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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => US Lookup Requests => Topic started by: eilean donan on Wednesday 26 January 11 22:21 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Any assistance to trace this my emigrant family would be greatly appreciated. My information is very sketchy but names and birth dates are accurate.
Annie Doherty born 1st May1876 in Cashel/ Mevagh Co Donegal emigrated to the US.
Her sister Shelah born 31st May 1879 in Cashel/ Mevagh also emigrated. Sister's Mary and Julia also went along with brother's William and James. I do not know if they went one by one or as a family or if they were going out to someone they knew.
Possibly they sailed from Londonderry or Belfast guessing around 1896 making Annie around 20 years of age. There parents were Hugh Doherty and Shelah Gillespie.
One of the Doherty girl's married, and her grandson or great grandson searched in Letterkenny and Creaslough a few years ago for relatives his surname could be Carr/ Kerr/or Jones and he was from Pittsburgh PA . It is believed that the 3 of the girls were in Pittburgh.
Has anyone a suggestion for solving the needle in a haystack or is it the brick wall!! Hoping to be lucky.
Thanks for taking time to read this.
Regards
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Hi - if they are your family how far back do you have them on US censuses, US birth/marriage/death records, etc? Have you looked for their arrival on the Ellis Island website? Some Irish alternatively came into Canada and "sneaked" across the border.
Biggest problem with this surname (one of my 2x grt grandfather's brothers married a Doherty in Nova Scotia) is the variety of spellings you will come across because of the pronunciation: Dockerty, Daugherty, Dougherty, etc. I have even found Dehorty.
Good luck - I will try to spend some time on this later.
Nick
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Have you looked for them in the census yet? There are many free census records at www.familysearch.org, including the 1900 Census.
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Hi my grandad John Doherty was born in Cashel, I think he might have had an uncle Hugh and perhaps even a brother hughie. The sisters I know of are Nellie, Annie (both lived in Manchester, UK) I know Annie died a few years ago, and Bridie. He married Annie Mae Tansy and the lives in Killasser until they were older then moved to Irishtown, Foxford. Not sure if there is a connection but happy to talk through any connections. Anna
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HI Anna
Have been trying to send you a personal message with no success. I think it is possible we could make connection. Regards
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Hi eilean donan,
It doesn't look as if Anna D has been online since the reply was posted. Anna D would need to make 3 posts before the pm system works.
Hope this helps.
Sandra
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Eileen
I'm so sorry I didn't get any notification of your reply, strangely I received an email when you just posted on the site. Do you have an email account I email you at?
Anna
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New members must make at least three postings before being allowed to use the PM facility.
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So I guess this is my third.
I'd forgotten I'd posted the original message.
Anna
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For Eileen Donan:
I may be grasping at straws, but I have too little info to do anything else. My g-grandmother was Annie Callahan, born in Donegal, in 1868 to James Callahan and Mary Doherty. James died in 1873. Mary, we think, must have died by 1883 as that is when Annie and her sister Hannah came to Pittsburgh to live with Ann and Catharine Gibbons. Annie said my father reminded her of her uncle Hugh. Annie's other 2 sisters stayed in Donegal-- Bridget married Bernard Connaghan, giving her townland as Tirargus; Mary married John Callaghan, also giving her townland as Tirargus, and settling in Letterkenny. Does your Hugh have a sister Mary, do you know? I don't know how the Gibbonses are connected. Annie called them aunts, but whether on the Doherty or Callahan side, I don't know.