Yes we are related to Stuart. He was a cousin to my husband's father. Our family is on the net ... McKay.familytree.id.au/family.php?famid=f218. I'll have a look at your link Sent from my iPad On 25/01/2013, at 6:48 AM, "Jon O'Grady" <jonogrady@iinet.net.au> wrote: > HI Lyn, Its nice to have another O'Grady on the list as we are few in number but have a deep Irish lineage. I am the administrator for the O'Grady DNA project. See http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/grady/ > I have put a number of links to O'Grady materials on the home page. I'm happy to try to answer any questions. > Are you related to Stuart O'Grady the famous cyclist? > My O'Grady's arrived in Melbourne in the late 1850s and where from Parteen > cheers > Jon o'Grady > sydney > On 24/01/2013, at 11:04 PM, Lyn O'Grady wrote: > >> Hi all, hope someone can help find the roots for this family as we're >> travelling to Co Clare from Australia in May this year and would like to >> absorb the countryside of his birthplace (if we can find out where it was!). >> >> Michael John Grady born about 1831 arrived in SA sometime before his >> marriage to Mary Anne O'Loughlin in 1862. He put Patrick as his father's >> name. He later became known as O'Grady. >> Family knowledge has it that he was born in Waughty Park county Clare but >> is there such a place, is it Aughty? He also said he landed in NSW and >> found his way to SA. If this is true, he may have been a government >> sponsored immigrant and had to work two years before being released. He >> possibly landed in 1854. Alternatively he may have been a convict (haven't >> found his name on the list) whatever we have little to go by. >> He was a labourer / publican. >> He and Mary Anne settled in Macclesfield in the Hills, sheep and wheat >> country but by 1874 moved to an industrial/workers' suburb of Adelaide >> called Thebarton with a family of 11 or 12 children. Nearby was a brewery >> and many small businesses. >> Knowing names may give a clue, there were names like Michael, Denis >> Francis, James Francis, Elizabeth Ellen, Patrick John, William, Edmund, >> Lawrence and Michael John. >> His fourth son, publican and bookmaker/horseowner. Michael John born 1874 >> is husband's line, he married Nora Mary Durkin in 1907 and only had 3 sons >> including my father in law. >> My research found that during land clearances in Ireland many families were >> pushed into the woods of the Aughty, am I correct? If I was to visit, >> would I see any of the ruins of the villages in the Aughty? >> >> regards, >> Lyn O'Grady >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Jon O'Grady > Sydney, Australia > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message