Odds and Ends

There are a number of different Doris individuals mentioned in records on the internet which I have not included in the family history study because they are out of any meaningful context. There is nothing to tell us where they came from or who they were. For example, there are occasional references to Doris individuals in other parts of Ireland, like Cork or Carlow, but they don't seem to form any kind of recognisable pattern. The Cornelius Doris who was a tailor in New York in the 1840s and was mentioned in the book The Irish of New York is also a mystery. The convict Duross family in Australia are also a mystery. They seem to have arrived in the Antipodes in the 1820s and one member of the family, Constable William Duross, had a walk-on part in the tale of Ned Kelly. These Durosses seem to have been of Protestant stock, which is unusual. However, in spite of occasional occurrences of the name and its variants in other areas, the vast majority of instances of the Doris name are found in places like Fermanagh and Tyrone in the north, with colonies in Mayo, Donegal and Scotland by the 19th. century.