Please welcome the newest descendant to arrive with a proud pedigree direct from her ancient roots in Loughmore, Thurles, Co Tipperary.
Baby Mia Rose Hayes arrived on Sunday last, November 17th, 2013 at 8:53am.
Her dad Brenden and his lovely wife and new mum Heather, from San Jose the third-largest city in California, could not be more proud of their healthy, little seven pound bundle of joy.
Thanks to incessant searching by her Grandfather, Patrick, newly arrived Miss Mia Rose Hayes can, in the years to come, happily explore her Loughmore, Co Tipperary lineage, going back for the last eight generations, way back to the January 23rd, 1811. For it was then that Pierce Hayes of the townsland of Glogherailymore married Margaret Maher of Killanigan.
Brendan’s dad Patrick, a daily reader of Thurles.Info and shown here above in our picture, (top right), is a regular visitor to Thurles and Loughmore and indeed his son Brendan and several other family members have also made the journey to Thurles and Loughmore, all renewing acquaintances and visiting the old ‘stamping ground’ of their ancestors.
“Céad míle fáilte romhat, (Irish Translation: “One Hundred Thousand Welcomes to you.”) Mia Rose and congratulations to Brenden, Heather and of course we are not forgetting Patrick, now a very justly proud grandpa for the very first time.”
Harold Lewis Smith is Heather Lynn (Smith) Hayes’s father and also a proud grandfather.
Sir, we are honoured and pleased to make your acquaintance. To you also goes our sincere congratulations.
Dearest Heather & Patrick, Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful daughter Miss Mia Rose Hayes. Welcome little one, you are loved as much as your mother is…I’m sorry I have yet to meet you Brenden, but I’m sure I will feel the same toward you as I do your wife and daughter.
Much Love, Sheri Spitalere 3rd cousin.
2nd cousin to the mothers’ father.