O'Dochartaigh in Spain since 1790

 

 

                        O’DOGHERTY

Origin, History and Genealogy

 

 

 

 

 

INIS EOGHAIN (INISHOWEN)

 

In Co. Donegal, is located the peninsula of Inishowen, which show  a tongue of land, flanked by Foyle and Swilly lakes, whose waters are fused at its most northern to the strong waves of the Atlantic Ocean, that lap the coast of Malin Head, which is the most northern part of Ireland. In extent it is 208,000 acres or in metric terms 84,000 hectares.

The name applied to this area is made up of two Irish words; “inis”, an island and “Eoghan”, the Christian name of its earliest ruler in the historic period.

When the area was first named it was in fact an island as the southern portion around Burt was under water. Drainage has in later times converted Inis Eoghain into a peninsula.

In passing one may note its proximity to Scotland. Inis Eoghain and indeed all Donegal had in earlier times, because of easier access by water, closer contact with the west of Scotland than the rest of Ireland. They shared then a common language and a common culture with the Scots.

The earliest reference to the present name is found in the Annals of the Four Masters   concerning the death of Eoghan in 465. It has remained the Island of Eoghan since that time. The O’Dochartaigh (Gaelic name) originated in Inishowen and got their name from Dochartach, son and heir of Maongal; this grandson of Fianan, Lord of Inishowen, was the third son of Ceannfaola, prince of Tir Conaill, and 12^th in lineal descent from Conall Gulban. The name Dochartach means “hurtful”, “disobliging”, or “obstructive”, which could have described how O’Dogherty were viewed by strangers and would surely have been linked to their dogged attachment to their lands. Indeed, their clan motto is “Ar nDutchas” (For my Inheritance). These descriptive terms might, however, suggest how Maongal’s contemporaries viewed his son, rather than all O’Dogherty.

 



There are a few who suggest that the surname means “The people of the Oak Houses”.

The death of the first O’Dogherty, clearly and unequivocally styled “Taoiseach of Inis Eoghain”, took place in 1413. He was styled Conchur an Oinigh by genealogists due to his great hospitality. Like Niall of the Nine Hostages, he was regarded as the progenitor of his line, every branch of the O’Dogherty in Inis Eoghain claims descent from him. His son Donall married twice and had eight sons: Brian Dubh, Feilim, Niall, Eachmharach, Sean, Cathal, Donall Og and Gearalt. Brian, Sean and Eachmahrach were the sons of one wife.

 

                                THE O’DOGHERTY OF CLAN FIAMHAIN

 

The O’Dogherty descended from the aforesaid Conall Gulban, a Milesian prince of the royal house of Heremon, who won possession of Donegal at the beginning of the fifth century. Donegal is located in the northwest of Ireland, and is one of the historic nine countries of Ulster.

Conal’s brother, Eoghan (Owen) was the first born of the family. In his maturity he conquered another Ulster county, Tir Eoghan (Tyrone). Both were sons of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Ard Ri (High King) of Ireland whom historic records as having kidnapped St. Patrick (c. 389-461) in 405. The Co. Donegal region of Tir Conaill, or Land of Connell, took its name from Conaill, and his descendants are referred to as the Cineal Conaill, or the Race of Connell.

 

THE O’DOGHERTY OF INISHOWEN

 

Throughout history there have been diverse conflicts of succession between the O’Dogherty analogous to those held between the O'Neill and the O'Connor.

 

As it seems, Sean Mor O'Dochartaigh was among the first who, with King Conn Bacah O'Neill were submitted to King Henry VIII,

who granted them the title of Lords in 1541. The O’Dogherty joined other Irish in the war against Queen Elizabeth, but Sean Og, the son of Sean Mor, was subjected and was recognized as Lord of Inishowen in 1582.

In the Annals of the Four Masters it is said that same day were gathered all the princes of Ulster to attend the English Parliament in Dublin. Sean Og was one of those invited.

Years later Sean Og was taken prisoner by the Lord Deputy Sir William Fitzwilliams, for having given shelter and protection to the shipwrecked of the Spanish Armada, whose vessels had sunk on the north coast of Ireland. Sean was forced to buy his freedom after two years of captivity, dying in 1601.

