Tree 17: Michael Henry Gerald Fitz-Henry, Ireland to Valparaiso Chile

Here is an abridged version of the text from my blog entry for this tree. Go here to see the full text.

Michael Henry Gerald Fitz-Henry (who was known as Henry.)
His mother was called Ann Marie Bourke (so in the Spanish method of naming he would be known as Michael Henry Gerald Fitz-Henry Bouke).
He married Mary Macdonnell of Westport in County Mayo.

"Michael Henry Gerald" and Mary came to Chile in about 1865 as he worked for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. This was profitable shipping line which ran between Liverpool and Valparaiso and was contracted to carry the post from the British Royal Mail between these two ports.
They had four children:
Michael Fitz-Henry Macdonnell
Charles Fitz-Henry Macdonnell (who died without issue)
Mary Fitz-Henry Macdonnell
Anita Fitz-Henry Macdonnell

Michael married Matilde Eichholtz and had two daughters:
Yvette Fitz-Henry Eichholtz
Yolanda Fitz-Henry Eichholtz

and Yolanda married Sergio Palacios Ureta which leads to the Palacios Fitz-Henry surname

There are no known male descendents of this tree, but this may link in to other Fitz(-)henry trees at the level of Michael Henry Gerald FH. Michael may have had a brother Henry (from their family history).

From the Irish Family History Foundation website, the baptism of
Michael Joseph Fitzhenry,
son of Michael Fitzhenry and Anna Burke (spelt this way rather than Bourke)
on 22 September 1846
at the Roman Catholic church of St Nicholas in Galway.

It's the right mother with a Fitzhenry father, but surely there wouldn't have been two boys called Michael in one family unless this one died and our Michael Henry Gerald was named in his place (which I have seen before). So we can possibly go one generation further back on our tree and say that Michael Henry Gerald's father was also called Michael.

Here are some photos which Rodrigo Palacios Fitz-Henry sent to me. They are of

1. Michael Henry Gerald Fitz-Henry and Mary Macdonnell

2. Michael Henry Gerald Fitz-Henry

3. Miles Fitz-Henry. Rodrigo didn't know how he fitted into the family group.

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