MAHONY/MAHONEY Portland,ME 1854
John Robert Mahoneywas born in Portland,
Maine in about 1854 to Patrick and Margaret Scanlon Mahony (note spelling of last name). Patrick and Margaret Scanlon were
married in Fulton, Oswego, New York in a catholic church. Margaret Scanlon was the daughter of a James Scanlon who is buried in
the cemetery of that catholic church. James and his wife came to New York from Kerry County, Ireland. I have a copy of an old New
York newspaper that was among my great grandfather's belongings when he died. He married a much younger woman in Georgia
where he finally settled and had two children survive from at least four births. One being my Grandfather, John Forrest Mahoney and
a sister Ruth Mahoney (both deceased now). We never had any contact with the family up north but were told when great
grandfather died in about 1925 that grandmother had contacted his family and never received a reply to her letters.