Sharpe/Gerin, Munday,Gallagher,Duffy

Hi Lisa:  

Thank you for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the programme.  

If you would consider creating an Ancestor profile about one of your ancestors, that would be great.  You might find that others researching the same family who would be interested in collaborating with you.  The link to create a profile is here:  https://irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy

Have a wonderful Easter!  Any questions, please email me at:  jhalloranryan@irelandxo.com

All the best,

Jane

I too have roots in the area of southwest Donegal and in Schyulklll county. My grandfather, Patrick Henry O'Gara, was born in Summit Hil and later moved to Centralia where his parents are buried. 

His father, Patrick Sr. was from Glemcolumbkille, just over the hill from Ardara.

johnpgarrah@gmail.com

Thank you Jane  and Happy Easter to everyone at Irelandxo. 
 

John thank you. I just sent you an email. In Galic,Gerin (50 different spellings) translates to Sharpe. My mother was a Sharpe. There's still a Sharpe home in Portnoo and a relative that I talked to six months ago in Letterkenny. He is a third cousin that I never knew of until I started ancestry. Definitely Donegal  is on my bucket list. Please feel free to contact me. Lisa

Lisa

I would be interested in comparing our DNA on Gedmatch.  My Griers came from Tullyfern but others came from the Glenties, my McClay likely came from Letterkenny and I keep seeing Gallaghers in match lists.

The match may go back too far or just within reach.  My email is sdl1177@cs.com so we can exchange Gedmatch numbers.

Susan

Lisa, Hi . my name is HelenMoran, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I have been able to trace my Irish roots to Marry Gallagher who married Cornelius Mooney.  Their daughter, Ann, married Hugh Dougherty, sometime around 1846.  They immigrated to America, and I am not sure they arrived together, She stated on a census form that she arrived in Philadelphia in 1847, where she settled. I am 75, and I remember my elderly cousin Anna Dougherty [she never married] telling me that the Phiadelphia Doughertys met Hugh's ship when he arrived, but she never mentioned the date. Hugh had a younger brother Thomas born about 1832, in Ireland who was died in Andersonville prison in Georgia in 1864, a prisoner of war.  I saw his enlistment card, and he was illiterate. An X marked his name.  I also found that his death benefits and pension were paid to his father John. I have a lot of minor facts, but nearly nothing  their Irish roots. My cousin Anna, spelled Ardrath as the home town in Ireland, and for years I looked but to no avail. Then last year, coming across Ardara, [and me a history buff], read that Ardara was once spelled Ard Ratha [ loosely having a meaning of a hill or fortress] I had found Ardrath.  Ann and Hugh had 9 surviving children so there are many of us in the dark.  Any info you have or hints would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Helen Moran e-mail mombo442000@yahoo.com.

Hi, I have a great great grandmother, Anne Gallagher from the Dunfaghy area of Donegal. She married John Harkin. Their daughter Grace Anne immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts around 1890. She had two brothers that I know of John and Patrick Harkin. I know Patrick also immigrated to the US. I have a tree on ancestry.com ( Bambery Tree)and also familysearch.com. My GED  match number is #CT8329378.

Thank you Susan and Helen I sent you both an email. Ellen I checked our Gedmatch numbers and they aren't a match. And Gallagher is a tough name. But I've seen those names together,Harkin, all in the same area with my family names also. I'm sure it's going to show up it just may take a little while. But let's keep working on this. I have a public tree on ancestry.  I will check your tree also if I can't get it as long as I have your email I can send you an invitation to my tree. Or vice versa. Happy Easter to all three of you. And thank you all for responding.

I am looking for my Mccrae or Wallace ancestors. Mary Mccrae born in or around 1801 in Donegal. Married  John Wallace in 1829. Not sure if he was from the area. They immigrated to Canada around 1830. Lived and died in New Brunswick, Canada. 
 

Hi everyone,

I am tring to trace my family line to Ireland. I have two lines of my Maternal side being born in Ireland (Please see below) I am very interested in Francis Gallacher (Gallagher) Who Married his bride Elizabeth McGarrigle. I am hoping to find their ship manifest when they cam to Scotland from Ireland which may give me some more information on where they came from in Ireland. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated with any line including the McGarrigle/Dad line as well. 

