Roger, you have been busy! And you have the right family. I do have all that information. And I have birth records on all their children. No baptismal records though. They actually attended St Edwards, although my parents were married at St Bonaventure. I grew up in a nearby neighborhood too. Baptismal records are harder to come by as Philadelphia has closed many of those inner-city parishes and moved records. I located the church that has St Edwards records, but they are not very helpful. Can keep trying.
I onlly know of one sister of Mary named Anne (marriage name McNamee) who emigrated and died in Philadelphia.
I was hoping to be able to identify the family in Ireland and visit the town in 2015. I did this for my mother's family in Serbia, and last year Patrick Duffy's home town in Rochdale England. But after 20 years of research, Mary Duffy is still elusive.
Appreciate any further suggestions. Thanks again. Eileen
Monday 8th Sep 2014, 09:54PM
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Eileen:
I went to www.familysearch.org I searched for Duffy children born to Michael Duffy and Catherine Regan from 1864-1880. I got a number of hits but I'm somewhat cautious because it is possible there was another Michael Duffy/Catherine Regan couple in Mayo. In particular, there are two Patricks three months apart. Suggest you check out the site and see what you think.
Roger
I found the following children:
Mary 6/7/1866
Ellen 6/18/1868
Thomas 9/14/1870
Celia 8/12/1872
Ann 8/12/1872 (did this Ann die young?)
Bridget 11/20/1875
Pat 12/28/1876
Pat 3/5/1877
Anne 7/25/1879 (only record which actually showed Clooncarha)
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Monday 8th Sep 2014, 11:27PM -
Yes, I already have all that information. And I too am convinced there is more than one family with same names.
I've bee working on this for years and have hit a brick wall. I even had a genealogist in Ireland do some research for me several years ago, and I believe they came up with the wrong family.
Will keep thinking of new ways to approach this and continue searching as new records are added to databases. Wish there were some kind of emigration records in Ireland.
Thanks!
Tuesday 9th Sep 2014, 12:20AM -
Hello Ekrichten
It's been a long time four years since yr last post so hope you are well
My Duffy GG'father was John Duffy 1801 perhaps tomboholla or ballsghdereen area
He m Harriet? All children except Mary move to UK hull Yorkshire Am decended from Margaret b 1835 m Walter Lowry 1854 in hull Yorkshire Non appear on hull census of 1851 so probably arrived 1852 onwards
Children were
Mary 1833 Margaret 1835 Hannah 1839 Catherine 1841 John 1843 Patrick 1845
The reason I contact you is you said your mother is in Serbia
I just had my DNA done on my heritage and it puts me as 52% Irish 32% english/scotts/ Welsh then it says Balkan but I do not see the link So as you mention former Yugoslavia I am curious
Hope you are well
I was born in England but live in Galway Ireland
Regards
SuzanneSuzhannah03
Tuesday 18th Sep 2018, 01:08PM