Mary Durkin
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Gregory James Leineweber ← John James Leineweber ← Mary Alice Farrell ← Anna Hughes Rafferty ← Mary D Hughes ← Mary Durkin
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In brief
Born Abt in County Mayo, Ireland. She married April 22, 1841, in Balla Parish, County Mayo, Ireland. She died March 1902 in Syracuse, New York.
Life story
A Mother's Final Provisions
Mary Durkin was born around 1804–1830 in County Mayo, Ireland, and married Patrick Hughes on April 22, 1841, in Balla Parish, later settling with him in Syracuse, New York. Unable to read or write, she outlived her husband and in 1890 purchased the family plot at St. Agnes Cemetery. In her February 1902 will, she divided her house evenly among her children and left the remainder of her estate to her daughter Mary Rafferty, naming her grandson William F. Rafferty as executor. Mary died in March 1902; her funeral was held at St. Mary's Church in Syracuse.
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- New York State Department of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, Number 14204, Registered Number 1746, 31 March 1911; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/7454153/person/-1090000043/media/b2221a3c-ed7a-4935-9d04-6a806403e364 : accessed 11 May 2023), uploaded by R C Harnden.
- Onondaga County, New York, County Clerk, Wills Volume 10, page 361-362, Last Will of Mary Hughes, 13 May 1902, digital images, Onondaga Country Clerk (https://cotthosting.com/NYOnondagaExternal : accessed 13 May 2023).
- 1880 U.S. census, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, population schedule, enumeration district 219, page 43, Family of Patrick Hughes; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 908; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4243411-00187 : accessed 13 May 2023).
- 1870 U.S. census, Syracuse, Ward 7, Onondaga County, New York, population schedule, page 88, dwelling 561, family 681 Family of Patrick Hughes; NARA microfilm publication T132; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4276945_00196 : accessed 15 May 2023).
- “Fatal Ending of a Picnic,” The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), 3 September 1900, page 7, col 1; web archives (https://newspaperarchive.com/syracuse-post-standard-sep-03-1900-p-7/ : accessed 15 May 2023).
- 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).
- 1861 census of England, Lancashire, Warrington, St. Paul’s District, Enumeration District 25, Folio 33, p. 22, schedule number 111, Family of Patrick Hughes; The National Archives of the UK; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8767/images/LANRG9_2794_2796-0331 : accessed 18 May 2023).
- St. Agnes Cemetery Record for Dominick Rafferty Plot, Lot 15a, Area 211; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/7454153/person/-1089998927/media/4625693b-d91a-48e0-8f0c-5ef15a838b84 : accessed 20 May 2023), uploaded by R C Harnden.
- Obituary for “Mrs. Mary Hughes,” The Catholic Sun (Syracuse, NY), 7 March 1902, page 3, col 3; Onondaga County Public Library, Central Library, Local History and Genealogy Department, Syracuse, New York, 2023.