                                                                                  Patrick McGarrigle          Married           Catherine Dade

                                                                            Born in Ireland About 1801                             Born in Ireland 

    Francis Gallacher                                                                          Elizabeth McGarrigle 

Born in Ireland about 1836 --------married in Sept 16, 1856----------- Born in Ireland 1840 

                                                                                                       Died - Mar 12, 1893 Glasgow

   Patrick Gallacher                                                                        Sarah Jane Crofts

         Born 1881                  -----------Married------------      Born in Glasgow, Scotland March 24, 1880 

Kinning Park, Pollackshield                                                  Dec 31, 1901 Died in Toronto Canada 

         Scotland

Died Feb 20, 1935

63 Posie Rd, Glasgow                          

Thomas Geniole

Canada

Hello all of you!

In Donegal our "Gallagher" connection is "Bridget McCabe formerly Gallagher" written in the original birth record of her son Joseph McCabe, born in 1864 @Straworther (Ardara Co. Donegal). According to old maps, Straworther in 1864 is a tiny cluster of houses outside of Glenties. Joseph's father was Patrick McCabe, a small landholder/farmer.  

The 1901 Census shows that there is still a McCabe household (9 inhabitants; 3 rooms) on a list of 7 households total. Another of the 7 is a Gallagher household (4 inhabitants; 2 rooms). So in 1901 the Gallaghers and McCabes were still neighbors in a very small section outside Glenties. 

Joseph Patrick McCabe was my husband's grandfather.  He emigrated to the US in 1880 and became successful in the insurance business. 

After his life was cut short (he died in April,1919, a vicitim of the 1918 influenza), his widow Mary (O'Brien) McCabe bought a house in suburban Philadelphia, which became home for herself and her 7 children. Much of the family is still located in the Philadelphia area.  Some of our McCabes are in New York City and Boston MA.  

If there are any connections that ring a bell, please post a response. 

wishing you all the best of health,

Susan 

No connections with Philip Welch 1610 of kinsale, cork nor

Robin Walker Northern Ireland  most likely Donegal  and 12 more Walkers immigrating to US  descendants Fred Walker  

I am seeing a connection with many Scots-Irish families from around The Glenties and Letterkenny area leaving and coming to the Philadelphia area.  I wish we knew how they were connected!

This is great that we are all sharing our information . I'm so lost with my family especially the Gallagher's. It's a common name and I haven't been able to locate anything about John Gallagher or his marriage to Grace Duffy. I only heard they were from the Glenties  area from an older relative that's think she remembered she heard that. I can't find any records on Francis Sharpe/ Gerin, or his marriage to Grace Munday.  But reading different articles it would be hard to find because I believe they were both born in the late 1790's. If anyone has a tree on ancestry or a GED match number please let me know and we can try to compare. I have seen all the names everybody has put questions out about. But I can't connect them to my Sharpe/Gerin, Munday , Gallagher, Duffy. But let's keep this going. Stay safe everyone.  Lisa

This is the first time I have seen a connection between Sharpe and Gerin (i have been looking for years where my Greatgrandmother Margaret GEARNS hailed from. Her father Patrick 1810 - 1898 and mother Nancy "Annie" Nayland left Ireland c. 1840 for Canada. They are all buried in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.) as Lisa said spelled 50 ways. Their first 3  children were born Ireland and I believe Donegal but I have not found them anywhere. Some of it is the spelling variations: Ganes, Gerin, Gerring, Gerrans, Gurans, Gearus, Gurens, Gerans, Garens, Gerns, Gearrin, Garen, Gernes, Guarin, Gairns, Garns. I am at a loss! NO spelling yields anyone.  Any ideas?  Lydia 6

Hi Lydia6, do you have a tree on ancestry? Or a GED match kit number? My GED number is A617247. If you do that may be able to see if there is a link between my Sharpe/Gerin and yours. Thank you so much for that information. And I have not seen that last name NAYLAND in my searching around Donegal, online (probably another name that spelled 500 ways!) I will keep a lookout for that. Thank you. Lisa

Where did you find the connection in the first place? I do have an ancestry.ca account with my tree but I do not have a GED number - I felt I should get my present family's permission first in case someone was up to no good ;-)  My Irish side is Bradshaw (Anacarty and Donohill, Tipperary) / Gearns (?) and Bell / O'Malley all born in the old country. As to Nayland I have seen Nyland, Nieland. I have the Bell in Donegal message board based on 1-one referrence on a marriage certificate! That is all I had to go on :-(

