Repinski Family History
*Dietz Family Line
Dietz-Brown-Smith-Sayles-Olney-Abberbury-Coshill-de Cokesy-Griffith-Madog-Gruffyd-Cynan-Branches to Ireland.
*Pope Family Line
Pope-Jenney-Bokill-Leyston-Gerard-Fitzgerald-de Carrew-O'Brian Branches to Ireland
Niall of the Nine Hostages-High King of Ireland
Today on the biggest Irish holiday I have the pleasure of writing about an ancestral great grandfather from a very long time ago in Irish history. Up until a year ago I didn't even know that my family had Irish blood. What a surprise to find this line from my mom's side of our family.
Fourty some generations ago....
I discovered this man about a year ago while researching one of the many branches of my family genealogy.
Since my discovery, I have been trying to find out as much as possible about him and about my lineage from this man of the remote past to myself and my family in the present. What I have discovered is that a pretty huge portion of early Irish history was ruled by and fought over by a plethora of my ancestral great grandfathers and their kinfolk.
This fantastic branch of family history comes from my mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski's family line from her father Raymond Dietz and his father Henry Dietz.
And from this line, I and my siblings and their children are the 46th and 47th great grandchildren of this historic King of the Emerald Isles.
I then discovered a few weeks ago that through my grandfather Raymond's mother, Grace Pope Dietz, that I and my siblings and their children are 44th and 45th great grandchildren of this man as well.
This is probably the 5 or 6th instance of both of my great grandparents being related through the same ancestors. How small the world really is when one thinks about it....
Meet Niall....one of the first High Kings of Ireland...and an ancestor of some other two million humans that have lived on this earth besides me and my kin.
Niall is also rumored to be one of the Irish raiders that kidnapped Saint Patrick in Roman Britain and brought him back to Ireland, thus beginning Patrick's love for Ireland and the eventual attachment of this venerable man to the Irish holiday that millions of people celebrate today in his honor. In fact, one of Niall's sons (Owen-Eogan, my 47th Great Uncle in one line and a 46th Great Grandfather in another line) was baptized by Patrick and was a friend of his and is buried in St. Patrick's churchyard.
Niall is also rumored to be one of the Irish raiders that kidnapped Saint Patrick in Roman Britain and brought him back to Ireland, thus beginning Patrick's love for Ireland and the eventual attachment of this venerable man to the Irish holiday that millions of people celebrate today in his honor. In fact, one of Niall's sons (Owen-Eogan, my 47th Great Uncle in one line and a 46th Great Grandfather in another line) was baptized by Patrick and was a friend of his and is buried in St. Patrick's churchyard.
May the Luck of the Irish be Upon you all as you read the story of my ancestral great grandfather. on this St. Patrick's Day....
