Mary O'Shiell

Mary O'Shiell (1715- d. after 1745), was a French-Irish businessperson. She is a known figure in the history of Nantes, alongside her sisters Agnés O'Shiell and Anne O'Shiell.

Life

She was the daughter of the Irish Jacobite Luke O'Shiell (1677-1745), who was born in Dublin but emigrated to Nantes after the Irish defeat, and Agnès Vanasse (1690-1724). The family manor of the O'Shiell, Manoir de la Placelière, became the gathering place of the large Irish colony in Nantes. She married Antoine Walsh, a leading slave trader in the slave trade of Nantes. In 1755, the O'Shiell family became ennobled.

References

• http://gw4.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=pierfit&lang=en;p=antoine+jean+baptiste;n=walsh [archive]
• http://l-ardoise-fine.over-blog.com/pages/Quelques_familles_de_negociants_angevins_et_nantais_dans_la_colonisation-1616368.html [archive]
• http://issuu.com/yrivallain/docs/172-bret-irl_6-15-exe [archive]
• a et b http://www.infobretagne.com/chateau-thebaud.htm [archive]
• http://www.euraldic.com/txt_bhcolo_sdo1.html [archive]