Connecticut Irish-American The Historical jociety Shanachr'e voL xx42009 No. 4

Pat Heslin, right, was among CTUHS members who greeted Vice Consul Alan Farrelly ofthe Irish Consulate in New Yorli when he visited the Ethnic Heritage Center in New Haven on Sept. 30. Lef New Haveners who attended a reception at the consulate on Oct. I5 included, Bob Shanley, Vice Consul Farrelly, Mary McMahon, CTIAHS President George Waldron and John O'Donovan.

Consulate cultivates ties with Irish-American groups Diplomat visits our archives and hosts reception in New York

n Sept. 30, Alan Farrelly of the Irish Consulate in New York disabilities. Farrelly indicated the service is primarily focused on City visited our library and archives to discuss a program undocumented Irish immigrants and older Irish living in isolated sponsored by the lrish government to provide emergency assistance to conditions in the region. Anyone needing assistance should call 1-212- Irish citizens living in Connecticut and the Mid-Atlantic states. 3 19-2555 and leave a message on the answering machine. Farrelly explained that the consulate hopes to spread the word Also discussed during Farrelly's visit was the possibility of the about the emergency assistance program by making contact with consulate becoming a facilitator among Irish-American cultural various Irish-American organizations throughout the region. His visit organizations in the Northeast region of the . to the CTIAHS was one of several made to clubs and organizations in On Oct. 15, in response to an invitation of the vice consul, several Connecticut. representatives of the CTIAHS traveled to to attend a The consulate maintains a telephone service for Irish citizens who reception at the Irish consulate. More than 300 representatives of Irish- experience problems ranging from loss or theft of passports to American organizations in the region attended the reception.

Almost 70 years 2009 is the 125th Genealogist later, memories of anniversary of the birth of Paul Keroack traces an Irish wake John McCormack. During the lives and times of remain vivid his years in America, the one of Bridgeport's for Mary M. Irish had a home earliest lrish Cunningham. in Connecticut families. Page 2 Page 3 Page 5 Page 2 Memories of an Irish wake remain vivid, but not frightening

By Mary M Cunningham of the old woman about to be buried, followed by a sad inquiry pooks and goblins, ghosts into why she had to leave them. I and witches - we are so S did not understand any of it used to seeing these displayed at because it was in Gaelic. Mother Halloween. In the last few years, explained it to me later. however, we have begun to read As they "caoined," they that these ancient symbols, a swayed in unison. Mother said combination of Celtic druidism that these were professionals who and Christianity focus too much would show up at burials and be on death and may be signs of paid later by the family. In earlier active Satanism alive and times, this had been done by relatives and close friends. A flourishing in our midst. Perhaps because of my Irish typical "caoineWmightgo: (Celtic) background, I find that implausible and even ludicrous. 0 Father you have left us Death has never held any fear Why did you leave us? for me. By that I do not mean Or what did we do to you that it has not hurt me. The loss that you went away kom us? of close relatives and friends has An Irish wake, as depicted in Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Hall's , Its 'Tis you that had plenty. left terrible voids, and the Scenery, Character, etc., written in the 1840s contains marly of the Strong was your arm. realization that I would never see elements recalled by CTIAHS member Mary M. Cunningham. Light was your step. my parents again in this life after Skilled were your hands. their deaths seemed almost Americans started using funeral cousins had covered me. Our Poor we are without you. unendurable. But still, I know homes almost exclusively. family was riding on a sidecar, a Oh why did you leave us? that the only sure things in life At the wake, as it was called, most uncomfortable mode of are death and taxes. I noticed an array of white clay transportation. Passengers line up I never realized how As children, my brother pipes. Some men were already on each side and sit in a line as privileged I was to have seen Tommy and I were brought to smoking some of the pipes and on a subway train. I was put on such authentic folklore. Years wakes routinely. In those old- speaking softly. Mother the top, called the "spine." later when I remembered it with fashioned times, my parents explained later that these pipes After the Requiem Mass, the Mother, she said she had only rarely employed baby-sitters. As were a custom of the wake in that procession started off for the seen it a few times herself. I got older, I was surprised to era. I have since read of its cemetery, some miles off and My father, who came from a read that the whole routine of incidence in most of western through countlyside that still more anglicized part of Ireland, death and burial was regarded as Ireland. today has primitive roads. By the never witnessed it and even barbarous by many. Incidentally, the heavy time we arrived at the burial site, native Irish cousins of mine who I wonder what some people drinking that has been almost adults and children would have are 10 years younger have only would think of the mystic day I invariably mentioned in the same begged any lingering ghosts for a heard of it. It is one of many rural spent in Ireland almost 70 years breath as the words "Irish wakes" hot cup of tea. primitive practices that have ago. We had been on vacation was almost non-existent. Some Then the most remarkable disappeared, a victim of the and staying with one of my men would be offered a "wee bit thing happened. Kneeling down adoption of more sophisticated grandmothers. OF the creature," but that would and lined up next to the open rites. A very old woman of the rural be it. And women seldom drank. grave were a group of women in Did it frighten me? Certainly area had died and we were all In that long ago - 1932 - dark clothes. These were the not. Come to think of it, don't we going to the funeral. I vaguely motorized hearses still had not "caoiners." still continue it in our eulogies, remember the few days before penetrated the countryside. The Just 50 years before, they praising the deceased to the the body was brought to the coffin was transported to the probably would have worn the congregation? They just sang it church. Distant relatives - church in an open horse-drawn traditional long red skirts and instead. I'd rather like to think distant meaning anything over 25 cart. covered their heads and that someone might do it for me miles - had been notified and When you think of a typical shoulders with black shawls. some day. along with nearby neighbors Irish day, do you feel rain? Well, When the entire entourage would sit up with the body. Editor's note: Mary M. feel rain and cold that seeped into had arrived, they commenced the Incidentally, that custom lived on Czrnningham is a member of the every bone and muscle. It filled "caoine." It was a high-pitched in the United Sates until after Connecticut Irish-American every fiber of the blanket with lament in which individual World War I1 and most Irish- Historical Sociefy. which the concerned aunts and women would sing some praises Page 3 Acclaimed Irish tenor was a Connecticut Yankee, too John McCormack and his family summered in Darien while his career as a classical and folk singer blossomed.

