include the Short, Pycroft, Cottrell,
Gorell, Waldie, Logier and
Originally I thought my mother’s ancestors all came from Ireland but
I’ve since discovered that although the Kennedy and Sheehan families did, a
large number of her ancestors hailed from Norfolk, Chester, Wesmoreland &
Hampshire in England as well as one from Scotland and another were Huguenots
who lived in Germany and immigrated to Ireland.
COTTRELL
GILL Iddesleigh
& Winleigh,
GORELL Kirkby
Lonsdale,
HANKINSON Runcorn,
KENNEDY
LOGIER
PYCROFT/PYCRAFT
SHEEHAN Tullogh, County Clare Ireland to
SHORT
STANTON Fleet,
Dorest
TANNER Boldre, Beaulieu,
TOMLINSON Ingleton,
Yorkshire to Geelong, Victoria, Australia
WALDIE
Carter
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Families
I have been dabbling into my father’s family history on and off over the
years but could never get further back than my great grandparents. It is only
in the last year of so that I have finally made some progress. It was only when I stumbled on some information
Jennifer Thomas had submitted to the website http://www.sumgenius.com.au/sutton_family_tree.htm
that I made some headway. Jennifer’s information supplied me a base from which
I could start searching for more clues about these very interesting
families.
Several of my father’s ancestors were involved in the 1857 Indian
Mutiny. They also had strong links with the great railways of
Branches
of My Paternal Family Tree
Hilton
CARTER under construction
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Brenda