The closest I came to DORHAN was Walter DORAN m Mary Lacy, 15 Mar 1824 in Ballinkill. Wits Patt Lucy and Mary King. Source: Marriages in the RC Diocese of Tuam, 1820-1829 Ellen Tony Riordan wrote: > > Dear Shamrockers, > > I just found, quite by accident, the maiden name of my maternal gr gr > grandmother. I think that HOW I found it is interesting enough to merit > a detailed description. > > The accidental discovery came in the mail. I had ordered from the > Massachusetts State Archives the birth cert. of the brother of my > grandmother. The archives found two births for Charles CROWLEY in > Holliston MA in 1873, so they sent me a certificate for the most likely > one, (which turned out to be the correct one) but they also included a > photo copy of the Town Birth Register for the year, with both Charles > CROWLEY entries highlighted. > > The correct Charles CROWLEY was born to Mary J. DONNELLY CROWLEY, > daughter of Peter and Mary J. DONNELLY. In scanning the page of entries > I was just amazed at what I found there. > > Three entries and five days later appeared the name "Eddie Francis > DONNELLY, Female, born in Holliston to Peter and Mary (DORHAN)." I > already knew that a son, Edward F. DONNELLY was born to them in 1873, > from census information. So the gender is a mistake. I suppose that > the real name is legally what appears on the birth register, however, it > appears that the parents named him Edward, because of references in > later sources. > > This incidental inclusion of a copy of the register for a different > person showed that Mary DORHAN DONNELLY became a mother, five days after > becoming a grandmother! She was 22 when her first child, Mary J. was > born, and age 47 when the last of her five children, Edward, was born. > > The big bonus of this page was that it also gave me her maiden name, > after much searching. This, combined with her great grave stone > inscription, gives me lots of information. How many of us have only > wished for our ancestor gravestones to give such info? > > MARY DONNELLY > Native of Tuam, Galway Ireland > Died Dec 17, 1881 > Age 54 years, 11 months, 23 days > > Taking that information to the really nifty on-line Birth Date > Calculator: > http://web2.airmail.net/bhende19/b-date.htm > > It figured out that (*IF* the inscription was correct) she was born on > Christmas Day 1826. > > Armed with her name and (possibly) her date of birth, I suppose that the > next step might be to write to the RC Parish of Tuam, which has > baptismal records from 1811, and some even earlier. > > If anybody has any DORHAN information I would be happy to hear it. I > have never heard of it until today. There are only three listed on > Rootsweb WorldConnect, one of them being German, another Honora DORHAN, > married an Irishman, Thomas Hudner, b. 1829 in Ireland. The only other > is a living Judy Dorhan, with no other info given. > > On FamilySearch a search for Mary DORHAN brought up only one entries > (Ancestral File) entry, from the US. Entering John DORHAN, there was > one IGI response, this one from England. I cannot even establish that > this name existes in Ireland. > > Could someone with the Griffith's CD please check to see if this name > existed in Ireland during the 1850's? If so, please send any info, > especially on any one in County Galway. > > If anyone has info on this unusual name, please let me know. Perhaps I > should eventually start looking also at DORHAN, or possibly DORAN? I > don't have much confidence in the Holliston Town Clerk, if he thought > that Edward or "Eddie" Francis was a female name! This DORHAN name, as > it is clearly recorded, could be wrong also. > > Thank you, > Tony Riordan > triordan@msn.com > ______________________________________________________________ > THE RIORDAN FAMILY GENEALOGY PAGE: > http://www.geocities.com/triordan.geo/index.html > > ==== SHAMROCK Mailing List ==== > ** Messages to the SHAMROCK list > should be sent to > SHAMROCK-L@rootsweb.com **