My Ireland research
Does anyone know about the origins of these families in Ireland?
Hugh Donoghue was born February of 1847 in Gortdromagh, Kerry, Ireland. He immigrated 22 Apr 1873 via Castle Garden and settled in Holyoke Massachusetts. He would marry Katherine E Looney of Holyoke in 1877 and have ten children with her there. Hugh had parents of Michael Donoghue and Mary Ellen Kerrisk and Katherine E Looney had parents of John Looney and Johannah Donoghue. John Looney was born in 1830 in Glenflesk, Kerry, Ireland and died 20 April 1883 in Holyoke. Johannah Donoghue was born in 1830 in Ireland and died 4 May 1889 in Holyoke.
Henry Walker Graham was born 19 April 1862 in Northern Ireland. His death was 4 November 1915 in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts. His parents were Walker Graham and Elizabeth Bate of Northern Ireland perhaps Belfast. He would marry Ellen Bratton in 1887 in Holyoke. Her parents were Samuel Bratton born in Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland in about 1830 and Ellen Sloan.
John Somers was born February 1863 in Ireland and his death was 4 November 1924 in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts. He married Mary E Baker who was born August 1866 in Ireland and who died 10 July 1915 in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts. John had parents of Thomas Somers and Mary McHugh both of Ireland. Mary in turn had parents of Patrick Baker and Ellen Kennedy both of Ireland
Thomas McLoughlin of Binghamstown, Mayo, Ireland immigrated with his wife Bridget Corduff of Belmullet, Mayo, Ireland in 1905 to Holyoke Massachusetts. They had five daughters with them. Within a month Bridget and one daughter would die of measles. Thomas would remarry and by 1920 move back to Belmullet Ireland with this new family of his. His parents are George McLoughlin and Julia McCormick. Bridget had parents of John Corduff (1841 birth in Ireland) and Ellen McManamon (1840 birth in Ireland) who had an 1866 marriage in County Mayo.
Peter Cox was born in 1826 in Ireland to Peter and Theresa Cox. He would marry Catherine Reynolds who was born in Ireland in 1822 to John and Mary Reynolds. They most likely married in 1852 in northeastern Rhode Island. They would have a daughter Theresa in 1856 and a son Peter in 1858. Peter Cox was of low mental ability and would live in group homes throughout the late 1800s. The youngest Peter would marry Mary Ellen West in Holyoke in the 1890s. Mary West had a mother Mary Moore who was born March 1837 in Ireland and a grandmother Mary O’Brien also of Ireland.
Richard Keane was born in 1841 in Belmullet, Mayo, Ireland to Harry Keane and Margaret Connelly. He would marry Bridget Burke in about 1856. She was born in 1841 in Belmullet, Mayo, Ireland and die young in 1880. Richard would move to Holyoke to be with his offspring and would die there. Mary Ellen Rowland had parents of Patrick Rowland and Catherine McGrath and was born 12 March 1865 in Bangor Erris, Mayo, Ireland. She would immigrate to Philadelphia and then to Holyoke Massachusetts. In Philadelphia, she married Martin Keane who parents are the above-mentioned Richard and Bridget. They would moved to Holyoke and by 1908 Martin was dead but was not buried in the family plot.
John Reynolds was born in 1857 in King County Ireland. In 1878 in Tullamore, Kings, Ireland, he married Catherine Carey. They would remain behind in Ireland while many of their children immigrated to America. Their son John would marry Johannah Elizabeth Donoghue of Gortlicka, Kerry, Ireland in a 1916 ceremony in Holyoke. Her father was Cornelius Donoghue born in 1843 in Gortlicka, Kerry, Ireland and her mother was Johanna Cronin born in 1859 in Gortlicka, Kerry, Ireland.
Thomas Kennedy died in Ireland in 1905 in Glenlough, Ireland and his wife Margaret Habbert would die in Mahanabo, Kerry, Ireland.
Richard Foley was born March 1851 in Ireland to Edward Foley and Mary Fitzgerald. He would marry in 1871 to another Irish immigrant Bridget Powers She was born 1848 in Waterford, Waterford, Ireland.
Thomas Keaton Bourke was born in March 1848 in Ireland to Jeremiah and Nancy Keaton.
Timothy J Murphy was born in 1907 in Ireland and immigrated in 1928. He would marry Helen Viola Weed.