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[sent May 25]
Today is May 25. On this date in 1942, Edward T. Ahern of New Haven,
Connecticut filed for a U. S. patent on his cleaning process for urinal
traps. For details of this and other Ahern inventions, see
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahinvent.htm
Today also happens to be Memorial Day in the United States. Originally
celebrated as Decoration Day, it was inaugurated to commemorate those who
served on the Union side in the American Civil War, or as our Aherns whose
ancestors served on the Confederate side call it, The War Between the
States, or even The War of Northern Aggression. For records of American
Aherns who served in this war and others, see
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahmil.htm
Memorial Day has also been a time when families remember those who have
passed on. One way in which their memory is kept alive is through
obituaries and the Ahern website now has more than 3,600 dating back to
the 18th century. The earliest new obituary is for Dennis O'Hern of
Louisville, Kentucky 14 April 1883. The most recent new obituary is for
Christine M. O'Hearn of Medford, Massachusetts, 21 May 2009
Since January 2000, there have been 12,675 visitors to the Ahern surname
researchers page. Is your entry up to date? Do you have one? Please check
and make sure you have a current email there with your entry. Find it at
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahsurn.htm
Lynn Ahern Mitchell, who, along with her daughter, comprised the Canadian
contingent to our Ahern gathering in Cork in 2001, has expressed interest
in organizing a dna databank of Aherns. If you think such an effort may
help you trace your Ahern origins, send me an email with "Ahern dna"
in the subject line and I will pass it on.
Whether or not you would like to find out you are related to some of the
Aherns who show up on our Aherns in the News pages is another story, but
we continue to gather these traces of our history for future generations
to ponder. Here are the latest additions.
- town of Acton, Massachusetts will not have the annual Town Report ready
in time for Town Meeting because volunteer editor Dennis Ahern [me]
missed the printer's deadline, 29 March 1984
- Cornelius Ahern indicted for selling stolen brass fittings in Dublin,
25 August 1859
- 16-yr-old Joseph Ahern is returned to Meriden, Connecticut after running
away to New York in a "borrowed" horse and carriage, 15 December 1884
- New York hotel proprietor James Ahearn arrested after man he struck hits
head on marble floor and dies, 2 June 1904
- Walter Ahern's son, Francis, admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Ireland, 5 February 1907
- Cork harbor pilot Christopher Ahern forced by storm to stay on liner
bound for England, 8 December 1932
- Chicago railway worker William Ahearn appeals garnishment of his wages
to repay $127 loan, 9 December 1904
- bank manager Stephen Ahern of Callan, Co. Kilkenny killed in auto
accident, 18 September 1961
- Thomas Ahern of Donnycarney, Co. Dublin, charged with assaulting police
officers, 5 May 1962, 2 June 1962, 28 June 1962
- James Aherne of Douglas, Co. Cork, wins newspaper crossworld puzzle
prize, 24 February 1940
- Patrick Ahearn of Newbridge, Co. Kildare, awarded medal for 34 years of
service as an agricultural steward on the estate of Colonel H. L.
Mansfield, 29 April 1931
- 55-year-old Thomas Ahern of Clonmult, Midleton, Co. Cork, struck and
killed by a car while walking home, 26 October 1959
- 40-year-old Michael Ahern of Churchtown North, Midleton, Co. Cork,
killed when his motorcycle collided with a car, 10 November 1959
- Patrick Ahearne found stabbed in the groin in London, 23 August 1955
- 60-year-old Philip Ahern of Freemount, Co. Cork, fell from a wagon and
broke his neck, 30 November 1927
- Michael Ahern of Youghal, Co. Cork, claimed salvage rights to a wreck at
Mangan's Bay, Co. Waterford, 11 February 1924
- Michael Ahern of Clonakilty, Co. Cork charged with possession of the
text of an oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic, 18 October 1919
- Ellen [Mrs. James] Aherne of Dublin convicted of neglecting her five
children, 15 April 1916
- financier Simon J. Ahern accused of publishing libelous circulars in New
York, 21 November 1876
- police charged with assaulting Patrick Ahern of Propogue, County Cork,
10 January 1928
- Michael J. Ahern, of Boston's West End, practices for the rowing season
on the Charles River, 21 March 1880, 9 May 1880; swamped in double-scull
race, 6 July 1880
- Carolyn Ahern of Gardnerville, Nevada, self-publishes another in her
series of children's books about Tino the Turtle, 3 August 2007
- William O'Hearn struck and killed by locomotive in San Francisco,
26 May 1871
- Locomotive engineer Michael O'Hearn of Louisville, Kentucky killed by
freight train, 10 March 1918
- George W. Ahern, son of William, of Mountnugent, County Meath, given a
commission in the 6th Leinster Regiment, 10 November 1915
- Daniel Ahern and his son murdered and his family threatened with same if
they did not remove themselves from their recently acquired farm near
Dungarvan in County Waterford, 15 December 1804
See http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahnews.htm for these
and other stories of Aherns in the News.
Dennis Ahern
The Ahern Family Genealogy Website
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/
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