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Descendants of Thomas Fahey

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS¹ FAHEY was born in Ireland, and died Bef. 1878. He married MARY HENNELEY. She was born Abt. 1802 in Ireland, and died Feb 15, 1879 in Michigan ¹.

Notes for MARY HENNELEY:
Found a couple of records that Mary was here in the States, but nothing yet on Thomas. There is a record at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Hubbardston, Michigan that Mary Henneley wife of Thomas Fahey died on Feb 15, 1879 age 77 or 78. A second record, Mary is listed in the St. John the Baptist Catholic church membership list in Sept 1877 (age 75).

Was there another daughter Ellen?

Did Thomas and Mary Fahey belong to the Kiltartan Parish in Gort, County Galway, Ireland where their grandson Martin Glynn was baptized?

General information on the town of Gort:
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From the Book "Gort Inse Guaire: A Journey Through Time / Gort before the Famine" pages 130-131

Kiltartan Church
The Mass House in Kiltartan was replaced at the instigation of Rev. P. Fallon P.P. by the present cruciform structure. In 1829 the O'Hara family of Raheen House donated 100 towards the building of a Catholic Church in Kiltartan. Although the exact date of its erection is not known it is believed to have been 1842. A slab on the gable bears the inscription 'This chapel was erected in 1842 by the pious exertions of Patrick Fallon P.P.'
In 1916 Fr. Martin Fahey C.C., acting on the behalf of the aged Monsignor Fahey, had the church re-roofed and a new chancel, sacristy and flooring were added.
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Monsignor Fahey is listed as responsible for some improvements to St. Colmans in downtown Gort in the 1880s and 1890s.
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From the New York Times July 9, 2000

Gort: Easy to Miss, Hard to Leave (By Dan Barry)
But the famine devastated the counties of Galway and Clare -- and the town of Gort. An English visitor in 1850 described seeing hundreds of women and children shivering in and around the grounds of the Gort workhouse. "What dress they had seemed to be the rags of the red petticoat of the country from below the waist, rags of some black stuff above it," he wrote. "Some of the infants were nearly naked, and very evidently in a most filthy state."
The community slowly recovered, and by the early 20th century was playing a role in the revolution and subsequent civil war. Two miles from town, in the Shanaglish cemetery where my grandfather is buried, is a memorial to Patrick and Henry Loughnane, two brothers who were tortured and dragged to their deaths by British agents in 1920. Eighty years later, every schoolchild in town knows the story of the Loughnanes.

More About MARY HENNELEY:
Immigration: 1861, May have come over from Ireland

Children of THOMAS FAHEY and MARY HENNELEY are:

2.	i.	THOMAS² FAHEY, b. Dec 18, 1835, Gort, Galway County, Ireland; d. Apr 20, 1915, Hubbardston, Michigan.
3.	ii.	MARY FAHEY, b. Abt. Mar 03, 1838, Gort, Galway County, Ireland; d. Oct 10, 1923, Hubbardston, Michigan.
4.	iii.	BRIDGET FAHEY, b. Dec 1843, Gort, Galway County, Ireland; d. Oct 05, 1926.

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