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House of Stuart

You (R-FT194071) and House of Stuart (R-L745) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-Z39589) who lived around 1700 BCE (3,700 years ago).

Irish Mystery Ancestor

You (R-FT194071) and Irish Mystery Ancestor (R-M222) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M222) who lived around 100 BCE (2,100 years ago).

Joseph Smith Jr

You (R-FT194071) and Joseph Smith (R-BY60318) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-Z2959) who lived around 0 CE (2,000 years ago).

Patrick Henry

You (R-FT194071) and Patrick Henry (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).

Tsar Nicholas II Romanov

You (R-FT194071) and Tsar Nicholas II Romanov (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).

Roscommon Tourism Video

I highly recommend watching this recently uploaded video on youtube by the Roscommon County Council

The McManus’s of Ardnanure and Nure

The arrival of a number of McManus families to settle in Ardnanure and Nure would have gone unnoticed and indeed unrecorded were it not for Nure’s great local Historian the Late Kieran McManus (1874-1973) who related to Folklore Collector James Delaney in 1961 that several centuries ago, the McManus’s in Nure and Ardnanure hailed from the North of Ireland.

Hercules MacManus

This is some of the early history of the family. There are links yet to be made, but it struck me as unusual that when a child was born in trim or Dublin the newspaper notice was always put in the Belfast Newsletter and not in the Dublin papers.

Streamwood

Architect

This is Streamwood, the house designed by Frederick Edward Bradshaw MacManus, a prominent architect in about 1938.

Gabriel Edward Bradshaw MacManus

Architect

I am researching Gabriel Edward Bradshaw MacManus (b. 20 Jan.1903 in Kingstown, Ireland) a prominent architect of the International movement in England, Ireland and Scotland.