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

[colee]

Yes thank you very much - that 1901 census was posted before but a while back, so it's a useful reminder (there's so much info on this thread it's amazing I'm so grateful to everyone for their help).

I don't think I'd seen Ellen's birth record though, thank you

[heywood]

Simon Gallagher’s passport application - repeated pages. It says that daughter Grace was born in Ireland
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99D3-L3SN-4?view=index&action=view&cc=2185145&lang=en

Ellen’s application including photo with babies (2nd page)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5B-WGZC?lang=en

[colee]

Brilliant, that's a really great find, thank you, so much info in there - and a photo, amazing!!

I'm just going through it all for any birth hints about Helen/Ellen, should be possible to find her marriage or naturalisation records, I'll go hunting, thank you

[colee]

That birth record of Ellen's is interesting, it shows her father John McHugh as a weaver, I haven't seen that before.

[heywood]

There is so much intermarriage of those names though.
When you have time it might be best to review the finds and try to make sense of them all. I used to draw mind maps linking people.

[colee]

Yes it's very tricky to hold on to all the different threads, but I'm adding everything that's connected into the Ancestry tree as I go along.

If I can't immediately connect the Gallaghers I'll probably start a Gallagher tree and work from there, so that will be like my mind map.

The extremely good news though is that I've had confirmation from the family that the Bernard John Ferry is the 'right' one, the fireman who died in Florida in 2000 who left the inheritance. (as in he wasn't Brendan and we were correct in working out it was Bernard instead).

And to add a bit more colour to the Ferrys, Kitty/Catherine daughter of James Ferry and Mary McFadden was in dispute with the Ferry family after James' death over land. She won though, and was known afterwards as Kitty the field!

[heywood]

That’s a good confirmation of the link.
Let’s hope that some other links are joined soon. 🙂

[colee]

Also we saw that there was an Edward Gallagher present at Kitty's birth in Feb 1868:

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/supp_births/2343692x.pdf

[colee]

I think Simon Gallagher's wife is Helen McHugh and here is their daughter Mary:

Mary Delia Gallagher
[Mary Delia Penrose]
[Mary Penrose]
Gender   Female
Race   White
Birth Date   27 Oct 1918
Birth Place   Brooklyn, New York
[Brooklyn Kin??, New York]
Death Date   22 May 2007
Father   
Simon Gallagher
Mother   
Helen McHugh
SSN   088208782

Notes   Apr 1943: Name listed as MARY DELIA GALLAGHER; Feb: Name listed as MARY DELIA PENROSE; 02 Jun 2007: Name listed as MARY D PENROSE