Category: Genealogy
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Using the Madras Priests and Churches Database
A long time project on this site has been the Madras Priests and Churches Database. This is primarily extracted from the chapter Chaplains in the HEIC 1805 to 1835 in Rev Frank Penny’s The Church In Madras, published in 1904, plus additional information from other sources. The information is publicly available on the internet and…
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Adventures in Genealogical Data Science
Even since I started this website some 20+ years ago, I have in addition to putting up the family trees I have also provided databases of related information that I have found useful in my research and could be used by others, specifically the database of Churches and Priests extracted from Frank Perry’s book The…
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Descendants of Lawrence O’Hara (mortality)
In a previous post, I produced a set of maps showing the migration of the O’Haras over 200+ years, what was not clear in the disparity between the different lineages is the actual number of people. The table below shows the number of descendants for each generation and those reaching adulthood (in brackets) from Lawrence’s…
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On the Irish Origins of Lawrence O’Hara in Donegal
With family lore and a last name of O’Hara it was very doubtful that there were NOT Irish ancestors. What we didn’t have until about 2005, was any documentary evidence that this was the case. The letters written by Lawrence in 1821, from Limerick selling his commission and a letter from 1814, from W O’Hara…
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On the 80th anniversary of VJ Day
The O’Haras had lived in Burma from the 1850’s. Working in many occupations including doctors, in the police, in the administration of public works, forestry and in my grandfather’s case as a diver in the construction of the Rangoon Harbour. Around 100 were born there. It is estimated that in 1940 around 1 million Indians…
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Lawrence O’Hara (1770-1823)
Lawrence O’Hara is the starting point for the O’Haras of interest in India. We know a lot about his life in the British Army, one of his marriage(s) and children, but possibly the most challenging part of understanding him is the significant gaps in his life story. He is likely to be Irish, though it…