My great-great-grandmother was Johanna Hagerty (1817 - 1904). She was born in Schull Parish, in Western County Cork, and emigrated to Buffalo, New York, in about 1847. My mother told me that the name was Hagerty. My gggrandmother's death certificate (from Buffalo, NY) says "Johanna Hagerty" and has the names of her parents: Daniel Hagerty and Johanna Hagerty. However, in all of the Schull Parish records, which I perused at the National Library in Dublin, the name is Hegarty. Today, there are many Hegartys in the local Schull telephone book, and almost no Hagertys. I found a marriage record of Daniel Heagarty and Joan McCarthy on January 25, 1814 in Schull. This may be the marriage record of my ggggrandparents. Griffith's Valuation lists a Daniel Hegarty jr., and a Daniel Hegarty sr. living in Derryconnell Townland, Schull Parish. This was in about 1850. These might well have been the father and grandfather of Johanna. There is also a Patrick Hegarty in Derryfunshion. Paul Cotter Chestnut >I'm looking for people using the spelling of Hegarty whose ancestors >were from Western County Cork perhaps the Skibbereen/Drimoleague area. >My paternal Great-Grandfather Denis Hagerty and his siblings and a >number of Hegarty cousins all emigrated to America in the 1850s. They >all settled in Lewiston, ME or in the towns north of Lewiston. Later one >of the Hegartys apparently wrote a book about the family and I'd love to >get a look at it to pinpoint exactly where they were all from. > >Ed Hagerty >Monroe, CT