"Terry Wells" <terrywells@csi.com> wrote in message news:10pmu4gfsgp4k.tcddapnnncvm$.dlg@40tude.net... > On Mon, 20 May 2013 20:24:51 -0400, S Viemeister wrote: > >> On 5/20/2013 3:07 PM, mvernonconnolly@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >>> (Herbert George) Rodrigo Moynihan CBE (1910-1990), born in Tenerife as >>> Renia says. Elder son of Herbert James Moynihan (1885-1941), fruit >>> broker, who was 2nd son of George William Moynihan (1861-1919), surgical >>> instrument maker, whose elder sister was Lucy Susannah (1855-1932), >>> great-grandmother of Nigel Farage, as above. >>> >>> They were both children of Thomas Moynihan (c.1834-1864), lithographic >>> printer, by his wife Grace Hannah Stephenson (1833-1912), daughter of >>> Frederick Stephenson (b.1805), letter press printer, and his wife >>> Susannah Saunders. Thomas was son of Daniel Moynihan (c.1790-1844) and >>> his wife Margaret (c.1799/1802-1874), both of whom were born in Ireland >>> but came to England by 1821. >>> >> I wonder if there's any connection with the late US Senator Daniel >> Patrick Moynihan? > > I was wondering if there was any connection with Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron > Moynihan, British Olympic coxswain and Conservative politician, who I met > on a few occasions when he was at the Department of Energy in the early > 90s. > > -- > > Terry Wells We are not supposed to do family history by surmising on links between people with the same, not uncommon, name. Now where would we be if it had been Smith? On the other hand, I reckon everyone called Shacklady is related - I have some in my tree and all the Shackladys in the south east of England seem to be descended from one man. There is another population near Liverpool and I have often wondered how the SE chap escaped. (some of those in the SE are escapees more recently from Liverpool).