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Leahy Stanton ancestore.

CorkBallyhooly (Cork)

I unfortunately just found this website today.
My sister and I will be traveling through ballyhooly on March 17th 2015.

We have ancestors that were born there.

Our 2nd great grandparents are:
David Leahy. (His parents: Patrick Leahy & Mary Seward)
b 1816 Ballyhooly, Cork, Ireland
d 29 Dec St Louis MO USA
And
Johanna Stanton (Her parents: Thomas Stanton b 1782 Ireland d. 1880 St Louis USA & Catherine Murphy b. 1795 d. 1879)
b 1820 Ireland
d 10 Dec 1904 St Louis MO USA

MARRIED 18 May 1843 Castletown, Cork, Ireland

I have that they had 5 children.
Patrick Jeremiah Leahy
b 29 Jul 1848 Co. cork
d 7 Jun 1915 St Louis MO USA

Catherine M Leahy
b 14 Dec 1851 Ballyhooly, Ireland
d 6 Jul 1903 St Louis USA

Thomas Leahy (great grandfather)
b 22 May 1854 Convamore, Cork, Ireland
d 20 Jun 1928 St Louis MO USA

John Leahy
B 1860 St Louis MO USA

Johanna Leahy
b Feb 1864 Pennsylvania USA
d 1916 St Louis MO USA

Our great grandfather Thomas Leahy married Ellen (Nellie) Murphy who was born at Sea.
Her parents, Daniel Murphy b. 1828 d. 1882 & Mary Collins b. 1831 d. 1868 were both born in Ireland.

Thank you,
Vivian Ogier

voga

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Vivian:

Enjoy your trip!

The 1852 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing shows that David and family lived in Ballyhooly South townland.

http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/cork/ballyhooly.htm

I also looked at the Roots Ireland indexes for baptisms in Castletownroche RC church. It looks like David and Johanna had two children before Patrick and they likely died young. There was a John in 1845 and a Johanna in 1847 which matches the names of the children born in the USA.

The National Library of Ireland plans to put all RC parish registers online for free searching later this summer.

Roger McDonnell

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hello Vivian, www.nationalarchives.ie in the Griffith Valuation records it shows an entry for a Patrick Leahy in 1851 in Parish of Ballyhooly Co Cork Townland of GORTROCHE he seems to be a Farmer with a holding of c. 41 acres.
This hopefully will give you a lead as to the townland & you might be able to make some progress from there.
Did any family remain in Ireland?
I had a look at www.historicgraves.ie (a work in progress) for a possible burial location but no result.
By a coincidence my friend is a maiden name Stanton from the same area.
Good luck with your search. Have you looked at www.rootsireland.ie pay to view which has baptisms/marriages for the area.

Regards, Frances

IrelandXO member

Hi Vivian,

My name is Neal Tasch, and I am descended from Catherine Leahy, daughter of David Leahy and Johanna Stanton.  I was curious about where you found Johanna's parents' information, as I have different names for them.  Thank you!  

 

Neal Tasch

 

 

 

IrelandXO member

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