Genealogy of Kenmare Orpen Family, Ancestors include McGillicuddy, Connor/O’Connor, Cork Families, Swanton, Hutchinson, Ashe, Millerd, Extended Family Sir William Orpen Artist, Orpen Solicitors Dublin, Sir William Petty Industrial Industrial Settlement 1670s Kenmare.

This detailed genealogy compiled in the 1930s by a family member relying on sources many no longer available shown the occupations of many family members.  Like many Irish families Catholic as well as Protestant in the same social milieu they took the opportunities as Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers adn Administrators in an expanding British Empire.

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