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In the early 1800's Tom Conroy married Mary Kerrigan in County Mayo, Ireland. They had seven children. One was Peter Timothy Conroy, aka. Manny, John's father. Peter married Elizabeth Smith and they had seven children. In 1922, at the age of 19, John sailed on The Adriatic and arrived at New York's Ellis Island with $24.00 in his pocket. Two brothers, Oliver and Isaac, aka. Jim, emmigrated to the USA a few years later. They married and had ten children between them. Their brothers in Ireland also married and had thirteen children. The current crop of Conroys boast many children and grandchildren. John married Margaret G. T. Lutters from College Point NY in 1929. They had four children, John Peter, Ernest Oliver, George Richard and Judith Ann Marguerite. Margaret's great-grandparents, Ferdinand and Antoinetta (Krugman) Lutters emigrated in 1854 with 5 children on a clippership from the Port of Antwerp, Holland and settled in College Point, NY. They were from Remscheid, Prussia. One of their sons, Ernest married Anna Maria Weinss and had several children, among them Alfred Carl who was Margaret's father. Ernest was married a second time to Elizabeth Unclebach and there are descendants from that marriage. Ernest served in the Civil War and was amember of the GAR. Soon after, he disappeared and was later traced to the West Coast where he spent his final days.
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