When Anna Morrissey was born about July 1912, in Kirkstall, Victoria, Australia, her father, Timothy Morrissey, was 44 and her mother, Margaret Flahavin, was 32. She died on 5 August 1913, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Donal, Aileen, Clodagh, Cormac, Declan, Fergus, James Patrick, John Patrick, Liam, Malachy, Paddy.
Irish: from Ó Muirgheasa ‘descendant of Muirgheas’, a personal name meaning ‘sea valour’. However, according to MacLysaght, this surname is also derived from the Norman name de Marisco.
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