From Wendy DeRiancho, who found Mary Dempsey also stays at Sullivan Street (although long after Martin O'Grady has left):
From Wendy: "Mary's parents were John Dempsey/Mary Flanagan. John is a son of Thomas Dempsey/Mary Finnerty.
Mary seems to come to the US, stay a few years, get married, and RETURN to Ireland with her husband to Limerick."
Mary's father John is brother to Anne Dempsey Reynolds, who is key to all this Sullivan Street hospitality.
Somehow, Anne's father Thomas Dempsey is related to Martin's mother Mariah Dempsey Grady ... still not sure how.
Here's Mary's birth, 1903:
more to come ...
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