Lydia6. About 50 years ago,darn that sounds awful, my mother was speaking to one of her relatives from Lansford, Schuylkill county Pennsylvania. A lot of her relatives were Breslin and Malloy's. She was speaking to one of the relatives and he told her the name Sharpe used to be Gerin. And that there were many different spellings. But Gerin,translated means sharpe. It meant nothing to me but I remembered it and when I started to do the search I saw that Francis Sharpe in the records sometimes had a slash and Gerin next to.Francis's son Teague ,which would've been my great uncle , is  listed the same way with a double last names and a few others that I found but I can't link them directly to the family but I'm sure they are. So I don't know if some stayed kept the old Gaelic name or some went to Sharpe. I could give you the name of my tree on ancestry and you can try to look it up. If you'd rather send me an email I can send you an invitation to see the tree. Mary Alyse Ross Family Tree   Or my email is malyse1@yahoo.com    Thank you  Lisa

Hello, I have a post where I am looking for a Michael Duffy married to Anne O'Donnell or Donnell. They had 3 or 4 sons:

Charles Wm., James, John and Michal. Born in Stranolar and Michal may have been in Strabane?? All between 1865 and 1875?

There may be more siblings. They were Roman Catholic, Farmers... Charles Wm. was my GGF and came to Philadelphia around 1885-1890.

I am hoping someone recognizes a name.

Thanks, Dave 

Hi  Lisa, we have 20 shared matches on Gedmatch. My G grandfather was born in Glenties in 1847. His father died there in 1859 and hsi mother in 1880. Graham Kit FN6466843. You can ermail me on grwhyte@hotmail.com

Graham. Sorry I just saw this. So I went on GED match and we have a very very low 4.4 CM on CHR6 I don't know that we ever figure that out. Lisa

It took me a while to read most of these posts, and I still need to go back and give a more thorough reading, but my curiosity has been piqued and then some. My great grandmother's name was Mary Sharpe and my great grandfather was Thomas Halpin. They were from Schuylkill County, but I believe they eventually moved to Connecticut (where I'm from, so someone had to have). The Halpins, as I understand it, came from Limerick whereas the Sharpes came from Donegal. I've been able to trace my roots back to John Sharpe (born sometime in the 1840s-50s in Glenties, Donegal and passed March 15, 1923 in Coaldale, PA). I don't want to ramble too much as this is my first post here, but I'd love to get in touch with some people and see if our paths, do in fact, intersect.

Take care everyone.

My surname from County Donegal is McDevitt Through Ancestry & My Heritage I have found several dna matches in Pennsylvania way back. I am assuming on of the three McDevitts (not Dominique) but perhaps William or Charles who also appeared on an 1834 manifest to New Brunswick, settled in Pennsylvania.
I too have a grdmtch A503909 as do my two brothers FK3978352 and UG8212086

Hello! I have Irish-American ancestors from Summit Hill (Carbon County) & also from Schuylkill County. I too have heard that the Gallaghers were from the Glenties area.

My grandfather Joseph Bernard Gallagher was born in Lansford & grew up in Summit Hill.

His father John Bernard Gallagher was born in Summit Hill 10 Feb 1896.

John's father Joseph Bernard was born in Summit Hill. He died in Coal Dale, Schuylkill County in 1938.

His father was Bernard Gallagher, born in Ireland, probably Donegal & likely Glenties/Inninkeel Parish.

Apparently,Joseph (died 1938) wrote to an uncle on Temple Bar. That may be a clue to finding living relatives of Bernard.

Michael

Hello everyone!

My grandmother, Hannah Brennan 1882-1978 was born at Graffy, Donegal (about 6 miles east of Glenties).  Hannah and 3 siblings all immigrated to San Francisco.  However, what is relevant to this tread is that my Ancestry tree in her name has become a tree for practically the whole district!  Our extended family ranges from Killybegs in the south, east to Letterkenny and Derry, west to Glenties and Ardara, north to Fintown, all through The Rosses and up to Gweedore and Bloody Foreland - in otherwords the whole of the Gaeltacht area of Donegal.

Please Feel free to go to my tree HANNAH BRENNAN on Ancestry and explore. 
The primary families that will be found are:
Brennan, McLoone, Gallahger, Breslin, Molloy (Mulloy), Boyle, Craig, Curran, Doherty, Duffy, Gildea, Kelly, Langan, Martin, McBride, McDermitt, McDermott, McGeehan, McGinley, McGuire, McNelis, Meehan, Mulhern, O'Donnell, Quinn, Ruane, Sweeny, Thomas, Timoney (Tamony), Tolan (Toland), Ward....plus many more - including Sharpe.
What is fascinating to me is how so many of these families immigrated to Pennyslvania and inter-married there!

