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Where did the Irish O'Flaherty family come from? What is the Irish O'Flaherty family crest and coat of arms? When did the O'Flaherty family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the O'Flaherty family history?
The Irish surnames in use today are underpinned by a multitude of rich histories. The name O'Flaherty originally appeared in Gaelic as "O Flaithbheartaigh," which means "bright ruler."
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Names during the Middle Ages were often recorded under several different spelling variations during the life of their bearers. Literacy was rare at that time and so how a person's name was recorded was decided by the individual scribe. Variations of the name O'Flaherty include Flaherty, O'Flaherty, Flaverty, Laverty, Faherty and many more.First found in Connemara, County Galway in Connacht where they held a family seat from very ancient times.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name O'Flaherty. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
In the late 18th century, Irish families began emigrating to North America in the search of a plot of land to call their own. This pattern of emigration grew steadily until the 1840s when the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s cause thousands of Irish to flee the death and disease that accompanied the disaster. Those that made it alive to the shores of the United States and British North America (later to become Canada) were, however, instrumental in the development of those two powerful nations. Many of these Irish immigrants proudly bore the name of O'Flaherty:
O'Flaherty Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Frank H. O'Flaherty, aged 40, who arrived at Ellis Island from Cork, in 1892
O'Flaherty Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Henry O'Flaherty, aged 20, who arrived at Ellis Island from Clifden, Ireland, in 1904
- John O'Flaherty, aged 56, who arrived at Ellis Island from Belfast, Ireland, in 1908
- Eileen O'Flaherty, aged 25, who arrived at Ellis Island from Kingstown, Ireland, in 1909
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- Ensign Frank Woodrow O'Flaherty (1918-1942), American pilot with the USS Enterprise, eponym of the USS O'Flaherty (DE-340)
- Rev. Colman E. O'Flaherty (1874-1918), Irish-born, American recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross
- Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984), Irish novelist and short story writer, author of The Informer (1925); Famine (novel) (1937), set around 1840's Great Famine (Ireland)
- Michael O'Flaherty (1891-1952), Mayor of Galway, Ireland (1950 to 1952)
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898-1963), Vatican priest during World War II, saved many Jewish and POW lives and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Sidney Wainman "Sid" O'Flaherty (1886-1967), Australian politician
- Patrick O'Flaherty (b. 1939), Newfoundland-born, Canadian writer, historian, and academic
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- Filby, P. William and Mary K Meyer. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index in Four Volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Print. (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8).
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
- O'Hart, John. Irish Pedigress 5th Edition in 2 Volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0737-4).
- Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
- Bullock, L.G. Historical Map of Ireland. Edinburgh: Bartholomew and Son, 1969. Print.
- Hickey, D.J. and J.E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History form 1800 2nd Edition. Dublin: Gil & MacMillian, 2003. Print.
- The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X).
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-1849. New York: Old Town Books, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-385-3).
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The O'Flaherty Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The O'Flaherty Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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