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From: "Louise Foster" <>
Subject: Re: Help with history questions on Ireland
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:23:48 +1000


I am wondering if you may be related to my great great grandmother. Her name
was Georgina McGill Barron b. 1857 Belfast, Ireland d. 1908.

News <> wrote in message
news:8faeqe$1sa$1@neptunium.btinternet.com...
> Hello,
> First of all my maiden surname is McGill Im told it's Scottish but all my
> ancestors are Irish, could some one tell me the history of that?
> Also where do Celts descend from (which countries) and is there a certain
> look to Celts that is different to anyone else?
> Why is Ireland (most of Ireland Catholics) did the Romans invade?
> Maybe you could reply in a simple way that's straight forward to me
because
> I cannot get a clear picture of what the Celts and Anglo Saxon ect have
to
> with our heritage and what I did learn as a child I forgot.
> Thankyou for anybody that replies to my ignorance as I am born in Wales
with
> a welsh protestant mother a English catholic father and grandparents and
> Irish great grandparents,
> Well I'm British in my eyes and totally lost in this nationality thing and
> would like to learn more about it as it seems so much more important now
> with tracing ancestors and a good learning process.
> Bye for now
> Julie
>
>

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