Before that, in 1600 Sir Lord Chamberlain in command of the British troops from Derry, invaded Inishowen with the intent to submit, but Sean Og O'Dochartaigh and his troops ambushed Chamberlain's men, defeating them.

Sean Og O’Dochartaigh, the Lord of Inis Eoghain during the years from 1582 to 1601 married a daughter of Sean O’Neill popularly styled by his Gaelic contemporaries “Sean and Diomais”. Five children were born of this union: three sons Cathaoir, Ruairi and Sean and two daughters, Roise and Mairead.

On the death of Sean Og was succeeded by his son Cathaoir Rua (1587-1608), a tall young, stout, and good looking which was well received by the English, for whom he was known as Sir Cahir, being appointed Lord by the Lord Deputy Mountjoy, as a tribute for the "value shown in the battlefield".

Sir Cahir visited the English court in London and on his return to Ireland he was appointed Admiral of the city of Derry. Cahir Rua's uncle, Felim, was Sir of the Culmore Castle, on the Isle of Doagh, located at the mouth of the Bay of Trawbreaga, within Lough Foyle.

The castle was captured in May 1600 by the British troops under Sir Henry Docwra command   which was named Lord Docwra of Culmore, becoming governor of Derry, to also strengthen the

castle to control the population of Inishowen. It was clear that in such circumstances Cathaoir Rua had to pay tribute.

It was at that time in 1608, when Cathaoir became the last noble from Northern Ireland facing against   the English invaders. In May of that year attacked the English garrison of Culmore regaining possession of the castle, heading towards Derry and then attacking the city, which was taken, destroyed and sacked, dying in combat the city's governor, Sir George Paulett.

Sir Cathaoir kept attacking other British fortifications in Derry, Donegal and Tyrone. For all these reasons, Lord Sir Arthur Chichester, who was in command of the British troops, offered a reward for the head of Sir Cathaoir Rua.

An army of four thousand men commanded by Marshal Wingfield and Sir Oliver Lambert was sent to Donegal with the intent to capture him, but Sir Cathaoir managed to escape for a few months until Marshal Wingfield  besieged the castle of Burt , main center of resistance of Cathaoir Rua and that  was located very close to Lough Swilly.

Lacking enough food, the garrison had to surrender, negotiating with Wingfield the delivery of the Castle, with the promise that their lives would be respected. However, once surrendered were slaughtered. This outrage only increased the fighting spirit of the men of Donegal.  

 

 

 

 

                                  DEATH OF CAHIR RUA O’DOGHERTY

 

 

 

On Monday, July 4, the English were advancing with heavy guns on Doe Castle, which was still in native hands; its garrison had refused to surrender. Sir Cahir, the 21-year-old chieftain, and his small army were encamped at Doon Rock, near Kilmacrenna, a name that would be forever linked to these events. On the morning of Tuesday, July 5, the two armies faced each other. The Irish collaborators who marched with the English included a company from Tyrone, members of the O’Neill dynasty, under de direct command of Toirealach Mac Airt Oig. As this company advanced against their fellow Gaels, they discharged a volley of musket-shot; one struck Sir Cahir as he directed and encouraged his men. The shot pierced his brain, and the last ruling Gaelic chieftain fell dead, only half an hour into the battle.

In spite of brave attempts by his clansmen, his body could not be recovered in the disorder that ensued amid heavy volleys fired with each enemy advance. His Spanish head-dress, long red hair and the quality of his clothing made the body of the last ruling Taoiseach of Gaelic Ireland easily recognizable. Sir Cahir Rua’s body was captured by the English, taken to Derry and quartered prior to being placed on public display. His head was rushed to Dublin where it was put on a spike above the main entrance to the Castle. Primary sources indicate that it was subsequently displayed above Newgate Prison. His skull has been exposed in a niche of the church of St. Audoen's until 1959

The sword and its sheath were also taken as a trophy and have survived to this day and are now in the Tower Museum of O'Dogherty in the city of Derry.

After the battle, many of the followers of Cathaoir were killed by their enemies.

Sir Arthur Chichester took possession of his property and about six thousand people were removed from their lands, who were sent to Livonia as mobilized soldiers.

