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Jane Harrington

Photo Album: John Harrington

Submitted by Jane Harrington, Rockbridge County, Virginia
February / March 2015

January 23, 2015 by 4 Comments

My great-great-grandfather John Harrington’s family had probably been in the Beara peninsula of southwest Ireland for many generations before he emigrated in 1848, during the Great Hunger. In Irish, the ancestral name was probably Ó hIongardail (anglicized to Harrington for ease of entry into tenant logs after the land seizures of the 17th century), a name associated with an … [Read more...] about Photo Album: John Harrington

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