n late September 1915, a most Feis Ceoil in . For some 1unusual life-saving took place FOXSOLI CAPSTOL years thereafter, McCormack on Long Island Sound in the 1 pursued a career in , singing town of Darien. Mutual throughout Europe and with the The rescued was the love affair Metropolitan Opera in New York internationally known sculptor, in 1910-11, 1912-4 and 1917-18,

Mario Korbel, born in 1882 in I in Hartford and the Opera in 19 10- Bohemia which was then a 11. province of the Hapsburg Warndy greeted by the Irish- Empire. Hartford loved John JOHNMC@WCI( American community and other The rescuer was the McCormack for his concerts I- musicians and artists, internationally known tenor, and his 1930 movie, Song ."SONGO'MY HEART' McCormack and his wife, Lily, John McCormack, born in 1884 O'My Hearl which played at grew to love America. In 1917, in , , the Fox-Po[i Capitol in 1930. John applied for U.S. citizenship

Ireland, which was then a And McCormack loved 7...l..r-C-....Is..cF- And between opera and concert --...-*w my c;n. - province of the British Empire. Hartford especially after the m.m*-,-..4 appearances in Dublin, London, The news item reporting the Bushnell Hall opened that same r" Z!..l,<". s", Milan and Naples, the incident stated: "Noroton, Conn., year. During the early years of McCormacks resided in New Sept. 21 - John McCormack, the 20th century, McCormack sang before sellout crowds in York and in Connecticut. the Irish tenor, today saved Hartford at Parson's Theater, in Foot Guard Hall and in the State Only in their 30s and with a Mario Korbel, the sculptor, from Armory. The latter, especially, was an almost impossible venue for a young and growing family, they drowning in Long Island Sound singer. When he gave his first concert at the Bushnell in 1931, he found a summer getaway on the .. . Korbel, with McCormack's told the audience: "When I've sung before in Hartford, it was under Connecticut shore. In 1915, they accompaniest, Edwin Schneider, adverse conditions . . . But now, well, God bless you for this . . . I've rented what was known as the were cruising in Richard been everywhere East, South and West but never a finer a place to "Pope House" in Darien. In her kGallieme's yacht, Aphrodite, sing have I seen." memoir, I Hear You Calling Me when a sudden gale of wind Harlford Courant, Dec. 13, 21, 1930; Jan. 19, 1931. Lily described the Pope House as capsized the craft. "a charming, gray-stone house "McCormack was nearby in a little and kept afloat until he was sea was rough and only a good right on the edge of the rocks power boat, and speeded to the picked up. All three are summer swimmer could have overlooking the water ... We rescue. Korbel could not swim residents at Tokeneke, near here. accomplished his feat." took it for two summers. It was and was sinking when the singer "Mr. McCormack learned to McCormack first came to there that we all, including John, plunged overboard, grasped him swim only this summer, when he America in 1904 to sing at the St. learned to swim. It had a dock by the hair and finally succeeded became a member of the Louis Exposition, just a year and this was a ready-made in pulling him aboard the power Tokeneke Club, but he quickly after he had won the gold medal chance for John to have a new boat. Schneider could swim a developed a powerful stroke. The in the tenor competition in the (Please turn lo page 4) More than one McCormack singer in Connecticut John McCormack was not the only sibling of the will sing again and this time there will be no secrecy McCormacks of Athlone to live in Connecticut, about the fact that in reality he is James McCormack John's brother James, right, lived in Stamford in the of Stamford, who until recently has been business 1930s. In fact, James was also known for his representative ofhis brother. musical abilities. On Sept. 14, 1930, the Hartford "Recently, at the request of John McCormack, Courant carried an article about James's affiliation James decided to make his debut as a radio with WTIC, Hartford's fledgling radio station: performer. He wished to come before the public first "Hidden under the alias 'James Watson,' radio under an assumed name until it was discovered how fans who have been listening to this guest artist with his voice would carry on the air and what sort of a the Stringwood Ensemble, broadcast over WTIC, reception his work would have. He has been so well have been hearing James McCormack, brother of received by radio audiences that the 'James Watson' the illustrious songster of Athlone, John is no longer necessary. McCormack. Thursday afternoon 'James Watson' Source: Hartford Courant, Sepi. 14, Dec. 14, 1930. James McCormack Daae 6 Connecticut shoreline was summer home for John McCormack (ContinuedJlam page 3) York on hot days, lunch on deck hobby, yachting. First