Michael Gartland’s <strong>Family</strong> Michael Gartland’s father was Michael Gartland, son of Bryan Gartland (Gortlan) a shop keeper of Hacketstown, and his mother was Catherine Mary Byrne daughter of Matthew Byrne, a Ballybrack farmer and Mary Toole who died 30.5.1886. Michael Gartland had four brothers: Bernard, Matthew, Nicholas and Nicholas Patrick. �� ������������������������� lived in Western Australia and had the family: Cedric, Mary, Monica, Kevin, Kate and Clare. �� �Matthew and Ann Veronica Heffernan Gartland lived in Ireland and had the family: Kitty and Gerry Rodgers of Newry, Co Down: Billy and Teresa Gartland of Artane Dublin; Jack and Nora Gartland of Kiltegan, Co Wicklow; Nicholas and Maura Gartland of Ballybrack, Hacketstown, Co Carlow; Michael and Dympna Gartland of Enniscorthy, Co Wexford; Tom and Kitty Flynn Gartland of Ardmore, Co Waterford. In 1979, Kitty Rodgers in Newry, N.Ireland, wrote to Moya <strong>McPhee</strong>, her cousin in Australia; Moya’s son Michael <strong>McPhee</strong> had just visited Kitty and the others in Ireland. Kitty wrote: “How my father (this was Matthew Gartland) would have loved to have seen him. Many times he told us of his parting with your father (Michael Gartland of course) when he was emigrating to Australia, how he ran along the platform holding his hand as the train was moving out of the station. He said he knew he would never see him in this world again. (Letter of 8-7-1979) Matthew Gartland died on 15 July, 1951. �� Nicholas Gartland: born 1889, died 1890 �� �Nicholas Patrick Gartland: born 1890, died 1912 Page 60 <strong>Family</strong> of Elizabeth Ann Carey and Michael Gartland �� ������� (married Catherine <strong>McPhee</strong>) �� �������� (married Daphne Stewart) �� ���� (married Jack <strong>McPhee</strong>) �� Dorothea (married Bryan Hart) �� ����� (married Rowley <strong>McPhee</strong>) and �� ������ Michael Gartland. After Elizabeth Ann Carey’s mother Catherine died in 1929, her father James Edward Carey then came to live with his daughter in Oakleigh. Pa Carey, as he was known, died in 1944. Michael and Elizabeth Gartland and family, from left: Betty, Nick, Marie, Moya, Maurice and Dot. <strong>John</strong> T <strong>McPhee</strong> and the Gartland <strong>Family</strong>
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