The descendants of Cathaoir Rua still has a document written in Irish by Cathaoir’s brother Sean, which reads as follows: “After the loss of the unfortunate battle in which my brother Cathaoir fell dead, no words can express the misfortune we suffer. Entire country became the reward given to a merciless enemy who spared no one in my family, especially those who were united by blood or marriage. Once confiscated the inheritance of my family, and given to Sir Arthur Chichester, my family and I were forced to live without financial means, leading a miserable life and wandering. My wife died engulfed by grief leaving this world for a better one on December 12, 1637, staying alone with my five children”.

 

HENRY O’DOCHARTAIGH

VICAR - GENERAL OF THE DIOCESE OF MEATH

 

A few years after Cathaoir was killed, his brother Ruairi in company with a number of men from Ulster went to Austria and enlisted in the army of the Archduke. Roise married firstly Caffar O’Donaill, a brother of Aodh Rua, and on his death she became the wife of Eoghan Rua O’Neill. Mairead married Eochaidh Og O hAnluain, son of the ruler of Orier in Co. Armagh. 

Sean was in his early teens when the English invasion of Inis Eoghain in 1608 brought to end his family’s lordship of the peninsula. The O’Dochartaigh clan had close links with O Ruairc of Breffni through time. With them Sean found refuge when Arthur Chisterter’s agents sought to lay violent hands on him and other near relatives of Cathaoir Rua, the last native ruler of Inis Eoghain.

Some years later when the threat to his person had ceased, Sean returned and settled in Derry. He took in marriage Eillis Ni Chathain, the eldest daughter of Padraig, a member of the distinguished ruling family in that area. Sean died in 1638.

The direct line continued through Eoghan, Cathaoir, Eoghan and Seán. The last-named, married in about 1740 with Mairead, third daughter of Risteard O'Ceallaigh, Cavan County. Two sons of the married are relevant to this narrative: Eoghan and Henry. Eoghan, (1742-1784), who had remained in Ireland living  under cover of persecution of English criminal law, married Jane Browne, second daughter of James Browne, Graigues, Co. Kildare. He died in 1784 leaving three sons: Sean O’Dogherty Browne (1775-1847), Henry (1776-1803) and Clinton Dillon (1778-1805), all minors, as well as three daughters: Margaret, Amelia and Elizabeth.

In the intervening years since 1638 the Ó Dochartaigh family had left the city of Derry establishing itself during a certain time in Leitrim. By the second half of the eighteenth century they were established in east Cavan where they held in fee the townland that had been granted by Charles II, for the devastation suffered by Inishowen County, which included the property of the village of Corravelish, parish of Enniskean, barony of Clankee. This parish belonged to the Diocese of Meath.

 

EDUCATION AND MINISTRY

 

Henry O’Dochartaig, brother of the above named Eoghan, was born about 1744. His parents arranged, after his primary education in Ireland, for his attendance in Paris where he was to qualify as a medical doctor. While in France Henry decided instead to study for the priesthood and did a theological course at the Sorbonne. He became a Doctor of Divinity and was ordained in 1772. Then he returned to Ireland to minister in the diocese of Meath. The bishop there at the time was Dr. Augustine Chevers.

In 1780 on the death of the Revd. Caffrey, Henry became parish priest of Killaghy, Co. Offaly. Four years later the Revd. Robert Wilson, the pastor of Ballyboy, died and Fr. O’Dochartaigh was given responsibility for his parish as well. On June 2, 1786, he was transferred to Trim. The new parish priest of Trim was also made the master of conference for the deanery and early in 1789 he was appointed Vicar General.

 

At this time the Catholic Church in Ireland was emerging from long period of deprivation caused by the Penal Laws. The establishment of schools and the building of churches were among the priorities facing every parish priest. Fr. O’Dochartaigh devoted himself diligently to these problems. One authority speaking of him said: “He was a man of considerable abilities, and remarkable for piety, zeal and charity”. By the end of 1795 he had contracted a form of paralysis and was unable to discharge his duties. His death took place in the following year on April 30.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Ireland as well as placing the Church as a great disadvantage in discharging her mission faced many of the upper-class landed Catholics with a bitter choice between retaining possession of their consciences. Did the O’Dochartaigh family become Protestants for a time? The diocesan historian for the diocese of Meath remarks in reference to Henry O’Dochartaigh: “This pastor (was) said to have been a convert”. Cogan was writing at a time close enough to the period to be in touch with both the written and oral sources.

