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Descendants of Patrick Dolan

Generation No. 1

1. Patrick¹ Dolan was born Abt. 1790 in Ireland, and died Abt. 1850 in Ireland. He married Bridget Gibbons in Ireland, daughter of Unknown Gibbons and Unknown Boyle. She was born Abt. 1800 in Ireland, and died Unknown in Ireland.

Notes for Patrick Dolan:

Died in famine - 1840's or 50's. Tom Lally showed us the area where the Dolan's lived up the side of the mountain overlooking Lough Mask in Tourmakeady. Brendan ran up the mountain in 1996. It is a place where the sheep graze now. Tom Lally pointed out the way the farmers planted rows of potatoes. He said they were pushed by the English to that spot.

Notes for Bridget Gibbons:
Husband died in famine in 1840's/50's. She was likely born in 1820's.

Children of Patrick Dolan and Bridget Gibbons are:

	2	i.	Thomas² Dolan.
+	3	ii.	Mary Dolan.
	4	iii.	Michael Dolan.
	5	iv.	Sally McGin Dolan.
+	6	v.	James Dolan, born 1826 in Co. Mayo, Ireland; died April 1918 in Deerveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

Generation No. 2

3. Mary² Dolan (Patrick¹) She married Unknown O'Neil.

Children of Mary Dolan and Unknown O'Neil are:

	7	i.		Nora Coan³ Dolan.
	8	ii.		Catherine Cosgrove Dolan.

6. James² Dolan (Patrick¹) was born 1826 in Co. Mayo, Ireland, and died April 1918 in Deerveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland. He married Bridget Thornton 1865 in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, Ireland, daughter of Martin Thornton and Maria Quinn. She was born 1840 in Gorthenmore, Co. Mayo, Ireland, and died March 1916 in Gortelalderrig, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

Notes for James Dolan:
Dad says in his notes that James Dolan, his grandfather, came to the United States in 1881 with his eldest son, Martin Dolan. He for unknown reasons returned to Ireland, likely because of lack of work but left his son in Jerseyville, Illinois, on a farm. Eventually his son, Martin, became an attorney at law and an Illinois State Representative until 1942.

Notes for Bridget Thornton:
Evicted from Gortenalderrig in 1860's by the Plunkett. Her family went to Sterling,Scotland. Bridget was the only child remaining in Ireland. maybe up the mountain where Tom Lally showed us where the Dolan lived. James and Bridget raised a family of 6 in Deeley - Nora Dolan Duffy, my grandmother, Patrick, Martin, Mary, Bridget. In 1881 James brought Martin to America and eventually left but Martin stayed on a farm. He worked the farm (he was only around 9 - 11 years old). Martin eventually went to college and graduated with a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He practiced law in Jerseyville and eventually became an Illinois State Representative from that region.
His remaining family is in St. Louis.
As children we were brought often to visit Aunt Nell, Martin's wife. I believe Martin died in 1942. Aunt Nell had a big old white frame house in this small town. She was very nice to us and we knew that she was important in the town.
Bridget Thornton had bright red hair according to Aunt Nora. I also have a note that she was evicted but lived in Gortenalderrig.

They are both buried in the cemetery in Jerseyville. Aunt Nell was part of the Masonic religion and was a gold star wife, very alien to us.

Children of James Dolan and Bridget Thornton are:

+	9	i.	Martin (Nell)³ Dolan, born in Co. Mayo, Ireland; died 1942 in Jerseyville, Illinois.
	10	ii.	Bridget Dolan, born in Ireland; died in Ireland.
	11	iii.	Patrick Dolan, born in Co. Mayo, Ireland. He married Bridget Gibbons; born 1820 in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
	12	iv.	Mary Dolan.
+	13	v.	Michael Dolan.
+	14	vi.	Nora Dolan, born 1881 in Deereveeeny,Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo; died 1959 in Gortenalderrig, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo.

Generation No. 3

9. Martin (Nell)³ Dolan (James², Patrick¹) was born in Co. Mayo, Ireland, and died 1942 in Jerseyville, Illinois. He married Nell Dolan.

Children of Martin Dolan and Nell Dolan are:

	15	i.		Martin⁴ Dolan.
	16	ii.		Mary Dolan.

13. Michael³ Dolan (James², Patrick¹) He married Mary Conway.

Children of Michael Dolan and Mary Conway are:

17	i.	Mary Conway⁴ Dolan.
18	ii.	Nora Corroran Dolan.
19	iii.	Michael Dolan.
20	iv.	Bridget Dolan.
21	v.	Sara Dolan.
22	vi.	Ann Dolan.

14. Nora³ Dolan (James², Patrick¹) was born 1881 in Deereveeeny,Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo, and died 1959 in Gortenalderrig, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo. She married Patrick Duffy 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, son of Patrick Duffy and Bridget Byrne. He was born 1879 in Kiltarsaghaun. Co Mayo, Ireland, and died December 08, 1919 in Deereveeney, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo.

Children of Nora Dolan and Patrick Duffy are:

+	23	i.		Thomas Patrick⁴ Duffy, born July 07, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois; died March 07, 1987 in Elk Grove Village, Il. (ALexian Bros Hosp).
	24	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.

+	25	iii.	Marie Duffy, born 1909 in Deereyveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died 1935 in Deereyveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
	26	iv.	Mary Ellen Duffy, born 1913 in Deeryveeney, Co. Mayo, Ireland; died December 21, 1996 in England. She married Michael Barrett; born Abt. 1910.
	27	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. 4

23. Thomas Patrick⁴ Duffy (Nora³ Dolan, James², Patrick¹) 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:

+	28	i.	Noreen Marie⁵ Duffy, born August 29, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.
+	29	ii.	Patricia Alice Duffy, born July 31, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.
	30	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.
	31	iv.	Mary Clare Duffy, born January 20, 1954; died January 20, 1954.