he bought in the cool breeze and afternoon a forty-foot boat which he named tea on deck on the way home." the Macushla." Fishing was another favored It was undoubtedly the pasttime. On one occasion, John Macushla in which McCormack took his guests, the came to the rescue of his violinist and the Duc de neighbors, Korbel the sculptor Richelieu fishing on the and LeGallienne, the writer and Macushla. poet. "Fritz," wrote Lily, "was the After two years renting, the first to get a strike and from the McCormacks, at the behest of length of the straggle he had their friend, the New York reason to believe he had hooked developer and Irish activist, John a sea monster. John was worried D. Crimmins, purchased what that the violinist might be hurting Lily called "our first home, his hands, but Fritz was too much Rocklea, in Noroton." A showing of the 1930 movie Song O'My Heart, starring John absorbed to be worried. He was "Rocklea," said Lily, "had McCormack, cenler, and Maureen O'Szlllivan will kickoff lhe keenly disappointed after his everything John wanted: a expert handling to find he had McCormack weekend a1 Boston College on Nov. 13 bathing beach, a bigger and only landed a skate." better dock for the bigger and As much as he liked Rocklea, better boat, a fine tennis court Boston College honors McCormack McCormack could not resist and a delightful old barn where when a friend found for sale in we had many parties for children Film showing, symposium on Nov. 13-14 Noroton a 183-acre farm. He and grown-ups. Somewhere Boston College is observing the 125th anniversary of the birth of purchased the farm, named it along the line, John decided that John McCormack with a John McCormack Weekend on Friday and Lilydale for his spouse, and he needed more space for his Saturday, Nov. 13-14. assured her, "Just think, Lily, own work. The living room The weekend will begin on Friday with a showing in Devlin Hall we'll have our own milk, eggs, seemed to be overrun with of the 1930 movie, Song O'My Hearf, in which the Athlone singer butter, chickens, fruit and children so he built on a wing; a starred with the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. vegetables. music room with two guest Activities on Saturday, Nov. 14, include: "We'll get some cows and the rooms and baths over it." 12:30 p.m. - Film, John McCormack: The People's Tenor, kidgers will have grand fun with On rainy days, John and his Jenks Library, Gasson Hall. the baby calves, choosing names musicians "would shut 2 p.m. - Symposium: The Legacy of John McCormack.. for them. And, oh, what fine themselves in the music room Gasson Hall. Professor Hankus Netsky, chair of the Contemporary exercise it will be for you and me and work for hours on end in Improvisation Department of the New England Observatory and to walk all over the place." blissful privacy, going through founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, a the song literature of the German, The McCormacks retained renowned Yiddish music ensemble. Mick Moloney, distinguished French, Italian and Russian Ljlydale Farm until 1922, when it professor of music at New York University and authority on Irish masters besides many modem was sold to the Highland Farm composers ... Only Nellie, of Darien. Highland 4 p.m. - Lecture, Paul Brock: Impressions of the Great Irish John's German police dog, his leased it to the Ox Ridge Hunt Tenor, Gasson Hall. inseparable companion, was Club which laid out polo fields 5:30 p.m. - Reception and viewing of McCormack exhibit at allowed in the room. She would and bridle paths there. Bums Library. Exhibit continues until Dec. I 1. lie under the piano in complete Sources: Lily McCormack's 7 p.m. - Concert featuring McCormack music, Irish Room, contentment while they memoir, I Hear You Calling Me, Gasson Hall. practiced." 1949; John McCormack, John While mornings were set See: www.bc.edu/irish McCormack, His Own Life aside for musical work, summer Story, 1918; New York Times, afternoons at Rocklea were filled an appropriate name to him, but more I was called in to help with Sepl, 21, 1915, ocl, 17, 1921, with tennis, fishing, swimming the boat was no pal o'mine," decorations and furnishings." March 16, Ocf. 16, 1922, Sepl. and yachting for all. wrote Lily. Cyril (their son) was The yacht was big enough, 17, 1945. Feb, 26, 1922; Lily was not enamored of the old enough to aid and abet his however, to ferry the family and Harlford Couranl, Jan. 19, 1931; "bigger and better" boat that John father in choosing the boat, and visitors across the Sound, and D~~,13, 21, 1930, had purchased and named Pal my protests against their Lily did concede, "We had some O'Mine. "This may have seemed extravagance were in vain. Once delighthl trips going up to New Page 5 Industrial growth attracted Irish families to Bridgeport in 1830s

