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−	(The one surviving branch managed to survive when James O'Connor (Sligo), son and squib of Teige O'Connor fled to America.  All other O'Connor Sligo males at the time were killed. There may have been a few females that survived the 1776 massacre, but they married into other families and written records of those marriages were loss in countless fires of O'Connor Sligo property.)	+	(The one surviving branch managed to survive when James O'Connor (Sligo), son and squib of Teige O'Connor fled to America.  All other O'Connor Sligo males at the time were killed in Ireland. There may have been a few females that survived the 1776 massacre, but they married into other families and written records of those marriages were loss in countless fires of O'Connor Sligo property.)
	→Peter Dylan O'Connor (Sligo)(b.1794, d.1898) married Róisín Nicole O'Connor (Don) (b. 1794, d.1895)		→Peter Dylan O'Connor (Sligo)(b.1794, d.1898) married Róisín Nicole O'Connor (Don) (b. 1794, d.1895)
	→Shane Micheál O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1819, d. 1915) married Chloe Catraoine O'Connor (Flay) (b.1820, d. 1896)		→Shane Micheál O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1819, d. 1915) married Chloe Catraoine O'Connor (Flay) (b.1820, d. 1896)

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The O'Connor Sligo Family
Located	Ireland, England, Scotland, United States
Family Seat	Riverside Manor, outside of Sligo Town, Connacht Ireland
Motto	Nec timeo nec sperno ("I neither fear nor despise")
Blood Status	Pureblood
Established	Officially, 1100s; Unofficially 900s
Class	Upper-Middle

Family History

Unofficially, the O'Connor Sligo family members claim that they have ties Conchobhar, King of Connacht (d.970), and estranged ex-wife Queen Maedb, but there is no written record of this so it is merely speculation.

Officially, the first known recorded O'Connor Sligo is Brian Luighnech O Conchobhair, a high king of Ireland. These O'Connors held prominent positions in the affairs of Sligo, town and county. For several hundreds of years, into the mid 1700s, the O’Connors (Sligo) were Lords of Carbury and Sligo. However, in 1776 Donough and Teige O’Connor, were accused of heresy and being evil warlocks and were dispossessed of their properties which were divided up between Cromwellian adventurers and soldiers and were both killed.

However, one of Teige's sons, James O'Connor, a squib, born in 1770 somehow survived the upheaval of his family's possessions and properties and murder and fled to Dublin and later London where he learned the printing trade. James returned to his native town, Sligo Town where, with the assistance of a friend, he published a paper that covered troubles in Ireland. In that paper he was very critical of the way the royal party was running things and as a result, the vengeance of the very party he was criticizing was rained upon him. His printing office was annihilated, and as a result he fled to America with his pregnant wife Eliza, to Norfolk in 1794 nearly destitute of funds. Within a few months, he somehow became co-owner of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald, where he was senior Editor for until his death at age 60. In that time, his wife Eliza, who was a pureblood witch, gave birth to two sons by the name of Peter and Denis as well as two daughters named Mary and Ellen.

In America, Peter, Denis, Mary, and Ellen attended Salem Institute. After graduation the two boys got involved in American wizarding politics and slowly built up the wealth and prestige the O'Connor Sligo family once had when in Ireland. The girls found spouses among well-established and wealthy wizarding pureblood families. All four children of James and Eliza had three or four children of their own and the pattern has continued. Since then, the O'Connor Sligos have resurged and can now be found in Ireland, Scotland, England, and the United States.

O'Connor Sligos do not follow a set pattern and can be found in all walks of life except as criminals. O'Connor Sligos in general are very respectful to their elders and value knowledge. They are, however, leery about muggles and muggleborns because of what happened to Donough and Teige O'Connor. They treat halfbloods with respect, but an O'Connor Sligo would never marry a non pureblood and very often marry into the O'Connor Don or O'Connor Flay septs which have distant ties to the O'Connor Sligo families.

Family Seat

Once the O'Connor Sligos regained their wealth and influence they once had, two great-great grandsons of John O'Connor and his wife Eliza, named Calvin and Brady, with their wives and children, returned to Sligo Town in Ireland to establish the family seat there. That area had once belonged to their ancestors and they felt, even in spite of all the sorrow that had happened there, that was where the family seat belonged, not in the United States. Finding an undeveloped area south of Sligo Town on the Garavogue River, the two built a three storied, white stoned house that overlooked the Garavogue River on the east side, was surrounded by gardens on the north end, overlooked a green open lawn on the south side, and the west side was flanked by a coniferous forest.

