Hi Claire,   Thank you so much for your interest in my post regarding the Deeny/Daly family.   Our Bridget Daly was born in Derry in 3-3-1876.  She was the daughter of William Daly and Margaret Gillespie.   On the 1911 census of Ireland, Bridget was still living at Wellington St. in Derry, along with her parents, two siblings and her two sons, William and John.  I've been unable to find Bridget and her sons on a ship list after that time, though I am fairly certain that all three were in the US between 1917 and 1920.   I have in the past employed the services of a professional Irish researcher to help me with our Daly family .  He has been the most wonderful help and I may now ask him to look for Archibald and Bridget's deaths back in Ireland after 1920.  I guess it's quite possible they may have returned there at some point in time.  So, the search goes on.......   Best of luck with you own Bridget Daly research, and thank you once again for being in touch.   Kindest regards,   Jenni Gibson   --- On Tue, 7/12/10, Claire K <seekay@comcast.net> wrote: From: Claire K <seekay@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [PAPhl] DEENY/DEENEY/DENEY research To: paphilad@rootsweb.com Received: Tuesday, 7 December, 2010, 7:25 AM Hi Jenni, I thought I'd do some quick lookups for you, but had no luck.  I thought Bridget might have died between the c. 1917 draft card and the 1920 census -- and GenealogyBank.com has the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper digitized through 1922.  No luck with Bridget Deeney, Deeny, or Deney.  (A couple of Bridgets, but one died in 1880, the other was married to someone else / with other kids). You don't mention Archibald after 1920, so I thought he might have died.  No luck with Archibald Deeney, Deeny, or Deney. You say John died in Nov. 1961, but the Social Security Death Index (also on GenealogyBank) doesn't have a match, so that was no help.  There were other John Deeneys, including more modern obits -- but none that look like your Deeneys. In 1920, Archibald is 44, so in 1930 he should be 54 -- and presumably Bridget would be in her late 40s or 50s, too -- but you didn't find either of them in the US census.  They're a little on the young side to have died (not impossible, of course, but odd that both would die so young), so have you considered that they might have gone back to Ireland?  Could Archibald have gone back to take over the family farm?  (Assuming you know where the family is from, and that it's farm country, you could look into land records at the Valuation Office, etc.). You say Archibald emigrated in 1909, but the first sign you have of Bridget emigrating is c. 1917 -- have you looked for her in the 1911 Irish census?  (Online, free, from the National Archives of Ireland -- http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ ).  The 1901 census is there, too, in case you don't have the family's entry (i.e., before Archibald emigrated). Have you found Bridget and the kids on a ship's list? Here's hoping someone else had better luck looking for your Deeneys...  Sorry! Regards, Claire K. On Dec 5, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Jenni Gibson wrote: > ...Archibald Deeny married Bridget Daly in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1895. Two sons were born in Derry, William Deeny in 1896 and John Deeny in 1898. >  > Archibald Deeny emigrated to the USA, arriving in New York in 1909... WW1 Draft cards...he is living on North 13th Street, PA.  His next of kin is his wife Bridget, of the same address. >  > Archibald DENEY appears on the 1920 US census as a 44 year old street car driver.  He is married but ...no sign of Bridget. > ...John Deeny died in Philadelphia, PA in November 1961. > ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAPHILAD ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAPHILAD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message