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Competition launched May 2008.



1st prize: 4 of these.



Multiple interim prizes of these.



The Blennerhassett Challenge Blog

Thursday, 2 September 2010

Updates on the progress of The Blennerhassett Challenge genealogy competition, to see if anyone wins the € 2,000 reward.

See how much € 2,000 is in dollars and sterling and Canadian dollars and Australian dollars.


Summary so far:
€ 100 interim prize winners: 2.
€ 2,000 grand prize winner: 0.


Second interim prize awarded, Sept 2010


The second € 100 prize for an interim solution has been awarded to Jackie Lindsay for getting me started on the family of Letitia Blennerhassett of the Killorglin branch. This might turn out to be a dead end, but I doubt it. She really does look like she might be the one.

I'm happy to hand out multiple € 100 interim prizes. An interim solution would be, say, something like finding George Cashel's baptism. Can anyone find it?


New details and images


Taking a closer look at the only known Letitia Blennerhassett of the right age at that time in Co.Kerry:


This might be my Letitia Blennerhassett.



New details

This competition is now the no.1 hit in a Google search for:


Grand Prize now € 2,000

Pat Almond, to encourage new findings on the Cashels and Cashells who are his ancestors, has offered to top up the original prize money (of € 1,000) with an extra 500 Canadian dollars. See how much this is worth in euro.

I now undertake to add whatever it takes to that to top the total up to € 2,000.


First interim prize awarded, June 2008


The first € 100 prize for an interim solution has been awarded to Eily Moylan for fleshing out the family of George Cashel and his connection with Kickham.


Kickham tree now online. New details about George Cashel. New images.


"Slievenamon" by Charles Joseph Kickham.
Sung by Maureen Hegarty.
See full size.

Coverage
  1. Item in Irish Roots magazine, 3rd qr, 2008.

  2. Item in Irish Family History blog.

  3. Item in Ancestors magazine, July 2008 issue.

  4. Item in newsletter of Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, summer 2008.

  5. Item supposed to appear in Oct 2008 issue (issue 83) of newsletter of Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society.


Competition launch, May 2008

New images from Bill Jehan

New images



Blennerhassett Cashel,
my possible gateway ancestor.



Ballyseedy, Co.Kerry.
Main seat of the Blennerhassetts.
See full size.



Carlow railway station.
Where George Blennerhassett Cashel died in 1882.
See full size.



This note in the BLENNERHASSETT entry in [Burkes Irish, 1976]
first made me realise in 1985 that
Blennerhassett is a gateway to the World family tree.





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