• georgeann's maternal grandmother was Margaret Cecilia (GARRITY) KEARNS. The original spelling was GERAGHTY.
• Dennis MUMBY's Researching Mumby (Lincolnshire, England) and Geraghty (Ireland) and all name variants.
  Web Page & Name History:  http://home.golden.net/~mcgeraghty/public/myweb5/
  Genealogical Database:  http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mumby885http://home.golden.net/~mcgeraghty/public/myweb5/ 

BallyG's Home Page - Clan Na MagOireachtaigh/Geraghty Clan - lots of links
http://home.golden.net/~mcgeraghty/public/myweb5/index.htm (unrelated) 

http://www.geraghtyfamily.com/  GERAGHTY reunions in Ireland - next one is June 200l. The contacts are William M.Geraghty williamm@4dcomm.com P O Box 703, Lakeside, CA 92040. His son is webmaster of http://www.geraghtyfamily.com/ . William II's email is will@neoskopos.com (I emailed them 25 Sep 2000 but haven't heard back yet.)

GARRITY from County GALWAY 1850s>Pittsburgh, PA>Indiana

Robert J. Garrity, PHD (Proud Hibernian Descendant) cyrano@netnitco.net wrote:

1) Unknown Firstname GARRITY m. Mary DOLOUGHTY Garrity-children (not in birth order) included

2a) Mary GARRITY-already living in Pittsburgh with her mother when her brother Michael J. Garrity sailed over in 1848 to join them.
2b)William GARRITY who had a daughter, Maggie, who married Frank Smith and moved to Gary, Indiana in 1910
2c)James GARRITY James was drafted into the Union Army on 23 August 1862 and never married [I have his honorable discharge document dated 1865].
2d)Steven GARRITY  never married.

Michael J(ames?) Garrity sailed over here in 1848 and joined his mother Mary (Doloughty) Garrity and his sister Mary, who were already living in Pittsburgh.  He soon had three brothers in Pittsburgh -- William, James and Steven.

2e) Michael J. GARRITY, born 1828 in Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland came to US in 1848 (potato famine) and settled in Pittsburgh, PA where he managed a salon.   He met and married Catharine BARRETT in 1852 who came to the US in 1850 from Loughrea, Co. Galway to Pittsburgh.  Catharine Barrett sailed over in 1850 and lived with her sister Marg Maloney.  Michael and Catharine married 1 June 1852 in St. Paul' s Cathedral, Pittsburgh.  Michael was manager of a saloon in downtown Pittsburgh, but left with his family to seek work in Nashville, Tennessee in 1861.  The Civil War broke out and and they were stuck. That is why my grandfather, Michael J(ames?) Garrity, jr. was born in Nashville.  When the war ended, the family returned to Pittsburgh. Michael, Sr. died in 1907.  Catharine survived him until 1915. Three children from the Nashville days lived into adulthood. Two of the three who were born after the return to Pittsbugh survived to adulthood.


3a) John GARRITY (born 1857) was a glassblower in the Hamilton Glass factory. Never married. Moved to Alton, IL for advancement in their glassblowing career with his brother. Died there in 1901.

3b) James GARRITY  (born 1859) also became a glassblower in the Hamilton Glass factory.  James married Kate Schoenberger, who bore two daughters, Katie and Maggie.  Both John and James moved to Alton, Illinois for advancement in their glassblowing careers.  James died there in 1887.

3c) Michael J. GARRITY, Jr. was born 14 February, 1862 was born in Nashville, TN. He worked as a bottle packer at Hamilton, since they did not want to trust any more glassblowers from our family, I suppose.He married Johanna DUNN, born in Pittsburgh in 1871, whose family was William and Mary (O'Connor) Dunn from Killarney. They had come to the U.S. in the 1840's.  Mary's brother, Father John B. O'Connor, was the first chaplain at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity at Seton Hill College, where he is buried.   Michael, jr. had died in 1911 at the age of 49.  His children were:

