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Mary Adeline McNamara

Born
24 Jun 1892
Died
22 Dec 1962
Gender
Female
Place of migration
Migrated to/Born in USA

Born in Rathkeale, County Limerick, to Michael & Mary (Barry) McNamara.  Siblings were Anna Marie, Teresa, George, James, Emily, Michael Philip, Sylvester, and William John.  When her father died in 1896, she and her sister Emily were sent to the Mount St. Vincent Girls' Convent Orphanage in Limerick.  They remained at the orphanage until 1908 or so.  She and Emily worked as domestics in London for a time.  Adeline emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1913.  (Their uncle, Thomas McNamara, sent them money to emigrate.  Emily had emigrated the year before.)  They continued to work as domestics.  Adeline eventually married Ardell Hamilton on January 28, 1918, in Portland, Maine, USA.  They lived in Portland and had a daughter, Ruth Emily.  Ardell died in 1938. She married George Brackett in 1948 and lived in Falmouth, Maine, USA.  She died December 22, 1962, in Portland, Maine. 

Associated communities

Limerick

County Limerick, or Luimneach in Irish, is located in the med-west region of Ireland.  Limerick became Ireland’s inaugural National City of Culture in 2014 with a wide variety of events happening around the city.  We have a population of approximately 195,175.  We look forward to  helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.   

Other ancestors in this community

Buildings in this community

  • Old Abbey House, Shanagolden, Co Limerick

    Location: Limerick

  • Treanmanagh TOWNLAND

    Location: Limerick

    Treanmanagh, Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick

  • Kilpeacon House in 1850

    Location: Limerick

    Kilpeacon

  • Bunratty Castle

    Location: Limerick

Timeline events in this community

  • 1860s

    St. Patrick's Graveyard

    <p>Parish Priest</p>

    1861-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    Foundation of South Liberties GAA Club

    1884-01-01 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

    1887 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1888-04-29 12:00:00