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From: Patricia Welch <>
Subject: Re: GALLAGHER-D Digest V04 #84
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:01:51 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200407101503.i6AF3LR4016254@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Are you related to Pete Gallagher who was vice president of Standard Oil?
Or do you know anything about him? He was my grandfather's cousin. Thanks.



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>We are Gallaghers & Sharkeys from Burtonport. My Aunt Bella Gallagher
>married a Gallgher, no relation since they were from different parts of
>Donegal.
>
>Daniel Gallagher, my uncle, lived in Elizabeth NJ and worked at Standard Oil
>in Linden, NJ.
>
>Have lots of cousins in Bayonne, but for the life of me, there were so many
>Gallaghers, Wards, O'Donnells and Bonners in Bayonnne, I would not know
>who is
>who. this would have been back in the 1950s.
>
>Bayonne is a microcosim of northern Donegal, especially Dungloe and
>burtonport and possible Aran and Inishmire and the smaller islands.
>
>We have Hughs, Johns, James, Charles, Dominic and even in the 1800s a
>Duarmuid, probably means Dermot.
>
>No connection to PA or your other names.
>
>Dr. Madeline Edwards nee Gallagher

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