Re: Ahern website updates
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In reply to:
Ahern website updates
Dennis Ahern 12/18/06
[sent December 7th]
Today is December 7th. On this day in 1941, Fireman 1st Class Richard
James Ahern, of Van Nuys, California, was lost on the U.S.S. Arizona at
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
The Ahern obituary page has reached the 4,300 mark. The earliest new
obituary is for James Ahern of Pittsburg, Indiana, 19 September 1894. He
was born in Cork City and emigrated to New Brunswick to escape the famine
at the age of 22, surviving an epidemic of cholera on the ship. After a
few years in St. John, he emigrated to New Hampshire where he found
employment as a teamster for a Shaker community. There he married Mary
Coleman of Concord. In 1855 he moved west to Indiana and found work in a
foundry and later as a blacksmith for the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he
labored for thirty-four years before developing stomach problems from
which he succumbed two years later, leaving a wife and three adopted
children and a brother in New Hampshire. The most recent new obituary is
for Margaret M. (Ahern) Morgan, of Saratoga, California, 27 December 1990.
The following news stories have been added to the Ahern website.
- bridal shower given in Indianapolis, Indiana, for Miss Eileen Ahern,
24 November 1920
- Miss Ann Ahern returned to the University of Illinois after a visit to
Chicago, 2 December 1927
- Miss Mary E. Ahern of Chicago returned from a tour of Illinois,
2 December 1927
- Railroad Conductor Dennis Ahearn of Winstead, Connecticut has smoked the
same brand of pipe tobacco for forty-one years, 9 November 1923
- car stolen from William Ahearn, Woodland, California, 28 November 1933
- 24-year-old Kenneth L. Ahearn of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and his 16-year-
old brother, charged with raping and robbing a 16-year-old girl,
1 December 1969
- Miss Roma Ahern, of Urbana, Illinois, returned from a visit to Chicago,
8 September 1920; has guest from Chicago, 27 December 1920
- Miss Margaret Ahern, of Urbana, Illinois, has guest from Peoria,
27 December 1920
- Miss Alice Ahern, of Champaign, Illinois, vacationing in Chicago and
Benton Harbor, Michigan, 2 September 1914
- Miss Bertha Ahern visiting in Champaign, Illinois, 12 August 1915
- 19-year-old pilot Peter Ahearn makes emergency landing in Haverhill,
Massachusetts parking lot, 29 October 1963.
- a letter addressed [to or from?] Johanna Ahern, Killeagh, County Cork,
Ireland, detained for insufficient postage at Post Office, Sydney,
Australia, 5 August 1841
- Thomas Ahern contributed one pound to the building fund for the church of
St. John the Baptist in West Maitland, New South Wales, 25 February 1843
- certificate of freedom granted at Sydney, Australia, to convicts Johanna
Ahern, who came on the Palambam, and Owen Ahern who came on the Asia,
26 April 1841
- James Ahern married Caroline May Cruickshank at Woollahra, New South
Wales, 9 February 1891
- James Aherne, of Douglas, County Cork, submitted claim to the Cork Co.
Evicted Tenants Advisory Committee, 15 October 1921
- Maurice Christopher Ahern of Monard, Co. Cork, killed by armed robber,
8 and 15 October 1921
- her interest piqued by mention in a recent update of umbrella mender
John Ahearn who fell off the wagon in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Mary
Roddy submitted the following additional items: John Ahern arrested for
inebriated speechifying, 24 August 1906; arrested again for drink, 31
December 1907; and yet again 22 August 1911. John Ahern is referred to
as an umbrella mender. I wonder if he's related to the umbrella makers
of Cork. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahloii.htm#1809http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahloii.htm#1809
lists a John Ahern, umbrella maker in Cork City in 1809. And a Louisa in
1856, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahloii.htm#1856http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aherns/ahloii.htm#1856
There is also a Thomas Ahern, umbrella manufacturer in Cork in 1815 at
http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/Cork/1815/MAY.html#23http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/Cork/1815/MAY.html#23
- Mary also sent me several items on citizens of New Brunswick whose
character is of a decidedly less disreputable nature, including Miss
Mamie Ahearn who was given a surprise party, 28 June 1899
- Father Jack Ahern of Dorchester, Massachusetts reflects on the recent
spate of robberies at local churches, 5 December 2010
- Arkansas police officer sentenced to 30 days in jail in shooting death
of James Ahern in Bella Vista, 3 December 2010
- professional skip tracer Frank Ahearn of New York, can help people
vanish if the price is right, 5 December 2010
- farmer Edward Aherne, Maulbawn, Passage West, County Cork, testified in
court in regards the theft of one of his turkeys, 23 January 1932
The Ahern Family Genealogy Website
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/