4a) Catherine (born 1895) who became Sister Rose Xavier and taught the deaf as a Sister of Charity until her death in 1987;
4b)Marie (born 1897) married William Scanlon, a Pittsburgh fireman (children: William, John, Robert, James, Eugene, Patricia, Elizabeth);
4c) Margaret (born 1900) married Louis Seaman (daughter: Mildred);
4d) Gertrude (born 1905) married Otto Henninger (son: Charles);
4e) William (born 1907) married Catherine O'Toole (two children: William and Kathleen). 
4f) John Joseph Garrity (born 1903).  He married Ann Lastnameknown (whose father, John, had come from Donegal in the 1880's).  I was their second child (born 1931).  My father is the first of the family to have received a college degree (Latin and Greek from Duquesne University in 1924).  He married my mother in 1927 (she was Ann K-Lastnameknown, whose father was John K-Lastnameknown of Donegal and Eva Nees of Indiana, Pennsylvania -- original home of the Neeses was Alsace-Lorraine).   My parents had five children.  Ruth died at the age of two.  Then Robert (me) born 1931, John born 1932, Dorothy and Mary (twins) born 1942.  Mary died unmarried, and Dorothy married Kevin Lastnameknown and they live in South Bend.  John married Joanne Latnameknown (of Portland) and they live in Horseheads, New York.

I married Gloria G-Lastnameknown (also a Pittsburgher) in 1957.  We have five children: Robert, jr. teaching junior high science; Judith working as a nurse; Kathleen selling kitchen products in Valparaiso, IN; Patricia is a physical therapist; Michael --everyone asks what happened to 1964?--manages Arby's.  All are married, and we have 16 grandchildren.

3d)  William GARRITY (born 1865) never married, and died in 1911

3e) Mary (Mayne) (born 1869) married a Mahoney [stress on first syllable].  Their daughter, Marie Mahoney, is the source of my information.  She died unmarried in 1979.

Robert Tuttle An Eadaigh@aol.com is researching his wife's GARRITY family with OHIO connections:
1) Frank Garrity born in 1880 in Buffalo, New York. In 1898,
        +married Mary Elizabeth (maiden name unknown)   born in 1878 in Buffalo, NY. She died in 1958.
         2) Edward Frank GARRITY who was born July 2, 1899 in Buffalo, NY.
            +married Florence Catherine SPEED in 1928
   3) James R. GARRITY (father of Robert Tuttle's wife)
Edward Frank was a plumber by trade, and was employed by the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company from 1920 - 1950. While the steamship he was assigned to was docked in Cleveland, he came across an obituary bearing the name of Frank Garrity. Frank apparently had walked out on his family some years before, and dropped out of sight. When Edward went to the mortuary to see if the deceased Frank Garrity was his long lost father, he found that it was. He also discovered that Frank had remarried and raised another family. Obviously Frank must have died prior to 1950, however, I do not know
when exactly it was.

Kathleen willow@sprint.ca wrote: 

I would like to know if I could add the Garrity's I am looking for.  On some of the documents I have it spelled the name McGarrity or McGarriaty. Why is it Garrity now?  That is how I found it in the British Census too. My Garrity's went from Ireland to England. My grandmother Mary Ann Brogan nee Garrity married Frank Brogan and took there children to Canada. Mary was the daughter of Michael HUNT. 

Below are some GARRITY Researchers unrelated to the above: COUNTY MEATH of interest to Dorothy's GARRITYs: Agnes Cloninger  wrote on http://www.genforum.com/garrity/ the following message:
Michael GARRITY b c 1812 County WestMeath, Irel. USA d 27 Aug 1881, Temple Hill, Jones co., IA m. Mary COX b c 1813 Co. Longford, Ire d 8 Jun 1868 Wash. Twp Jones Co. IA USA m. c 1837 children: William b 1837 MA. Elizabeth b 1839 MD,James b 1842 VA, Mary b 1844 MO, John b 1850 Jones co., IA, Joseph b 1854 Jones co., IA, Michael Francis b 1856 Cherokee Co., IA married Mary Ann MANSFIELD same Co. and youngest child Mary Jane born 1860 Jones co., IA Any information most welcome,  agnes@macconnect.com

