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  I misspoke when I said that Edmond Costello was my great grandfather when in fact he is my great great grandfather. Sorry about that. His wife and my great great grandmother was Mary Devine.

  If you look at the 1900 Federal Census for the city of Troy, you will find Margaret Costello and living with her you will find several nieces who are Carmody and Costello family members. You will also find in that household a Margaret C. Hartney at the age of 13. The middle intitial is for Costello, her mothers maiden name.( She was Johanna Costello.) Margaret was a distant cousin of my father and his mother was Margaret Carmody Burns, daughter of Honora Costello and  Cornelius Carmody. 

   The only other thing I can add about Cornelius is that on his Naturalization papers he lists his place of birth as being Kerry. He emigrated from Limerick.

 

     I forgot to mention that I have a copy of his personal Diary that he wrote during the Civil War. Some of it is an interesting read.

  Hello again

       My great grandfather Cornelius Carmody was i  the 2nd New York Cavalry Volunteers. He served from 1861 to 1864 before taking a minee ball to the knee and ending his service. In post war life he was a laborer in the Watevliet New York Arsenal, mostly working with munitions. He was killed in an explosion in 1877. As far as i know he never lived in Massachusetts.
       Ther may be more coisins out there, but unfortunatley I  cannot ties us together.

     Jack

Hello Frank

     Well, here is what I know. Honora Costello married Cornelius Carmody and they had one child born in 1860 in Ireland. His name was James Carmody. Soon after, they emigrated to America. Here, Cornelius joined the Union Army and served until wounded in a scirmish at Gainesville Turnpike in Pennsylvania. He would be discharged and returned home to raise his family. They had four more children. Margaret(my grandmother) in 1868, Annie in 1871, Lizzie in 1873 and Nellie in 1876. Cornelius would later be killed in an explosion while working with munitions in 1877.
       James would marry a woman named Maria Evans and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. They had only one child, Frances, who would become a school teacher and never married. I did meet her once, but I was a very young lad at the time. I do have a picture of her.
       The other three girls, as far as I can tell, never married. After Honora died in 1882, the girls went to live with an aunt in Troy, New York. Now, here is an interesting part. The aunt was Margaret Costello and this shows the tie between the Costellos and the Carmodys.
       Margaret Costello was born in 1841 and arrived here in 1862. I have been unable to determine who her parents were.
       Is this information of help to you? I know that yours gave me some insight. If there is any other items you may know I would love to hear from you again.
       Hopefully when I return again to Ireland I can arrange a trip to the Costell farm just to introduce my self and say hello.

       Thanks

         Jack