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Matthius Heery and his Descendants
A Liverpool Family 1800 to today
In the 1850s Matthius Heery, who was probably born in Kilskyre in County Meath about 1802, emigrated to Liverpool. Kilskyre is a small village about 40 miles north-west of Dublin. There are now some 200 direct descendants of Matthius in and around Liverpool. This website records where they came from, who they are, where they are now, and some of the events in their lives during the last two hundred years.
Until very recently little was known about our Irish origins. One or two Heerys had an idea that Matthius originated from Meath. One or two others knew that Heery was a common Meath name. How we used the records to trace exactly where we came from is one of the stories that is told here.
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