John Daniel Meagher1932 was born Abt. 1862 in Tipperary, Ireland1933, and died 1902 in Prob. Valpraiso, IN1934. He married Nellie O'Keefe.
Notes for John Daniel Meagher: This is the Irish immigrant for this Meagher line.
Peg Meagher Phiilips wrote that John Meagher "died of Malaria in 1902"
From John Meagher's Naturalization certificate:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State of Indiana, Porter County,
Be it known, That on the 4th day of November, A.D. 1884 personally appeared in the Porter Circuit Court, before the Clerk thereof, John Meagher an alien and reported himself for NATURALIZATION; and being duly sworn an oath declares that he is a native of Ireland aged about 22 years , and owes allegiance to Queen Victoria that he emigrated thence , embarked at Queenstown and arrived at New York in the United States on the 3rd day of May A.D. 1879 and that it is bona fide his intention to reside in and become a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES; and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to Queen Victoria .
S/ John Meagher
Sworn to and subscribed the 4th day of November 1884
In Testimony Whereof, I, J.R. Drapien Clerk of the Porter Circuit Court, hereunto set my name And affix the seal of said Court, this 4th day [Seal] of November A.D. 1884
S/ J.R. Drapien Clerk By A. (indistinguishable) Deputy
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John Meagher was born in 1862 since the date of the document was Nov 4, 1884 and he was 22 at the time. He arrived in New York on May 3, 1879 and was a minor (16 or 17) at the time. He embarked from Queenstown (often ships left Queenstown AND Liverpool)
Meagher Family Name
The Irish surname Meagher, also found as Maher, is itself an anglicization of the Gaelic sept name O Meachair, from "mirchair" meaning "kindly, hospitable". This important sept, which is kin to the O Carrolls of Ely, had its homeland in the barony on Ikerrin (in Irish Crich-ui-Cairin) in County Tipperary. Unlike many other septs at the time of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of the twelfth century, the O Meachair were not driven from their land, and the name continues to be most numerous in this region, over fifty percent of all people of the name in Ireland continue to be born in Tipperary.
The territory of O Meachair was near the town of Roscrea, at the foot of the Devil's Bit Mountain. Once an extremely powerful sept, it was celebrated by the sixteenth century Gaelic poet O'Heerin in the following lines:
"Powerfully have hey peoples their land, The O Meaghers of the land of Ui Carin, The bride who dwell at Bearnan Eli, It is right to extol their fame."
And among the bearers of such fame have been Captain John Meagher, one of the most adventurous and ill-starred rapparees of the seventeenth century, who was hanged in 1690, and Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867), known as "Meagher of the Sword" and one of the most prominent of the Young Irelanders. He was later leader of the Irish Brigade in the Federal Army in the American Civil War. The surname was indeed established in the new world at least as long ago as 1804, in April of which year two passengers on the ship "Jane", bound for New York out of Dunlin, were "Thomas and Mary Mahir, from Callan in Kilkenny."
Blazon of Arms: Azure two lions rampant combatant or, supporting a sword in pale proper in base two crescents argent.
Crest: On a mount vert. A hawk rising belled and hooded proper, on each wing a crescent or.
Motto: In periculis audax.
Translation: Bold in dangers.
Origin: Ireland
Children of John Daniel Meagher and Nellie O'Keefe are:
John Daniel Meagher (b. Abt. 1862, d. 1902)
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