Andrew Gail(e)y

[Cyrilthebad]

I don't have much to go on but from an extracted IGI listing it appears that my Gt Grandmother (Sarah Mildred Pigott nee Gail(e)y) parents were Andrew Gaily and Anne McElhinay. 

There are other listings on IGI of children with Andrew and Anne as parents but with a variety of spellings for both Gail(e)y and McElhenny. 

I don't know where or when either Anne or Andrew were born or married but I'd be very grateful for any suggestions as to where to look (going to Ireland is not an option  or whether anybody else has Gaileys from Donegal in their family.

I have ordered Sarah's certs (BMD).  She was born in Donegal in 1869.  She married in Dublin in 1899.  She died in 1909 in Fermanagh (the death was registered in Irvinestown) so it is possible that I may get a little info from them.

I've also added this to the McElhinney thread.

[jsgg]

hi:
i'm working on the gailey side of the equation.  according to my notes andrew was married twice, first to ellen buchanan in 1865, and then to anne mcelhinney in january 1867.  The first marriage produced a daughter named jane gailey, born august 1866; the second produced a son daniel gailey born 1874.  i don't have records of other children, although i think there were some.  andrew was born 1830 and died 1902; ellen was born 1840 and died 1866; anne was born 1834 and died ?; and daniel was died 1955.
i know that andrew's father was daniel gailey but know nothing about him yet.
rgds,
jsgg

[Cyrilthebad]

Thank you for your post.  I too have Andrew marrying twice.  I also have his first wife's death and his eldest daughter's death.  With his second wife Anne he had 4 children:  Elizabeth, Sarah (my gt grandmother) Daniel and Agnes.  Daniel died in 1951 - unmarried and I believe that Agnes died a few years later also unmarried.  Elizabeth is the only daughter that I am unable to trace.  However given that my Gt grandmother married in Dublin and allegedly met my gt grandfather coming back on a ship from West Africa Elizabeth could have gone anywhere!  I'd be very interested in tracing Elizabeth.

I have got Andrew's father as Daniel and given the Irish naming conventions I think that Andrew's grandfather is probably Andrew - there are quite a few Andrew Gaileys in that area and my gut instinct says that they are 1st cousins but I haven't researched it and I must stress that it is conjecture.

Are you related to the Gailey's?

[jsgg]

thank you for your post, and the information it contains. 
yes, i'm a gailey on my mother's side.  i'm in the states.  many gaileys emigrated to america; our branch originated in killylastin, outside letterkenny, and came here about 1880.  i have identified my gr gr grandfather, andrew james gailey, and know a fair bit about him and his family.  i know almost nothing about his father, james gailey.  andrew james' wife was named anne gailey, and her father was another andrew gailey.  again i know little about them, other than their origin was apparently killylastin.
i must say i find the repetition of andrews/josephs/johns/roberts/james challenging when it comes to sorting out gailey connections.  and the propensity to marry cousins doesn't help.
at any rate, i'm trying to sort out the various gaileys running around ireland in the 19th century, and have made good progress for most living from the mid 1800's onward.  those from the first half of the 1800's are more problematic, and the current focus of my research.
your information helps me place some of the puzzle pieces i am still trying to fit in somewhere; am i right that elizabeth was born 1868, sarah 1869, agnes 1871, and daniel 1872?  as for death dates, i found a daniel in the lds pilot that was born in donegal in 1873 (birth dates are generally an estimate on a death record) and died in 1955; are you sure your daniel died in 1951?  anyway, it's good to know that agnes was a family name for this branch, since i have at least one other agnes that i'm trying to figure out.  i think "your" agnes can be found boarding with the orr family in cromac, antrim in the 1911 census.  i think the orrs were related to at least one branch of the gaileys, but don't happen to have those records handy.  i can search for them if you like.
best rgds,
jsgg

[jsgg]

i forgot to mention: just in case you haven't seen it yet, the same 1911 census record shows a "jeanie mcelhinney" as another boarder, clearly a relative of agnes through her mother

[Cyrilthebad]

Re my Gt Uncle Daniel - yes 1955 is correct not 1951 I was just excited!  I have a load of gravestones which show Gaileys from the Letterkenny/Killilastin area so I guess some of them will be yours.  If you PM me I can send them to an external email address if you would like.  I think that you have more info than I do but I would be happy to help sort out the families.

I take it that you have the Irish naming conventions for girls and boys - that has really helped me in the past!