 

                                     THE SPANISH SOJOURN

 

The death in 1784 of Henry’s brother Eoghan added further responsibilities to him. He had to act as guardian to his three young nephews: Henry, Sean and Clinton Dillon. Their education and their careers had to be planned. There was also the question of their religious and moral upbringing. Fr. O’Dochartaigh was determined that all would be in accordance with Catholic principles. Her sisters remained in Ireland where they married and started their own families, as they all had children.

For over two centuries the Irish Catholic middle-classes had turned to the continent when the questions of education and employment were under consideration. The choices were many provided the proper contacts could be made abroad to secure a stepping-stone for entry. A new chapter was now being opened in the story of this illustrious family.

 

By the end of 1789 Fr. O’Dochartaigh approached his bishop, Patrick Joseph Plunkett (1779-1827) and asked him to make contact with an influential family of Irish descent in Spain. Dr. Plunkett wrote to James Butler, Archbishop of Cashel (1774-1791) who in turn sent a letter to a family named Murphy in Cadiz.

In a letter dated March 28, 1790 Dr. Butler informed Dr. Plunkett:

“I wrote as you desired to Mr. Murphy of Cadiz in favor of young Mr. Dougherty requesting of Mr. Murphy either to receive him into his own house, or to recommend him to some worthy merchant of his acquaintance. I took particular care to give him the character you wrote to me of him. If I succeed, which I have reason to hope, I shall feel double happy in having had an opportunity of obliging your Lordship and your respectable Vicar-General”.

The contact gave a positive response and in the second quarter of 1790 Henry and his nephews were in route for Spain. The Vicar-General had secured a leave of absence from his bishop. By June 16, 1790 he was writing from Seville to inform Dr. Plunkett of developments. His Spanish sojourn lasted about two years. In June 17, 1792 he was back in his parish.

 

 

                                       THE O’DOGHERTY OF SPAIN



 

 

 

 

The presence of the O’Dochartaigh party in Spain is confirmed by the records of the Archivo Municipal de Cadiz. A census of foreigners resident in the city in 1791 mentions Henry O’Dochartaigh living in the ward of Angustias. His three nephews are listed for the Cuna area. A note is added stating that “They were youths who have come to enter His Majesty’s service”.

In his desire to join the Spanish Royal Navy, provided extensive documentation in which ironically Ulster King of Arms, Sir Chischester Fortescue, supported by the Lord Lieutenant Count of Westmoreland and Lord Hobbard, certifying the noble genealogy and origin of youths, acknowledged by the signature of fourteen bishops, an archbishop, all the English officers of   Ultonia   Regiment of Ulster, the Regiment of the Irish Brigade, as well as that of the Irish residents in Cadiz. They certified the nobility of his rank in the Irish Gaelic.

Sean and Clinton Dillon served as cadets in Ultonia Regiment, while Henry joined the Navy where he continued until his death from natural causes in May 3, 1803, being buried in Veracruz, Mexico. After passing through the Ultonia Regiment, Henry's brothers also joined the Navy. Clinton Dillon served in the Corvette named Batidor, capturing in 1797 to a British Corvette and in 1804 was the deck officer on the vessel that captured the British frigate "Henrietta" in the Rio de la Plata. Died in February 2, 1805, his body received Christian burial in Kingston, Jamaica.

After the death of his brothers, Sean (John) continued his naval career in the Spanish Navy. Sailed for the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, visited the French and Dutch Guiana and also Montevideo, staying for something over a year a campaign in Falklands Islands. He participated in numerous naval battles, such as the battle of Trafalgar getting recognition for his decisive participation in the battle of Puente Sampayo that faced the powerful French troops, commanded by the generals Ney and Soult, against the popular militias and the Spanish army. At the end of March of 1809, the Galician recovered the places of Vigo, Tuy and Pontevedra, until the Sixth Corps of the French army retired. A few months later, between 7 and 8 June, French returned with new troops to recover the lost lands and

for that they had to cross the bridge. But it was here that in a spirit of determination and the heroism of the militias managed to stop

 the desperate French invader and make them definitively withdraw from Galician lands. It is said that the militias commanded by the Sub-Lieutenant Juan O'Dogherty, by the shortage of weapons of war, created with a thick trunks, true cannons, capable of resisting until twelve explosions caused by the shots. According to the transcription of the official part that Colonel Pablo Morillo sent to the Superiority on April 8, 1809, reporting on what happened on March 28, said: "All were placed (countrymen and cannons) in the best positions, to the command of Sub-Lieutenant  Juan O'Dogherty, who for being in command of three gunboat, the task of defending that point, (Puentesampayo)”.

