Coughlin Pier Danahy strange possible connection please help

[MurphyK91]

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCYC-49Y?lang=en
Oh, I just noticed that Timothy and Bridget Coughlin wanted a girl named Ellen badly enough to reuse the name. I assume the first daughter, baptized 1858, died.

I assumed wrong, since the Ellen baptized in 1858 is the Ellen that Heywood found in 1865, age 7, and in 1875, age 16.

Great research oldohiohome.

Thank you, I have enjoyed every minute of it.

I actually wonder if that is an error of transcription. I'm going to look at the baptisms next week or the week after that.

Bridget is a widow in the 1865 census. I found a death of a Timothy Coughlin in 1863 in Buffalo.

[oldohiohome]

Bridget is a widow in the 1865 census. I found a death of a Timothy Coughlin in 1863 in Buffalo.

It he died before 1865, then the Ellen Coughlin baptized 3 May 1867 is not theirs.

[MurphyK91]

Bridget is a widow in the 1865 census. I found a death of a Timothy Coughlin in 1863 in Buffalo.

It he died before 1865, then the Ellen Coughlin baptized 3 May 1867 is not theirs.

I know. I'm just wondering if it's possibly a transcription error. Won't know until I see the image. That would also mean that Mary in 1865 wasn't theirs, but perhaps the 6 was actually a 5. Maybe. Very strange regardless.

[MurphyK91]

The obituaries of both Matthew and Michael Danahy said they arrived in Buffalo in 1849. They ran a meat packing business, Danahy Packing. I imagine you have that by now. One of the earlier records gave "cattle" as one of their occupations, I don't remember which.

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Did either of them die after 1904?
I found an obituary for Bridget's brother Dennis Danahy in 1904. Mentions he is survived by two brothers John and Timothy Danahy and a sister Mrs. Bridget Coughlin. I'm going to try to get his death record compared with Bridget's! Fingers crossed

[oldohiohome]

Michael Danahy died October 6, 1913

[oldohiohome]

Matthew Danahy died November 20, 1910

[MurphyK91]

Matthew Danahy died November 20, 1910

Thank you! They must be different members of that family or unrelated. I was looking through city directories and found there were a couple of them at one point. Thank you again for everything!

[oldohiohome]

I think that must be a different Dennis. I found this one who worked for Danahy Packing and was active in Democratic circles. The age and time spent in Buffalo work out also. You'd have to find his wife and children.

obit March 9, 1925 . Died March 8

[oldohiohome]

newspapers.com is free until Monday night. You have to jump through a few hoops but it works. I did it through an email from my wife's cousin, but here is a link to a thread on rootschat with instructions to do it a couple different ways.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=889454.msg7630554#msg7630554