This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gallagher Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WY.2ADI/410 Message Board Post: This is my Gallagher’s from Casheloogary, Inver Parish; Co. Donegal. Would love to find more family. Michael Gallagher born in County Donegal Ireland married Catherine McDaid. B. Abt. 1800-? They had seven children. 1) Seamus (James)* m. Rose Gallagher B. abt. 1820-1900 2) Mickie m. Kitty Haughey 3) John no wife for 4) Kathleen? Catherine? M.?? Ramsey 5) Bridget m?? Dorrian 6) Mary m.?? Garagh 7) Nellie m.?? McGuire Their son *Seamus (James) Gallagher B. abt 1820-1900. Married Rose Gallagher, (Gallagher being her maiden name). They had eight children. 1) Edward* m Bridget Gallagher B. abt. 1853-1918. 2) Frank m?? Tulley 3) James m Bessie Sweeney 4) Annie m Bernard McMahon 5) Kathleen no husband for. 6) Mary m.?? Burke 7) Michael no wife for. 8) Rose m Darby Shannon? Or Sherlin? Their son James married Bessie Sweeney and they had 10 children. 1) James 1889-1908 buried in Frosses died young. 2) John Gallagher 1889 m. Kate McCloskey 3) Edward Owen 1890 m. Teresa Martin Second wife Mary Hermoine 4) Michael J. 1892 m. Helen Gilruth 5) Patrick 1893 M. Mabel Phillips 6) Francis A. 1894 m Mabel Haxby 7) Hugh 1895 m. Annie Gillespie 8) William 1896 m, Bella McCready 9) Bernard 1897 died 1901 Diphtheria epidemic 10) Rose 1900 died 1901 Diphtheria John Sweeney b. abt. 1835 m. Nellie Mohan b. abt. 1840 1) Rose Sweeney abt. 1863 m. William Sweeney 2) Bessie Sweeney 1865-1947 m. Seumas (James) Gallagher 1855-1933 3) Hannah Sweeney 1867-1887 This is Edward Gallagher (son of James and Rose Gallagher) who married Bridget Gallagher (Gallagher) being her maiden name also). They had 9 children together. Bridget died in 1899 at 53. 1) Patrick 2) Mary 3) Annie* 4) Catherine - died at 1 year old 5) James 6) Francis 7) Edward 8) Cornelius - died at 17 9) Catherine - Aunt Cait > Remember these were all Gallagher's up until now! Edward and Bidget were married in Scotland. Where their first two children were born. Then they came to this country and first settled in Plymouth, PA. A year later their third child Annie was born, she was the first child of theirs to be born in this country. Edward and Bridget's daughter * Annie married John Francis McGeever. > > Annie was born April 1 1872, in Plymouth, PA. She married John > McGeever on Christmas day 1891. Annie died on September 21, 1913. At the age of 41. > > John Francis McGeever was born on April 15 1867, in Mt. Charles- County > Donegal Ireland. He was the only son of Edward McGeever and Mary > McHugh. He had three sisters Susan, Anna, & Mary. John came to this > country in 1888 at 21, he came to live with an uncle in Wilkes Barre, > PA. He remained in Wilkes Barre until his death on April 2, 1950 at age 83. > > John McGeever and Annie Gallagher had 14 children. Of the 14 only 11 > lived to an age to be married. > > 1) Mary (Mame) married Thomas Larkin - they had 7 children and 20 grandchildren. > 2) Susan (Sue) married George Nelson - they had 4 children, and 16 grandchildren. > 3) Kathleen married Charles Elliott - they had 3 children, and 7 grandchildren. > 4) Rosella (Rose) married Floyd Bouton - they had 3 children, and 9 grandchildren. > 5) John married Elizabeth Reid - they had 5 children, and 19 grandchildren. > 6) Margaret married Nicholas Gucker- they had 2 children, and 5 grandchildren. > 7) James married Anasticia Carden- they had 3 children, and 10 grandchildren. > 8) Agnes married Joseph Brennan - they had 4 children, and 13 grandchildren > 9) Anna married Frank Gallagher - they had 5 children, and 18 grandchildren. > 10) Grace married William Moclair - they had 4 children, and 7 grandchildren. > 11) Gertrude (Gert) married Dennis Mahoney - they had 3 children, and 7 grandchildren. Edward Gallagher married Bridget Gallagher in Scotland 1865. They had their first two children while in > Scotland. Mary who was born in 1866, and Patrick who was born in 1868. Shortly after Patrick's birth they returned to Donegal where they remained for two years. In 1870 they left Ireland and came to this country, they first settled in Plainsville, Pa. In 1872 they had their third child Annie who was their first to born in the USA, then James born in 1874, Francis born in 1877 and Catherine born in 1879. By the 1880 census they had moved to Chestnut Street in Wilkes Barre. The move to Chestnut Street was some time between 1870 and 1880. The 1890 census for most of the United