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Michael Gartland’s <strong>Family</strong><br />
Michael Gartland’s father was Michael<br />
Gartland, son of Bryan Gartland (Gortlan) a<br />
shop keeper of Hacketstown, and his mother was<br />
Catherine Mary Byrne daughter of Matthew<br />
Byrne, a Ballybrack farmer and Mary Toole who<br />
died 30.5.1886.<br />
Michael Gartland had four brothers: Bernard,<br />
Matthew, Nicholas and Nicholas Patrick.<br />
�� ������������������������� lived in Western<br />
Australia and had the family: Cedric, Mary,<br />
Monica, Kevin, Kate and Clare.<br />
�� �Matthew and Ann Veronica Heffernan<br />
Gartland lived in Ireland and had the<br />
family: Kitty and Gerry Rodgers of Newry,<br />
Co Down: Billy and Teresa Gartland of<br />
Artane Dublin; Jack and Nora Gartland of<br />
Kiltegan, Co Wicklow; Nicholas and Maura<br />
Gartland of Ballybrack, Hacketstown, Co<br />
Carlow; Michael and Dympna Gartland<br />
of Enniscorthy, Co Wexford; Tom and Kitty<br />
Flynn Gartland of Ardmore, Co Waterford.<br />
In 1979, Kitty Rodgers in Newry, N.Ireland,<br />
wrote to Moya <strong>McPhee</strong>, her cousin in<br />
Australia; Moya’s son Michael <strong>McPhee</strong><br />
had just visited Kitty and the others in<br />
Ireland. Kitty wrote: “How my father (this<br />
was Matthew Gartland) would have loved<br />
to have seen him. Many times he told us<br />
of his parting with your father (Michael<br />
Gartland of course) when he was emigrating<br />
to Australia, how he ran along the platform<br />
holding his hand as the train was moving out<br />
of the station. He said he knew he would<br />
never see him in this world again. (Letter of<br />
8-7-1979) Matthew Gartland died on 15<br />
July, 1951.<br />
�� Nicholas Gartland: born 1889, died 1890<br />
�� �Nicholas Patrick Gartland: born 1890,<br />
died 1912<br />
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<strong>Family</strong> of Elizabeth Ann Carey<br />
and Michael Gartland<br />
�� ������� (married Catherine <strong>McPhee</strong>)<br />
�� �������� (married Daphne Stewart)<br />
�� ���� (married Jack <strong>McPhee</strong>)<br />
�� Dorothea (married Bryan Hart)<br />
�� ����� (married Rowley <strong>McPhee</strong>) and<br />
�� ������<br />
Michael Gartland.<br />
After Elizabeth Ann Carey’s mother Catherine<br />
died in 1929, her father James Edward Carey<br />
then came to live with his daughter in Oakleigh.<br />
Pa Carey, as he was known, died in 1944.<br />
Michael and Elizabeth Gartland and family, from left: Betty,<br />
Nick, Marie, Moya, Maurice and Dot.<br />
<strong>John</strong> T <strong>McPhee</strong> and the Gartland <strong>Family</strong>
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