| On my father's side I am researching the McCormacks and McCormicks of Nova Scotia, Canada. Currently I know they were in the Cumberland County area as far back as the beginning of the 1800's, since David X. McCormack received a land grant in 1828, but do not yet know how they arrived there. There is a David McCormick listed in the 1828 census as being 69 years old (just right for the year of birth 1758). I wonder if this is really the "Joseph" that family lore says was born in Scotland, went to No. Ireland for a time and then immigrated to Nova Scotia. My father's mother, Mary Isabella Carvalho Valentim, appears to have come with her mother to what we believe was Providence, Rhode Island in the early 1890's from Terceira, in the islands of the Azores. Their marriage certificate states they were both born in Providence, but other sources say differently. The first note of my two grandparents in New Bedford, Massachusetts is the early 1910's street directories. On my mother's side, the Beirne/Byrnes & Flynns of Co. Leitrim, Ireland traveled to Sydney, NSW, Australia as "bounty immigrants" in 1841. Previous to their trip on the HMS Forth, I have no evidence as to their actual origins except from a marriage certificate. An ancestor of note is Sergeant Duffy, a garrison non-commisioned officer that was for a time in Tasmania and then settled just outside Sydney. Also from the Australian side are a Franciso Rosa of Italy, a New Year's baby of 1 Jan 1850 from Luceno, Italy (I have yet to find the locale) and Alfred William Carter of Deptford in greater London, whom family lore says was the sole survivor of a transit of the Great Australian Bight. Alfred was one of the union organizers written about in the book "Thirteen Angry Men" for their organization of unions in the factories of New South Wales. Another interesting note is that of a convict in the family, Stefano Powsetich, born Palmero, Sicily in the 1790's. He somehow ended up in England and was sentenced to life in Australia in 1813. There is some question amongst our family researchers that what we have is an Italian name spelled very wrong. Time will tell. He was later pardoned by Governor Bligh and changed his name to John Stanton upon marrying Mary Stanton at St. John's Church in Parramatta, NSW. Coincidence, I'm sure. To make things more interesting, there is some suspicion that Mary Stanton may actual have the maiden name of Mary Reilly and traveled to Oz with her husband, an Irish Rebel. Just before leaving for Ireland in September of 1998, I discovered that the Swift side of my mother's family was descended from the Swifts found in Burke's Peerage. One of her ancestors included the Swift of Gulliver's Travels fame and another, direct ancestor, was the Keeper of the Royal Regalia in the Tower of London. My mother and I actually spent a night at the "family" estate, Swifte's Heath, in Kilkenny. In respect to my relatives still living I have not included any lines to current generations. |
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Updated August 31, 2003 |
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Michael Kenneth McCormack New Bedford, MA A-United States mikemccormack@comcast.removethis.net |
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