O'CONNOR FAMILY of Coolnageragh, Scartaglin, Castleisland, Co.Kerry, Ireland revised July 2013, copyright © Bill Jehan 1968-2013 Thanks to all who have contributed to these pages - please send additions & corrections to email:
[email protected] OC 01 O'CONNOR Coolnageragh, Scartaglin and Castleisland, Co.Kerry, Ireland This family tree evolved from an outline pedigree made in the 1940s, at the request of W.H. O'Connor of Castleisland, by a professor from University College Cork W.H.'s grandchildren were added c1966 by his son Sean O'Connor, who later had several copies printed as a single sheet, suitable for framing, c1989; Expanded & updated in this present format by Sheila Bryant & Bill Jehan 1993 Much of the material on the life of W.H. O'Connor has been freely borrowed from an unpublished typescript biographical memoir of c1956 written by his younger brother Michael O'Connor (Brother Francis, of the Presentation Brothers, Cork City) Information on the Pickering family is from notes supplied to Bill by Vida Allen, historian of the McGregor Museum at Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa The Scartaglin O'Connors are believed to descend not from O'Connor Kerry but from O'Connor Don 19th and early 20th century baptisms recorded as taking place in Castleisland RC church would usually take place in the family home (e.g. Coolnageragh, Scartaglin) to be later entered in the register at Castleisland by the priest Coat of Arms: A weathered and now almost unreadable inscription, on the horizontal top slab of the ancient burial vault of the Scartaglin O'Connors at Kilsarcan, was repeated in 1949 on the memorial to W.H.