By Paul Keroack found primarily in Galway or except the boarders were in West Troy (now Watewliet, nlike most other Westmeath. Crowe, originally surnamed Higgins, subsequent near Albany). V Connecticut cities, MacEnchroe, is found in both records indicate the Carey The regiment entered service Bridgeport did not exist as a Clare and west central Ireland. children retained their birth on June 15, 1861. Why he town in the colonial period. The surnames of the majority of surnames following their step- traveled to West Troy to enlist is Within the town of Stratford, the persons named at the 1830 father's death. not known, but there were two the harbor-side settlement of Mass also originated from these Bridget's quick remarriage other Carey soldiers in Company Newfield was created a borough areas of Ireland. was perhaps a necessity with A, Thomas and William J., and within the town in 1800. Its rapid On Feb. 27, 1836, Catherine three infants to feed, but it may several Careys in other growth alarmed the agricultural was born to David and Bridget not have been a happy one. companies of the regiment. town, which pressured the Carey, followed in 1837 by Michael Higgins' July 29, 1858, West Troy was also a heavily legislature in 1821 to turn the Michael and in March 1839 by death record included a notation Irish community at the time. borough into a new, independent David. At some point before June "& rum." to the primary cause of Several Crowe families resided town, called Bridgeport. 1840, David Carey died, leaving death, cholera. While alcoholism there, originating in Emly, The new town consisted of County Tipperary. It may be that 1,700 persons in 218 homes David Carey was related to the along with 75 shops and Careys or Crowes in that town. industries, which included In the 1850 and 1860 cabinetmakers, saddlers, carriage censuses, a number of younger builders and hat makers. By Carey men in neighboring Troy 1824, steamships began visiting were noted as having been born the port, with ships making in Canada. regular stops there beginning in Quebec records show several the 1830s, some no doubt Careys in New Glasgow, a bringing- - immigrants.- community north of Montreal Evidence of an Irish enclave Connecticut'sfamozrs wandering artist, John Warner Barber, lefffor which was settled by Irish and in Bridgeport goes back to 1830 posterity a wonderful portrait of Bridgeport as it was in the 1830s, Scottish immigrants around when 17 persons, all but two the era when Irish immigrants, including the Carey family, were 1830. with Trish names, gathered on a beginning to settle there. Some Careys and Crowes (or Sunday at the home of James Crow, Crough), all of Irish birth, McCullough to attend Mass Bridget a widow with three small was surely common enough, 1 are also listed in Montreal celebrated by the visiting children. have rarely seen such a plain marriage and baptism records missionary, Father James Fitton. In the 1840 census of statement of it in an official death about that time. It may be that the The Irish community grew Bridgeport, Michael Hig,'01ns was register. Careys who emigrated to rapidly along with Bridgeport, living with a wife and two male Bridget never married again. Bridgeport about 1830 were which incorporated as a city in and two female children under The 1860 census listed her and related to the Careys who entered 1836. By 1850, one of evely five five and six male adults. Later her daughter, Mary, as Quebec at about the same time. residents was Irish. The Catholic information makes it clear that seamstresses, sons Michael and Before the mass emigration of parish, numbering some 250, Michael Higgins married David Carey as clerks, while the 1840s, passage from Ireland began construction of a church, Bridget, taking in her three Carey Ellen remained at home. The to British-owned Canada was completed in 1843 as St. James, children. The six adults were household had one boarder. cheaper than directly to New since renamed St. Augustine. likely boarders. Bridget owned a modest York. Among those identified at the In 1842, Mary was born to the home on Lafayette Street. Eldest Another possible connection 1830 worship were two named Higgins couple, followed by daughter Catherine had married to the Albany area is that the Carey - Peter and John. By Ellen in 1848. While city vital John Fenelon about 1855. The Housatonic Railroad, chartered in 1835, there was also living in records do not include the exact Fenelons raised five children in 1836 with funding from town David Carey and his wife dates of these births, the Catholic Connecticut before moving to Bridgeport, was intended to Bridget Crowe. It would not be baptismal record for Ellen New York City by 1870. connect the Connecticut city with surprising if all the Careys were survived, indicating her birth date At the beginning of the Civil the Erie Canal terminus city. related, but the scarcity of as April 29, I. 848. War, Michael Carey remained When the Herkimer Regiment surviving records for that period The 1850 census, the first to home to support his mother and disbanded in 1863, David Carey leaves that question unanswered. include the name of each person, siblings while his brother David returned to Bridgeport and While it is not known where listed Michael, age 40; Bridget, enlisted in the 34th New York married Delia Wade in 1864. in Ireland the Careys originated, age 42; Catherine, 15; Michael, Infantry, known as the "Herkimer The 1870 census listed David, the name is anglicized from 14; David 12; Mary, 8; Ellen 2; Regiment." He was in Company employed in a fish market, living Keary, Keighry or MacCary, all and four boarders. While all A, which was recruited primarily (Please turn to page 6) Page 6 Careys among early Irish immigrants settling in Bridgeport

