Interested in Prendergasts and McFaddens (Fadgens) from Co. Mayo

I'm researching Penders so your post caught my eye.  Don't think we are connected, however I have access to the Chicago Tribune Obituary Archives and I found several obituaries which I think are your family.  

Thank you very much for those obituaries.  Those are 3 of John A. Prendergast's offspring, siblings of my grandfather William J. who died in 1946 (in Oregon), just before his brother John who is the first of those 3.  It is the John A. father who's parents are my unknown parties.  He and his sister were born in Portland, ME and said their parents were born in Ireland.  Who they were and where they were from in Ireland is unkown.  But John A.'s wife, Ann McFadden (spelled Fadgen once, early), her parents and most of her large family of siblings,  were said several places to have been born in Co. Mayo (Westport mentioned once).

I was aware of MOST of those obituary facts, though I have not had access to the Chicago Tribune material, so I very much appreciate that.  It is my intention to make a trip to Chicago to pursue a lot of the details in libraries there that one just can't get online.  

One interesting thing is that only 2 of the 6 children, William (my g.f.) and Elizabeth (Franz) seem to have married.  The other 4 seem to have lived at home, first on W. Huron then on N. Lorel, with their parents (mother only from 1909--1926).  After mother Ann died in 1926, they seem to have stayed at the N. Lorel address.  

I have not had any success so far in tracing descendents of any of these mentioned siblings.  There may not be any!  But I do recall being in Chicago as a small boy with my father in 1948, and we visited and dined with some group of people who were "relatives."  It would seem that they had to have been Prendergasts or cousins because my father's other grandparents were from St. Paul.

Thank you very much for taking the trouble to post that for me!

Bill Prendergast

Portland, OR, USA