Re: Twohig in WI and Massachusetts
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Re: Twohig in WI and Massachusetts
DENNIS SMITH 1/24/05
Hello Janet,
It is good to hear from a relative.I have seen your posts and copied several of them.We share a common ancestry through Bartholomew and Hanorah Buckley Twohig.I am a neophyte to genealogical research.I wish I had started when I was 12 rather than 67.I could have gotten 1st hand reports then.To soon old, too late smart.
Mary Wenfred Cronin would have been the sister of my great grandfather, David Joseph Twohig.My understandfing of this is much like yours.I believe that David was an adult when he arrived in the USA.My great aunt Laura (Laura May Twohig Doyle), one of David's daughters always said how proud her father was that he had purchased his land in WI as opposed to my great grandmother's family (Hardgrove) who had obtained their land by a land grant.I suspect that Bartholomew and possibly Hanorah had accompanied David to WI when the land was purchased.David married Birgit Hardgrove and they had 8 children that reached adulthood (I'm not aware of others).Bartholomew went to visit family in the Chicopee/Holyoke area and died quite suddenly there and was buried in the area.Were others of his family living there at the time???I had the impression that David may not have accompanied him.I'm not aware of when and where David married.In Ireland? in Holyoke? in Wisconsin?.Apparently, some time after Bartholomew's death, Hanorah traveled to WI to her son's farm near Armstrong and ended up staying there.Did she bring any of her children with her or were they all adults by this time?
My grandmother was Eliza Twohig Connell.She was David and Birgit 5th child.The children were as follows in order of birth:Bartholomew, Henry, Nora Ellen, David,
George, Eliza, Laura May and Elmer."Aunt" Laura, my grandmother's sister, was a great story teller.She would tell us many stories of living on the farm during her youth.Unfortunately, she said nothing about her siblings, parents, grandparents or aunts and uncles.We heard moving tales of the migration from Ireland and tales of Indian encounters but no dates.I heard these tales all my early life but never knew the questions to ask.
As I am not aware of the date and location of the marriage between David and Birgit, I suppose it could have been in Ireland.Their 1st child, Bartholomew (named after his grandfather), might have been born there and could account for the confusion of dates that have been encountered by some reasearchers.It may have been that David Joseph and his father, Bartholomew, left Ireland at the same time together with their families.Also if they came in through the port of Boston, I'm sure that could explain their presence of the name in that area as well.
All this is conjecture of course and documentation is needed.
Dick Finn
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Re: Twohig in WI and Massachusetts
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Re: Twohig in WI and Massachusetts