Family tree
Despite our many surnames, the basic Mellamphilosophy is that we are one big misspelled family. Research being conducted by family members around the world has led back to about a dozen potential family lines, most ultimately pointing to the North Tipperary area. Work continues in an effort to find the missing link.
To view the full family tree (see legend below) click here.
For a version to print out, please click here. Please note that it may take a few seconds to download these 150+ KB files; last updated 2002-09-15.
The family tree file is in "PDF" format. Open using the Adobe Acrobat Reader (click here for free download). To get a better look at the names, click on the page with the magnifying tool (magnifying glass icon far left of the toolbar) until you can read the text: magnify until legible, up to 1600%. Use the "grab" tool (glove icon) to shift the page around. Search for a specific name using <CTRL> F, or click Edit > Find.
How to find your roots
In preparation for the First International Congress of the Clan O'Maolanfaidh held in August 2001, Peggy Larsen of the Maryland USA Malamphys researched seven generations of the family. Dan Mellamphy has also done considerable research into our history and the various family lines, as have a number of other relatives, including family branch genealogists (some will add "by default"!) Chris Varas and Angelica Rivadeneira of the South American and US Molanphys, Moira McGivern of the NZ Mullampys, Brian Malanaphy of the Hawaiian/US mainland Malanaphys, Denny MeLampy of the MI USA MeLampys, and Mrs. Harriet "Dot" Lane Cates Hardaway Mullanphy.
Their family lineage work, discussed in detail in the MalanaphyFamily.com family forum (click here), is combined and added to here, formatted to be colour-coordinated by generation:
- Some ancestors have been traced back to the third quarter of the 18th century. The earliest ancestors, dating from the 1780s, are shown on the family tree outlined in indigo-coloured boxes.
- The next level of ancestors, born in the 1810s, are shown outlined in grey-blue boxes.
- The first "full" generation is outlined in red, for family born in the 1820s-1840s. Most lines have been traced back to this level, and most of these ancestors came from the Northern Tipperary area.
- The second generation is outlined in orange, for family born in the 1850s-1870s.
- The third generation is outlined in yellow boxes, for those born in the 1880s-1910s.
- The fourth generation is outlined in green boxes, for the 1920s-1950s.
- The fifth generation is outlined in blue boxes. These relatives are born in the 1940s-1970s.
- The sixth generation is outlined in violet boxes, for those born from the 1950s-1990s, with more to come.
- The seventh generation, born from the 1960s to the 2000s and also still going strong, is outlined in grey boxes.
Blood relatives are in boxes with thick outlines, and Mellamphys-in-law (with "+" before their names) are in connected boxes with finer outlines. Dates are formatted yyyy-mm-dd, and women are listed under their maiden name. A name in quotation marks is that by which the relative is commonly known, for those who go by a short form of their first name (Donal "Dan" Mellamphy) or those who go by their second name (Edward "Ninian" Mellamphy).
Mellamphys, The Next Generation...
We hope our family tree will continue to grow, with new research *and* new generations of Mellamphys! Research continues to try to link all branches of the family (see link at end of this page's top paragraph). To add your branch, or to make additions or corrections, please click here.
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