Monday, September 13, 2021

more on the Moorfield Dempseys

Wendy Deriancho had mentioned she found more links between the Cloonreliagh and the Moorfield Dempseys, I meant to post what she had found.


Here, death of Thomas Dempsey of Coarsefield (sub-townland of Moorfield) age 21 in 1908, attended to by Michael Dempsey: 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1908/05501/4541250.pdf



Is this the same Michael who is brother to Thomas/Bernard/etc, and lives in neighboring Foxboro?  If so, 'uncle' is a stretch, since Thomas's father Thomas is not a brother to Bernard/Thomas. Perhaps their father Brian had a brother Thomas? That is what we are trying to find out.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1880/02858/2047151.pdf


The same Michael?

https://family-ogrady.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-research.html


This is our tree with this bit of conjecture. Thomas/Moorfield on the far right:


Related note:

Thomas's granddaughter Agnes emigrates in 1929:



Her father John Dempsey listed as her contact in Ireland, and she is going to her sister, Mrs A Reynolds, 139 Sullivan St, Brooklyn!  While Martin O'Grady has moved by then, how strange that he once lived next door!

Actually, 'sister' is crossed off, and 'aunt' written in. This corresponds to her two sisters who arrived earlier in 1921:




So, is Annie Reynolds their father John's sister? Daughter of his father Thomas?

Another aside, here's an Annie born in Coarsefield 1870:
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