New Developments in the Elliot/Darragh/Dillane Project
The 14 Day Research Like a Pro Challenge may be over, but the work goes on. There have been several developments since I finished up my project to discover if Joanna Elliot was the mother of Dorah Darragh, a third great-grandmother. New Developments I connected with a Dillane descendant on Ancestry via their messaging system. My theory is that Dorah Darragh's mother was Joanna Elliot, and that Joanna was a Dillane, accounting for the close connection between their families. I contacted my new friend after noticing that he had the Elliots, Darraghs, and Dillanes in his Ancestry family tree. He is a descendant of John Dillane, Charles Dillane's brother. My new collaborator held many of the same theories and conclusions that I had come to regarding these families. He also corrected one relationship that I got wrong: The Esther Dillane living with Edward and "Georgina" Elliot in 1861 was not Charles and Mary Dillane's daughter, but the daughter of ano...
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