I have been given an extensive tree of the McDevitt family, and am in the process of adding it to the Hannah Brennan tree.
There was a large Gallagher family at Strassallagh, near Glenties. I had been discarding hints for a Munday who keeps popping up as a member of a close Gallagher family (he emigrated to Pennsylvania). Only recently I have learned that Munday was a local nickname for Gallagher...so will now have to find this fellow and add him and his descendants to my tree!

The most important aspect to master in reseaching families in Ireland is to learn the names of the "townlands".  In Ireland it too often seem that everyone has the same forenames and surnames, so the only way to distinguish who belongs to which family is the name of the 'townland'.  NOTE, townlands are the smallest division of land in Ireland - and have nothing to do with the name of a town - instead they are farmlands with clusters of perhaps half a dozen homesteads.  Some townlands are as small as a couple of city blocks, others are hundreds of acres. Donegal alone has 2711 townlands! 
May I suggest that it is a good idea in your records to specify the name of the townland, followed by the Electoral District.
This is the only way I have found to tame the confusion.

Warmest wishes to everyone
Janice Kent-Mackenzie  (classicaljanice@gmail.com)

PS   I have not uploaded a gedfile (?) yet as my research is dynamic and still growing, so everything is only on Ancestry.

Sandra when I drop us on Gedmatch to 3 cm which is very low we match all over the place. So it's got to be pretty far back. We match on CHR4 at 3.3 CHR6 at 3.1 CHR8 at 3.3 at CHR9 at 3.9 on CHR 13 at 3.3 on CHR 17 3.3. Chr 22 3.3   I'm not even going to guess at what all that means.! Lol. If anyone else that's reading this has any GED match numbers that seems to be the way to really find out if we're related. I understand some hesitancy in going on jet match. But if anyone wants to share some numbers or I can give someone my email. It is MALYSE 1@yahoo.com. If you feel that you have a number if you want to share it and you don't wanna put it out there. I have a tree on ancestry.  If anybody wants to email me their tree information or send an invitation to your tree I can send one back. I'm very curious because this is the side of the family that's really difficult. Naturally I'm looking for late 1790s in DONEGAL which seems to be a little bit impossible. And the other part of the families I don't know. The names that I know Hogan, Conway, Bradley, Sharpe which was GERIN and many different spellings,  MUNDY which I understand was Mcloone. Duffy, Gallagher,  they're also could be an MORAN. And I'm sure there's other names that I'll never be able to find. I am 66% Irish with most of the family it seems coming from DONEG AL. I am not sure about the Hogan, Conway, Bradley, perhaps DERRY but the majority of them ended up in carbon county Pennsylvania. I know there still family in the Lansford area.  thank you all very much. Lisa and happy holidays

I, too, have a tree on Ancestry that I've been able to add quite a bit to as of late. My Irish roots are primarily Sharpe/Gearin and Halpin/Halfpenny, other names I've some link to include Killen, Coyle, Malarkey, Malloy, Maloney, Fisher, Gildea. Of all I've found, the Sharpe name has been the most well documented and it appears a vast majority of them migrated to the Anthracite Region of PA and worked in the coal mines. Not to raise controversy, but I'm getting closer by the day to confirming a direct link to Charles Sharpe, who was tried and hanged for his alleged involvement in the Molly Maguires. I've stumbled upon a few Sharpe ancestors who passed away in Mauch Chunk (Jim Thorpe). I can't wait for the spring because I fully plan on taking a road trip to the area. As I understand it, many of my ancestors I can confirm relation to have been laid to rest at Summit Hill and St. Jerome's.

Hi Marco, very interesting. I'll probably see you there this spring. My cousin from California is coming in and we are going to the Lansford area. We want to do that before we have our family reunion in DONEGAL. We have not been able to tie our family to the Molly Maguire's yet we don't believe that they are not related somehow. Could you send me a invitation to your tree?  Do you have a Gedmatch number 

