search for info about Mary Delahanty

Pamela:

I looked for civil birth index records around 1884 for a Mary Delahanty and variants (Delahunty, Delahunt) and could not locate a record. I also looked in the 1901 census and found very few Delahantys, Delahuntys and Delahunts in Co. Cork. Do you know when Mary emigrated to America? I have a feeling she may have left from Co. Cork (Queenstown) but actually was from another county.

Roger McDonnell

Pamela:

I think I found your Mary. She was from Carroward townland in Bohola parish in Co. Mayo. Bohola is from East Mayo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohola The 1901 census record is below. Her father was born in Co. Tipperary and her mother was from Mayo. The name was shown as Delahaunty in the census. Mary arrived in New York on August 1, 1902. Let me know if you have questions.

Roger

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Bohola/Carroward/1596642/

http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?MID=00792682260187889504&FNM=MARY&LNM=DELAHUNTY&PLNM=DELAHUNTY&CGD=F&bSYR=1881&bEYR=1887&first_kind=1&last_kind=0&RF=2&pID=102775010877&

Pamela:

A few more records. Below is the 1911 census record. The surname was Delahunty.You will note that Patrick and Bridget had six children but only 3 were alive in 1911. I assume either Michael or Mary had died between 1901 and 1911. Also, Patrick is shown as being born in Co. Mayo. I also found the civil birth index record for Mary shown as Mary Anne. Finally, not sure if you were able to enlarge and look at the passenger record from Ellis Island. Mary's contact was her cousin Patrick Burke who I'm sure was a relative on her mother's side of the family.

Roger

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Bohola/Carroward/738303/

Hi Roger,

I did respond twice to your posts.  I am having trouble sending them.

This is a test

Pamela

HI Again Roger,  

Thank you for your response.

I did check out Mary Delahunty from Bohola about 2 years ago.  She was aboard the Celtic and arrived in NY Aug 1, 1902.  I ordered birth records from Bohola for that Mary.  I also spoke to a great-niece of Mary Delahunty.  I am certain she is not my grandmother.

Last month I reexamined the Ellis Island records and I checked out the Passenger List and the original manifest again.  There are two Mary Ds listed - one is the Mary Delahunty from Bohola who was 20 years old when she arrived in NY.  The other is Mary Dela.... (that is all the info on the record because the page is torn)  The second Mary was 17 when she arrived in NY.  Accd to the records, she came from Bondea.

I never could locate a town in Ireland called Bondea.  But there is a Brulea and if I am correct, that is the town name the transcriber was writing not Bondea.

The second Mary would be the age my grandmother was in 1902 - 17 years old.  I have my grandmother's marriage license.  She was married in New York City.  She gave Jan 20, 1884 as her date of birth.  That would make her 17 or so in 1902.  She also claimed Ireland as her place of birth.

Another reason I feel confident this second Mary could be my grandmother is the US census records. In 1920, 1930, 1940, Mary's years in the US matched with her arriving about 1902.

My problem now is how to proceed with the new information.

A millions thanks for your reponse and interest.

Pamela

Pamela:

This is very interesting case although for you I'm sure it is very frustrating. I took another look at the passenger manifest. Very ironic that there were two ladies with a fairly uncommon name on the same ship. I know this is your family and you have done a lot of work but I still feel the Mary from Mayo is your grandmother even though the age was shown as 20 on the manifest (she would have been 18).

I looked at all the Mary Delahuntys (and Delahauntys) in the 1901 census. There were about 100. I focused on the ones listed as 17 or 18. I did find an 18 year old living in Ballyslea in North Tipperary. Her parents were James and Johanna. Possibly this was the other Mary on the ship. You may want to go thru these records yourself.

Getting back to the ship. The Burke name is what intrigues me.

Page 35 on the manifest- which is page B-----Mary Delahunty is entry 28 and her contact is an Aunt Margaret Corrigen in Brooklyn.

Page 36 on the manifest--which is page A--Mary Delahunty is entry 3 and her contact is cousin Pat Burke

Page 38 on the manifest is a Record of Detained Passengers waiting for someone to pick them up. Here is where I think that the clerk on the ship confused the two Marys. The 3rd entry shows Mary Delahunty A3 being picked up by Father Henry from State St Is this a priest?). The 8th entry shows another Mary Delahunty B28 being picked up by Aunt Mary Burke (wife of Patrick?) from 346 W. 21st St (probably in Manhattan)

Burke was shown for A3 Mary on page 36 but on page 38 Burke is shown for B28 Mary.

Do you have any names for siblings of your grandmother? how do they relate to the siblings on the 1901 census for Patrick and Bridget in Carroward?

Roger

Hello again Roger,

Yes, it is sooooooooooo ironic that the name of the second Mary Dela is not intact.  

I spoke with the great niece of Mary Delahunty (Bohola).  Patricia and I emailed each other a great many times after she contacted me from an Ancestry post.  She told me her grandparents were also Patrick Delahunty and Bridget Burke.   Her grandmother was Catherine Delahunty from Bohola. Catherine was called Alice after she settled in NY.  She put me in touch with the parish priest in Bohola and he sent me baptismal records.  I also obtained the birth records for Mary Delahunty (Bohola - Carroward)

Now Alice Delahunty married in the US and lived in the Bronx quite near where my grandmother lived in the Bronx in 1930s and 1940s.  (My grandmother died a few month before I was born; my father had distanced himself from his sisters and he rarely spoke of his mother or father.....I regret not taking more an interest in my family history when I was younger....so I do not know if Mary had siblings.  I do have a first cousin who lives in NY and I just learned of his existence four years ago.  I am trying to get him to fill in some info about Mary, but he is also very reluctant to speak of the past and his parents and grandparents.)

The great niece of Mary Delahunty (Bohola) also put me in touch with one of her first cousins in CA who told me that Mary Delahunty had returned to Ireland later in life and died there.  Patricia's first cousin, Eileen Callahan and her mother visited Ireland and spoke to a man who had know Mary years before she had died.   I never checked that out....if that Mary Delahunty had returned to Ireland and died there, she is not my grandmother.  I have my grandmother;s death certificate and as far I have learned, she never returned to Ireland.

I have a feeling my grandmother did not have any siblings.  I am not certain about that, but I have a feeling that is so.

Thank you for helping me understand the records for the two Mary D's on the original manifest.  I believe you could be correct and the clerk confused the two women.  Perhaps Mary did have an aunt Mary Burke.  Her mother's maiden name was Burke.  I will look at the 1905 and 1910 census for NY for both sets of info for the Mary Ds.

Thank you for you help.  I feel so grateful to have your assistance.  It is truly a boon.  

Thankfully,

Pamela