In a message dated 06/15/2001 7:57:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bhealey@msn.com writes: > > Where were your HAGGERTYs from? My ggrandmother was Mary HAGERTY from the > Crossmolina parish in Mayo. Her three daughters, Mary, Agnes and Catherine > came over some time after the turn of the century and settled in Scranton. > They were GILROYs. Mary HAGERTY married Patrick GILROY in Mayo. > > Catherine was my grandmother, married William HEALEY, they had William > HEALEY (my dad), who had William HEALEY (me). > I don't know where the Haggertys were from, but I'm making up a story based on your message. I'll be interested to know what you think of it. It's about the Crossmolina connection. The obituary of my gggm, Jane Flynn, (1810-1893) gives her place of birth as Crossmolina, Ireland. In the 1860 census, she--widowed in Ireland--is listed with her five teenage and young adult children, her stepson John Flynn, and two young men who I have assumed were boarders: a James Healey and Edward Hagerty, who is 23 years old. Soon afterwards, Jane's daughter Hannah marries an Edward Haggerty (I assume the same fellow). I do not have a marriage record, but have 1870 census information detailing four daughters born to the couple, including my grandmother Kate, in 1868. Soon afterwards, Hannah appears to be living with her brother's family and is listed under her own name. Sometime in the early 1870s , she remarries. So, what if Edward Haggerty is not just a boarder, but a friend from Ireland? Family lore reports Jane being from Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, but that might have been the home of her second husband James Flynn, and not necessarily where she lived her life. It may also be connected with her trip from Ireland to America. I have been unable to find Edward's name is late 1860s mine accidents; I do not know how or exactly when he died. I am assuming he died young because divorce would have been close to unthinkable for this Irish Catholic clan. The Luzerne Co. Cthse. has early death records only back to 1893. Can you make anything of all this? I'm getting a little confused writing it, so I can imagine what reading it is like--thanks for your message, Anne