John Dooley 1828 : Short Biography

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My great great grandfather, William Dooley, was John's older brother.  My records show that William remained in Ireland, while his daughter Mary and her sister migrated to Canada.  I too am interested in obtaining ore information on the family.  I have the father, Patrick Dooley, DOB 1790, married to Ellen Mary and living in Menlough.  But that's as far as I get.  Any info would be appreciated.

TracyB

Tuesday 24th July 2018 06:49PM

Hello Tracy,

Thank you for the information! Do you have any additional information on John's family in Ireland - i.e. his father, mother, siblings? What was his mother's maiden name? Do you know where William's daughters emigrated to in Canada?

John landed in New York in 1847 and married Ellen Cunningham there. He met her on board the "Yorkshire" on the way over. They went to Niagara Falls, N.Y. where Ellen had family. Their first two daughters were born there - Joanna and Mary Ann. Later John worked on the Grand Trunk of Canada Railway which reached Sarnia, Ontario in 1858. He settled nearby in Wyoming, Ontario and died there in 1889. He and Ellen had 12 children altogether. One of their sons, William Patrick (born 1866) travelled back to Niagara Falls, N.Y. to live with his cousins (the Hartigan's - Ellen's sister's family). He settled there and married Kate Sullivan. Their oldest son, Joseph Francis, (born 1889) was my grandfather.

Any additional information and/or documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Tom 

 

 

Dooley Family Tree

Thursday 26th July 2018 03:32PM

 

Hi Tom,  Your information is very interesting to me.   My father was the family geneologist and I am trying to continue to fill in the loose ends, as well as putting all of his research into ancestry.com.   I do have his information on the family and it differs from yours somewhat.  Unfortunately,  his source documents are at my winter home in California and I won't be able to get to them until November or December.  What I do have is an excerpt from his book which I can email to you if you'd like.  Basically,  his data shows John Dooley DOB 1830 died 1891.  Wife is listed as Alice Hartigan, which is interesting because that name shows up as a cousin in comments.  I'm sure it's the same family, as my relatives also settled in the Niagara Falls area on both sides of the river.  I have the parents listed as Patrick Dooley dob 1790 wife Ellen Mary.  No last name.  They had 6 children.  The oldest William was my relative.  The nieces who immigrated to New York then to Canada were my great grandmother,  Mary (Marie), and her sisters margaret and Sabina.  Another brother, Martin, immigrated before the girls and is listed in the 1860 census of Welland County, Ontario.   I have been unable to find that document and am hoping I have it at home.  I would really like to trace the family back before Patrick and Ellen Mary, but the trail seems to not exist.

I created a link to my document.  Hope you can open it.  If not,  send me your email.  https://www.dropbox.com/s/3m7i1z2uiodwdiy/Dooley%20History.pdf?dl=0

Tracy

 

TracyB

Thursday 26th July 2018 09:17PM

Tracy,

 

I have an account on Ancestry.com called Dooley Family Tree. A cousin whom I've never met from the Niagara Falls area, Cynthia Dooley Uteriz, also has a family tree called Dooley Tree U.S. 

I have found my great great grandfather's grave (John Dooley) in the town of Wyoming, located in  Lambton County, Ontario, a little ways east of Sarnia, Ontario.  The gravestone lists the year of his death as 1889. 

John's wife, Ellen Cunningham, had a sister in Niagara Falls, N.Y. who married Richard Hartigan. (Can't remember her name but it is in my family tree.) One of John Dooley's sons, also named John, came to Niagara Falls around 1900. He "took up" with one of his Hartigan cousins and they "had" to get married. They had a son that they named Johnny Dooley. My mother remembers seeing him when she was a girl. 

The census records are inconsistent in that John Dooley seems to have drifted in and out of his wife's life. Sometimes she ls listed on the census as a widow, other times as married, sometimes as "Hartigan" and other times as "Dooley."

My great grandparents, grandparents and parents are all from Niagara Falls, N.Y. My mother is our geneologist and she lives part of the year in Rochester, N.Y. and winters in San Juan Capistrano where one of my sisters lives. She has a lot of records but I have tried to put it all in Ancestry. 

I'll look in the tree and provide more names and dates.

Thanks!

Tom

Dooley Family Tree

Friday 27th July 2018 02:00PM

Hi Tracy,

Interesting attachment - gives me a lot of info - thank you!  However, the listing of Patrick's 6 children shows John marrying Alice Hartigan. This is incorrect by 1 generation. 

