Hi Dave. I just saw your post on GenForum and am replying here mainly because it gets too confusing to remember where the last message got left, and believe me, researching these families is confusing enough without adding to it!
Here's some of what I know so far. I'm waiting for information from my parents, which may expand on what I have.
My mother is Mary Theresa ASHE Codd; sibs: Michael, 2 girls (died v. young - I'm not sure of their names), Patrick, Siobhan (died young), Carmel.
Her parents were James ASHE and Christina BROSNAN;
James' parents were Michael ASHE and Julia MANNIX. His sibs were Mary, John, Bridget, Michael, Margaret (Greta), and Patrick.
Christina's parents were James BROSNAN and Ellen FLAHERTY. Sibs: Tadhg (Timothy), Margaret (Maggie), Catharine (Kate), Johanna, Hannah, Ellen, Michael, and Mary.
Grandma was the youngest; she was orphaned young. Michael was married to Mamie SHEEHY. I'll have more on this group soon.
Michael ASHE had one full sister, Margaret. There was a 3rd sibling, but I'm not sure where he/she falls. Their parents were James ASHE and Mary DEANE of Curragh (Mary (1)). It gets a little complicated here, because Michael and Margaret were born somewhere in NY State, but the family returned to Ireland when their mother became ill. She died sometime after they returned. James planned on returned to the US, but his father, also James, wouldn't let him because of the children, and gave him land in Camp where he built a pub. It's still there. Here's the complicated part. James (my gggrandfather) married a second time to a woman named GRIFFIN. I don't know her first name yet, or anything else about her. She died roughly a year after they were married; no issue. James then married a 3rd time, to Mary DEANE of Upper Camp (Mary (2)). James and Mary (2) had a large family: Mary (m. Patrick GRIFFIN and emigrated to New Zealand), James (inherited the pub, m. Julia O'BRIEN), Patrick (aka Patsy or Pointy), John, Tom, Johanna and Bridget and Greg. Greg emigrated to Chicago. The only thing I know for sure about the age order is that Mary was the eldest and Greg the youngest.
Now for more twists. My ggreat-aunt Maggie ASHE married twice. The first time to John DEANE (ch Mary, Bridget, Ellen and John), then John O'KANE. John DEANE was a brother of Mary (2), thus making Mary, Bridget, Ellen and John both first cousins AND aunts/uncle of their mother's half-siblings!
Patrick GRIFFIN who married Mary ASHE (James & Mary (2)) was a nephew of Kate GRIFFIN, who married another of Mary DEANE (2)'s brothers!
It goes downhill from there. I still get headaches trying to figure it out, and I have a printed tree! I only hope the Brosnans are not as tricky.
Anyway, the whole point is that right now, the only link I have to the Gregory Peck/Tomas Ashe line is by marriage only, and at that, it's not through any Ashe relatives save my grandfather! However, given the convolutions of the tree (only touched on above!) and the small size of the Dingle Peninsula, I imagine there has to be a connection, which I'm determined to find.
I have seen the tree you mentioned, and I e-mailed Mr. Ashe, but got no response. But I'm still working on it - I have a long way to go before I consider this tree complete!
Edel
Brosnan & Ashe
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