By marrying in Redondela (Pontevedra) in 1808 with Maria Josefa Macedo, (whose father had been shot by the French), became the founder of the family O'Dogherty in Spain. From this union would be born six children: Ramona (1808), Juan (1813), Aurora (1815), Federico (1818), Josefa (1820), y Carlos Enrique (1825). Ramona married José Antonio Arines. Aurora had married a Spanish notary public named Juan Climaco Seoane, and they had two daughters, Petronila and Adelaida, having died in 1862. Federico died in 1864, unmarried.

Juan O'Dogherty Macedo (1813-1845), which was therefore the first O'Dochartaigh born in Spain, married in the city of Redondela, with Maria Joaquina Navajas, whose union were born their children: Ramon Salvador (1835 - 1902), Ulpiano, Jose, Ernesto and Ricardo. Both Ernesto and Ricardo died in infancy.

Ramon Salvador joined up the Spanish Navy, distinguished in the war in Cuba, Santo Domingo and Mexico with General Prim, receiving various awards. He was  who began the saga O'Dochartaigh in Andalusia after being assigned  to the Spanish Navy Department of San Fernando (Cadiz), the city where he lived for many years and where remains his mortal  rest from the day of his death in Jan 17, 1902.  In a first attempt to obtain legal recognition and the return of his titles and property, in January of 1863 Ramon Salvador traveled to Ireland where he had filed a demand for eviction with the purpose of recovering for his family the possession of a part of the lands of Corravelish, located near Bailieborough, in the county of Cavan, without the interposed demand would give favorable result. Later on and with the same purpose, on March 8, 1867, at the Cavan Assizes, a new hearing of the case was held, presented this time by his Aunt Ramona in union with his cousins ​​Petronila and Adelaida Seoane. However, their claim was not officially recognized, nor returned the titles and property claimed. This case reached the Queen of England's judiciary and was published in the newspaper "THE IRISH LAW TIMES, Volume I, -1867-68, Pp. 140-141, where they reported on the process and family genealogy.

From his union with Maria de la Concepcion Crespo Guerra, on August 4, 1878 born his eldest son Ramon Salvador (1878-1934), who very soon, at the early age of seven years would be orphaned mother, being his ​​maternal aunt, Andrea, which devoted the best of his life to the care of the little nephew who raised with love and tenderness.

 

Ramón Salvador developed his professional work in the Spanish Navy, where from June 18, 1898, he would set up as Assistant Machines for the unarmed ships, until November 6 of that same year that he embarked for transportation in the Auxiliary Cruiser "Rapido" with destination to the factory of Rio de Oro, that was one of the territories in which the Spanish Sahara was divided before the occupation of Morocco. From the workshops, on December 7, 1901, he would embark at the tank boat named "Somorrostro" where he would remain until February 15, 1902, which move to the gunboat "Martín Alonso Pinzon". On March 1, 1904, he was to become part of the crew of the No. 2 Tugboat of service at Arsenal de la Carraca where he remained until February 28, 1907. In his service record the distinction is that: "By Real Order of July 26, 1905, Official Bulletin number 89, page 817, HM the King thanked him for the work done, on the occasion of the entrance and exit of the Instruction Squadron in the inlets of the Arsenal de La Carraca”.  Destined to the Arsenal Machinery and Adjustments Factory, it would remain there until September 30, 1908, a date that was transfer to the dredger for the purpose of dredging the narrow inlets around the area, where it remained until January 20, 1910, which was destined for the Disinfection Stove Military Hospital of San Carlos. On September 19, 1910, he went to work to the Machine Adjustment Workshop with a basic wages of five pesetas.

