Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!

You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
                                                          Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries. 
This is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.

                                                                 

My Happy Dance This Week:
 Connecting with cousins is one of the main reasons for starting my blog several years ago. This week, one of those connections and I have located records that may lead us back another generation, with a clue to Ireland! So excited to see where this leads.  So, how was your week?

                                                                                           Share your discovery!

                                                                                   Let the dancing commence!

Looking forward to reading about your Happy Dance moment!

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52 Ancestors Week 11: A Lucky 9% Irish

 According to my Ancestry.com DNA test, I am 9% Irish which is the topic of this week's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2015 Edition.

Ancesty.com Ethnicity Estimate

    From my maternal line, I have the Daughrity family. My Grandmother, Azile Juanita (Daughrity) Roberts Sullivan (1921-2009) once told me that the Daughrity's hailed from Ireland. Her Grandfather and his brother were said to have come to America during the Potato Famine in the mid-1800's. Searching for the family in the Sumter, South Carolina area has debunked that story. Records for her grandfather, Manning David Daughrity, Sr. (1814-1918) indicate that he was born in South Carolina as were his siblings and parents. It looks as if the Daughrity/Dorrity/Dougherty family has been in South Carolina since at least the early 1800's well before the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Did they come from Ireland? With a name like that, probably. I just need to discover when, why and just who those two brothers may have been.

   
   Teige Cantey (1621-1679), my paternal 9th Great Grandfather, was born in Ireland about 1621 and lived for some time in Barbados before coming to Charleston, South Carolina in the mid to late 1670's. Some claim that Tiege and wife Elisabeth were from County Cork. I am not aware of any documentation that proves their place of origin.

The following description of the inventory of Tiege Cantey's belongings after his death is entertaining:
  "The inventory of Teige Cantey's estate, with its bill of expenses for wine and rum in connection with a funeral, would seem plainly to indicate that the family was of Irish descent." 
Source: Six generations of the Cantey family of South Carolina (1910) Author: Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943 Publisher: Charleston, S.C., Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., pg.3

   Does wine and rum at your funeral mean you are Irish? Well, maybe, but a trip to Ireland may be in order to find those 
supporting documents.

Are we kin? Please, contact me. Together we can find our people.
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