Dec’s Derry ancestry traced back 180 years
The ancestry of Declan Donnelly, whose parents moved to England fromDerry in the 1960s, has been traced back 180 years to his great-great-grandfather James Donnelly, who was living in a parish in the county with three women.
It was among 629,753 pre-1901 records released free to the public, and hadsurvived a bomb attack and fire at the onset of the Irish Civil War in 1922.
