Which Irish notable are you most closely connected to?

Question

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This week's Example Profile of the Week is St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland.

Featured alongside him are other Irish notables:

• Arthur Guinness
• Maureen O'Hara
• Michael Collins
• George Bernard Shaw
• Constance Gore-Booth
• Grace O'Malley
• Oscar Wilde
• Daniel O'Connell

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 22,003,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can also check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Let us know below!

P.S. Help us choose and improve profiles for next week's feature: Suffragettes for Women's History Month!

Comments

46 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius.

19 degrees from Arthur Guinness.

19 degrees from Maureen O'Hara.

23 degrees from Michael Collins.

19 degrees from George Bernard Shaw.

20 degrees from Constance Markiewicz.13th cousin 3 times removed. MRCA William Brereton (abt 1414 - 1456).

17 degrees from Grainne O'Malley.

25 degrees from Oscar Wilde. Although it didn't register with family finder, I know we share Puleston ancesters through my Awbrey line (i.e. we're cousins).

22 degrees from Daniel O'Connell. 16th cousin 4 times removed. MRCA Thomas de Beauchamp (abt 1314 - 1369).

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Constance Gore-Booth, 12th cousin twice removed. No other blood and no one closer than 18 degrees using connection finder.

Yet, 23andMe tells me I am mostly Irish!! We must have been the peasant class.

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Hi, Amy Lynn,

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Thank you.

I keep getting mail welcoming me here, so I must look even dumber than I feel. But thanks  very much for your time.

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I just looked at your profile. Lots of nice people are offering to help you. Most of them are advising you to start with yourself, and then your parents. And for most people that's good advice. I'm a bit different. When I joined Wikitree, my father was already in it, so I looked around for something else  to do. The first thing I saw was the photo challenge of the week, so I started there, looking at everyone else's photos and figuring out how to add mine (it took me a while, and I had a lot of help.) I have found so many interesting things that I never did any more of my own tree. I did not read the "guide for new members" page until today. So have fun.

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Well, since I added myself, my parents, my Grandparents, Great Grandparents, and have 400 years of ancestors records in a well-organized folder, and I'm still being told to "start with [your] parents"? I think this probably isn't a great fit for me.

I don't want to start over. I haven't learned one new thing here, but have been told I'm wrong often. I'm just too depressed for this.

Answer 1

50 degrees from St Patrick --  but only one marriage!

Answer 2

My closest connection is 19 degrees from Arthur Guinness

Answer 3

Is anyone FURTHER from St. Patrick than I am? 53 degrees. The connection finder is interesting, but it only finds people connected through marriage or birth. Here's my connection to St. Patrick

People in the US celebrate St. Patrick's Day by eating corned beef.

Corned beef originated not in Ireland, but with New York Jews.

My half-second cousin (Ross) and his wife (Madeline) live in New York City. Madeline is Jewish.

(But Madeline's Jewish great-grandparents did not live in  New York and have a delicatessen. They lived in Oklahoma and raised peaches.)

Answer 4

• 15 degrees from Beth Stephenson (18th cousins (Uncertain))
• 20 degrees from George Bernard Shaw
• 21 degrees from Michael Collins
• 22 degrees from Maureen O'Hara
• 22 degrees from Daniel O'Connell (16th cousins four times removed (Uncertain)
• 22 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley
• 23 degrees from Arthur Guinness
• 23 degrees from Constance Markievicz, (14th cousins four times removed)
• 25 degrees from Oscar Wilde
• 49 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius

Answer 5

 I am most closely connected to Gráinne O'Malley

Constance and Carol Lynn are 13th cousins three times removed

Constance (Gore-Booth) Markievicz and Carol Lynn Napora are both descendants of Henry Wentworth.

Daniel and Carol Lynn are 16th cousins four times removed

Daniel O'Connell and Carol Lynn Napora are both descendants of Thomas (Beauchamp) de Beauchamp KG.

Answer 6

Featured Connections = I am most closely connected to Gráinne O'Malley 

• 48 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius
• 22 degrees from Arthur Guinness
• 20 degrees from Maureen O'Hara
• 22 degrees from Michael Collins
• 19 degrees from George Bernard Shaw
• 22 degrees from Constance Markievicz
• 17 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley
• 27 degrees from Oscar Wilde
• 24 degrees from Daniel O'Connell
• 16 degrees from Beth Stephenson

Answer 7

Constance and Patty are 11th cousins once removed 

Constance (Gore-Booth) Markievicz and Patty (Luker) LaPlante are both descendants of William Cunningham.