Jim (James Edward) GARRITY  jgarr1-2@IDT.NET wrote:
I've been wrestling with the GARRITY ancestry for years now, but it isn't easy, at least in my case! In the first place, I'm in New York City......All of the Garritys that I've ever known of, from the Irish Famine immigrant Thomas GERAGHTY, down to myself  have been based in NYC......Different Boroughs, perhaps, but always in NYC...... Now Old Thomas (we never have been able to find out where in Ireland he came from.....) and the GERAGHTY surname, although correct in the Gaelic tongue, was changed around so many times that it makes my head spin to think about it....You cannot believe how many inventive ways I've seen it spelled in Directories, Censuses, and Legal Documents....... Old Thomas married an Irish woman named Johanna JONES here in NYC, and had six children that lived to adulthood....There may have been young ones that died as children or infants, but I've only come up with six who lived to become adults....
1- Mary; 2-Ellen; 3-Laurence; 4-Thomas jr. (my g-grandfather); 5-Robert; 6-Hugh
Mary & Ellen got married, and I've lost their trail......
Laurence died in his thirties in NYC, I don't think he ever had any children....
Thomas had a BIG family, one of whom was my grandfather....

Robert is still missing, although I "think" I found some evidence that he moved to New Jersey with his family, and died there....Had kids, think I may have found the boys, at least, in the SSDI...

Hugh marries, moves to Connecticut, has a couple of daughters....No sons that I've ever found evidence of........Dies in Connecticut....Old Thomas #1, by the way, had no siblings here in America that I've ever been able to verify.....He may have had some, but none ever showed up in any records searching..Still working on it.  Cheers, & thanks for asking! You have a nice webpage, by the way... Jim G.--
Jim Garrity
NYC Cemetery Research & Photography
http://idt.net/~jgarr1
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/a/r/James-E-Garrity

Jeff Sanders sanders@netcom.com wrote on April 1, 1998:
Hi all GARRITY Researchers, I am descended from a John GARRITY (1830-1914) of Co. Longford, Ireland, who is said to have emigrated in 1848 via New York and eventually settled and prospered farming near Melrose, Monroe Co., Iowa. His wife, Margaret FALLON Garrity (1844?-1900), was from Parish Ballymacormick, Co. Longford.

Their nine children were John, Thomas, Agnes, Catherine, Daniel, Bernard, Margaret, James and one other boy whose name escapes me just now, all born in PA or IA between 1866-1884 or so.  Agnes married a James BUCKLEY and moved to Berwyn, IL (two children).  Catherine married a Helmer
HENDRICKSON and moved to Mason City, IA (no children).  Margaret married Dennis SULLIVAN, who died at a young 39, then Thomas CARR and they remained in Melrose area and raised eight children (three by Dennis Sullivan, five by Thomas Carr). 

I have no record of any of the Garrity boys having children. Four of them (John, Daniel, Bernard, James) are buried in Melrose. I don't know where the other two died or are buried.

I have reason to believe old John had a sister, Margaret ("Garety"), who lived and died in the Melrose area, single.  John and Margaret may have had a sister, Mary, who married a John Reynolds in the Melrose area. (this is from memory, so i'll confirm this and that if you think there's a connection)

R. J. "jeff" Sanders

HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER
page 647
Washington Heights comprises the high ridge of and extending from the south line of Lake Township southward to the village of Blue Island. This ridge is six miles long. The plat of the village, with its additions, includes over two sections of land, and lies in Sections 7, 17, 18, 19 and 20, in Township 37, Range 14, and on both sides of the ridge. Before their purchase in 1869 by the Blue Island Land & Building Company, these lands were the property of James R. Morgan. William Barnard, Sr., located in Hyde Park Township a few years after the panic of 1837, leaving his son, William Barnard, to view the country toward Blue Island with the object of selecting a home. In 1846 he came to Upwood as school teacher in the Morgan family, then settled in the vicinity of Washington Heights. in 1847 Erastus A. Barnard came out from Forty-seventh Street and settled on the high land near Morgan Park. In 1851 W. B. Barnard purchased a tract of land from the heirs of Jirah Rowley and settled there with his brothers. Erastus A. and D. E. Barnard. The settlers, contemporary with the Barnards, were John Lynch, Martin Vanderstarre and James Garrity. Lynch located near what is now the business center of the village, and there too were the homes of Vanderstarre and Garrity erected. Following these were Henry Welp, Mathias Kay and S. H. McNab. The first death of a white person was that of Mrs. Abigail Wilcox, mother of William Wilcox, who died September 30, 1844, and was buried on the farm. A negro employed by Carlton Wadhams died previous to the settlement of the Wilcox family, while William Wilcox died in 1844, and a child of Mr. Wadhams was drowned in a sink-hole in 1843.

HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER
page 680
W. F. JACKSON was born at London, England, in 1838, and at fourteen years of age he came to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he became employed in the melting and brewing business, which occupation he followed there and in other cities of New York, and also for a year in Cleveland, Ohio, until September, 1863, when he came to Chicago. For four years he had charge of the Chicago Ale & Malt Company's brewery, after which he was for two years a member of the firm of Garrity & Jackson, brewers, and subsequently was superintendent of the Union Brewing Company, of Chicago, for about seven years. Mr. Jackson then followed agricultural pursuits for a short time in Madison County, Iowa. Returning to Chicago in 1877, he located at the Union Stock Yards, and opened the Drover's Hotel, where he is carrying on a large business. He is a Democrat in politics.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/misc/nygera60.htm 

LDS Film No. 0447563


Geraghty deaths recorded in the 1860 Manhattan Death Register, New York City

Date: 02 Jan 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Mary
Age: 70y
Addr: 287 Mott St.
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Bronchitis
Cemetery: Calvary


Date: 05 Jan 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Margaret
Age: 34y
Addr: 160 E. 25th St.
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Dropsy
Cemetery: Calvary


Date: 08 Jan 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Margaret
Age: 47y
Addr: 53d bet 1 & 2 Ave
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Cancer
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: B. R. Master, M.D.


Date: 10 Jan 1860
Name: GAHERTY, Wm.
Age: 3y 7mos 20dys
Addr: 90 Henry St
Native of: New York
Disease: Marasmas
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: Thos. D. Andrews, M.D.


Date: 11 Jan 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, John
Age: 3y 9mos
Addr: 117 E 28th St.
Native of: New York
Disease: Scarlatina
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: Isaac Cummings, M.D.


Date: 16 Feb 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Thomas H.
Age: 3mos
Addr: 93 E. 26th
Native of: New York
Disease: Croup
Cemetery: Calvary


Date: 19 Feb 1860
Name: GERAHTY, Michael
Age: 33y
Addr: 89 Pott St.
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Dise. Heart
Cemetery: Calvary


Date: 25 Mar 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, John M.
Age: 42y
Addr: 269 W. 26th
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Debility
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: Laborer


Date: 01 Apr 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Mary
Age: 10y 8mos
Addr: 61 Baxter St.
Native of: New York
Disease: Inftn. Lungs
Cemetery: Calvary


Date: 17 Jun 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Michael
Age: 1y 3dys
Addr: 107 Maxleson St
Native of: New York
Disease: Cholera Infantium
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: J. M. Coming


Date: 25 Jun 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, James
Age: 1y 4mos
Addr: 76 10 Avenue
Native of: New York
Disease: Cholera Infantium
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: Charles Powers


Date: 26 Jun 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, William
Age: 1y 2mos 22dys
Addr: 285 W 32 St.
Native of: New York
Disease: Cholera Infantium
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: W. Burns


Date: 02 Aug 1860
Name: GERATHY, Catherine
Age: 5mos 23dys
Addr: 191 E. 47 St.
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Chola. Inftm.
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: J. W. Warner


Date: 14 Aug 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Rosana
Age: 10mos
Addr: 369 8 Ave
Native of: New York
Disease: Marasmus
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: A. L. Loines


Date: 17 Sep 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Mary A.
Age: 7mos.
Addr: 118 38 St.
Native of: Buffalo
Disease: Scarlatina
Cemetery: G'wood
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: John H. Wilson


Date: 08 Nov 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Catherine
Age: 51y
Addr: 41 Spring
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Consumption
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: blank
Attend. Physician: A. J. Harrison


Date: 12 Dec 1860
Name: GERAGHTY, Catherine
Age: 19y
Addr: 30 Pitt St
Native of: Ireland
Disease: Consumption
Cemetery: Calvary
Occ: Domestic
Attend. Physician: D. H. Hastings

y = year
mos = months
dys = days
? = best guess at word, letter or number

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/misc/nygera60.htm Data extracted and transcribed by Loretta Barnard.LGB1@ix.netcom.com - NY GARRITY info.