The Kavanaghs: 'The Last Titular King of Leinster' and the Hauskirchen Succession The study below traces the remarkable story of Baron Henry Kavanagh, a captain in the Imperial Austrian service, whose quest in 1813 to document his patrilineal descent from the Kavanagh family of Inch, Co. Carlow in order to succeed to the Hauskirchen estate [...]
The Military Service of Forrestal Lineage of New Ross and Milwaukee The Forrestal or Forstall family's distinguished military tradition was carried into the twentieth century by the grandsons and great-grandsons of Nicholas Forrestal of New Ross and Milwaukee, who numbered six officers and three non-commissioned officers across the two World Wars. The genealogical chart below [...]
Nicholas Forrestal of New Ross & Milwaukee 1820-1877 Nicholas Forristal or Forrestal was a New Ross merchant who emigrated to the United States with his wife, Ann Cantwell, and their twins, Bridget and William, in 1851. Nicholas was baptized 20 February 1820 at Glynn, St. Mullins, the son of James Forstall or Forrestal Jr. of [...]
