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tree got mangled in cyberspace. Any corrections to the chart below would be
appreciatedContacted John Grant via the internet in May 1997. His ancestor was John Grant, married in Fethard in 1835, and emmigrated to UAS via Canada aroubd 1847. Family lore said they were anglo-Norman, resided in south Tipperary for a long time, that the family dispised Cromwell, and had a love hate relationship with the Butlers ( "former tenants" of the Butlers), Catholic, and that one of their ancestors was jailed for taking part in the 1798 rebellion.
His Grant ancestors were Normans who settled in Iverk, Kilkenny after 1169, and lost what land they had to the Cromwellian confiscations. Sometime in the 18th century his line of Grants settled around Slievenamon. In 1847 his gg grandparents decided to emigrate, but for some reason (never explained) left one child behind. The child left behind, his g grandfather, Thomas J. Grant, remained with his maternal grandmother, Margaret English on a farm at Walshbog townland, Kiltinan parish on the northwest slope of Slievenamon. Thomas came to the US in 1855 when his grandmother died.
His gg grandparents, John & Mary English Grant, were married at the RC church in Fethard in 1835. In 1836 they baptized a daughter (Margaret Grant) there. Their home was listed as Grange(beg), Kiltinan. They baptized another daughter (Ellen - 1839) and his g grandfather (Thomas J. - 1841) in Sts. Peter & Paul RC church, Clonmel. His ggg grandmother, Margaret English, is listed as a widow occupying a dwelling in Walshbog, Kiltinan in the 1851 Griffiths Valuation.
His father told him that Thomas J. spoke often about his boyhood on Slievenamon, how life there was hard during the famine (living with his grandmother at Walshbog), how he met Thomas F. Meagher around the time of the Young Irelanders gatherings near Slievenamon in 1848, and how he later served under Meagher with the Irish Brigade during the Civil War in the US (1861-65).
My appologies to John4343, but his family
tree got mangled in cyberspace. Any corrections to the chart below would be
appreciated
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