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John O'hartJohn O'Hart (1824–1902) was an Irish genealogist. He was born in Crossmolina, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Originally he planned to join the Catholic Church but instead spent 2 years as a police officer. He was an Associate in Arts at the Queen's University, Belfast. He worked at the Commissioners of National Education durring the years of the Irish Potato Famine. He worked as a genealogist and took an interest in Irish history. He was an Irish nationalist. He died in 1902 in Clontarf, Co. Dublin, at the age of 78. O'Hart's 800-page The Irish and Anglo-Irish landed gentry (Dublin 1884) was reprinted in 1969, with an introduction by Edward MacLysaght, the first Chief Herald of Ireland. Another work, Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation, first published in 1876, has come out in several subsequent editions. To complete his genealogies he used the writings of O'Clery, MacFirbis and O'Farrell, along with the annals of the Four Masters. He used the works of Burke, Collins, Harris, Lodge and Ware to extend his genealogies to the 17th century. Irish tradition holds that every Irish person is descended from the king Milesius who migrated from Spain in 500 BC, O'Hart started each of his genealogies with Adam recording Milesius as his 36th descendent. External link
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