HEAPHY GENEALOGY
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Heaphy has a long history in Ireland with records dating back to 1601. Its family members have had illustrious careers from British Army Officers, Police Officers, Land Stewards, Gardeners, Farmers, Artists, Gentlemen, Housekeepers, Publicans, Teachers, Marine Divers, Lithographers, Merchants, Ladies, Actors/Actresses, Theatre Managers, Factory Owners, and more.
The eighteenth-century Limerick Heaphys appear to have evolved from the late-seventeenth-century Waterford/Jacobite Heaphy family into a dispersed but increasingly well-connected Limerick family, centred particularly on Rathkeale and west Limerick, whose members became associated through marriage, land, law and estate management with families including the O'Brien, Blennerhassett, Horan, Holland, Wall, Conway, Duhigg, Green, Holliday, Tubbs, Evans, Powell, Southwells and Massys, eventually producing the Clarina steward line.
This site is intended to assist in genealogy research, with a focus on the Heaphy family of CLARINA, Limerick, and to provide a legacy for families. Several Heaphy family lines are under research and work is ongoing in an attempt to connect these branches, with research showing at times, cross branch connections, however without substantial evidence, there still remains many intriguing unresolved links.
You can search for any name using the search feature at the top of the website, along with viewing early court records, Griffith valuation, wills, military & police records, and newspaper mentions at the bottom of this site. On the homepage below you will find additional content on member features, history bites, and links to each branch of study along with a marriage listing.
This website is a working research website and should you wish to add/adjust any family or family member, please do get in contact by using the following email - heaphygenealogy@gmail.com
No of Family Genealogies Recorded: 33
Last Updated September 2026, by B. T. Heaphy - Member of Irish Genealogical Research Society
HEAPHY - ORIGIN LINE
Origin: LISMORE, Waterford (1601)
Derby O'Heafegh
Daniel Heaphy
Lt. John Heaphy
Associated Families: Tottenham, Atkin
HEAPHY - BRANCH 1
Origin: LIMERICK & KILORGLIN, Kerry (1689)
Daniel Heaphy & Rachel Blennerhassett
John Heaphy & Margaret O'Brien
Peter Heaphy and Matthew Heaphy
Robert Heaphy & Mary Ann Conway
Thomas Heaphy & Alice Holliday
Margaret Heaphy & Rev. Simon Holland
Associated Families: Ahern, Alley, Blennerhassett, Conway, Daly, Dawson, Doyle, Evans, Ferris, Fisher, Fluder, Holland, Holliday, Horan, Hume-Franks, Keating, Mason, McNamara, O'Brien, O'Callaghan, O'Keeffe, O'Meara, Prestidge, Shoemaker, Sullivan, Sparrow, Studdert, Wall, Warren, Williams, White
HEAPHY - BRANCH 2
Origin: CLARINA, Limerick (1776)
John Heaphy & Frances Green & Mary (Unknown)
Associated Families: Barry, Boyd, Brew, Capece, Clohessey, Conway, Cosford, Cox, Cummings, Donoghue, Drew, Freeman, Foley, Golds, Green, Hartnett, Harvey, Healy, Hurley, Jones, Langley, Lecacheux, Lindberg, Loughlane, Lynch, Meadows, McMahon, Middleton, Morris, Mullins, Parkinson, Piper, Pierce, Potter, Purdon, Scroggs, Sharman, Torr, Vokes, Watson, Wallace, Waterland, Webster, Young
HEAPHY - BRANCH 3
Origin: LIMERICK CITY, Limerick (1755)
Thomas Heaphy & Elizabeth Barrington
Matthew Heaphy & Helen Walsh
John Heaphy & Anna Kennedy
Patrick Heaphy & Mary Conway
Michael Heaphy & Johanna O'Shea
John Heaphy & Jane Leonard
Associated Families: Barrington, Bourke, Carroll, Clune, Connors, Cooney, Connell, Conway, Cusack, Darcy, Doyle, Eyres, Finn, Gibbs, Hartigan, Healy, Kenny, Kennedy, Leonard, Lynch, O'Brien, O'Kelly, O'Shea, O'Sullivan, Taylor, Thomson, Tomkins, Welsh, Woodruff.
ASSOCIATED FAMILY LINES
Families of the HEAPHY CLARINA Branch
Brew, Cox, Delmege, Green, Harvey, Healy, Mullins, Parkinson, Pierce, Pilkington, Potter, Purdon, Watson, Vokes, & Young
Families of other HEAPHY Branches (1&3) Under Study
Atkin, Blennerhassett, Brettridge, Evans, Hayman, Holliday, Holland, Horan, Irby, Mounckton, O'Brien, Powell, Tottenham, Tubbs, Tynte, Williams, & White
FEATURES & HISTORY BITES
FEATURES
Tottenham Heaphy - Mary Heaphy O'Keeffe - Artist Thomas Heaphy & Charles Heaphy VC - Lucinda Heaphy White - Eyre Heaphy - Heaphy Brothers to War
HISTORY BITES
The Irish Confederate Wars (1641-1653) - The Anglo Irish, Who Were They? - Flight of the Huguenots to Ireland - The Massy Family & Elm Park - The 1649 Officers
OTHER HEAPHY BRANCHES UNDER RESEARCH
These are further branches of the Heaphy family of Limerick, Cork & Dublin, that have been investigated as part of the research. However, none of the below branches have proved any association with the Heaphy Clarina Branch at present, however, with the exception of Sergeant Edward Heafey, recorded on his own, which still holds an open investigation. Discover these family branches below.
Origin: DUBLIN & KILDARE (1716) Baptisms, Marriages, Burials records (1716 - 1883). Associated families: Bailie, Brady, Cabana, Carter, Clarke, Dark, Dunn, Dwyer, Edwards, Ernest, Fitzgerald, Geoghegan, McCormick, McNulty, Mowlin, O'Donohue, Potter, Roche, Rock, Scanes, Southie, Sullivan.
Origin: LIMERICK (Newpark/Effin) (1780) Associated families: Carroll, Kelly, Magner, Norris, O'Brien, O'Connor, O'Rourke, Ryan
Origin: LIMERICK (Adare) (1781) Associated families: Gleeson, Moloney, Naughton, Reidy.
Origin: CORK (Castletownroche/Fermoy/Kilworth/Watergrasshill) (1784) Associated Families: Ashford, Ballson, Beecher, Buckley, Burke, Cahill, Callaghan, Collins, Clancy, Crawford, Cremin, Crowley, Donovan, Donoghue, Doyle, Ducey, Fennessy, Finn, Finton, Fitzerald, Flynn, Foley, Galvan, Greehy, Griffin, Halloran, Healy, Hear, Hennessey, Keating, Keenan, Kelleher, Kennery, Keniry, Kiely, Kilty, Mahoney, McCarthy, Morrisson, Murphy, O'Connell, Prendergast, Reardon, Robinson, Roche, Ryan, Sweeney, Tuomy, Walsh, West
Origin: CLARE (Kilrush/Ennis/Sixmilebridge/Parteen) (1800) Associated families: Aherne, Cartney, Cusack, Fitzgerald, Galvin, Glynn, Griffey, Hogan, Hutch, Lynch, Mahoney, Mason, McDonnell, McMahon, McNamara, Morrissey, Normoyle, O'Brien, Rea, Sexton, Williams.
Origin LIMERICK (1838) Sergeant Edward Heafey
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