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Descendants of Patrick Duffy

Generation No. 1

1. Patrick² Duffy (Unsure¹) was born 1829 in Dhulough Pass (Duffy) - Delphi, West Mayo, Ire., and died in Ireland. He married Bridget Byrne in Ireland, daughter of James Byrne and Mary Gibbons. She was born Abt. 1840 in Kiltarsaghaun, Killawally, Co. Mayo , Ireland.

Notes for Patrick Duffy:
Notes from my Father's heritage book:

One brother on the Duffy side who went to the vicinity of Ballina to live. The Duffy family were evicted by the English landlord who wanted the land for hunting for their English friends. They were evicted from Doulough Pass which is Duffy in Irish "Doo Lough", The area is known as the Delphi. This area is in west county Mayo. My grandfather Patrick came to relatives in BVohaun - a Gavin family. He married Bridget Byrne in Kiltarsachaun. Bridget Byrne had one brother who had a farm in Sock County Wisconsin and raised a family there. I don't have any further information on the family only some of the family are living in the area. My grandmother Bridget Byrne could not speak good English and spoke mostly Irish as she came from where Irish was spoken. All the family that I knew could not speak any Irish "No they did not pay any income tax".

Notes for Bridget Byrne:
Evicted from Dehphi, West Mayo - "Dhulough" Pass is Duffy in Irish. Dad's gradnfather apatrick came to relatives in Bohaun, a Gavin family. He got married t Bridget BVyrne In Kiltarsaghaun. Bridger Byrne had one brother who had a farm in sock county Wisconsin and raised a family there. Dad had no further information only that some of the family are living in the area. "My Grandmother, Bridger Byrne, could not speak good English and spoke mostley Irish as she came from where Irish was spoken-all the family that I knew could not speak any Irish" Then Dad enters "No they did not pay any income tax."

Spoke only Gaelic - My father remembers her

Children of Patrick Duffy and Bridget Byrne are:

+	2	i.	Anne³ Duffy.
	3	ii.	Philip Duffy.
	4	iii.	Mary Duffy Galvin.
	5	iv.	Thomas Duffy.
	6	v.	Martin Duffy.
+	7	vi.	Patrick Duffy, born 1879 in Kiltarsaghaun. Co Mayo, Ireland; died December 08, 1919 in Deereveeney, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo.

Generation No. 2

2. Anne³ Duffy (Patrick², Unsure¹) She married Martin Hunt.

Children of Anne Duffy and Martin Hunt are:

+	8	i.	Bernice⁴ Hunt.
+	9	ii.	Beatrice Hunt.
	10	iii.	Alice Downing Hunt, born March 13, 1902 in Wisconsin; died October 09, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois.

7. Patrick³ Duffy (Patrick², Unsure¹) was born 1879 in Kiltarsaghaun. Co Mayo, Ireland, and died December 08, 1919 in Deereveeney, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo. He married Nora Dolan 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of James Dolan and Bridget Thornton. She was born 1881 in Deereveeeny,Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, and died 1959 in Gortenalderrig, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo.

Children of Patrick Duffy and Nora Dolan are:

+	11	i.		Thomas Patrick⁴ Duffy, born July 07, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois; died March 07, 1987 in Elk Grove Village, Il. (ALexian Bros Hosp).
	12	ii.		James Duffy, born 1908 in Chicago, Illinois; died 1942 in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

Notes for James Duffy:
My father tells us that he was a great runner. Aunt Nora told us that he was a beautiful blond child. Her mother, Nora Duffy, talked about him walking on the plank to the ship in New York and people commenting about how beautiful he was. James was 1 year old at that time.
He died in Ireland in 1942. The cause of death was "head injuries". While in Ireland in 1980 we were told by Mary Stanton that he was accused of killing a dog of the Stanton family (different family from Mary Stanton). They had several boys in their family. James lived in Gortenalderrig and on his way home from a local pub, probably O'Toole's one night he was waylaid by the Stantons and beat severely. He died several months later.

+	13	iii.	Marie Duffy, born 1909 in Deereyveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died 1935 in Deereyveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
	14	iv.	Mary Ellen Duffy, born 1913 in Deeryveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died December 21, 1996 in England. She married Michael Barrett; born Abt. 1910.
	15	v.	Nora Duffy, born August 14, 1916 in Deereyveeney, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died December 26, 1995 in Chicago, Illinois. She married Thomas O'Malley.

Notes for Nora Duffy:
Married Thomas O'Malley originally from Scotland. Moved to Ireland. Was a distant relative. Fought in the WWII and after several wounds defected to Ireland.
Moved to Chicago with Nora in 1964. Lived there until shortly after Nora's death then moved to Boulder Colorado where three of the Coan children live.
Nora is buried in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, next to Michael Coan.

Marriage Notes for Nora Duffy and Thomas O'Malley:
Nora, the youngest of the Duffy children, remained in Ireland with her mother. They moved from Deereyveeney to Gortenalderrig after the death of James, in 1942. James was the second son of Nora and Patrick Duffy. He was given the Gortenalderrig land by an uncle (Thornton, I believe). James had lived on that land and helped with the farm chores since a young boy. His sister Mary Ellen Duffy Barrett lived there with him for a while before she left for England during the war.
Michael Coan was raised by his grandmother, Nora Dolan Duffy, and Nora Duffy O'Malley, after the death of his mother. Michael was an infant when his mother, Marie, died during a pregnancy. He lived for a short while in Deereyveeney and then moved to Gortenalderrig with his grandmother and aunt.
Nora married Tom O'Malley ( a distant cousin) who was born in Scotland. Many of Nora Dolan Duffy's relatives moved to Scotland after the famine and he likely was from that lineage.
After her mother died in Ireland, Nora and Tom O'Malley sold the land and moved to Chicago. They lived for several years with her brother, Thomas Duffy, on Monticello. They came to the United States in 1964. They subsequently moved next door, in a house owned by Michael Coan. Later they moved to Francisco and Byron in a building owned by Michael Coan.
Nora died from a blood disease three months after Michael died from leukemia. Nora is buried in Boulder, Colorado, in a grave in Green Mountain cemetery next to Michael Coan.

