Clare emigrés in South America - an interesting website

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Paddy Casey
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Clare emigrés in South America - an interesting website

Post by Paddy Casey » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:54 pm

Those looking for their Clare ancestors who emigrated might like to step off the beaten tracks to Australia, New Zealand and North America and apply their magnifying glasses to South America.

Go to http://www.irlandeses.org/ and type the word 'Clare' into their search facility. You will find several references to Clare emigrés, e.g.

"A .......group arrived (at the mouth of the Amazon) in 1620 led by Bernardo O'Brien of Co. Clare. They built a wood and earthen fort on the north bank of the Amazon and named the place Coconut Grove. O'Brien learnt the dialect of the Arruan people, and his colleagues became expert navigators of the maze of tributaries, canals and islands that form the mouth of the Amazon."

or

"Another influential merchant family in colonial and independent Buenos Aires were the O'Gormans of Ennis, Co. Clare....."

or

"Members of other prosperous Irish families settled from the end of the eighteenth century in Latin American ports. These families not only wielded considerable economic and political power within Ireland, but were also involved in Atlantic trade, with links to North America, Spain and Portugal, the West Indies, South Africa and, later, to Brazil and Argentina. Among these families, a number of Galway and Clare merchants served as agents in commercial houses in the Atlantic coasts and islands. ..."

or

Patrick Fitzsimons (1802-1872), a teacher of Ennis, Co. Clare, is commissioned by the Argentine President Domingo F. Sarmiento to open the new Colegio Nacional in Corrientes (1869).

I won't go on. Just go to the site and enjoy the browse.

Paddy

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