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From: Padraic Divilly Morganure Kilkerrin Ballinasloe Co Galway
Category: Web Site New Features
Date: 01 Dec 2003
Time: 19:17:44
Remote Name: 81.110.176.174
Hi, from Padraic Divilly, Morganure,Kilkerrin,Co. Galway, just discovered your web site. Are all of the Divillys related ??. I think so. I believe from my late father and grandfather that "the year of the french" when the French army landed at Killala Bay, Co. Mayo in 1798, a number of soldiers did not return to France. In this group of people were three or four brothers and some cousins. The surname of those people was Di Villi or Divilli or Divillia or Di Villai or D'Villi. I do not know if this name in the past or present exists in France. My late father and grandfather beleived that those people first settled in Leitra just outside of Glenamaddy and about six miles north of Kilkerrin. It is understood that some of the group moved to Headford, later to Monive and Gort. It was not untill well into the last century that the Divilly name could be found east of the Shannon and outside of Ireland. My E-mail is divillysmorganure@eircom.net