Brough Family Organization
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Broughs of Ireland

     The Broughs of Great Britain may be related to the de Burghs or Burke family clan of Ireland.

     In 1949, Catharine Ann Brough Hind visited the College of Arms in London for confirmation of the Brough swans "Shield" and "Coat of Arms" shown in Staffordshire pedigrees and records. The Herald to whom she spoke said that no formal permission was needed for her family to use the Brough arms provided the family possessed genealogical confirmation of who they were. Interestingly, it was the Herald's belief that the Brough "swans" coat of arms were granted for service in wars in Ireland, in which their close blood kinsman, Lord Walter de Burgh and his sons, were leading noblemen and administrators, and whose descendants now make up the widespread de Burgh/Burke family clan of Ireland.

     For more information on Lord Walter de Burgh, see the Wikipedia entry for "Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster". And for the de Burgh ancestry and descendants of Ireland see: www.geneajourney.com/burgh.html.

     The descendant genealogies of John Broe of Dublin, Ireland (b.abt.1795), and his Brough descendants of New Zealand, can be seen by visiting the website on the Genealogies of the Broughs of New Zealand.