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From: "Bart Brassil" <>
Subject: DENNEHY / CAHILL & JONES / ENRIGHT - any connections?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:06:53 EDT


DENNEHY (DENNIHY) & CAHILL - Ireland to NYC // ENRIGHT & JONES - Ireland to
Jersey City, NJ

There are 2 sections (with some repetative data.)
Can you help in anyway?



1 - DENNEHY (DENNIHY) & CAHILL - Ireland to NYC

The following note speaks of my Great Great & Great grandparents

On Jan 19/1890 at St. Peter's Church, Jersey City, NJ, USA

Thomas DENNEHY (bc 1855 - based on marriage cert or bc 1865 - based on
death certificate)
son of Jeremiah DENNIHY(DENNEHY)& Elizabeth CAHILL (mar circ. 1825-1845 - a
guestimate).
(names based on the parish register & father's named confirmed by Thomas's
death certificate
mother was stated just as Hannah Dennehy on the death cert)

marries Ellen JONES (bc Nov 1865 of ???, Co. Kerry) daughter of John JONES
& Margaret ENRIGHT somewhere in Co. Kerry Ireland. (mar circ. 1825-1845)
(family lore as to location - may very well be Balylongford, Co. Kerry as my
one uncle seems to recall his Aunt Margaret nee-Jones Westcott saying this)
(see below for additional Jones info)

According to his death certificate he would have came to America in 1884 at
the age of 30-31 (20-21).

They then moved into NYC and he was a "Coachman" (a driver) but died in
Dec. of 1898.
They had 4 children.
John J, Mary Margaret, Thomas, Jeremiah Thomas (my gf)
John J and Thomas both die before the age of 10.

According to the NYC directories of the time, they lived in the
east 50's of NYC from 1891-1898 until he dies.
A William McGUIRE "Livery" of 154 East 56th St witnessed his Naturalization
on 10/22/1891
Thomas DENNEHY was living at 224 East 59th St at that time.

Ellen JONES DENNEHY remarries a Daniel McAVOY and lived near 116 St in NYC
She eventually dies in 1908. He was a laborer.
They had one child Daniel Jr who dies at about 1 years old.


Mary Margaret DENNEHY, my grandaunt was know to me as Aunt Sis and was said
to have visited
someone named "Daisy" in Ireland who was poor. Unfortunately she and my GF
have long passed away.
She passed away in St. Petersburg Fl but lived in Palisades, Rockland Co.,
NY & Parkchester
in the Bronx NY for most of her life.



If any of this looks promising, please contact me no matter how slim

Bart Brassil
212-633-5169




Other boiler plate with info

2 - ENRIGHT & JONES - Ireland to Jersey City, NJ
______________

John JONES was married to a Margaret ENRIGHT somwhere in Co. Kerry Ireland.
(family lore)
(mar circ. 1825-1845)

Their daughter Ellen JONES (bc Nov 1864)(family lore as to location - may
very well be Balylongford, Co. Kerry as my one uncle seems to recall his
Aunt Margaret nee-Jones Westcott saying this)

(or Thomas DENNEHY) was living at 202 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ on
Jan 19/1890.

She married a Thomas DENNEHY (bc 1865) son of Jeremiah DENNIHY(DENNEHY)&
Elizabeth CAHILL.
They then moved into NYC and he was a "Coachman" but died in 1898.
They had 4 children.
John J, Mary Margaret, Thomas, Jeremiah Thomas (my gf)
John J and Thomas both die before the age of 10.

Ellen JONES DENNEHY remarries a Daniel McAVOY and lived near 116 st in NYC
She eventually dies in 1908. He was a labarouer.
They had one child Daniel jr who dies at about 1 years old.



Two people in the St. Peter's marriage register as witnesses were a Mary
JONES and W. Timothy ENRIGHT.
I am unsure of the exact relationship of the last two people.

An extra fact that was not part of the marriage notice.
I also know that Ellen had a sister Margaret JONES (bc 1872) who married a
John WESTCOTT.

If you have any knowledge of any of these people or surnames in Jersey City
NJ from 1880-1900,
or anywhere) please contact me.



I also have the following Enrights living at 242 1st Street in Hoboken NJ
from the 1891 Jersey City Directory

James Enright
James Enright Jr. - a porter
Timothy Enright - Liquor (this may very well be the
Timothy who was the witness)
Michael Enright - Bartender

and

John J Enright at 31/2 5th St Jersey City - a clerk



Bart Brassil
212-633-5169



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