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The following Flaherty information comes from a family sketch
written by a relative in 1918. No documentation was offered for the
statements made in it, and no attempt has been made to verify them.
Anything anyone can offer to prove, disprove, correct or add to this
information would be very much appreciated.
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PETER FLAHERTY was a member of an O'Flaherty family of Aghnenure, County
Galway. He was a great-grandson of Col. Sir Morogh O'Flaherty, "who died in
1652". The writer of the sketch did not give the names of Peter's father or
grandfather. Peter joined the Wild Geese - the Irish Brigade in France -
and was wounded fighting the British at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.
"After his recovery he came home to Ireland, but the authorities got after
him and he came to the O'Farrells' country, County Longford, where after
awhile himself and Tom O'Farrell [not mentioned elsewhere in the sketch]
took up a farm each in Aughadowry. Both these gentlemen dropped the 'O'
from their names and, as tenant farmers, got along after the fashion of the
times. The government, having a suspicion that Peter Flaherty might be the
same youth who once fought against them at Fontenoy, had him dispossessed of
his farm -- one-fourth of the town of Aughadowry -- in his old age...
"As a proof positive that Peter Flaherty was a scion of the O'Flahertys, Sir
John O'Flaherty came to Aughadowry at the time of the American Revolution
with a portmanteau full of money and gave it to Peter to help him get along.
This, the family said, was indirectly the cause of their eviction. However,
some of Peter's sons got farms later on -- Jim and Edward in Edenmore, (and
their) descendants are there to this day [1918]."
PETER FLAHERTY married MARGARET KIERNAN and had six children: Patrick,
James, Edward, Cornelius and Charles Flaherty, and a daughter who married
Owen McNerney.
1. Patrick Flaherty, the oldest son, b ca 1768, d 2 Dec 1857, m Mary Dolan,
b ca 1788, d 1872-74 in Philadelphia PA. Patrick was a "professor of music,
aged and helpless", when his daughter asked him to teach her the violin.
Soon she was playing to help support the family. Children of Patrick and
Mary (Dolan) Flaherty: Patrick (ca 1822-1894), US Civil War veteran, died
Philadelphia PA; Peter "died in Ireland in 1847 of fever" after having
"reached man's estate"; Cornelius "Con" Flaherty died "when about ten years
old"; James "Jimmy" "was last heard from in 1871 working for Dawson, Ahern &
Co. in Caldwell County, Kentucky"; Edward and Charles "died in infancy"; and
Mary. Mary Flaherty was born in July of 1833 in Corrinagh, Parish of
Columbkille, Co Longford, married Terence J. Tully in Drumlish, Co Longford,
in 1859 (Drumlish mrg register says 11 Feb; family records say 14 Feb),
immigrated to NYC in 1861, died in Bismarck ND 10 Feb 1918. T. J. Tully
(1835-1921) was born in Killoe Parish, Co Longford, and died in Spokane WA.
Terence and Mary are buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Bismarck.
2. & 3. James and Edward Flaherty farmed in Edenmore (evidently in Co
Longford), where their descendants were still living in 1918.
4. Cornelius "Condy" Flaherty "was pressed into the English navy in the
early days of the 19th century to fight against Napoleon Bonaparte. Got
into trouble and was sent to the West Indies to soldier for life by court
martial sentence. He died and is buried in one of the West Indies islands".
5. Charles "Charlie" Flaherty, "the youngest brother, was married to
Bridget Whitney and had a very interesting family of boys and girls. All of
them were swept away by the famine and fever in 1847-1848."
6. Mrs. Owen McNerney. "These Flahertys had one sister, Mrs. Owen
McNerney, who had a large family of sons and daughters, all living in 1860 -
that is, her children."
[Here ends the information from the sketch.]
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At the time of the 1870 census, Mary (Dolan) Flaherty was living with her
son-in-law and daughter, Terence and Mary Tully, in Philadelphia PA. In the
household were the following Flahertys, all born in Ireland, who were
apparently Mrs. Flaherty's nephews:
Michael Flaherty, b ca 1830
Peter Flaherty, b ca 1846
Charles Flaherty, b Mar 1853
Charles Flaherty immigrated to the US in 1870 and worked with Tully as a
tailor until 1878. Around 1880 he married Catherine, b NY ca 1860. The
1900 census indicates she had had no children. The 1920 census shows
Charles as a widower and a tailor, living with James T. McNerney, age 80,
and his wife, Bridget C. age 65. James was born in Ireland and immigrated
in 1868. If a son of Mrs. Owen McNerney, he would have been Charles'
cousin.
In an affidavit in support of the Civil War pension claim of Pat Flaherty,
son of Mary (Dolan) Flaherty, Charles indicated he was Pat's cousin.
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TIMOTHY EDWARD FLAHERTY was a pallbearer at the funeral of Terence Tully in
January of 1921 at Bismarck ND. Born in June of 1879, Flaherty is described
in the 1910 obituary of Mrs. Mike Loy (née Margaret White) of Nashua,
Chickasaw County, Iowa, as her nephew and as having been raised by her from
babyhood. In the LDS transcription of the 1880 census, an 11 month old boy
listed as "Flaherty Metlay" appears in the household of Michael and Margaret
Loy, then in neighboring Butler County, Iowa. His relationship to Michael
is listed as "other" (i.e., other than son, nephew or other close family
member). Timothy is not believed to have been a close relative of Mary
(Flaherty) Tully. The 1900 census indicates he was born in Iowa, his father
in Ireland and mother in Pennsylvania.
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