Edward Owen DEERY

Edward Deery & Catherine Jane Driscoll

Edward O. Deery

Edward Owen Deery was born in Ware, Massachusetts 16 July 1859 to Owen Deery and Maria  Feehan.  Edward’s mother, Maria, died of typhoid fever when he was a year old.  His dad remarried in 1862 to Ellen Rowe.  

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.

1. Baby Boy  (twin)    b:  18 Dec 1891   d:  18 Dec 1891
2. Mary (twin)           b:  18 Dec 1891   d:  19 Jul  1899
3. James Anthony      b:  25 Nov 1893   d:  20 Nov 1956
4. Anne Elizabeth      b:    5 Nov 1895  d:  20 Aug 1970
5. Leo Benedict         b:  23 Sep 1897   d:  13 Apr 1976
6. Edward Owen        b:  17 Apr 1900   d:      Dec 1978
7. 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.

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.

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.

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.