Post by farmspirit on Mar 16, 2020 23:18:35 GMT
Hi, I started researching this topic after founding a story that explores Seamus roots.
By collecting various relatives from forums and double-checking them, I created this family tree. This is only a first draft, so corrections and additions are always possible. If you know other relatives that I missed, fell free to tell me.
This is what I’ve built so far. This chart has only relations showed in the comics, this is the motivation after why the cousins and niblings are grouped.
The code inducks under the name refer to the first appearance of the character.
Let’s dive in the tree. Moving down from the top, we first meet Jim Teller, also known as the Scarlet Painter. He was framed for theft and banished from Green Town 200 years before the Comics-Present. His son Tom Teller/o’Hara, seeking revenge, returned at Green Town when 20 years old, yet he found love, married the blonde carpenter’s daughter and became the founder of one of the most prestigious families of the city (Note: the comic never explicitly states that this family is the o’Hara’s one, but the fact that this secret had been passed by father to son from Tom to Seamus, I’m pretty sure this support my interpretation).
Going down we arrive to “Granpa Sheriff”, who is mentioned in the same story of the Scarlet Painter. Seamus said he cleaned Jim’s name from all false accusation 80-90 years before Now.
Seamus’ father is a placeholder to connect Granpa Sheriff to his three nephews. The first is a “Sheriff”, like his grandfather. He made only one appearance in a Fallberg/Murry story. The second brother is “Harry”. His story is the only one that I couldn’t find, so I can’t check his information. I based his position on a post on this forum about siblings. If one of you can send me scan of the story it would really help.
The third son is Seamus, who is married with Petulia, a dog-nosed woman created by Scarpa. She has a double inducks code because the latter is the code of her first story, and the former is the code of Gottfredson strip when Seamus mentioned her wife. In the same strip, he mentioned also a son, “o’Hara Junior”.
Now there are the ones whose position in the tree is uncertain. Starting from the top we have the “Great Uncle”, who appear in a portrait in a recent Italian story.
In the cousins we have the “Colonel Baffettoni”, an Italian cousin of Seamus who work in the Carabinieri. Next there is Cedric. Little is known about him, he is said to be the captain of the cruise ship Flying Flounder. Last is Frosty o’Hara, who run an hotel in ski resort.
To end, Seamus has four known niblings. Basettonia lives somewhere around Venice. Melissa is a journalist from Minnetopolis. Mel is lazy and troublesome. Ted is a good pianist and he attends the boarding school of Leg City.
Now I explain my headcanon of how the various relative connect to the tree.
As you can say, there are three new major branch that I theorized, plus a minus one. Let’s start by this. Frosty is, as the surname tell, a direct descendant of Tom o’Hara. I took the easy route here and gave “Granpa Sheriff” another son, whose son is Frosty.
The leftest branch is loosely connected from the main tree because in my mind someone moved to Italy and merged in the Baffettoni family between 200 and 100 years ago. In this way the Colonel is a distant cousin of Seamus. Basettonia changes from niece to cousin, but considered the great age-gap between the two, I think that “niece” here is more of a label for “a distant relative much more younger”.
Moving to the middle there are Melissa, Mel and Ted. To be honest, I had no idea where to put them, considered the apparent advanced age of Seamus’ brothers. So I placed them under two new brothers/sisters. I connected Melissa and Ted as sister and brother only because they are both hard-working and competent. For this opinion the three are open to changes if you have interesting opinion about where to place them. In my opinion Mel and Melissa cannot be brothers for the similar names. Is possible that both these names pay homage to a common ancestor, maybe a grandma was called Melody, or a granpa Melvin?
The third branch, the yellow one, his my favorite. I started it by placing the great uncle as the brother-in-law of granpa sheriff. Then I thought that his uniform looked like a military one’s, maybe from the navy? So I placed Cedric, who In my opinion is around Seamus age, two generation down. In that way I created my headcanon where Seamus’ pathernal grandma his from a long family of captains and shipowners, maybe from the Old World? And I’m pretty proud of this.
