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Michael John Walsh

Michael John Walsh

Born
1822-01-01 12:00:00
Died
1867-12-02 12:00:00
Gender
Male
Place of migration
Migrated to/Born in Australia

My 2 X Great Grandfather, Michael John Walsh, was born in abt 1820 in County Tipperary. In abt 1840 he went to Australia. He married Mary Gaffney on 18 September 1843 at St. Mary's Church in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Michael, Mary, and their three children arrived in San Francisco on July 29, 1852. The family surname became Welsh upon arrival to America.

The children:

Thomas John Welsh (1845-1918)

John Joseph Welsh (1847-1915)

Johanna (1850-1911)

Michael James Welsh (1855-1926)

William Welsh (1856-1860)

Mary Ann Welsh ( 1858-1860)

Elizabeth Welsh (1862-1923)

Joseph William Welsh ( 1866-1921)

Mary Gaffney Welsh died in 1901 in San Francisco.

Associated communities

Tipperary

County Tipperary, or Tiobraid Árann in Irish, is part of the central plain of Ireland.  We are a landlocked, rural county home to mountains, rivers and lakes.  Our county town is Clonmel and we have a population of approximately 160,441. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.

Other ancestors in this community

Buildings in this community

  • Castle Fogarty

    Location: Tipperary

    Ballycahill, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, E41 YP68

  • Cahir House Hotel

    Location: Tipperary

    E21H244 TIPPERARY (Ireland)

  • Spring Mount Tipperary

    Location: Tipperary

  • St. Ruadhans Abbey - Lorrha

    Location: Tipperary

Timeline events in this community

  • 1840s

    Hogan/Murphy Emigration to St Louis

    1848-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    1889 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1889-10-20 12:00:00

  • 1890s

    1895 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1896-03-15 12:00:00