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| Ancestor Chart Phil and Anne |
Edward Owen DEERY
Edward Deery & Catherine Jane Driscoll
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| Edward O. Deery |
I lost track of the family and was not able to find any of them in the 1880 census. Edward would have been about 21 years old. I found an Edward Deary living in Worcester, MA and working in a cotton mill. I can’t prove or disprove that he is the Edward Deery I’ve been following.
Nevertheless, Edward married Catherine Jane Driscoll, daughter of Mary (Sullivan) and Mathias Driscoll, on 2 April1892 at All Saints Church in Ware, Massachusetts. Catherine ( aka Jennie) was making her living as a milliner at the time of her marriage. His occupation at the time of his marriage was machinist; but by 1900 his occupation was listed as life insurance salesman.
Catherine and Edward lived in Ware, Massachusetts and had seven children.
- Baby Boy (twin) b: 18 Dec 1891 d: 18 Dec 1891
- Mary (twin) b: 18 Dec 1891 d: 19 Jul 1899
- James Anthony b: 25 Nov 1893 d: 20 Nov 1956
- Anne Elizabeth b: 5 Nov 1895 d: 20 Aug 1970
- Leo Benedict b: 23 Sep 1897 d: 13 Apr 1976
- Edward Owen b: 17 Apr 1900 d: Dec 1978
- Paul Joseph b: 21 Apr 1905 d: 21 Jan 1987
By 1910, the Deery family had moved from Ware to Worcester, Massachusetts. Edward died in 1938 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts of pertonitis caused by perforation of a gastric ulcer. Catherine died in 1953 (93 yrs.) of generalized arteriosclerosis.
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| Catherine Jane Driscoll |
In 1891, Catherine gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. The boy was stillborn. The girl, Mary, died in 1899. The cause of death was listed as heart disease.
James Anthony became a priest and was pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in Whitinsville, Massachusetts in 1945. He was responsible for the bulding of St. Patrick’s School on Cross Street in Whitinsville, in 1952. On November 20, 1956, Pastor Rt, Rev, Msgr. James A. Deery passed away after a long illness of several months.
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| Rev. James Deery |
Anne Elizabeth married Philip Joseph O’Connor; more on Anne and Philip here.
Leo Benedict Deery was a draftsman in construction up to the 1940 census.. At age 40, he married Elinor. The 1940 census shows his occupationed changed and he was now a policeman for the City of Worcester. He joined the Navy in 1943 and was part of the construction battalion, the “SeaBees”. He left the Navy in 1945 and became a Sergeant in the Worcester police department. He died in 1976 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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| Leo B. Deery |
Around 21 yrs of age, Edward Owen Deery, Jr. moved to New York. He lived at 160 W. Ninety-sixth Street. He made his living as an Ingraver in the photography field. (I’m not sure exactly what that was since film cameras were in use by this time). He met and married Lillian Master who, at the time, worked at the New York Times. They were married by his brother, Rev. James Deery, at St. Bernard’s Church in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 1, 1922. Lillian and Edward had two children, Jane and Edward. Edward died in December, 1978 in Flushing, New York.
Paul Joseph Deery, born in 1905, was the youngest of the Deery clan. He attended Holy Cross College and enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945. At age 48, he married Dorothy Piercy. Like his father, Paul was an insurance salesman. He died in January, 1987.
Driscoll Naturalization Documents
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| Mathias Driscoll's Naturalization Document |
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| Mathias Driscoll Naturalization Document2 |
Mathias DRISCOLL
Mathias Driscoll & Mary Sullivan Driscoll
This was a difficult family to trace due to the common names. Apparently every Irish family felt the need to have a Mary and a Jennie in their family. “Driscoll” is a fairly common surname; and Mathias and/or Driscoll was spelled differently in many of the records (Mathias, Mathius, Matthius, Driscoll, Driscole, Driscall to name a few)
My dad’s family history shows that Catherine Jane (aka Jennie) Driscoll's father was Dennis Driscoll. I was able to get a copy of her birth certificate that shows her father was Mathias Driscoll. The marriage record I found for Mathias Driscoll and Mary Sullivan states that Mathias’ father was Dennis Driscoll.
Mathias was born on May 14, 1832 in County Limerick, Ireland. My dad’s notes say he was from County Cork, but the naturalization papers say he was from County Limerick. According to the Naturalization documents, Mathias came to the United States in 1850 arriving in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 May. He was 17 years old, just days short of his 18th birthday. He became a citizen on 4 April 1856. I found a copy of his Naturalization documents at the National Archive and obtained a copy. They can be found here. Unfortunately, the naturalization documents did not document the ship on which he arrived. I have not been able to find him on any passenger lists so far. He might have come to the U.S. with family or by himself.
On 28 Feb 1856, Mathias married Mary SULLIVAN, daughter of Benjamin and Catherine SULLIVAN . Mathias and Mary had 3, possibly 4 children. In the 1860 census I find who I think are Mary Driscoll and her first 3 children living with her parents, Benjamin and Catherine Sullivan, and her sisters, Bridget and Catherine Sullivan.
There is a Mary “Glisty” (age 27) and her Massachusetts born children - Mary, age 4, Dennis, age 2 and Jane, age 3/12. (I’m confused about the “Glisty” as last name or maybe abbreviated middle name. It may not be transcribed properly but it doesn't look like Driscoll. ) All the ages match the birth records I have for their children except for Dennis. I have never found a birth or death record for Dennis. He is not listed with the family in the 1870 census. Irish tradition at this time usually has the first son named after the paternal grandfather; so a boy named Dennis isn’t unlikely. But he seemed to have disappeared between 1860 and 1870.
Curiously enough, Mathias is not listed with the family in any of the census records. His occupation is listed as operative which usually means he worked in a textile mill. There are plenty of Mathias Driscolls listed as boarders in other parts of Massachusetts so he may have been working in a location apart from his family. But without family information on the census with him I have no way of identifying the correct Mathias Driscoll. I’ve been told that around 1863 Mathias left his family to look for gold out west and he became very wealthy. I’ve never found any documents to support this particular story.
Mathias and Mary’s children were:
- Mary Ellen b: 7 Mar 1857
- (?)Dennis b: abt 1858
- Catherine Jane b: 23 Feb 1860 d: 8 Apr 1953
- Hanora (Anna) b: 5 Aug. 1862
In the 1870 census, Mary Driscoll was working as a weaver in a cotton mill. She was living with her three daughters, Mary, Jennie and Anna. I couldn't find them after the 1870 census so I assume they were no longer living as a family unit. The youngest daughter, Anna, would have been about 18 or 19 years old in 1880. I found several Anna Driscolls living as "servants" in other households.
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