The manor consisted of eight bedrooms, four bedrooms allotted to each brother and his family, several bathrooms, a formal living area, a study with hundreds of books,a formal dining and ballroom area, an informal living area for the children that includes a grand piano, and a kitchen. On the property, there is a small white stoned brickhouse of three bedrooms that is used by visitors. The family employed two house elves,a male and female, and still do, plus a governess and nanny for the children.

Inside the decor is Victorian in design, but not really gaudy or fancy. In the hallways, today there are moving portraits of all the family heads, their wives, and their children. In the study there are portraits of other O'Connor Sligo members and their families. In the formal living area is a moving portrait of the current head and his family that will be moved into the hallways when the head of the family dies and will immediately be replaced by a portrait of his heir and family that takes over the duties of being family head.

There are a few small fountains in the gardens and children of the family are often seen playing in the river in the summers. The head of the family and his family are expected to reside in the manor for as long as he is in charge of the duties. Ailing, elderly relatives are treated with respect and reside in the manor as well. However, any O'Connor Sligo fmaily member is allowed to reside there provided there is room for them.

Family Tree

(The one surviving branch managed to survive when James O'Connor (Sligo), son and squib of Teige O'Connor fled to America. All other O'Connor Sligo males at the time were killed in Ireland. There may have been a few females that survived the 1776 massacre, but they married into other families and written records of those marriages were loss in countless fires of O'Connor Sligo property.)

