I also have Cahills in NYC, and buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Maybe there's a connection?
John CAHILL and Margaret SMITH were born somewhere in Ireland around 1825. I
believe they immigrated about 1865. I don't know when they died.
Their first child was Mary CAHILL, born about 1845, who married Thomas
BARRY. I'll skip most of this line, except for her first child, Margaret Mary
BARRY, who married Timothy CROWLEY. Their child, Marian CROWLEY, married Lawrence
Hugh TIERNEY, whose children are Lawrence Tierney (the actor) and Gerard
Kenneth Tierney, better known as Scott Brady (also an actor; played Shotgun
Slade on TV, the cop in Gremlins, etc).
Anyway, John and Margaret Cahill's second child was Jack CAHILL (born John
Aloysius Cahill, abt 1850), who had children Catherine, Matthew and Adelaide,
and in the 1880s. Catherine married a Joseph Mahan. Matthew married a
Beatrice. And Adelaide married James Jennings Frye.
John and Margaret Cahill's third child was Catherine CAHILL, my Great
Grandmother. She married Patrick Monahan, they were married at St. Paul's RC
Church, Brooklyn, NY and they are buried in Holy Cross. Their children were Mary
I., James F., John J., Catherine C. (my Grandmother), Thomas William and
Clotilda.
Ray
In a message dated 11/22/2005 5:52:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
revsx2(a)hotmail.com writes:
I have a copy of the death certificate for Joseph [Maude' Delaney's Husband]
Cahill's father, a John Cahill. He was a horse-shoer who was born in
Ireland on August 10, 1839. [This is different - and probably more accurate
- than the census which had him born in March 1840.]
It doesn't list his wife's name [which was Margaret Anna Donovan - born @
December 1843 in Ireland] but it says his parents were Dennis and Mary [no
birth name] Cahill who were born in Ireland. But they do not say where in
Ireland.
It also states that he was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, New
York. where Joseph and Maude are buried.
If anyone is interested, I can send the death certificate electronically,
but I am on a very slow modem in South America now.
And it goes without saying that I'd love to find someone else who is
searching these Cahill's.
Thanks.
Take Care,
John O'Connor