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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
The family story on the Mulcahy side is that (as the O'Mulcahys), my forebears left Ireland in a hurry, as "criminals." A British soldier tried to rape my forebears' wife, and he caught the British soldier in the act, grabbed a battleaxe, and took his head off. Thus, the start of the Mulcahys in the US (or colonies at the time).
I don't know how true it was, but its the story on that side of my family.
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I might have an interesting past too. My great grandfather was born in Russia, he was on my father's side. His father, according to family history, I'm looking for verification, was a general on the Communist side and he was one of the generals directly under Lenin and he knew Lenin well according to what I was told. However, my great grandfather was told to "get out" or he would be drafted into the Red Army. So he came here to the U.S. and he did end up getting drafted in the US Army for World War I. His wife was a Russian Jew, she suffered under the pogroms and had a couple of villages burned out from under her. She also had two brothers, one came over as a union organizer and he organized the coal mines in West Virgina and Pennsylvania, he ended up getting shot and killed and the other was a concert violinist adopted by a Jewish family in New York City when he was young. He was accused of bigamy but was found innocent but his wife divorced him. He was like around 45 or 50, and the local matchmaker, many Jewish couples met through a matchmaker during those times, and he married a 17 year old girl, settled down and had a family and so on. My grandmother, one of their daughters, just turned 94. I'd love to verify a lot of this and find more stories, it is kind of interesting.
Mom's side, well my great, great grandfather was a captain in the Prussian Army and fought in the Franco/Prussian War.
Chuck M.