Dr. Sydney Handy Halahan

My great-grandfather Dr. Sydney Handy Halahan was grew up in the late 1800s in County Meath. He later studied in Dublin at Trinity College.

His name was originally Samuel, but he changed his name to Sydney after staying in Australia for a time. He practiced medicine there, and in India and America for a time too, before settling in South Africa between 1899-1902.

When he died from influenza, we…