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Donegal / Boyles of Stranorlar
« on: Wednesday 30 July 14 23:01 BST (UK) »
I'm not certain when Owen Boyle, born abt 1835, came to America, but he was married in New York City by 1860. His children were Daniel (born 1860), William, Mary, John, Annie (Anna Louise) and Kate. His wife was Ann Donnelly, who'd arrived in the US during the 1840s.
Owen was a hackman, apparently comfortably enough well off though not wealthy. He and his family lived on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan. He died in 1872 -- the story is that he jumped into the East River to rescue someone and then died of pneumonia, but that may be simply an embroidered legend. I do know that the Hackmen's Society posted a short memorial notice in the newspaper for him, which is how I learned that he had come to the US from Stranorlar. After his death, his wife and children moved to Brooklyn.
In 1870 he had living with his family in NYC a Patrick Boyle, born abt 1840 in Ireland, possibly a younger brother. Patrick was a policeman. I've found no further mention of him.
They were Catholic. And ... that's all I know about my Boyle ancestors from Stranorlar!
Owen was a hackman, apparently comfortably enough well off though not wealthy. He and his family lived on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan. He died in 1872 -- the story is that he jumped into the East River to rescue someone and then died of pneumonia, but that may be simply an embroidered legend. I do know that the Hackmen's Society posted a short memorial notice in the newspaper for him, which is how I learned that he had come to the US from Stranorlar. After his death, his wife and children moved to Brooklyn.
In 1870 he had living with his family in NYC a Patrick Boyle, born abt 1840 in Ireland, possibly a younger brother. Patrick was a policeman. I've found no further mention of him.
They were Catholic. And ... that's all I know about my Boyle ancestors from Stranorlar!