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     She married Eugene Roe Jr. on 8 July 1989 at Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA 18505.¹

     She married Joseph Patrick Murray on 4 September 1987 at Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18447.^2,1

     He married Janet Elizabeth Roe on 4 September 1987 at Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18447.^2,1

     He married Joan Gardier on 2 November 1979 at Washington, D.C. 20000.

     She married Christopher Mark Roe on 2 November 1979 at Washington, D.C. 20000.

     He married Elizabeth C. Kelly on 23 May 1983 at Harding, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.¹

     She married Thomas M. Roe on 23 May 1983 at Harding, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.¹

     She married Michael Hanlon on 11 April 1992 at Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18447.^2,1

     He married Marie Roe on 11 April 1992 at Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18447.^2,1

     Francis died at Ireland at age at an unknown age . Francis was born, at Ireland. He married Nancy Clarke at Ireland.¹

     She married Francis Mulroy at Ireland.¹ Nancy died at Ireland at age at an unknown age . Nancy was born, at Ireland.

     His body was interred, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.
      "The Mulroy family came from Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. According to family traditon, he was an only child. A grandson, Brother Aidan Melroy, remembers his father talking about a grist mill with a stone floor that Manus operated near a lake. This was not far from Croagh Patrick. The couple had ten [eleven] children before Cathierine died following the birth of her daughter Margaret. Her husband, Manus, died two days later." ( The Melroy Family )
Courtnee Mulroy, during further research added the following informaiton:

I wanted to further update more information that was found on Manus
Mulroy. I believe him to be either a brother or a cousin at least to my
third grandfather Henry Mulroy. I think I mentioned before about my
cousin over in Westport, Ireland that is helping me research information
over there in Ireland. He was able to get in contact with a man that is
very well educated on the history of Islandeady Parish, Glenisland area
right by Wesport there.

The first information we found was an actual church record in Islandeady
Parish, in the village of Kilgarrif that my cousin was able to read
first hand, the birth of the last daughter of Manus and Catherine
Riordan. Margaret Mulroy in 1842. This places them in a village next to
my Mulroys and not in Kilalla. My Mulroys were from Barnastang.
Furthermore, the paragraph on your site also provided so much information.

"The Mulroy family came from Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.
According to family traditon, he was an only child. A grandson, Brother
Aidan Melroy, remembers his father talking about a grist mill with a
stone floor that Manus operated near a lake. This was not far from
Croagh Patrick. The couple had ten [eleven] children before Cathierine
died following the birth of her daughter Margaret. Her husband, Manus,
died two days later." ( _ The Melroy Family _ ).

Croagh Patrick is right by Westport, 5mi from it and right by these
villages I speak of. As well there was indeed a mill next to the lake
Beltra (Beltra Lough) near where Manus lived that mill was Bunahowna and
it is located on some of the old maps of the area. A house sits where
that Mill was and the actual wheel from that mill is now placed into the
fence at that house. I am attaching images of all this and some maps.
The map will also show the Mulroys that I am speaking about in various
villages around that area.

Further more, I am also attaching other images of a book that was put
together by a man that read through handwritten records brought over to
America about the evictions of Glenisland area and it was heartbreaking
to read Manus Mulroys outright murder in these documents. He was removed
from his home (evicted) while on his death bed and died once taken outside.

I bring this up, because it is important to us to not forget the pain
Manus went through nor for his true story to be forgotten. I hope with
these things you are open minded about the errors that we have found.

Kilalla is indeed a very important village to the Mulroy family, as we
have found information that the Mulroys did battle there with English to
preserve their faith and history. Mulroys started up in Donegal County
and were pushed South into Mayo and even Louth counties when the English
rule took over in 1601. They fought to keep the last true Gaelic area of
Ireland. The Mulroys in Mayo County still did not stop and were involved
in the battles in Kilalla.³



Manus was born on 16 January 1801, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. He married Catherine Riordan on 8 June 1823 at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.^1,4,2 Manus died on 6 May 1842 at Kilgarriff Parish, Islandeady, County Mayo, Ireland, at age 41.

