To Susan Mocsny Thomas: I'm wondering if there is any connection between your Duffy's and mine. Great-grandmother Catherine (Katie) Duffy was born in Wisconsin in 1862. Her mother Mary (maiden name unknown and father (first name unknown) were from Ireland (place unknown). Catherine's younger siblings, Mary (1863?) and James W. (1866?) were born in Illinois. Other siblings were born in N.Y., Ellen (1870?),Stephen (1872?), Patrick (1870?), Anna (1877?). What brought my gggrandparents to Wisconsin? Perhaps because there were other Duffy's already there. What brought them to Troy via Illinois? The 1880 Troy census shows gggrandmother Mary a widow with seven children, ages three to seventeen. The oldest, Catherine married Thomas Cone of Vermont. Thanks to TIGS volunteers for sending me a picture of their grave in St. Mary's cemetery. Possible marriage names of Catherine's siblings: Mary Duffy Murray, Ellen Duffy Etue. My grandmother, Mary Francis Cone Christensen is the oldest of seven children of Catherine and Thomas . I'm hoping that there are descendants of Catherine's siblings who could help me fill in the blanks as I try to build the Duffy branch of my family tree. Shirley Christensen Ormsby -----Original Message----- From: Susan Mocsny Thomas Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:58 PM To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Duffy DNA? I am descended from a Thomas Duffy, b. 1830 in Ireland (place unknown and may possibly have been born in Troy). His wife was Rosanna Fitzpatrick, b. 1823, born in Belfast, Ireland. She emigrated from Ireland with her parents to Albany, NY. They married in Albany in 1847 and her obituary has her husband listed as Mr. Thos. Duffy of Troy, N.Y. They were in the Grand Rapids area of Wisconsin by the time their first child, James Duffy was born in 1850. They went on to have a total of five children: James, George Thomas (my great grandfather), Rosetta (who married Cornelius "Con" Kenevan), Stephen, and Edward. Thomas Duffy died in Fordham, Wisconsin in 1864 and was buried in St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Montello, Wisconsin. The following year, 1865, Rosanna moved to Oakland Township, near Austin, Minnesota to live with her son, George Thomas Duffy. She lived with him until her death in 1896. Of course I would love to have any information about either her Fitzpatricks of Albany or his Duffys of Troy! If you know either of these families, please contact me. I was also interested to see if anyone has Duffy or Fitzpatrick blood who has done DNA testing so I could compare results with mine. I have tested mine with Ancestry and uploaded the results to Family Tree DNA and have it on GEDmatch, as well. Susan Mocsny Thomas ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Time for Society Members to pay up their **2014 Dues**. See the Website for details: Troy Irish Genealogy Society www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ Click ON - "JOIN TIGS NOW!" to get form. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message