To reiterate: Patrick's son John emiograted in 1847 and married Ellen Cunningham upon arrival in New York. They moved to Niagara Falls, N.Y. where their two oldest children - Bridget and Joanna - were born. John worked on the Grand Trunk of Canada as a trackman and settled in Wyoming, Ontario (outside Sarnia) when the railway reached there in 1858. In Wyoming, they had Mary Ann (1859-1941); Elizabeth (1861-1942); John Martin (1864-1910); William Patrick (1866-1940); James (1868-?); Catherine (1869-?); Thomas (1872-?); Robert (1873-1910); Edward (1876-1931); Marcella (1881-1898).

It was John Martin who moved to Niagara Falls and married Alice Hartigan. Alice's mother was mary Ann Cunningham - sister of Ellen. Mary Ann married Richard Hartigan.  

William Patrick also moved to Niagara Falls, N.Y. and married Kate Sullivan. William is my great, grandfather. 

If you would like to send more info, you could send it directly to my email - motermtom@gmail.com - rather than communicating through Ireland Reaching Out.

 

Thank you ! 

Dooley Family Tree

Friday 27th July 2018 02:27PM

Hi Tracey

I just saw this now as I was not aware of posts to the original at the time 
 

There are 4 listings for Dooley in the 1856 Griffith's Valuation in the civil parish

http://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/galway/killoscobe.php

And 4 families nearby iin 1901 including the family still in Graigue mentioned in 1856

http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Derryglassaun/Ballyn...
http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Mount_Hazel/Rahins/1...

http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Mount_Hazel/Graigue/...
http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Mount_Hazel/Killooau...

Have you done a DNA test ? If so please upload your raw DNA data to gedmatch.com and through that I can see if you have any DNA cousins still in the area

Please respond back and I will then see if there are any of your Dooley connections still in the area 

Martin
Killoscobe Parish Liaison
 

MartinCurley, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

Tuesday 26th May 2020 03:47PM

Hello Martin, thanks for your information.  I have done a DNA test on Ancestry.com and just now uploaded the raw data to gedmatch.com.  It will be available in a few days.  My identifying number is HR8429622.   Any information you can find will be appreciated.  In the meantime, I will check out the links you provided.   Ireland is a beautiful country.  I have visited three times, and would be happy to go again any time!   Tracy

 

 

TracyB

Tuesday 26th May 2020 08:26PM

Tracy

Thanks for that 

I have invited you to join the East Galway Project on gedmatch and there is a complementary FB group to help as well 

Look forward to seeing whom you match locally 

Martin

MartinCurley, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

Tuesday 26th May 2020 09:54PM

Hi Martin, I just joined and see your notes to Tracey. We have been going back and forth on this family and I have found out this family is mixed with another. My John Dooley 1828-1889 does not belong with the others. Tracey agrees as we have no DNA match. My kit is on Gedmatch also A203495 Cynthia A Uderitz. What is the East Galway Project?  Thank you, Cindy

Cindy

Wednesday 10th February 2021 07:25PM

Hi Cindy / Tom and Tracy

The East Galway genealogy group https://www.facebook.com/groups/eastgalwaygenealogy/ is trying through research and DNA to recoonect with our diaspora As you have done a DNA test join the gedmatch East Galway Ancestor Project (click Ancestor Project on gedmatch home page , find the group and submit request to join) and you can see if you have a connection there 

The AP helps people identify a common place of origin We have 2,500 kits at the moment to compare to that have all or some East Galway ancestry

If you have a reason to think that there are from our area please see guidelines in Topics in the FB group for posting 

Martin
Parish Admin Killascobe 

MartinCurley, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

Thursday 11th February 2021 05:55PM

Thank you, Martin, for your help.  I have joined the East Galway Project and hope to discover connections there.  As Cindy mentioned, we have concluded that our families are not connected, and must somehow untangle the information on Ancestry.com, as well as trying to find connections in Ireland.

Tracy

TracyB

Friday 12th February 2021 12:56AM

Martin, Tracy Cindy,

Please excuse my ignorance, but where do I find my Ancestry DNA test data? How do I upload it into GEDmatch? I've looked through Ancestry and it shows the results of my DNA data, but no I.D. number or data cache seems to be available. 

Thank you for your help.

Tom

 

Dooley Family Tree

Friday 12th February 2021 05:14PM

Hi Tom 

Log in to Ancestry and your DNA home page where it says 'Hello Tom' 

On that same line you will see on the right Settings 

Click Settings and now you are on a new page - at the bottom of that is the Download Raw DNA option 

Click on that and follow the directions there 

In the Facebook group is step by step guidelines in what to do - the posts are under Announcements in the FB group front page 

Martin

MartinCurley, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

Friday 12th February 2021 05:27PM