(Continued from page 5) Street lot worth $3,500, was to be had reached the age of 83 years At the funeral, bearers were with his mother - both surnamed divided, one third to David, one .. . survived by his wife and one Charles Ganlen (Gallen), John Carey in this instance. Michael, third to Ellen, one sixth to son, Dr. David Carey of Freehold, Fenelon, Harry W. Cowles and age 33, and wife Julia (sic), 27, Catherine and one sixth to Walter. N.J.." (grandson) Arthur Carey. Mary born in Canada, were listed with There was no portion for His cousin, David Fenelon, by E. Fenelon, who moved back to sons David and Forester. Mary, as "I have given her what I then an insurance agent, married New York following her mother's In the late 1860s, Ellen regard as her share." It may be Isabel Couse, daughter of a death, died there suddenly on Higgins married Irish-born James that Bridget had previously given Bridgeport policeman, in 1888. June 23, 1927. Gallen. They were living in funds over the years to the Lyons He was active in the city's A fatal pedestrian accident Derby in 1870 where James was a family, which had eight children, Democratic Party and was ended the life of Charles Henry tile-cutter. Mary Higgins married and whose sole breadwinner was appointed deputy sheriff for Gallen on Jan. 24, 1942. He was at age 28, in 1869 to Irish a factory worker. Bridgeport in 1892, later moving about 73 years of age. The emigrant Martin Lyons, a foundry On Nov. 7, 1889, Ellen up in municipal employment to obituary states, "Mr. Gallen, the worker in East Bridgeport and Higgins Gallen died at age 41 become a city assessor. last of one of the pioneer families raised a large family with him from heart disease. Her son The Fenelons lived with their of this city, was a member of the there. Charles H. Gallen soon partnered son, Earl, on then-fashionable sea food firm of Garry and Gallen By 1880, both Michael and with Thomas J. Garry to operate a Atlantic Street In 1923, several until his retirement." David were operating the fish fish market at 24 Wall Street, at newspaper notices revealed that This extended family, market at the comer of Wall and or near where Michael & David David Fenelon was being sued for descendants of Bridget Carey and Middle streets. By then Michael Carey's market had operated until divorce by his wife on grounds of her two husbands, to a remarkable and Delia had only one child, about 1884 - perhaps his "intolerable cruelty" after 35 extent used step-family situations, Walter. mother's legacy allowed him to years of marriage. raising grandchildren and cousins David's household was more finance the venture. David Fenelon's life spiraled over several generations to complex. Residing at 217 Garry had experience working downward. He was listed in the support each other as they took Lafayette with him were his at another local fish market. 1930 census among the patients advantage of the growing widowed sister Ellen Gallen, her Whether he was related to another living at the Connecticut State prosperity of an industrial city to children Charles and Kate, his 18- early Bridgeport Irish immigrant, Hospital at Middletown. advance their economic lives. year-old nephew David Fenelon, Thomas Garey, is unknown, but Isabel was still living in 1954 The later generations faded and his mother Bridget Higgins. this Thomas was born about 1862 in Pittsburgh Pa, apparently near