Founder of Liverpool Police. Michael James Whitty Wexford 1795 - 1873

[Christopher]

http://www.wexfordtourism.com/whitty.htm

[heywood]

Thanks Christopher
My husband's gt grandmother was a New Ross Whitty - probably at the other end of the social scale at the time!
One day I'll research them!
Best wishes
Kath

[trewinb]

My great-great-grandmother was a Margaret Whitty from New Ross. She married a George Hart Hughes and they both emigrated to Canada. I don't know whether they were married in Ireland or later in Canada.

[hanes teulu]

In a tribute to him retiring from his spell as newspaper journalist/editor/proprietor in Liverpool amused to read " ...Through every vicissitude of fortune, till success was realised, he pluckily stuck to his Post, ..."

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[rathmore]

have you seen this on

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/whitty-288

says might have been born 1832?

lot of information on this

[trewinb]

Thanks. That is my site. I am looking for sources to verify what I have as most was provided verbally by my mother decades ago.

[Wexflyer]

My great-great-grandmother was a Margaret Whitty from New Ross. She married a George Hart Hughes and they both emigrated to Canada. I don't know whether they were married in Ireland or later in Canada.

You give no dates, no information on religion.