Morgan Joseph Tully

[daisymershum]

I'm not certain that they are related. I'd have to check.

I know there are Croffys or Croffeys related to the Tullys, but the Ruddy connection seems likely too. You said Helena from Cloonlooaun was born there in January 1894, and the Irish census from April 1911 has he aged 17 (ding ding!)...

The Tully side of the family is not one we know much about, or how far it goes back as that Tully family from Ballinasloe have died off, and Mary Josephine (my late grandmother) was the only one who had kids, as far as I know.

It doesn't look like Morgan Tully had a family in the States. I don't know what John Tully, the youngest, did when he was deported back to Ireland - he may well have gone off somewhere else.

And the middle brother Hubert, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, died alone in Dublin in the 1940s/1950s as something of a down-and-out.

[daisymershum]

Any other details on this guy? John's supposed uncle - Joining relative or friend: Uncle, Jos. Moran, 440-17th St, Brooklyn, N.Y.

[Lisa in California]

No one in 1930, with that exact name (Jos. or Joseph Moran) living at that exact address, born +/-20 years of 1880.

[daisymershum]

Maybe he made it up - my dad, John Tully's nephew, was unaware of a Moran link.

[Lisa in California]

It appears that some family members were immigrating around the same time.  Perhaps they lived in certain neighbourhoods once they reached New York until they could actually get settled, and then moved on to other places?  (Hope that makes sense.)

It is odd, though, that we are not finding on the 1930 census any of the people who immigrated!

[daisymershum]

Yeah, I had hoped the census might give us something more to get stuck into.

I'll have to write off and request some records to find out more about Morgan J Tully and his time in America.

[daisymershum]

Are there any military look-ups online?

All I know so far is that Morgan started his military service on August 31, 1942. He was with the US Army in New Guinea during World War II, was a tec 5. Could have gone into combat elsewhere - don't know - and not sure what he died of in January 1967.

[shellyesq]

You can see various military databases for WWII here:  http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwartwo/index.html  There's nothing that has every single member of the military, though.

If he died in New York, only direct-line descendants can receive a death certificate unless the death certificate has been on file for 50 years.

[tul74]

Don't Know if this is of any help, as I realize the last post was some time ago. I am related to the Tully's from Ballinasloe, (sorry a different family, I think anyway) . As it has been explained to me there are at least two families from that town named Tully and I'm sure if you go back far enough they are related. My family is from Derrymullen, Ballinasloe and then there was a family from the village that I don't know much about. There is a great website www.ballinasloe.com that has a forum page, one of the topics on it is history/genealogy, it might be a great place to get some answers, some real old timers on there that may remember the family. Good luck