Leitrim-Roscommon

[jackie0051]

I'm going around in circles.
My late father Alan Francis Brennan was born 1925, I've no idea where he was born. His mother was young and unmarried. From a family of Irish Travelling Musician/Variety Artist, his mother with her 3 siblings should have been in boarding school in Berwick on Tweed England at the time of is birth. 1929 my father was left in Raphoe with his grandfather and later with a McElhinney family.His mother settled in America. Dad never saw his mother again after 1929, there was no correspondence. I started researching his family a few years back, everything Dad told has turned out to be the absolute truth but the mystery of his father remains. My father believed his father was named DeFrench and was the son of a Lord. All research leads me back to the DeFreynes of Roscommom but I cannot find details of any males who could be his possible father. Dad's grandfather Thomas grew up on a large farm estate married 1907 names his father Thomas as being Land Steward. The Connaught name seems to have a lot of significance. Anyone any idea's of where I go from here or how I could contact family of the DeFreynes who may be able to assist me? I'm based in England in contact with his mothers descendants but they had no idea of his birth, he was a well kept family secret. Regards Jackie (contact me on site if you prefer) jackie005@btclick.com