Hi to my Colonial CousinÂ’s in the U.S. of A
My Great GrandfatherÂ’s family emigrated to America, but my Grandfather, Denis Sugrue returned to live in Ireland. He married my Grandmother Alice Morgan, from County Kerry, they then moved to Lanark, Lanarkshire Scotland.
They had nine children , my farther John Morgan Sugrue went to America during the time of prohibition, never really spoke much about what he did there, but was smuggled back into Canada in the boot of a car, then back to Scotland. My brother Denis Roy aged 61, eight years my elder reckons he ran a ‘Speakeasy’ Anyway when he returned to Scotland the local lads nicknamed him ‘Diamond’ because of his taste in smart suits. He then moved to England at the beginning of WW 11, He married my mother in 1942, I have also got a sister Geraldine who is now living in Sommerville NJ. And my father’s brother Henry emigrated to the US, last known in Boston.
Now we all know our Sugrue ancestors came from Ireland, but how did they get to Ireland, well let me run this one past you. It has been passed down through our side of the family that the SugrueÂ’s are of Spanish seafaring stock.
After the English fleet scattered the Spanish Armada, some Spanish galleons attempting to escape the English fleet run aground of the coast of Ireland, hence the name of Valencia island, and in all probability settled in Ireland,
I was once on holiday on the Greek island of Corfu, and I was told by the car hire guy that there was a street named ‘Sugrue’ in the islands capital. Also my brother met a Turkish Surgeon named Sugrue, whilst he was on holiday in mainland Europe. So that would suggest that our ancestors travelled around the world, sailors ?
Regards, James Anthony Sugrue. [Tony]
PS. The guys in Hollywood have just brought out a film called ‘U517’ or the like in which a American Navy vessel and crew capture, the German Naval ‘Enigma’ code machine from a German Submarine, not so it was captured by the Royal Navy. Now that I do know to be fact, but the Spanish thing who knows????