Courtee Mulroy sent the following article. Mr. McManamon, after completion of his Master's thesis of the Great Irish Famine in County Mayo, found County Mayo Land League records in the New York Public library. They are 68 handwritten pages of witness statements pertaining to evictions, cases of rack-renting and other landlord abuses. They were copied down by local parish priests. He writes:

"It is heart wrenching to read how tenets without a written lease were at the mercy of the landlords and their agents. It records fines for not whitewashing one's house, notices to evict for having a relative stay at one's house and rents' being considerably higher than their valuation. The Land League records claim that people were even fined for not getting a landlord's permission to marry."



Pat Salmon of Kilgarriff Parish of Islandeady and County of Mayo am tenant on Sir Roger Palmer's property. Witnessed saw twenty-one houses in said village. Saw seventeen of these pulled down and levelled. Also saw the men employed in levelling these houses take out a man named Manus Mulroy from his death bed carry him into the open air where he died immediately after."⁵.⁵

     Her body was interred, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Catherine was born on 13 June 1808, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. She married Manus Mulroy on 8 June 1823 at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.^1,3,2 Catherine died on 4 May 1842 at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland, at age 33.

      She came to America with her brother, Thomas, and her sisters. She first lived in Carbondale, PA. She married, but had no children. After her husband, Mr. Judge, died she moved to Iowa to live with her sister, Katherine Mulroy, south of Bevington, Iowa. She died there and was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery near Churchville, Iowa. ( The Melroy Family ).
She married (?) Judge.⁴ Ellen was born on 13 June 1825, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Ellen died on 13 March 1885 at Warren County, Iowa, at age 59.^5,2 Her body was interred in 1885, at St. Patrick's Cemetery at Churchville, Iowa 50211.⁶

     Died when he was a young man around the age of 21.
Mark was born on 18 March 1827, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Mark died circa 1848 at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland, at age at an unknown age .^3,2

      "John, third child of Manus and Catherine Mulroy, and his sister Mary came to America in 1847, by way of New York. They settled in Carbondale, PA, where John worked in the coal mines until he had saved enough money to send for his brother, Thomas and his sisters. He also worked the mines at Wilkes-Barre.
John, Thomas, and their sister Katherine traveled to Iowa, arriving in Madison County before 1857. Their sisters, Ellen, Anna, Bridget, and Margaret remained in Pennsylvania."
After going to Iowa, he bought the farm he lived on from his brother Thomas, when he married. He lived near Churchville, Iowa.
He married Hannah Kirby.⁴ John was born on 1 May 1829, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. John immigrated to in 1847. He married Mary A. Ryan Johnson on 14 January 1891.^4,3 John died on 20 March 1920 at Warren County, Iowa, at age 90.⁵

      Sent for from Ireland by his brother, Mark. He traveled with his sisters to Carbondale, PA where, he work in the coal mines. Later with his brother, John, and sister, Katherine, he went before 1857, to Madison, County, Iowa.
Thomas bought a farm near St. Patrick's Church, Irish Settlement, in Madison, Iowa. When his brother, John, married, he sold him that farm, and later bought another farm in Madison County.
According to his daughter, Nora, Thomas and his brother, John, always signed their name "Mulroy." It is with their children that the spelling of the name commonly became "Melroy."
St. Patrick's Church in the Irish Settlement of Madison County, near where Thomas bought farm, figures repeatedly in the history of the Melroy family. The church has been the scene of many baptims, marriages, and funerals of members of these families.
The story is told of the controversy about 1855, among the Irish families in the area concerning the location of the future parish; north or south of the North River. Upon the death of a stranger while at the home of a settler on the south side of the river, it was necessary to decide upon the location of the cemetery, so the man could be buried. While the settler was determining a site in his neighborhood, some people form the north side took the body and buried it on the north side. It followed that the parish should be headquartered near the cemetery, hence the location of St. Patrick's, on the north side of the North River, Lee Township, Madison County, Iowa.
St. Patrick's figured prominently in the news in 1979, when Pope John Paul II chose the church for a Papel visit while in the United States.
On May 11, 1857, at St. Ambrose Cathedral, Des Moinse, Iowa, Thomas married Margaret Gallagher, the fourth of six children of Hames and Bridgett Callahan. Thomas and Margaret, had fifteen Children, eleven sons, and four daughters. (Melroy Family).

Thomas was born on 30 November 1831, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. He married Margaret Gallagher on 11 May 1857 at Des Moines, Iowa 50300.^4,3 Thomas died on 29 January 1893 at Madison County, Iowa, at age 61.^5,6

     Came with her brother, John, and settled in Carbondale, PA. After Martin died (before 1860) she married David Cavanaugh.
See Joyces.

