search for info about Mary Delahanty

Hi Roger,

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

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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

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