O'Driscoll

The O'Driscoll clan have lived in the Baltimore area of West Cork Ireland for over 1000 years. A shortened form of the name is Driscoll.

My great  grandparents Anthony Driscoll and Margaret Driscoll nee Glynn were born in Ireland in 1831. The surname Glynn is from a place name, in this case probably the small village of Glynn  6 miles south of Mallow County Cork. Their first two  childern  Nancy and Michael were born in County Cork  

The family then moved to live in Chorley Lancashire England, where their children Patrick and John were born.  John  was born in 1865. The family then moved to  Ashton under Lyne Lancashire where Margaret died in 1880.  Anthony died in Chorley in  1896. John had joined the army.  John, my grandfather who had joined the army  served in the West Indies and South Africa. He came back to England and lived in Bury Lancashire, where he preferred to spell the family name as Driskill. later he married Sarah Whitley of Bury Lancashire.  They had five  children, Elizabeth, Elsie, John, Mary, and Gladys.  Mary called her self Mary Joyce and married John William Cox of Settle. They had four children, Joan, Evril, Patrick, and Jean who was born in 1942. 

John  Driskill  and his  wife Sarah

I have spent several interesting holidays in picturesque West Cork the home land of the O'Driscolls and would be pleased to exchange notes on my branch of the clan.  
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There is an excellent O' Driscoll web site at

http://tahtonka.com/driscolls.html