On 20/05/2013 11:47, Geoff Pearson wrote: > > <mvernonconnolly@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:6f753d6e-0efb-40c9-b546-4008d570aad9@googlegroups.com... >> On Monday, May 20, 2013 3:25:13 AM UTC+3, Renia wrote: >>> >>> >>> His great-grandfather was Daniel Savory Farage who married Lucy Susannah >>> >>> Moynihan in 1883 in the Islington district. They had 11 children, all >>> >>> still living in 1911, by which time, Lucy was a widow, so her marital >>> >>> details were crossed out. >> >> Through this marriage Nigel Farage is related to artist Rodrigo >> Moynihan (1910-1990); I researched the latter's ancestry a couple of >> years ago for a member of the family, and was amused to find the >> Farage link. > > So what was Rodrigo Moynihan's real name and place of birth - he doesn't > show up in Ancestry or FreeBMD - unless I'm having a bad day? He was born in Tenerife! His parents, according to Wikifing, came to London in 1918 and then went to Wisconsin. Rodrigo studied at Slade.

On 20/05/2013 12:57, Renia wrote: > On 20/05/2013 11:47, Geoff Pearson wrote: >> >> <mvernonconnolly@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:6f753d6e-0efb-40c9-b546-4008d570aad9@googlegroups.com... >>> On Monday, May 20, 2013 3:25:13 AM UTC+3, Renia wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> His great-grandfather was Daniel Savory Farage who married Lucy >>>> Susannah >>>> >>>> Moynihan in 1883 in the Islington district. They had 11 children, all >>>> >>>> still living in 1911, by which time, Lucy was a widow, so her marital >>>> >>>> details were crossed out. >>> >>> Through this marriage Nigel Farage is related to artist Rodrigo >>> Moynihan (1910-1990); I researched the latter's ancestry a couple of >>> years ago for a member of the family, and was amused to find the >>> Farage link. >> >> So what was Rodrigo Moynihan's real name and place of birth - he doesn't >> show up in Ancestry or FreeBMD - unless I'm having a bad day? > > He was born in Tenerife! His parents, according to Wikifing, came to > London in 1918 and then went to Wisconsin. Rodrigo studied at Slade. According to his obituary in The Times, his parents were Herbert James Moynihan and Maria de la Puerta. He was born in 1910 and died in 1980.