Saturday, May 8, 2021

Dillon/Dempsey of Moorfield

Sean McNeil put us in touch with Wendy DeRiancho. Wendy is related, via the Bernard & Catherine Dempsey tree, and we know this for certain from DNA matches.

Her family is from Moore/Morefield/Moorfield, the Dillon family property actually borders the graveyard where many of the Gradys are buried.

Marriage cert, Luke Dillon and Bridget Dempsey, 1874 (Coarsfield is a sub-townland of Moorfield):



Bridget's father Thomas is related to Bernard ... but how?

Thomas dies 1894, daughter Mary present:



This is Thomas's family, widow Mary as Head of Family:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Island/Moorfield/1382120/

1911 census:

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