→Peter Dylan O'Connor (Sligo)(b.1794, d.1898) married Róisín Nicole O'Connor (Don) (b. 1794, d.1895)
  →Shane Micheál O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1819, d. 1915) married Chloe Catraoine O'Connor (Flay) (b.1820, d. 1896)
  →Cameron Reece O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1821, d. 1921) married
  →Shannon Grace O'Connor (Sligo) (b.1830, d. 1919) married Alexander Knightlock, I (b. 1831, d. 1868)
     →Alexander Knightlock II (b. 1851, d. TBD)
     → TBD Knightlock
  →Andrew Evan O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1831, d. 1929) married Caitlin Ruth Black (b. 1833, d. 1930)
     →Jordan Evan O'Connor (Sligo)(b. 1854, d. 1934) married Abigail Brandy O'Connor (Flay) (b. 1855, d.1935)
        →Evan Robert O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1884) married Heidi Freya von Diedrik (b. 1887)
           →Liam James O'Connor (Sligo)(b.1915) married Margaret Henrietta O'Connor (Don) (b.1916)
              →Stephanie Heidi O'Connor (Sligo)(b.1945) married David Nikolai Yakov (b. 1948)
                 →Natasha Nicki Yakov (b.1969) 
                 →Nikolai Jens Yakov (b. 1971)
     →Jonathan Aidan O'Connor (Sligo)(b. 1855, d. 1945) married Lorna Alannah Boreanz (b.1856, d. 1947)
        →Benjamin Gerard O'Connor (Sligo)(b. 1879, d. 1970) married Clara Abigail O'Connor (Don) (b. 1880, d. 1962)
           →Dillon James O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1899, d. 1971) married Helene Emily Boreanz (b. 1892, d. 1970)
              →Darren Thomas O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1932 married Molly Cindy O'Connor (Flay)(b.1933)
                 →Robert James O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1958
                 →Rachel Helene O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1960
                 →Emily Abaigeal O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1962
              →Brenda Carol O'Connor (Sligo)(b. 1925) married Cameron Leon Thalman (b. 1924)
                 →Vincent Kennith Thalman (b. 1951)
     →Joeseph Alexander O'Connor (Sligo) (b.1864) married Catherine Ava O'Connor (Don) (b. 1864, d. 1954)
        →Kathleen Lorna O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1885) married Jason Kieran Black (b. 1883)
           →James Neil Black (b. 1909) married Margaret Jodie O'Connor (Flay) (b. 1910)
              →Johnnie Lee Black (b.1932) married Janie Lynn Schneider (b.1933)
                 →Jessie Lynn Black (b. 1956)
                 →Joelle (Joie) Leigh Black (b. 1962)
     →Victoria Melissa O'Connor (Sligo)(b. 1866, d. 1960) married Johnathan Heinrich Schneider (b. 1865, d. 1958)
        →Melanie Henrietta Schneider (b. 1890) married Owen Gerard O'Connor (Don) (b. 1889)
           →Kaylee Gloria O'Connor (Don) (b. 1911) married Ethan Alastar O'Connor (Flay) (b. 1910)
              →Molly Cindy O'Connor (Flay) (b.1933) married Darren Thomas O'Connor (Sligo)(b. 1932)
                 →Robert James O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1958
                 →Rachel Helene O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1960
                 →Emily Abaigeal O'Connor (Sligo) b. 1962
           →Aidan Ross O'Connor (Don) (b. 1913) married Karen Isabelle O'Connor (Flay)(b. 1916)
              →Craig Ross O'Connor (Don) (b. 1935) married Ella Marie Boreanz (b. 1937)
                 →Julia Rose O'Connor (Don) (b. 1962)
                 →Jodie Marie O'Connor (Don) (born 1962, twin of Julia)
           →Margaret Henrietta O'Connor (Don) (b. 1916) married Liam James O'Connor (Sligo) (b.1915)
              →Stephanie Heidi O'Connor (Sligo)(b.1945) married David Nikolai Yakov (b. 1948)
                 →Natasha Nicki Yakov (b.1969) 
                 →Nikolai Jens Yakov (b. 1971)
→Denis Hugh O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1796) married Adelaide Hilma Schneider(b. 1799)
    →Maureen Hilma O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1820) married Broderick Cassidy O'Connor (Flay) (b.1818)
        →Isabelle Claire O'Connor (Flay) (b. 1841) married Benjamin Patrick O'Connor (Don) (b. 1840)
          →Adair Johnathan O’Conner (Don) b. 1867, d. 1969 married Isabelle Brenda Emiliana (b. 1867, d. 1968)
            →Kynan Johnathan O’Conner (Don) (b. 1885) married Shannon Colleen Brennan (b. 1887) 
               →Conan Johnathan O'Conner (Don) (b. 1905) married Irene Louisa Schneider (b. 1907) 
                 →Patrick Kynan O’Conner (Don)(b. 1929) married Josephine Mayer (b. 1927)   
                   →Kynan Patrick O'Conner (Don) (b. 1950) married Natasha Aniya Yakov (b. 1952)
                     →Adrick Kynan O'Conner (Don) (b. 1972)
             →Brianna Josephine O'Conner (Don) (b.1957) 
             →Brendan Adair O'Conner (Don) (b.1960)
             →Colleen Nila O’Conner (Don) (b.1963) 
             →Katrina Elizabeth O’Conner (Don) (b.1970)
             →Peter Adair O’Conner (Don) (b.1972)
                 →Johnathan Vladmir O’Conner (Don) (b. 1931) married Chastity von Diedrik (b. 1932)
                      →Johnathan (John) Caleb O'Conner (Don) (b. 1962)
                      →Nadine Shannon O'Conner (Don) (b. 1964) 
                      →Brody Scott O’Conner  (Don)(b. 1967)
                      →Chastity Katiana O’Conner (Don)(b. 1970)
                      →Collin Matthew O’Conner (Don) (b. 1972)
                 →Elizabeth Louisa O’Conner (Don) (Connors) (b. 1933) married Wilhelm Karl Vaelbe (b. 1930)
                      →Wilhelm Heinrich Vaelbe (b. 1961)
                      →Anastasia Lydia Vaelbe (b. 1962)
                      →Karl Jens Vaelbe (b. 1967)
                      →Lilith Louisa Vaelbe (b. 1973)
                 →Irene Cecily O'Conner (Don) (b. 1944)
                 →Connelly Conan O’Conner (Don) (b. 1947) married Heather Isabella O’Conner (Flay) (b. 1950)
                      →Isabella Shannon O'Conner (Don) (b. 1969)
                      →Heather Brenda O'Conner (Don) (b. 1971)
                      →Connelly Kynan O'Conner (Don) (b. 1973)
→Mary Alaina O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1798) married Albrecht Dieter Schneider (b. 1797)
→Ellen Maeve O'Connor (Sligo) (b. 1800) married Seamus Brian O'Connor (Don) (b.1799)

Roleplay Notes

All O'Connor (Sligo) family members are available to be played except Joelle and Jessie Black as well as Liz Vaelbe, Kynan Patrick O'Conner (Don) (b.1929), Irene Cecily O'Conner, Chastity von Diedrik O'Coner (Don) and Johnathan Caleb O'Conner (b.1962). If interested in using one on the tree or creating a new member, please pm John O'Conner or Irene O'Conner. Thanks!

See also: The Schneider Family, The O'Conner Flay Family, O'Conner Don Family