Irish testing: Kirkpatrick, O'Malley

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if you have this in your family tree, you might be Irish.

We had Kelly.

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1. Try Fitzgerald, ambiguous Irish/German

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2. First generation

Both parents from County Cavan, Cotehill. Now famous for trout fishing and a medicine factory. Came over after the war.

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3. My Dad's paternal grandfather and grandmother were born

in County Down and married in the Killinchy Presbyterian Church. His maternal grandmother was also born in County Down and also had ties to Killinchy.

Interesting that his maternal grandmother married an Italian Catholic, and his Mom (Irish/Italian Catholic) married into in Irish Presbyterian family.

Then my Dad married my Mom whose parents were born in Italy and were Catholic.

A curator at the museum told me since both groups experienced discrimination when they arrived in the U.S. they often bonded together over the shared experience so it wasn't that unusual. Also that it was common that the Presbyterians wh wanted to marry Catholics agreed to convert. Don't know if this was true all over, but according to her it was here in Western NY.