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Author: wilso127
Surnames: Cavanaugh Gaffney McMahon
Classification: queries
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My greatgrandfather Charles Cavanaugh came over from somewhere in County Leitrim at age 7
in 1853 on the ship "Underwriter" to New York, and was traveling with slightly
older siblings or cousins named Lawrence and James, and a younger sibling or cousin named
Mary. All of them were under 16, and they were with a party of 20 year old single men
headed by a Robert Lavin. Charles went to New Windsor NY to work in the brickyards there
when he came of age and married Mary Jane Gaffney in 1868. (Her parents were immigrants
from the Aghanagh area of County Sligo, near the Roscommon town of Boyle.) I believe that
Lawrence went to Syracuse and became a fireman. I don't know about James, but Mary may
have been a spinster who lived out her life with her parents, Bernard Cavanaugh and Ann
McMahon in Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY until at least 1880. It is possible that
Bernard and Ann had come over at about the same time, but on another ship.
It seems to me that it's possible that this Cavanaugh group may have come out of the
same place (Lisgillock, Lissagarvan, Cloone, in County Leitrim) as your Bridget, and
it's further possible that she was a cousin to Charles.
Finding a specific location for Charles' Leitrim origin would be a wonderful family
fact addition for me. Do you have any more info that would help?
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