Name: Llewellyn Family of Herefordshire

Updated: 05-12-2021 06:05:42.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. edward DURKIN: Birth: 1847 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland. Death: 23 AUG 1866 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland

  2. martin DURKIN: Birth: 29 JUN 1851 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland. Death: 23 JUN 1923 in Chicago USA

  3. bridget DURKIN: Birth: 16 OCT 1852 in Westport, Mayo , Ireland. Death: 10 AUG 1945 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland

  4. maria DURKIN: Birth: 6 AUG 1854 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland. Death: 26 AUG 1866 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland

  5. michael joseph DURKIN: Birth: 1855 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland.

  6. william DURKIN: Birth: 1856 in Westport, Mayo , Ireland.

  7. rose DURKIN: Birth: 2 AUG 1857 in Westport, Mayo , Ireland.

  8. eliza DURKIN: Birth: 1861/1865 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland. Death: 3 AUG 1919 in South Yarra, Melbourne

  9. agnes DURKIN: Birth: 10 MAR 1863 in Westport, Mayo , Ireland. Death: 30 AUG 1866 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland

  10. julia DURKIN: Birth: 7 MAR 1866 in Westport, Mayo, Ireland.

  11. catherine DURKIN: Birth: 1873 in Westport, Mayo , Ireland.


Notes
a. Note:   The names Durkin, Durcan and Dorcan in Ireland are all derived from the native Gaelic O'Duarcain and MacDuarcain Septs that were located in Connaught Province in the West of the country and especially in County Sligo. Gurkin is another variant sometimes used as an anglicized form of these Sept names.The Westport county Mayo, Ireland Directory of 1846 has Patrick DURKIN , Butcher, listed at Bridge, Street . There were also Waldron's listed as butchers in Bridge street . Parick married Bridget
 Waldron in 1843 , perhaps she was the daughter of a butcher .
 Griffiths valuation 1856 , page 89, shows Patrick DURKIN "House, Office & yard" valuation
 6.5 pounds. The Slaters 1856 directory also has P.Durkin,Butcher.Patrick was recorded as a victualler (butcher) of Bridge street on the Christian Brother School ( CBS ) rolls for his two sons on their admission on the 15th May 1866.Martin was 14 years
 of age and the record said " with his father at trade" and William was 10 years of age.The Gaelic name for Westport is "Cathair na Mart" which translated is "Port of Beeves" or " Port of Beef" according to Joe McNally local Author and Historian. So if
 family stories about the Durkins supplying merchant vessels and crew with supplies are true , the family may have been relatively well off. His daughter Eliza was to later tell her children (retold in a 1960 interview) that " the family made their
 money being wholsale butchers, and at the time of their death (parents Patrick & Bridget) there were many business debts owing to them"Ed Shinners a great grandson from Kentucky was to visit Westport in 1994 and Joe McNally a local and Grandson of a
 Durkin pointed out 4 shops that the Durkins operated.Lewisburg Co. Mayo records the death on December 12th 1879 of a Patrick Durkin whose eldest son Martin signed with a X.While this could be Patricks death, his son Martin was believed to be educated
 and would have been expected to sign his name.

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