Generation No. 3

8. Bernice⁴ Hunt (Anne³ Duffy, Patrick², Unsure¹) She married Edward Heidenrich.

Children of Bernice Hunt and Edward Heidenrich are:

16	i.	Martin⁵ Heidenrich.
17	ii.	Dorothy Heidenrich.
18	iii.	Phillip Heidenrich.

9. Beatrice⁴ Hunt (Anne³ Duffy, Patrick², Unsure¹) She married George Andrew.

Children of Beatrice Hunt and George Andrew are:

19	i.	Rosemary⁵ Andrew, born 1938.
20	ii.	Terrance Andrew, born 1939.
21	iii.	Maureen Andrew, born 1942.
22	iv.	Kathleen Andrew, born 1946.
23	v.	Peggy Andrew, born 1948.

11. Thomas Patrick⁴ Duffy (Patrick³, Patrick², Unsure¹) was born July 07, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, and died March 07, 1987 in Elk Grove Village, Il. (ALexian Bros Hosp). He married Mary Catherine Lowery September 24, 1938 in Immaculate Conception, Chicago, Illinois, daughter of John Lowery and Mary Mannion. She was born June 16, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois.

Notes for Thomas Patrick Duffy:
Dad was a loving man he loved his family. He was grateful for opportunities in America and worked often two jobs when we were young. He painted houses for people in the neighborhood or business owners he met on his beat. He was stationed at Sheffield station when we were kids. It was on Sheffield Avenue just south of Diversey. He became closely tied to the Lowery family since he had very little family in Chicago, just his Aunt Annie and Uncle Martin Hunt and their families. We would visit his Aunt Nell (his Uncle Martin's widow) in Jerseyville, Illinois when we were young. Uncle Martin died around 1942 but had been an Illinois Representative. He had been brought to America when he was a small child by his father. They wound up in Jerseyville. Apparently the father could not find work and returned to Ireland but left Martin to a farm family in Jerseyville where he worked on the farm. Martin was only 9 or 11 years old at that time. Martin brought Dad's mother, Nora, to America in the late 1898/9. He brought her to Jerseyville and then sent her to a sewing school in Joliet. She became a seamstress for Marshall Field and the story is she was asked to be a buyer. Nora met and married Patrick Duffy in Chicago, probably around 1906.atrick was a motorman on the Chicago transit system. They lived on the west side of Chicago. Dad was baptized in St. Agatha parish(I believe on Madison Street).
Nora for reasons that are unclear decided to return to Ireland initially for a vacation with her two sons, Thomas and James, around 1909 She decided to stay there on family land in Deerveeney. The story is that she wrote to her husband Patrick who was working in Chicago and told him that if he did not return to Ireland that the children would have her name. Her daughter Marie (Michael Coan's mom) was born after she returned to Ireland. Patrick did return to Ireland. They subsequently had two more children, Mary Ellen and Nora. Patrick got sick in 1918 and died. It is said that he had a sore on his back that did not heal. He was in a lot of pain.
Dad always wanted to return to America his home. He left Ireland to work in Scotland in 1925, returned to Ireland 1926 to work in a sawmill in Tourmakeady. Left Ireland in January 1928 went to London and eventually to Fort William, Scotland, to work on a tunnel. Did so until May 25, 1929 when he left from Glasgow, Scotland and landed in New York June 2, 1929.
His Aunt Annie Duffy Hunt had long wanted Thomas to return to the US. When he came to Chicago he stayed in her home on 1814 North Lotus for a short time before going to Jerseyville where he stayed for a while with his Uncle Martin Dolan and Aunt Nell. He subsequently came to Chicago where he lived largely in rooming houses on LaSalle Street. He worked as an elevator man for a while. In summer he worked at a golf course in, I think, Western Springs. This was during the worst of depression. He had very little if any money. He talked about living in cardboard boxes on the golf course for a time. Jobs and opportunities were not available during the depression.
Eventually he took the police exam and with the help of Paddy Bauler, the alderman of the 42nd ward in Chicago, he was able to secure job as a Chicago Policeman in 1938. To do so he lied about his age so there are some discrepancies in records.
He married Mary Lowery in 1939 and lived on North Park Avenue in a four room apartment from 1938 to 1956. During that time his three children were born: Noreen, Patricia, and James. A stillborn child Mary Clare was born in 1954(?). Michael Coan, son of his sister Marie who died shortly after Michael was born in childbirth, came to America and lived with us in May 1954.

Children of Thomas Duffy and Mary Lowery are:

+	24	i.	Noreen Marie⁵ Duffy, born August 29, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	25	ii.	Patricia Alice Duffy, born July 31, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.
	26	iii.	James Thomas Duffy, born June 03, 1946. He married Susan Abramowicz July 14, 1986 in St. Patrick Church, Chicago, Illinois; born December 24, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois.
	27	iv.	Mary Clare Duffy, born January 20, 1954; died January 20, 1954.

13. Marie⁴ Duffy (Patrick³, Patrick², Unsure¹) was born 1909 in Deereyveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland, and died 1935 in Deereyveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland. She married Dennis Coan 1933 in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo Ireland. He was born Bet. 1900 - 1910 in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, Ireland, and died 1970 in Ireland.

Child of Marie Duffy and Dennis Coan is:

Michael Christopher⁵ Coan, born December 18, 1934 in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died September 30, 1995 in Boulder, Colorado.

Generation No. 4