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the emergence of the alternating current, , the possibility of transporting electricity at a great distance and, therefore, of carrying out a large-scale development of hydroelectric plants was opened up. However, at that time, electricity was generated as a direct current and it was not possible to transport it over long distances, so its development was limited to power plant sites near consumption centers, usually to industries or municipalities. However, at that time, electricity was generated as a direct current and it was not possible to transport it over long distances, so its development was limited to power plant sites near consumption centers, usually to industries or municipalities. It was around 1913 when the city of Vejer de la Frontera decided to install a plant in its term that would implement the needs of the municipality. This was how Salvador on April 22, 1913 requested a month of license for his own affairs in order to manage the possibility of being part of the work team that carried out the construction of this plant, which would  achieve, moving  with his wife and  children to the  beautiful city  of

Vejer, where they would live until the completion of the work. It would be during his stay there, where his daughter Isabel would be born, the only one of his children who was not born in San Fernando. As stated in his work file issued at Arsenal de la Carraca on April 6, 1920; "He was a definitive discharge for a license exceeded on the twenty-fourth of March of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen." Coming from the Artillery Branch, on the twenty-ninth of October of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, he entered again in the machine-building workshop with the wage of five pesetas. Increased to five pesetas forty cents on November 17 of the same year. Again increased salary to five pesetas with eighty cents on June eleven, nineteen hundred and seventeen, where it continues today."

On July 9, 1904 he married Luisa Ghersi Cardenas, the daughter of an Italian immigrant born in Bolzaneto, (Genoa), and of result of that union would be born nine children: Luis O’Dogherty Ghersi (1906-1998), Jesus (1908-1999), Maria de la Concepcion (1910-1989), Maria de los Dolores (1910-1995), Maria del Carmen (1912-1989), Isabel (1915-1996), Rafael (1917-2002), Ramon Salvador (1919-1996) and Angelina (1922-2006).

After he become retired at the early thirties and together with his two eldest sons   established one of the first taxi’s services that drove out the San Fernando’s streets (birthplace of the majority of the Spaniard born O’Dogherty), managing the business till his death on May 10, 1934.

 

 

 

Luis, the eldest son of Ramón Salvador was born in San Fernando on March 6, 1906. Passionate about the mechanics of the car from his adolescence, at a very early age he was already driving all kinds of motor vehicles, so he earned a job as driver in the Artillery Branch of the Navy. He pioneered the taxi service on San Fernando, as he owned his own car. At the same time, as already said, he ran his own business of selling and renting cars without a driver.

But the coup and the consequent civil war, made that San Fernando like the other populations occupied by the insurrectionists, suffered the consequences of what is known as “the founding massacre of the Franco regime”.

Those who had caused the military uprising to start a bloody war that lasted three long years, supported the idea, impossible to answer, that Republicans (whether they were or not), were responsible for all the disasters and crimes that had occurred In Spain since 1931. The implementation of this repressive and confiscatory riot gear caused havoc among the population, resulting in an arbitrary and extrajudicial persecution that fueled all the hatreds and revenges for which hundreds of thousands of people were victims of that retributive and avenging violence, with a wide catalog of systems of persecution: from lynching to sentences of death, prison or forced labor, even against people without political or other significance.

Luis himself suffered the consequences of this barbarism, so that on the afternoon of September 24, 1936, a couple of municipal beat the door of the house where Luis lived with his wife and two small children. They went in and took him away. Just like that. How they took so many others, simply by being young republicans, brilliant students, successful professionals and living in a country where a coup had been carried out by one side of the Army against the government of the Second Republic. "

Luis O'Dogherty Ghersi was arrested and imprisoned that same day at La Caseria Prison. He was transferred on October 3 to the Cuatro Torres prison in the military arsenal of La Carraca de San Fernando, where he was

instructed in case No. 178 of 1937, which was provisionally dismissed on May 21, 1937, followed by interrogations, evidence and testimony of witnesses and a new dismissal on March 2, 1938, and later on June 24, 1938, an Urgent Summary Trial was instructed, (Summary 105-938).

After 2 years and 269 days of uncertainty of being passed by guns, fears, anguish, to endure subhuman conditions, to suffer long and terrible interrogations, overcrowding in cells that doubled and tripled their capacity, ill-treatment, In bad conditions and below what a human being needs, and to suffer in some occasion some kind of the own illnesses that provoke these conditions of life, finally on  June 19, 1939, Luis O'Dogherty Ghersi was released and began the return to liberty and was able to gather together with his family and thus resume the real life that he had always enjoyed.

