<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? Geoff

(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. -Matthew