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Phaire Family History St.Croix/Ireland Connection

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Phaire Family History St.Croix/Ireland Connection

Posted: 5 Nov 2007 10:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Phaire
Greetings, My name is Michelle Richards-Vialet. My mother was Marjorie Phaire Richards May 2, 1930 to October 17, 2007.

(Phaire background history: It is believed that John James Phaire (phair or pharr) came to St.Croix in the late 1840's this is the era in which many irish were hired by danish plantation owners to manage their estates. We are not sure which is the original line of ancestory for the phaires on the island of st.croix. we know they were from one of the townships in Cavan Country in North Central Irelnd. Also a John Ferdinand Phaire, James Phaire, and James Emmanuel Phaire.)

My mother Marjorie was the daughter of Ernest C. (Casma, Kasma) Phaire, Pastor and Caroline Malvina Williams Phaire, midwife. They were married on the island of St.Croix in 1817 by the honorable D. Hamilton Jackson.

My mother had the following brothers and sisters, Elaine Phaire, Esther Phaire, Ernest M. Phaire, and John W. Phaire. She is survived by her only bother Paul W. Phaire who resides currently in kentucky. My mother Marjorie Phaire passed on 10/17/2007, thus I am just returing from St. Croix, which has ignited my search once again for Phaires from St.Croix, Ireland, scotland, France and those Phaires that we have lost contact with over the years. Our family lived in New York until we moved to St.Croix in 1980. It was also my mothers dream to connect with her family from ireland.

My mothers father Ernest Casma Phaire was a Rev of the reformed methodist church in Roseau Dominica where he performed missionary duties. Her mother was a mid-wife that studied abroad in denmark. We know that his mother was Alice O'reilly, the 2nd wife of his father William Phaire.
His sisters by his mother Alice were Eulalie Phaire and Lucind Phaire. His father was also married to Mary Eliza Williams First wife(her children were Mariel and August Phaire, and 3rd wife Elizeria Bough, whose children were Lillian, Edna, Isa, Vida, Cecil, and Wallace Phaire.

I look forward to hearing from the phaires from all over the world to see how we can finally bring this family history together. my email is mrvialet14@wmconnect.com
God Bless!

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