The Dealy/Daly Siblings of Bantry, County Cork

My grandmother, Hannah (Dealy) O'Sullivan was one of at least 4, and perhaps as many as  7 or 8 siblings.  My research into Hannah, her husband, Jeremiah O'Sullivan and her children had reached a dead end at the 1880 census.  In the 1880 Census she was a widow living at 99 Pleasant Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts, with her son Jeremiah, daughter Hannah, and her niece and nephew, Sophia and William Haggerty.

Bantry, County Cork, Ireland

In an effort to find the Irish origins of this family, I've uncovered some connections and quite a number of Dealy's from Bantry, County Cork.  Sophia and William were the children of Hannah's sister Mary Anne (Dealy) Haggerty.  John Francis Dealy, boarding as a student with Hannah's married daughter, Mary McPike, was the son of Hannah's brother Richard.  Last year my cousin June was contacted by Patrick Bryan of Bath, England, the great-grandson of Rebecca (Daly) Bryan, another sibling. 

I will look at the Dealy's one generation at a time, starting with Hannah's definite, and then possible, siblings.  They are a wide ranging family.  Even with only the four siblings above, they lived in Bristol, England; Boston, Massachusetts; Stamford, Connecticut and San Francisco, California.  Their descendants are spread even further.

Next week, I'll look at the first generation of our Dealy immigrants, Richard and his wife Ann (McCormack) of Stamford, Connecticut, Hannah and her husband, Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Mary Anne and her husband William Haggerty of San Francisco, and Rebecca and her husband Timothy Hourihan Bryan of Bristol, England.

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