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O'Flaherty Family Crest
O'Flaherty Family Crest
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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 web page shows only a small excerpt of our O'Flaherty research. Another 304 words(22 lines of text) covering the years 1098, 1629, and 1718 are included under the topic Early O'Flaherty History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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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: James Flaherty who landed in Virginia in 1651; followed James Flaharty in 1651; Timothy Flaharty settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1767; Ann Flaherty settled in New York in 1850.

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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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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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