BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: Gossamer Web of Connections Back from USA to Ireland Centuries in the Past

I’ve been “away” from this blog for a number of reasons, and am sorry for my absence. One reason for it is that I’ve been busy planning a trip to Ireland that will include research in the archives of County Clare at Ennis and in the National Library in Dublin. I’m heading to Clare primarily because my Irish immigrant ancestor in my Lindsey family line, an indentured servant who arrived in Virginia in 1718 with the name Dennis Linchy or Linchey, had, DNA analysis of his male descendants tells us, long roots among the Dalcassian families clustered around their relative Brian Boru in Clare and the nearby county of Limerick. I posted here about that DNA connection in the past and it’s explained in more detail below. To read the rest of this posting, please click the numeral 2 below.