My dad - William Bradley -seemed to believe that there was Spanish blood in our ancestry - (perhaps from The Armada or even from trade between Ireland and Spain.) We may even have Jewish blood too.
Dad's mother (Mary Harrington) came from Kinsale Cork and ( I think) his father (James Bradley) came from County Mayo, Eire. How could I find out?
Dad died long ago and his own father died in WW1 (WW1 records indicate his father came from Co Mayo - but I can't even be sure that we have the right man). It's difficult to find out and I would go to Ireland to research birth and baptism records if I didn't live on the other side of the world (Perth Western Australia).
This is the first time I have asked for help this way although I did find a long lost Canadian cousin by putting my (maternal) gradfather's name in a Google search!!
I live in hope.
Thank you anyone out there who can give me some hints.
Mary S