Hello everyone, My name is Margaret (Peggy) Gallagher Soto. My great grandparents came from Ardara Donegal Ireland in 1908. John Gallagher born May 7th 1870 & Mary Mchugh born February 8th 1889. John's parents were John Owen Cornelius also went by Condy....he has been so hard to trace he used all these names in different documents his father on marriage cert was James. I do not yet know who his mother was. He was married to Great grandma Bridget Carr. Her father also James. Both were farmers. It says on their marriage in 1866 that John Owen's father James was deceased. If anyone knows of anything please let me know. I do not have mother's for Bridget or John Owen and cannot figure out his given name at birth being he used all these names. If I could just figure out their parents and siblings. Grandpa John and Grandma Mary Mchugh came to the us in 1908 stopping in Holly Springs Mississippi where their 1st born son James was born. We have been told she was pregnant on their travels here. Then they went on to Memphis, Tennessee had 3 more girls. 2 passed as babies. Grandpa was a fireman there and worked in a family's members store too. They were there a few years and them moved to Indianapolis, Indiana where my daddy was born. They had a total of 10 children. They both passed here. I am adding pictures and documents of what I have for anyone interested and that could possibly help on finding info on Bridget Carr and John Owen Gallagher. I have dna done and uploaded to many places. Last names are many. Uncle Bernie Gallagher managing his dna too. I have many last names including Duffy, O'Gara, O'Donnell, McGinley, Breslin, Brennan, Ward, O'Neil, Molloy, Cunningham, Bryne, McNelius, to name a few. I also have started a facebook group of family I have been finding through dna and all of us here. add me as a friend on facebook if we are family and I will add you if you like.https://www.facebook.com/peggy.soto2. My biggest trees are on ancestry and myherritage with different people there all done through dna matches and taking the main people from their trees and of what I do know. Best to search for last names you are interested in. I have many. Hope everyone is safe and well. Also my email is margaret_soto@yahoo.com.

Lisa (and whomever else it may concern):

I'm still learning how to properly navigate, reply and such on this forum. I don't currently have Gedmatch, but I do have a tree.

http://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tools/tree/81993299/invitees/accept…

There are a few discrepancies I'm sorting out with it (people with the same name and such) and I welcome any correction you may notice needs to be made. Hope to hear from you.

A big hello to peggy. She has done tremendous work I am on some of the face book groups that peggy is on. And Marco I am unable to access your tree through that link. If you send me an invitation at MALYSE 1@yahoo.com and invite me to your tree that would be great. Lisa

My apologies, Lisa. I'm usually more tech savvy. I'll figure it out, though.

Okay I just tried sending the link via email.

Marco can't thank you enough. Just got your invitation today got a try to put this together not too sure how. Naturally a GED badge would be helpful but I understand a lot of people don't like that. It doesn't look like on ancestry has us as relatives. Lisa

Hello,

Seems onebranch of my tree is definitely Co. Donegal.    Furey and Kelly. I finally found my great grandparents marriage record, they were both from Donegal, but married in Freeland, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. 1884. 

One witness was Daniel Sharp. Relative? Friend? There was a Daniel Sharp in Drifton, PA, same time as my great BP grandfather.  Likely attended the St Ann's Freeland RC church.

Anyone connected to this Daniel Sharp in Luzerne County?

Ruth

I am looking to find a connection between an Edward GILDEA or KILDAY who was married to Ann MUNDAY, Their son, John KILDAY was born about 1857 but I'm not certain it was in Donegal!  However, my GILDEA connectiuons are in Ballyshannon, Donegal.  John married Rhoda Ann CHILDERS in Iowa, United States in 1886 and I have found details of his parents from family search. Has anyone any connection?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

Lisa:

I'm not really against the GED badge or anything, just haven't gotten around to it, I suppose. And, though there doesn't appear to be anything linking us, the history buff in me is still glad I joined this forum and connected with some people who, if not related, perhaps had other connections (went to the same school, job, church, served together, etc). All of this fascinates me just the same.

Now as for James:

I can't guarantee there's anything there, but I've recently stumbled upon the name Hannah (or maybe Anna) Gildea  (1815-1889) in my endeavors, so there might be something there. 

Be well,

Marco

I don't know if this helps anyone, but I've found a few people in my lineage named Munday/Mundy, and from what I can tell, the name might have been McLoone at one point. I'm somewhere in the mid 1800s and it seems like that might have been around the time the name changed. I could be wrong, though.

Hi there, sorry for butting in tot he conversation, but I have lots of Sharp/e's in my family tree, but all from counties Cork/Limerick, however, we know they came from either Scotland or England and we know they were Protestant. Danile Sharpe and George Sharpe are key names for my "lot". I am aware of the Donegal Sharpe family add also of the Quaker branch in Wicklow county. I woudl love to get a connection going and would loveto hear from Sharpe's in Donegal with known Limerick/Cork connections... I and several extended family members am on Gedmatch and I also have a comprehensive tree on Ancestry. 

I too did not realise that Guerin was Sharpe as Gaeilge. Thanks you for that

Jackie