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Mary Elizabeth Maher

Mary Elizabeth Maher

Born
1839-05-17 12:00:00
Died
1919-09-18 12:00:00
Gender
Female
Place of migration
Migrated to/Born in USA

Mary Maher’s parents were Edmund Maher and Mary Boland, who married on Oct. 24, 1833 and had 6 children: Michael (1834); William (1836); Mary (1839); Hannah (1842); Edmund (1946); and John (1848). The father Edmund was from Boherlahan Dualla and the mother Mary from Ballaghboy.

The family lived on the Noan estate near Ballinure in Tipperary.

Mary immigrated alone to the US in 1856, met and married James Tracey (also from Tipperary) about 1863, and had 7 children. She died in 1919 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

Staying in Ireland, her brother William married Mary Skehan in 1870, and her sister Hannah married Denis McCarthy in 1868.

Associated communities

Tipperary

County Tipperary, or Tiobraid Árann in Irish, is part of the central plain of Ireland.  We are a landlocked, rural county home to mountains, rivers and lakes.  Our county town is Clonmel and we have a population of approximately 160,441. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.

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Buildings in this community

  • Castle Fogarty

    Location: Tipperary

    Ballycahill, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, E41 YP68

  • Cahir House Hotel

    Location: Tipperary

    E21H244 TIPPERARY (Ireland)

  • Spring Mount Tipperary

    Location: Tipperary

  • St. Ruadhans Abbey - Lorrha

    Location: Tipperary

Timeline events in this community

  • 1840s

    Hogan/Murphy Emigration to St Louis

    1848-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    1889 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1889-10-20 12:00:00

  • 1890s

    1895 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1896-03-15 12:00:00

Graystown (Tipperary)

Our aim is to connect all people with a link to Graystown (Tipperary). You may live here, have visited here or maybe are tracing ancestors who left long ago. In any case, we’re sure to have lots to share and are delighted to welcome you.

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Timeline events in this community

  • 1980s

    Discovery of the Derrynaflan Hoard

    <p>Medieval Ireland's most complex and sumptuous hoard of ecclesiastical art was discovered near Killenaule, Co. Tipperary in 1980.</p>

    1980-02-17 12:00:00