What are your opinions? I made some mistake or did you know other relatives that I have yet to insert? Let me know.
By collecting various relatives from forums and double-checking them, I created this family tree. This is only a first draft, so corrections and additions are always possible. If you know other relatives that I missed, fell free to tell me.
This is what I’ve built so far. This chart has only relations showed in the comics, this is the motivation after why the cousins and niblings are grouped.
The code inducks under the name refer to the first appearance of the character.
Let’s dive in the tree. Moving down from the top, we first meet Jim Teller, also known as the Scarlet Painter. He was framed for theft and banished from Green Town 200 years before the Comics-Present. His son Tom Teller/o’Hara, seeking revenge, returned at Green Town when 20 years old, yet he found love, married the blonde carpenter’s daughter and became the founder of one of the most prestigious families of the city (Note: the comic never explicitly states that this family is the o’Hara’s one, but the fact that this secret had been passed by father to son from Tom to Seamus, I’m pretty sure this support my interpretation).
Going down we arrive to “Granpa Sheriff”, who is mentioned in the same story of the Scarlet Painter. Seamus said he cleaned Jim’s name from all false accusation 80-90 years before Now.
Seamus’ father is a placeholder to connect Granpa Sheriff to his three nephews. The first is a “Sheriff”, like his grandfather. He made only one appearance in a Fallberg/Murry story. The second brother is “Harry”. His story is the only one that I couldn’t find, so I can’t check his information. I based his position on a post on this forum about siblings. If one of you can send me scan of the story it would really help.
The third son is Seamus, who is married with Petulia, a dog-nosed woman created by Scarpa. She has a double inducks code because the latter is the code of her first story, and the former is the code of Gottfredson strip when Seamus mentioned her wife. In the same strip, he mentioned also a son, “o’Hara Junior”.
Now there are the ones whose position in the tree is uncertain. Starting from the top we have the “Great Uncle”, who appear in a portrait in a recent Italian story.
In the cousins we have the “Colonel Baffettoni”, an Italian cousin of Seamus who work in the Carabinieri. Next there is Cedric. Little is known about him, he is said to be the captain of the cruise ship Flying Flounder. Last is Frosty o’Hara, who run an hotel in ski resort.
To end, Seamus has four known niblings. Basettonia lives somewhere around Venice. Melissa is a journalist from Minnetopolis. Mel is lazy and troublesome. Ted is a good pianist and he attends the boarding school of Leg City.
Now I explain my headcanon of how the various relative connect to the tree.
As you can say, there are three new major branch that I theorized, plus a minus one. Let’s start by this. Frosty is, as the surname tell, a direct descendant of Tom o’Hara. I took the easy route here and gave “Granpa Sheriff” another son, whose son is Frosty.
The leftest branch is loosely connected from the main tree because in my mind someone moved to Italy and merged in the Baffettoni family between 200 and 100 years ago. In this way the Colonel is a distant cousin of Seamus. Basettonia changes from niece to cousin, but considered the great age-gap between the two, I think that “niece” here is more of a label for “a distant relative much more younger”.
Moving to the middle there are Melissa, Mel and Ted. To be honest, I had no idea where to put them, considered the apparent advanced age of Seamus’ brothers. So I placed them under two new brothers/sisters. I connected Melissa and Ted as sister and brother only because they are both hard-working and competent. For this opinion the three are open to changes if you have interesting opinion about where to place them. In my opinion Mel and Melissa cannot be brothers for the similar names. Is possible that both these names pay homage to a common ancestor, maybe a grandma was called Melody, or a granpa Melvin?
The third branch, the yellow one, his my favorite. I started it by placing the great uncle as the brother-in-law of granpa sheriff. Then I thought that his uniform looked like a military one’s, maybe from the navy? So I placed Cedric, who In my opinion is around Seamus age, two generation down. In that way I created my headcanon where Seamus’ pathernal grandma his from a long family of captains and shipowners, maybe from the Old World? And I’m pretty proud of this.
What are your opinions? I made some mistake or did you know other relatives that I have yet to insert? Let me know.
