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steve,

thank you for this info!
these are my relatives!
how did you get the death dates?
and the plots?
this is super exciting. i've got the 1920 census report, and have put some stuff on ancestry dot com,
but it really is hard to track down other stuff.
mary (nee riley) dever's sister tessie josephine riley had my great grandmother gertrude elizabeth,
b 3 may 1888 san francisco, with her first husband -- who he is i cannot find!
oh, what the devers could tell me, and the bradys, and the cassidys.....
the journey is always rewarding when we all cross paths like this.

and i wonder what the mccallion connection is to the sf devers?
thanks heaps!

dear steve campbell,

it is very confusing and i am still trying to figure it out.
mary riley (aka mae aka may ) married a james h dever in san francisco. i do not have either
of their death dates.
mary was born circa 1864 in california -- not certain if it were a sf birth.
father thomas riley
mother elisa nee fallon
both ireland born.

mr dever was a fire captian in the richmond district, and i believe that he was born in ireland as well.

thank you for your reply!

Inez

Our Mary Dever was born in Donegal in 1866 and died in SF in 1925.  She is buried with her husband Hugh Dever (1867-1917) at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.  Her maiden name was McCallion, hence our interest.

It's confusing because there are five Mary Devers buried in Holy Cross.  However, I see that there is a James Dever (d. 1915) and a Mary E. Dever (d. 1940) buried together.  Are these your ancestors?

Steve Campbell

sorry, i just posted this in annie o'malley, too.......!

hello,

my relatives from the british isles:
burnes campbell ross married norah winnifred fitzpatrick  --- liverpool folks
her parents were bridget nee stanton who married harry fitzpatrick (scottish footballer)
bridget's parents were thomas stanton who married mary morrison
we are looking for tom o'malley, how he fits in
he moved to chicago according to the story after he and his first wife moved to a nyc tenement where she died in a fire

my grandpa "jack" ross was a chindit highlander
his mom was christina cameron


can you tell me more about mary morrison? and her family? where are they from?
my mom told us last night that there were 3 sisters who were just to go to massachusetts to work as milliners or something, but then mary met thomas stanton who was older than she, seemed to be doing well, so she stayed in l-pool.

my mom need to help tell this better than i am, but we were just talking about this last night, so this is very timely.

thank you!
tracey

hi mr carroll,

i just found this:
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/orphans/497.jpg

it may be something. who knows?

i continue the search for my riley ancestors.

best wishes,
tracey