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From: Tim Stowell <>
Subject: Re: [COFFEY] COFFEY IRELAND
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:40:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <LLEKJDOJKIGHNPEGKBFHIEFCCFAA.faheyjcw@bigpond.com>


At 04:13 PM 6/18/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear Listers
>
>Have finally struck a brick wall with my research into ancestors. Tracked
>down Andrew Coffey (my great grandfather)born in WESTLEIGH Uk and died in
>1923 Atherton Uk. Know the name of this parents James and Margaret, and that
>is where it stops.
>
>The family legend was that Andrew was always going back to Ireland to visit
>the relatives whenever the 7 kids got too much for him.
>
>My problem is WHERE in Ireland should I start looking. Was the COFFEY/COFFEE
>name more identifiable in some counties of Ireland than others? Can anyone
>out there point me in the right direction.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Wendy Fahey
>Wollongong Australia

I rarely comment here - as list manager but I thought I'd pass this along:

The Hy-Niall Septs of Ulster, Meath and Connaught -

among the families there:

The name - O'Chobhthaigh
Anglicised - Coffey, Coffee.

Source: Volume 2 - Irish Pedigrees - 1881 - by John O'Hart, reprinted
1923 - New York.
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and in Volume 1 of the same set:

Coffey - of Munster.

This family wre dynasts or chief lords of that portion of the ancient
territory of Corca Luighe, now called Barryroe-east, and Barryroe-west,
in the county Cork. In Irish the family name is O'Cobhthaigh; anglicised
O'Coffey, O'Cowhig, and, more lately, Coffey, Coffy, and Coffee.

Footnote - Corca Luighe - This was a territory in Carbery, in the west
of county Cork; and was so called because principally inhabited by
families of the Lugadian Race, descendants of Luighaidh, son of Ithe,
uncle of Milesius of Spain, and the first Milesian discoverer of Ireland.
Corcaluighe ("corcach:" Irish, swampy ground) extended from Bandon ton
Crookhaven and to the river of Kenmare; and was anciently possessed by
the O'Baires [O'Barrys], O'Coffeys, O'Deas, O'Driscolls, O'Fihillys,
O'Flains, O'Heas, O'Henegans, O'Learys, etc.

The city of "Cork" is by some derived from the Irish word corcach,
above mentioned; because it is built on a low marsh island, formed
by the branches of the river Lee.

between the heading and the footnote are 53 generations listed -
father - son - down to a Coffey living in the USA in 1881.

Before that is another 39 or 40 generations back into the mists of time
and/or legend.

Tim Stowell



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