The Dorahy Family The Irish origins and Australian descendants of William and Ann Dorahy Helen Patterson The Dorahy Family: The Irish origins and Australian descendants of William and Ann Dorahy © Helen Patterson 2012 Published in 2012 for the 175th Anniversary of the arrival of the Dorahy family in Sydney in 1837 Helen Patterson 2/26 Wicks Rd North Ryde NSW 2113 (02) 8084 4721
[email protected] This work is copyright. No part may be reproduced without permission of the author. Cover: Image of Adam Lodge reproduced from Samuel Walters - Marine Artist: Fifty Years of Sea, Sail and Steam by A S Davidson, 1992, (ISBN: 0-947764-46-1) with permission of the publishers Jones-Sands Publishing, Warwickshire, UK ii The Dorahy Family: The Irish origins and Australian descendants of William and Ann Dorahy CONTENTS Part A Introduction - The Dorahy name 7 1. Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland 10 2. The Dorahys in County Tyrone 16 3. The 1837 Voyage of the Adam Lodge 21 4. Greendale, NSW 29 5. William and Ann Dorahy 37 6. Catherine Dorahy and John Lovat 47 7. Patrick Dorahy, Mary Pidgeon and Bridget Coffey 55 8. William Dorahy and Julia Coffey 67 9. Bridget Dorahy and Ludwig Anschau 74 Part B 10. Some Dorahy descendants 1837-1937 85 Dorahy family biographies 93 iii Preface When I was young I used to ask my grandfather, Joe Dorahy (son of Patrick), about our Dorahy forebears. Where did the Dorahys come from? Why was the name so unusual that no one could pronounce it or spell it correctly? He told me that our ancestors came from Ireland, that two Dorahy brothers came to Australia when they were very young, that these brothers married two sisters - and that he had no idea about the origins of our name! That was the sum total of his knowledge of our ancestry.