About Us:
Daniel Duffy arrived from Ireland in the middle of the 19th Century. He came from the north of County Tipperary. His parents were William and Bridget Duffy (Hogan).
Daniel had four brothers, one sister and a Half brother (Mother Bridget O’Dea). The small holding where he left near a village in Tipperary is still owned and operated by distant family relations.
Mary Goonan was the last relative contact with the Australian Duffys. She was a regular letter writer to Nell Duffy and Mary Littlewood.
The old house in Ireland barely stands. It was made up of three sections (rooms), One for stock during the winter, One for the whole family living and the other in the roof section for sleeping.
The old house originally had a thatched roof but time has not been kind to it. When visiting we were given a vessel which was used by the family for all sorts of meals and drinking. Having inquired about the age of the vessel it was deemed to be around 250 years old (not old in Irish terms).
As we know firewood they know Peat (bog) which was readily available at the lower end of the Farm. The bog was used and stored the same way as we store our firewood.
Travel in Ireland was not extensive as we know and travel. The Maddens (Ann Madden) lived a around about a kilometre away.
Daniel Duffy arrived in Australia on the sailing vessel the Trebolgan.
He immediately settled in Borenore where other natives of Tipperary, Galway & Roscommon had settled. Such family names were Murphy, Madden, Wright and O'Sullivan.
He married Ann Madden who had sailed earlier to Australia on the Abyssinian.
Various other ancestors had arrived in Australia in the early 1800s' and settled in other locations around the central west of NSW.
Daniel and Ann Duffy had 9 Children, Mary, William, Louisa (Ann), John, Sarah, Alice (Augusta), Angelina, Margaret and Daniel.
My Ancestry on the Duffy belongs to Charles (John) Duffy. A number of family still remain in Borenore.
One tends to think that the Politics comes from my grand father who carried the banner down the streets of Broken Hill during the Shearers and Miners strikes of the 1890s'.
Or may be the Gair's on my Great Grandmothers side that are related to Vince Gair, the DLP leader in Queensland.
However Chris Worthington is still a Councillor on Parramatta Council and Kaye Griffin Is a NSW M.L.C. in the current government.
My ancestry does not forget Oliver Cromwell.
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