Answer 8

I am 50 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius, 

25 degrees from Michael Collins, 

20 degrees from Maureen O'Hara, 

22 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley, 

22 degrees from George Bernard Shaw, 

20 degrees from Daniel O'Connell 

19 degrees from Oscar Wilde, 

18 degrees from Constance Markievicz, 

17 degrees from Arthur Guinness, 

I'm happiest about George Bernard Shaw --  he was a big influence on my grandfather, causing him to become a vegetarian as a young man, resulting in 5 generations of vegetarians in our family.  

Answer 9

Coleman Naughton of Glentrasna, Camus, Galway Co. Family still runs and operates the farm.

Answer 10

48 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius

19 degrees from Arthur Guinness

21 degrees from Maureen O'Hara, her husband Charles Blair Jr., Blair-2973,  15th cousins, MRCA William (Sandes) Sandys, Sandes-19

23 degrees from Michael Collins

18 degrees from George Bernard

22 degrees from Constance Markievicz, 14th cousins twice removed, MRCA Roger Wentworth, Wentworth-8

22 degrees from Gráinne O'Malley

26 degrees from Oscar Wilde

23 degrees from Daniel O'Connell, 8th cousins 12 times removed, MRCA Humphrey (Bohun) de Bohun, Bohun-3

Answer 11

Constance is my 12th cousin twice removed. Daniel is my 17th cousin 5 tines removed.

Answer 12

14 from Arthur Guinness. 3rd great uncle of wife of my 9th cousin 3x removed.

But I'm astonished to discover that St Patrick's sister, Tigridia of Ireland, is my 47th GGM ...which I find hard to believe, unless the people and dates can be proven.

Comments

Frances,  I followed you over from another site and recognized this was one that I had decided, at the time, not to pursue.......however, when I viewed the almost straight line connection to Saint Patrick I worked the relationship finder and then discovered you had, also......Thanks, cousin, for catching my attention to this post again.   

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Hey! And it looks as if we are only 19 degrees away from each other as well. I've been working on a Thompson recently - a 4th GGF of mine. Would be lovely if there were a connection, but I don't suppose there is.

Yes, I don't think I can really believe the Patrick connection - I've discovered that John Herbert has no corroborating sources at all and what links were there to ostensibly back the claims up, don't work. Pity. 

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Frances,  My father told me the Thompsons were from Ballintra, Drumholm, County Donegal, but here the trail runs cold.....I understand a lot of Irish records were lost, to fire, in a building they were stored.  I did, however, find a great amount of information to read about the Bates family......on the lines that connect our families......it's interesting to know how their paths crossed.

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Yes, I heard about the Irish record loss too. Tragic. 

The earliest Thompson I have records for, was Thomas Thompson's father, who was born in Ellingham, Northumberland, northern England.

'I did, however, find a great amount of information to read about the Bates family......on the lines that connect our families......it's interesting to know how their paths crossed.'

How do you think our families connect? 

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Frances,  I used the connection finder from Thomas Thompson to myself and with the knowledge of the Pennant Family and Penrhyn Castle connected our families through their social, political and industrial standing.

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Oh I see. Of course. Interestingly close! 

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Frances,  I wonder if my Thompson ancestors, being in Donegal, Northern Ireland, had Scottish ancestors closer to yours.  We are, however, related through your Chamberlayne ancestors to John Danvers and down to my paternal grandmother Florence (Benwell) Thompson who descends from our 'connections' group.

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It's possible, I suppose. Thompson's a really common name of course...

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Frances,  In case you missed it.....I edited my previous reply with more information.

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Oh wow! That's amazing.

Answer 13

* Guinness 13 degrees * Markievicz 14 degrees (10C2R) * Wilde and O'Connell 16 degrees * O'Malley and Shaw 17 degrees *  Saint Patrick 46 degrees and 45 degrees for my wife Kathleen........Saint Patrick's sister Tigridia appears to be my 49th great grandmother and my wife's 43rd great grandmother.

Answer 14

 These matches are mostly from the Nagles on my Father's Mother's side of family. 24 degrees from Harry Ferguson, 21 degrees from Arthur Guinness, 33 degrees from Seamus Heaney, 25 degrees from Jack Kyle, 28 degrees from Stephen Boyd, 34 degrees from Robert Moore, 25 degrees from Ruby Lamar, 18 degrees from Fanny Parnell, 25 degrees from William Pirrie, 21 degrees from Jonathan Swift, 24 degrees from John Synge and 23 degrees from Celia Marsh

Answer 15

I'm also 50 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius.