Obama’s Irish ancestry revealed in online database
March 15th, 2011 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 15 (ANI): A number of public figures whose Irish ancestry have been revealed in an online database include Chancellor George
Osborne, United States President Barack Obama and Oscar Wilde.
The predecessors of Walt Disney, CS Lewis and John F Kennedy also feature in the updated online collection of 19th-century historical Irish
records, published ahead of St Patrick’s Day on March 17, the Scotsman reported.
Osborne is heir to the baronetcy of Ballentaylor. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Henry Osborne, can be found in the Tithe Applotment
Books, living in County Tipperary in 1824.
More than a quarter of US presidents have claimed Irish roots, including JFK, whose great-great-grandfather lived in Wexford.
His name is found in Griffith’s Valuation of Ireland, 1848-1864, which features more than 2.5 million names and addresses in land tax records.
Griffith’s also shows William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde, living at Westland Row, Dublin, where the author was born in 1854. (ANI)
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