Late-breaking St. Patrck's Day News
Mar. 17th, 2009 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseNo, I did not find a date to the parade, but...
My father just wrote to tell me this cool bit of family (potential) history:
"I just read your blog. I must have told you the Morehouse/Irish story. Here it is. In 1999, when we were at Oxford for a conference (Living in college no less), I met 4 elementary teachers from Dublin. They attended my paper, and we were talking afterwards. Two of them started talking to each other and I overheard one saying, "Should we tell him?" They then told me that were was an Irish family at their school named Morehouse (same spelling), BUT they were 'traveling people' - gypsies. So we may have some Irish ancestery on the traveler's side of the family tree. I think this is more likely than the part of our genealogy that traces the family name back to the early settlers in New York and New England."
So maybe I AM a bit Irish, after all.
My father just wrote to tell me this cool bit of family (potential) history:
"I just read your blog. I must have told you the Morehouse/Irish story. Here it is. In 1999, when we were at Oxford for a conference (Living in college no less), I met 4 elementary teachers from Dublin. They attended my paper, and we were talking afterwards. Two of them started talking to each other and I overheard one saying, "Should we tell him?" They then told me that were was an Irish family at their school named Morehouse (same spelling), BUT they were 'traveling people' - gypsies. So we may have some Irish ancestery on the traveler's side of the family tree. I think this is more likely than the part of our genealogy that traces the family name back to the early settlers in New York and New England."
So maybe I AM a bit Irish, after all.
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Date: 2009-03-19 01:50 pm (UTC)Did you ever see this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104522/
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