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Family Reunion in London, Ontario, Canada

June 3-5, 2011

Dear Friends and Relatives:

As this is the first day of Spring in the Celtic Calendar---the one that allowed Shakespeare to date his A Midsummer Night's Dream in the real mid-summer--- I think it is appropriate that we should invite you to come to London, Ontario, Canada for a family reunion just before Midsummer 2011 (actually June 3-4-5 ).

Thanks to Dan Mellamphy, a Cork-born New Zealander, and to Peggy Larsen of Pennsylvania, a Malamphy of the diaspora, we had our first reunion in 2002 in Frederick, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. (with the Malamphys in largest numbers) and our second get-together at Coolbawn Quay in 2005 (with the Molamphys of the Lough Derg shores outweighing us in larger numbers still), and the third gathering in Waiheke Island for the South Pacific melding in 2008 (with the chatty Mellamphys of God-Knows-Where being challenged in numbers by the truly vocal Mullamphys of Queensland). The fourth reunion is scheduled for London, Ontario in early June of 2011, where the formal meetings of the O Maolanfaidh take place between June 4 and 6. The formal and informal meetings will "remember" our distant and recent past and will demonstrate the talents of the family.

Where? on the campus and in conference rooms of The University of Western Ontario.

For those who wonder why we should call ourselves together as the O MAOL ANFAIDH family, I might remind us that this is the family name in Irish and that the translation of Irish names in the 19th century was nothing short of revolutionary--MOAL (meaning the enthusiast for, the devotee of, even the chaplain of) becoming Mal- Mel- Mell- Mull- (as you see in Malloy/Mulloy, Molrooney/Mulroney. Maloney/Moloney, etc.), and ANFAIDH becoming -Anphy, -Anaphy, -Anephy, -Aniphy, -Amphy, and -Ampy (because the DH is a D with a dot over it in traditional Irish, meaning that it is 'aspirated" and so not pronounced at all). Interestingly, no one in Ireland seems to pronounce the M in Malamphy-Melamphy-Mellamphy-Molamphy-Mullamphy name: they all say ANFY (see Molanphy) and, so, consciously or unconsciously "remember" the Irish name. The name itself appears in Irish literature around 600 A.D. and it has the interesting feature of being one of the post-Patrician names that retains the pagan suggestions of nature worship that was central to religion before the St.Patrick mission, Maol (or Mael) suggesting "devotion to" and Anfaidh meaning "of the storm."

Where is London, Ontario, you may wonder? The answer: It is about twio hours West of Toronto and about two hours East of Detroit, and it has shuttle buses from each airport. London has a population of 300,000 or so and has a good airport, less than 20 km. from the home of your hosts.

What's interesting about the place, if one arrives early or stays after the reunion? Well, Niagara Falls is two and a half hours away, and so is the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford,Ontario is less than an hour away. The beaches of Lake Huron and Lake Erie are close, and the area around London is crowded with good golf courses.

Will we party well during the get-together? There will be lunches and barbecues, breakfasts if necessary, and the reunion will end with a banquet.

Where will we stay? The un-costly venues will be The Guesthouse on The Mount and a university residence [See www.stayatwestern.ca>] More information soon about University of Western Ontario conference hotels and about good B & B places to stay. A hundred thousand welcomes to you to our fourth family conference.

- Cecile and Ninian Mellamphy

Contact Ninian Mellamphy

NEW! Mullanphy Family Tree!
Thanks to Elizabeth Boland Barbieri

Click below for PDF file.

1. Geneology Report (small PDF file)

2. Family Tree (large PDF file - 12MB)

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