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 you refer to a bernard devir son of thomas d and catherine sweeney.i feel that catherine is a sister of hannah mcdevitt[sweeney] largnalarkin,parish of inniskeel age 83 in 1901 cenuus and ambrose sweeney cornagallon parish of gartan age 76 in 1901 census and edward died 1902 age 40.all were the children of myles sweeney a native of glenfinn d.1882 age 60 and his wife kate[catherine] d. 1895 age 90.
hannah mcdevitt had a daughter brigid widowed in america while she had died by 1900 in donegal.of her three children ann age 11 was living in philadelphia with her mothers sister mary devir[born march 1850] according to u.s census 1900 and also  a widow .another daughter maggie in 1900 was living with her grand uncle ambrose in cornagallon while a brother laurence was living with his grandmother hannah in largnalarkin.
mary dever left philadelphia and was also living in her birthplace in largnalarkin by 1911 census age 69.sarah mcdevitt another niece of ambrose lived with him as his unmarried housekeeper age 30 in 1901.he died in 1909 and by 1911 sarah was living on the farm with her new husband edward gallagher.

regards
laurence

i would be very interested if anyone is able to make a connection between Rev. peter mcdevitt d.1905 and rev. patrick mcdevitt d.1913 or knows of the name of the townland of the birth of either and or the their parents names.

i am doing some family research which has brought me to the Doherty family.i believe that Cecelia is the granddaughter of John and Cecelia Doherty both born around 1800 and owners of the Central Bar on Main Street Letterkenny.i am attempting to prepare a family tree from john and cecelia to the present.i have already completed the family tree for Cecelia wife of john back to 1580 on her parents side.her maiden name was mcdevitt and she had a brother dominick.Any assistance you can offer me on cecelia,her brothers,sisters and parents would be greatly appreciated.

  laurence