She married Martin Casey. Mary was born on 18 April 1835, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Mary immigrated to in 1847. Mary died in 1895 at Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18407, at age at an unknown age .^4,5

      Arrived in America with her brother, Thomas, and her sisters. She first settled in Carbondale, PA, and later traveled with Thomas and John to Madsion County, Iowa.

She married Thomas Gallagher.³ Katherine was born on 1 February 1838, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Katherine died on 17 June 1921 at Warren County, Iowa, at age 83.²

     Bridget died at Jermyn, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18433, at age at an unknown age .³ Bridgett died following the birth of her third child, Bridgett, who married John Clark (Mulroy Letter, 1978). At the time of her death, she lived on Calic Lane in Jermyn, PA. It is thought that Mary Mulroy took the child to raise after her sister's death.

She married Patrick O'Neil.^1,2 Bridget was born on 1 February 1839, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.

     Nancy died at age at an unknown age . Nancy was born on 2 March 1840, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.

     Sissy died at age at an unknown age . Sissy was born on 13 February 1841, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.

     Margaret died at Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18447, at age at an unknown age .
Her mother died giving her birth, and her father died four days later. Her nickname was "Peggs." She never married. Peggs was a cripple, hunchback, she was very short but very pleasant. She sold small items to make a living, such as buttons, thread, needles, handkerchiefs, etc. She would go to Archbald, PA approximately once a month, when the miners would get their pay (50 cents a day) to sell her wares. (Melroy Papers).
She was baptized on 23 May 1841 at Kilgariff, County Mayo, Ireland.
Ccourtnee Mulroy, in her research, located a baptismal record for Margaret at Kilgariff. This may also be an alternate birth date record.⁴ Margaret was born on 4 May 1842, at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. She resided, at Carbondale, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 18407, in 1860. Margaret was living with her sister Mary in 1860. (Census).

     Alexander died at Ireland at age at an unknown age . Alexander was born, at Ireland. He married Mary Ross at Ireland.¹

     She married Alexander Riordan at Ireland.¹ Mary died at Ireland at age at an unknown age . Mary was born, at Ireland.

     Ellen was employed. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Humility of Mary, 2 July 1925, taking the name of Sister Frances Marie.
In her notes she wrote that when she was about eight or nine years old, the fmaily visited relatives in the Irish Settlement area. Two Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary came to visit the Joe Morris family the same day. Sister Frances Marie was so impreseed by the Sisters that she decided she would one day become a Sister just like they were. However, she kept her thoughts to herself. She did not see any Sisters again until her first year of high school in Stuart, Iowa. Her teachers there were of the same order.
Fulfilling her childhood dreams, on 1 July 1925, she, her mother and brother Edward drove to Ottumwa, she and Edward taking turns with the driving. They stayed in guest rooms at St. Joseph Academy, which ws operated by the Sisters of Humility. That night two Sisters came into the room which her mother and she were sharing. She recognized them as the two two sisters who had so impressed her at the Hoe Morris home, years ago. In the morning after, her mother and Edward returned to Winterset, she began her postulance int he Congregation of the Sisters of Humility and given the name of Sister Frances Marie. Her family and other relatives were present for the ceremony.
She taught in Georgetwon, Davenport, and Des Moines, Iowa. At St. Joseph Hospital in Ottumwa, Iowa, she obtained her R.N. From 1958-1964, she was supervisor at the Christ Child Home in Des Moines, a short term care facility for infants and small children. She went to Mary crest College, Davenprot, as school nurse, and later as supervisor of housekeeping. After her retirement, seh ahd more time to devote to the study of her family's history, traveling to Salt Lake City and Ireland to do research. She died in Davenport following surgery. Her religious name was Sister Frances Marie. Ellen was born on 2 April 1909, at Winterset, Iowa 50273. Ellen died on 17 October 1991 at Davenport, Iowa 52800, at age 82.

     He married Bridget Mulroy.^1,3 Patrick died at age at an unknown age . Patrick was born.

     Bridgett died at Jermyn, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18433, at age at an unknown age . Bridgett was born. She married John Clark at Jermyn, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18433.¹

     He married Bridgett O'Neil at Jermyn, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania 18433.¹ John was born. John died in 1901 at age at an unknown age .²