We know from her siblings' obituaries in NYC that Mariah had a brother Thomas. (Why no obits in Irish papers at this time?). And we know that he stayed in Ireland.
From Baptism records we know the children of Bernard Dempsey and Catherine Jennings were:
Mariah / Mary - born 1854 - stays Ireland
Patrick - 1855 from Ballintubber records
Thomas - 1857 from Ballintubber records - stays Ireland
Brigid - 1860
Bernard - 1862 - to UK
Anne - 1864
John - 1865 - to US
Michael - 1867
Martin - 1868 - to US
Catherine - 1870 - to US
So, somehow Bernard and Catherine were in Ballintubber for the birth of two of their children.
We don't know what happens to most of them, but we do know that Catherine, John, and Martin go to the US when their father Bernard dies in 1871. Bernard (Jr) goes to the UK.
Thomas stays in Ireland, but is NOT one of the MANY Thomas Dempseys in the Cloonreliagh area.
Did he marry and move to a different area?
Here's a Thomas Dempsey in 1911 census in Leitrim, born in Roscommon.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Leitrim/Yugan/Annagh_Upper/648053/
He re-marries in 1917:
Note: Registration District for above is Carrick-on-Shannon.
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