From Bridgeport life, a few Fenelon clerked in the market to Irish immigrants in Savannah, her son Earl, an engineer with the suffering reversals from poor while his parents and siblings Ga. H.J. Heinz Corporation. decisions, some relocating and remained at Sixth Street in Charles Gallen married By 1890, Catherine Fenelon others following the late-19th , where his father was a Elizabeth Bany around 1903 and was widowed, living in Black century pattern of urban middle- blacksmith. Michael Carey died left the fish market about 1906. Rock with her daughters, Mary E. class families having few of tuberculosis on April 19, 1882, In the 1910 census he was and Katherine G., who both children. at the age of 45. described as having his "own worked as seamstresses, and her Sources: Orcutt, Samuel. A Histow of Bridget Higgins died at age 75 income." The couple had no grandson Arthur E., son of her the Old Town ofStrar/ord and tlie ciw on January 12, 1886. In her will, children. Thomas Garry and his late daughter Maggie Fenelon ofBrrd~e~ortCT.. 1886, v. 2. Wilson, as recorded in Bridgeport Probate family relocated to Albany, N.Y., Carey. Lynn, Hislow of Faideld Countv, 1929. v. I. DiGiovanni. Stephen M., Court in 1888, she named her where he operated a restaurant In 1920, Catherine Fenelon, at ~h,calholic church in ~~~~.fi~ld heirs and specified the division and was later a seafood age 83, lived at 27 Buckingham Countv, 1666-1961. 1987. Bridgeport among them of the proceeds from wholesaler. st, with her daughter M~~,vital records, 1831-1900. Bridgeport probate, 1840-1916. Bridgeport her property. David Carey lived at 643 inspector in a corset factory and ne,soaoe,,, 1919-1977, Civil War rr . Those named, in order of age, Lafayette St. with his wife Delia her youngest son John L., a Soldrers/Sa~Iors System, were daughter Catherine Stewart to whom he was married bookkeeper. civilwar.r7as.~o1~/c~~ss.US. census, 1840-1930, Bridgeport CT, Troy N.Y "Fallon" (Fenelon was meant), in 1884. They had a son David, On Feb. 16, 1926, Catherine MacLysaght, E., Surnames of lreland, "widow" (wife) of John, New born the following year. He was Fenelon died, a few days before 6th ed., 1991. Byrne, William, el a/., York City; son Michael Carey, no longer listed with an her 90th birthday. She was Hislow ofthe in the deceased, represented by Walter occupation in the city directories survived by "three daughters, New Endand States. Boston: Hind & Everts, 1899. 2 v., lists those present Carey, grandchild; David Carey; and in the 1900 census described Miss Mattie (Mary E.) Fenelon at the 1830 Mass, as follows: Mrs. Mary E. Lyons, wife of Martin himself as a "capitalist." and Mrs. Harry Cowles (Katie), McLoughlin, Mrs. McConnell, and Ellen "Fallon" (Gallen was David Carey and his wife later both of this city, and Mrs. Fannie Bernard Kennedy, Peter Carey, John Carej~, Michael Sullivan, Joseph meant), "wife" (widow) of James, shared their home with two Wolcott of New York City, and Delaney. James McCullough, John all of Bridgeport. "nieces-in-law." He died on Nov. two sons, David Fenelon of Reilly, James Gillick, James Ward, The property, consisting of 17, 1922. The obituary states, "he Bridgeport and John Fenelon of Thomas Garey, Edward Lirtz and two old houses on a Lafayette was a retired businessman and New York City." John Coyle. Page 7 Archivist unravels mystery of book donated to our library

