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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 10, 7 March 1901, Page 20

It is not generally known, the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian Bays, that Mr. Marconi, the adapter of wireless telegraphy, is as much an Irishman as an Italian in all but the matter of birth. Me is, it appears, first cousin to a leading Wexford merchant and the son of an Enniscorthy lady. Mr. Marconi's maternal grandfather was Mr. Andrew Jameson, of Daphne Castle and Fairfield, Enniscorthy — a cousin of the John Jameson of whiskey fame. Andrew Jameson had a distillery near Enniscorthy, at the place known even now as ' The Still.' Mr. A. O. Davis, the present occupant of Fairfield, married one of Andrew Jameson's daughters ; and another, who was musical to a remarkable degree, went to the Conservatoire at Bologne to finish hex studies. Here she met and married a Signor Marconi, an Italian of considerable means, and became the mother of the now famoui inventor.