Brinlack: 1860s, 70s, children of Marie McHUGH, McFADDEN, FERRY?

[colee]

This is interesting. I found a sister of Dan, Grace McHugh. She was born in June 1878,

(https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000631955?locale=en#page/81/mode/1up)

and married James Ferry. They emigrated to the States in 1912 and were in the 1920 census in New York, with Grace's brother John McHugh who had emigrated in 1910.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJRD-BJS?lang=en

In Feb 1931 Grace's son Bernard Ferry aged 14 - Dan and John McHugh's nephew (born in the States in 1916), travelled to Glasgow with none other than Simon and Helen Gallagher (who were eventually buried with Dan).

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1518/images/30807_A000950-00210?usePUB=true&_phsrc=kdV3041

[colee]

In 1924, Simon, Helen Gallagher and their 3 young children travelled to Glasgow from New York:

[heywood]

Oh it’s complicated!

Looking at the 1931 passenger list, they were travelling to Moville , not Glasgow though.
Added - and the other one you have posted.

[colee]

Oh yes, you're right, thank you, the ultimate destination of the ship was Glasgow, but they landed at Moville.

[colee]

I suppose it's possible this is the same Gallagher family travelling in 1929, this time with Grace aged 6 and 3 younger siblings. The only other person going to Derrybeg on that page is Nellie Ferry, this could be the mysterious Nellie I am also trying to find, I guess she seems the most likely person to be travelling with the children.

[Kiltaglassan]

Grace Gallagher born 15 May 1922 at Clonbara, Father John a farmer, mother Sarah McHugh.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1922/01156/1482612.pdf
https://www.townlands.ie/donegal/kilmacrenan/tulacha-beigile/cross-roads/clonbara/

[heywood]

I doubt that those Gallaghers would be a close connection. Sarah McHugh’s father - Owen.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1913/09889/5592635.pdf

There are so many connections with all the names being so common in that area.

Grace, on the death record is described as ‘occupier’ rather than any kind of relative.

[colee]

True. But Simon and Helen Gallagher being buried with Dan indicates some sort of relative? They were also buried with Grace Sweeney, maybe she is a way of working out the connections.

On Nellie, I found Nellie Ferry travelling again, in 1923 on a ship from Liverpool to New York to see her sister Rose (Reilly) and it says her father is C Ferry (Charles?).

[heywood]

This may have been posted. You mention an aunt Ellen a few times.
Here is a birth for Ellen - parents John MCHugh and Mary McFadden
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1884/02702/1994904.pdf

Is this the family in 1901?
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Donegal/Meenacladdy/Brinlack/1174082/

John is a widower

It may have all been established earlier - apologies if so.

Is there a marriage anywhere for Simon and Helen Gallagher?