...... hanks to the efforts of an and Northern Circuit; first Tarchivist among us, the principal of Rathmines School of mystery about a handwritten Commerce; founded dedication in a book in our Contemporary Club with , library at the Ethnic Heritage Douglas Hyde and others, 1885;

Center has begun to unravel. founded with others Dublin , In the last issue of the University Review, 1885; i newsletter, we printed an article founded Protestant Home Rule about the dedication, shown at Association, 1886; professor of right, which appears on the inside commerce at National University front page of the book Ireland, of Ireland, 1909 . .. Chaired first , Painted by Francis S. Walker, meeting of Irish Volunteers (var. Described by Frank Mathew, Citizen Army) ... 1913; published in 1905 in London and published works include

New York. Economic Del~eloprnenf in , The book was given Ireland . .. The Economic and originally to a man named David Industrial Condition of Ireland A. McCabe. The dedication to ... The History of BeIJbst *id 8 d@y him was signed by nine other Shipping .. . Of Oldham, (Maud L- % I cl r t-oJ r men "with the hearty good Gonne) said, 'J felt sony for him, A-

(Conlinuedfrom Page 7) Boston. Two children, Mrs. Anne chairman of the Catholic our historical society had been about Francis Sylvester Walker, M. Tele of , Colo., and Commission on Intellectual and given a book with the dedication whose paintings illustrated the Sister Patricia A. McCabe of Cultural Affairs, a member of the to David A. McCabe. book. "Francis Sylvester Walker New Haven, CT (at the time of Catholic Economic Association Lo and behold a few days (1 848-1916) was an Irish painter. his obituary) ... AB Harvard in and Pax Romana. Instrumental in later, we received a telephone call Francis was the son of Thomas 1904 where he was a classmate of establishing the Roman Catholic from Sister Patricia who is, Walker, master of the Workhouse President Franklin D. Roosevelt. chaplaincy at Princeton." indeed, the daughter of David at Dunshaughlin, and Ann Began work as special agent for Susan contacted Albertus McCabe. Delaney of Clavistown Mills, Department of Agriculture and Magnus College to pursue the She was surprised and Killmessan, County Meath. Technical Instruction for Ireland, revelation that one of McCabe's delighted to hear about the book, Francis studied at both the Royal 1904-1 905. Instructor of daughters, Sister Patricia although she is not the donor who Dublin Society and the Royal economics at Catholic University McCabe, OP, had been in New gave it to us and does not know Hibernian Academy." of America, 1905-1908 . . . Joined Haven. The college referred her the identity of the donor. On Sept. 1, Susan passed Princeton faculty 1909, chaired to the archivist for the Dominican Sister Patricia also revealed along some additional the Economics Department, Order and she revealed that Sister that both she and her sister, Anne, information provided by the 1927-1934, retiring in 1952. Patricia is now living in are graduates of Albertus Princeton archivist: "David "Served in as a Columbus, Ohio. Magnus, and that she had taught McCabe, born March 8, 1883, in in the Signal We wrote to Sister Patricia biology both at Albertus and at Providence, R.I. Died Jan. 8, Corps, Aviation Section, and expressing the hope that she was St. Mary's High School in New 1974, in Princeton, N.J. Married captain in Air Service the same sister who had been in Haven. to former Irene Louise Duntlin of Aeronautics . . . Founder and first New Haven and explaining that

- President George Waldron Vice President Vincent McMahon "We have kept faith Published quarterly by the Secretary Maureen Delahunt with the past; Connecticut Irish-American Treasurer Tom Slater we have handed Historical Society Shanachie Editor Neil Hogan. (203) 269-91 54 P.O. Box 185833 a lradition to the future." Hamden, CT 06518 Membership $10 individual, $15 family. Send name address and (203) 392-6126 check made out to CIAHS to address at lefl. www.ctiahs.com - Padraic Pearse In Ireland, a Shanachie is a folklorist, historian and keeper of the traditions of the people.

Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society P.O. Box 185833 Hamden, CT 06518