Time drags a little when you're recuperating and the weather has been pretty miserable, confining us to indoors more than we might like. To fill the time, I've been browsing our family tree and one interesting line caught my eye. I've always been aware there's a strong Irish flavour: my grandfather's name was Donachie and he was descended from Owen Donachie, born around 1842 and who moved to Scotland around 1860, working as a farm labourer in Ayrshire. Owen was my great-great grandfather. I was delighted to find that he was born in the famous Irish town of Longford.
There's a nice symmetry that some 160 years later, Owen's descendants have settled in another town called Longford.
No comments:
Post a Comment