Re: Fay family Shelbyville, Bedford County, TN
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Re: Fay family Shelbyville, Bedford County, TN
Pamela Hoskins 8/01/06
I have record of Thomas, Annie, Bridget, and John Fay arriving in New York on 14 Jul 1879 aboard the Baltic.The ship's log has the name spelled Fay.
Thomas Jefferson Fay and Mary Elizabath Vittitoe were my husband's grandparents.My husband is Bradford Lee Fay, son of Robert Jerome Fay and Mardell Helen Strubhar.
According to Elizabeth Fay, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Fay, the name was originally spelled either Fahey or O'Fahey.All of the US Census records I have found show Fay as the spelling.I have not yet been able to locate any record of the family in Ireland, so I cannot confirm those spellings.
There are three more children of John and Elizabeth Mooney Fay who were born in Illinois:James, Joe, and Elizabeth.