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Patrick A Hughes

Generation 6 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Gregory James Leineweber ← John James Leineweber ← Mary Alice Farrell ← Anna Hughes Rafferty ← Mary D Hughes ← Patrick A Hughes

In brief

Born about 1808–1819, in County Mayo, Ireland. He married April 22, 1841, in Balla Parish, County Mayo, Ireland. He died about 1884–1885, at Adams Street, Ward, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York.

Family

Spouse
Mary Durkin
m. 1841

Children

  • Mary D Hughes · in this line
    b. c. 1840 · Balla, County Mayo, Ireland
    m. Dominick E Rafferty
    d. March 29, 1911, at home in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, USA
  • Catherine Hughes
    b. Abt. December 1843, in Carrowkeel, Balla Parish, County Mayo, Ireland
  • Thomas Hughes
    b. Abt. August 1846, in Carrowkeel, Balla Parish, County Mayo, Ireland
    m. Mary____
    d. November 9, 1890, in Syracuse, New York from cranial hemorrhage after slipping on a banana peel
  • Catherine/Katherine “Kate” Hughes
    b. c. 1847, in England
  • John Hughes
    b. c. 1849, in Balla Parish, County Mayo, Ireland
  • James Hughes
    b. c. 1854, in Warrington, Lancashire, England
    d. September 2, 1900, near Phoenix, NY by drowning after hitting his head while falling off a boat in the Oswego River
  • Ann/Annie Hughes
    b. Abt. 1856, in Warrington, Lancashire, England
    m. ____ Gallagher
  • Lawrence P. Hughes
    b. December 25, 1859 (other records: c. 1861)
    m. Mary Rafferty
    d. July 3, 1934, in Syracuse, NY from Hypertrophic Liver Cirrhosis
  • Marred: ____ Christian
    d. June 10, 1891, in Syracuse, New York from Uterine Cancer

Life story

A Laborer on Orange Street

Patrick A. Hughes was born around 1808–1819 in County Mayo, Ireland, and married Mary Durkin on April 22, 1841, in Balla Parish. The couple lived for a time in Warrington, Lancashire, England, before settling in Syracuse, New York, where Patrick worked as a laborer and, in 1869, purchased a home on Orange Street for $900. Unable to read or write, he nonetheless built up enough property to leave a formal will, signed March 1, 1884, providing for his wife and children in turn and naming his wife executrix. Patrick died in Syracuse in the spring of 1884 or 1885.

Patrick Mary Hughes CC.
Patrick Mary Hughes CC.
Patrick A Hughes.
Patrick A Hughes.
Patrick and Mary Durkan Hughes.
Patrick and Mary Durkan Hughes.
Sources (23)
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  2. Onondaga County, New York, County Clerk, Wills Volume 4, page 115-116, Last Will of Patrick Hughes, 23 May 1884, digital images, Onondaga Country Clerk (https://cotthosting.com/NYOnondagaExternal : accessed 13 May 2023).
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  18. Balla Parish, Archdiocese of Tuam, County Mayo, Marriage Registry, 1837-1882, p. 13, Microfilm 04213/06, Patrick Hughes and Mary Durkin; images, Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI (https://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000631999_013 : accessed 17 May 2023).
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  23. Onondaga County, New York, Verified Transcript form the Register of Deaths, death registry for Patrick Hughes, 29 April 1884; Onondaga County Health Department, Office of Vital Statistics, Syracuse, New York.
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