States was destroyed in a fire in Washington D.C. By the 1900 census Bridget had passed away in 1899, and Catherine was no longer on the census, which means she had also passed away. On the 1900 census there was also three other children born in the 1880's. They were Edward born in 1882, Katherine born in 1884, and Cornelius born in 1887. Now we have come to the story of these children. Cornelius died about four years after his Mother, in 1903, he was 17. Edward remarried a woman named Ellen Higgins after Bridget's death, they had no children together. Aunt Kate was five when Bridget died. So she knew what is was like to not be raised by her mother. And I'm sure could relate to the McGeever children when Annie died. She stepped in and took Gert and her and Uncle Mark raised her as their own. Now I will try to tell the story of each child, as I know it. 1) Mary - their oldest child married Charles McGroarty, they had four sons. 1) Michael who married Ann Wray. 2) Edward who married Catherine Byron. 3) Charles who wife's name I don't have. 4) John who married Nancy O'Connor. Mary and Charles owned a farm up in New Albany Pennsylvania. The McGeever children spent a lot of time at their Aunt and Uncles farm growing up. I remember my mother talking about the farm. And George told us about Aunt Sue talking about the farm, and his memories of the farm. 2) Patrick - who was called Uncle PJ. He married Maggie Pryor, they had no children of their own and both married late in life. They raised a girl named Dorothy Gray who was the child of Maggie's niece Florence (Boland) Gray. They at one time lived in the down stairs of a house in Wilkes Barre on N. Washington Street. In this house also lived Charles and Kathleen (McGeever) Elliott. PJ was a professional waiter and travel to high-class resorts in upstate New York. His nephew Harold Gallagher remembers visiting his Aunt Maggie but seldom saw uncle PJ he was usually traveling. George Nelson remembers them living across the street from Grandpa and Aunt Mame and Uncle Tom's home on N. Franklin Street in Wilkes Barre. 3) Annie - who married John Mc Geever and they had 14 children 1) Mame who married Tom Larkin 2) Kathleen who married Charles Elliott. 3) Susan who married George Nelson 4) Rose who married Floyd Bouton 5) John who married Elizabeth Reid 6) Jim who married Anasticia Carden 7) Margaret who married Richard Gucker 8) Agnes who married Joseph Brennan 9) Anna who married Francis Gallagher 10) Grace who married William Moclair 11) Gertrude who married Dennis Mahoney 12) Edward who died young 13)Theresa who died young and 14) Was a stillborn baby. 4) James- who was called Jim the fiddler he was the one who wrote poetry. He first married Mary Loftus they had one son Edward who married Mae O'Brien. They also raised a girl Marie Lockrey who might have been a relative who was orphaned. They first lived in Leadville Colorado. Then later lived in Butte Montana near his first cousin Frank Gallagher. Frank was Edwards’s brother James' son. After Mary's death sometime in the 1930’s Jim married John McGeever's sister Susan (McGeever) Cannon, who was a widow. Those were the letters my Mother used to get from Aunt Susie in Butte, Montana. 5) Francis Gallagher - who married Maggie. They had no children of their own. They raised a boy named Emmett they adopted from a home. They also owned a farm in New Albany just a few miles from the McGroarty farm. Jim was a talented blacksmith. And taught this trade to his brothers and many nephews. I am told Frank was a tall thin scraggly, gruff looking man. He drove into the town with a mule and buckboard. 6) Edward - whose wife I have no name for. He owned a farm at one time in New Albany. He was a blacksmith. At some point he moved to Baltimore Maryland. He and his wife had four sons. 1) James known as big Jim he lived in Florida. 2) Charles - who was known as Chick, he married Ann Eijerman and they always lived in Baltimore. 3) Elijah lived in Tennessee married a girl named Doris from Wilkes Barre. 4) Edward - who was a Washington DC police officer, which lived in Silver Spring Maryland. 7) Katherine - who married Mark Monroe, they had 3 sons. 1) Thomas who married Mary Peltier 2) Edward who married Louise 3) Mark who married Edie. Aunt Kate and Uncle Mark lived in Queens and raised their 3 boys and Aunt Gert there. There are stories about many of the nieces and nephews visiting the Monroe home. 8) Catherine and 9) Cornelius - never lived to grow up and get married.