As a self-employed entrepreneur he continued to run his own antiques, taxis and metal scrap business until his retirement. Without renouncing his Irish origins, he always felt deeply rooted in the culture and traditions of Spain. Passionate of the bullfights, in his youth he intervened in charitable bull festivals fighting young bulls. On June 8, 1932 he got married with Maria Garcia Puisegut, daughter of Antonio Garcia Castaneda, Constable Senior of the Navy. From this union were born his children Luis O'Dogherty Garcia (Nov 13, 1933) and Maria Jesus O'Dogherty Garcia (Dec 15, 1935).

Luis Jr., studied at the Nautical School of Cadiz, LTIEMA (Madrid) and (ETEA) Vigo, to later develop his work as a civilian employee in the Spanish Navy in the maintenance of the electronic equipment of the fleet based on Arsenal of La Carraca in San Fernando. He would then work for 34 years for the US Department of Defense. -Naval Aviation Logistic Center- as Calibration Standard Specialist in the Calibration Laboratory of the Rota Naval Base. On October 15, 1963, he married Amalia Luy Cavilla and as a result of that union his four children were born: Lydia, Luis, Patricia and Alex.

 

 

                                          O’DOCHARTAIGH WORLWIDE

 

It would be difficult to even hazard a guess as to the amount of O’Dogherty there are in the world today but their numbers must be legion. In 1890, when the population of Ireland was 4 717 959, the O’Dogherty with a total of 20 800 people stood at 15^th place in the list of the hundred most common surnames. Currently belonging to the Clan families are scattered O'Dogherty worldwide, mainly in British-influenced countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, and logically in the UK and Ireland as well as Spain, Mexico and Argentina.

The name O’Dogherty is one of the oldest hereditary surnames in the world (it was first used as such in A.D. 901) and proof of its envied antiquity can be seen in the pedigrees compiled by the famous John O’Hart in his Irish Pedigrees, published in 1875. It has been anglicized in a variety of fashions, the most common being: O’Docherty, O’Daugharty, O’Dogherty, O’Doherty and O’Dougherty and derivatives of these, Docherty, Daugharty, Dogherty, Doherty and Dougherty as the O was suppressed in Ireland since the end of the seventeenth century because of the Penal Laws imposed by the British in the entire country.

In 1981, there was an international meeting in the city of Attica, Michigan (USA), where an association was created in order to investigate and determine the origin and family roots of each of its members, the "O'Dochartaigh Research Family Association ", which in 1984 established a global headquarters in Inch Island, Co. Donegal in the Republic of Ireland and began what has amounted to 22 years of uninterrupted and intensive genealogy research in Ireland.  In his office genealogical stored more than half a million family archives, where each member has the opportunity request to meet and delve into the history and origin of his family branch. Each of its members is assigned a family number (FGN), being the number 100 which corresponds to the Spanish branch.

 

The O'Dogherty Fort located in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland, which became in Tower Museum, show an exhibition on permanent display, whose central theme is the story of Derry from its origins until today. Also of great interest are the sections devoted to the spread of monasticism in Ireland, the An Armada Shipwreck exhibition, narrating the story of La Trinidad Valencera, one of the largest ships in the Armada Fleet, the sword of Sir Cahir Rua O'Dogherty, the siege of Derry and the events leading to the partition of Ireland.

 

 

 

 

Referencias

The Irish Law Times, and Solicitors Journal, 1868

Origin of the O’Doghertys, by Anthony Mathews, 1978
Riocht na Midhe, Vol VII No 1, by Brian Bonner, 1980-81
The Homeland of O’Dochartaigh, by Brian Bonner, 1985
O’Dogherty, People and Places, by Fionbarra O‘Dochartaigh, 1998
Erin & Blood Royal, by Peter Beresford Ellis, 1999
Jose Espinosa Rodriguez – Faro de Vigo – 1946
Leopoldo Blanco. Apuntes para una época, by
Emilio Prieto Pagnas, 1996

 

 

Compiled by Luis O’Dogherty, San Fernando-Cadiz- Spain

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