The Don’t know whos
A very quick one some might find funny – Growing up in a diverse New York when I was 7 or 8 years old We had a school assignment about our family names , where they came from, and what they meant….. I asked my Dad from Loobridge, Glenflesk, Co. Kerry and he explained to […]
Snippets March/April – My ancestors were in Entertainment: Response Three: Joseph Corbett Donohue Junior 1941-2007
Snippets March/April – My ancestors were in Entertainment: Response Three: Joseph Corbett Donohue Junior 1941-2007 Contributed by Tim Donohue Joseph Corbett Donohue Junior 1941-2007 “Corb” Donohue was the son of Joseph Corbett Donohue of Hollywood, California. Born into his Fathers affluence he grew up in a world where everyone hanging out at his home was […]
Snippets March/April – My ancestors were in Entertainment: Response Two: Joseph Corbett Donohue 1905-1996
Snippets March/April – My ancestors were in Entertainment: Response Two: Joseph Corbett Donohue 1905-1996 Joseph Corbett Donohue 1905-1996 Contributed by Tim Donohue Joe Donohue was the son of first generation American from a small valley town in Northern California. His Grandfather came to America in […]
Snippets March/April – My ancestors were in Entertainment: Response One: James and Margaret Donahue Vaudeville Tap Dancers
James and Margaret Donahue Vaudeville Tap Dancers By Thomas and Colleen Donahue Witte Jim and Peg Donahue Dance Team Colleen’s father, James Donahue and his sister Margaret were active in the Edwards Juvenile Kiddie Revue and other vaudeville Groups back in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s in Mankato, MN. […]
Snippets: February ‘My family in the 1920s’ – Response One – From Burma to the British Broadcasting Corporation
Algernon Charles O'Donoghue, known as Don, was born in Kindat, Burma in 1901. He travelled in 1907 to live in Bath, where his grandmother and some of his aunts lived, while the rest of the large family were spread across India and Burma. During the First World War, Don enlisted in the mechant navy as […]
Snippets: October ‘Our Ancestors and the Law’ Response Three: How the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended up at a Donahue wedding
How the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended up at a Donahue Wedding By Thomas M and Colleen Donahue Witte Colleen Donahue Witte was hired for a stenography position by the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis, MN after she graduated with a degree in Advanced Stenography from the at the North Dakota School […]
Snippets: October ‘Our Ancestors and the Law’ Response Two: James Donohue and Folsom Prison
Contributed by Tim Donohue An article July 21, 1903 San Francisco Call describe James Donohue, age 21, as working as a Prison Guard at Folsom Prison which he had begun in the spring. He worked for Warden Wilkinson. On Saturday the 18th of July he had mysteriously disappeared after a dance in town and failed […]
Snippets: October is ‘Our Ancestors and the Law’ Response One: James John Donahue, Deputy Sheriff, Griggs County, North Dakota
James John Donahue, Deputy Sheriff, Griggs County, North Dakota By Thomas M Witte (his son-in-law) (Born in Winona, MN on April 24, 1912, Died in Valley City, ND on January 22, 1993) James Donahue was the father of my wife, Colleen Donahue Witte. His g-grandfather and mother were Philip Donahue and Mary Hays […]
Snippets: November ‘Ancestors who eloped’ Response One: ‘Elopement frustrated by Sheriff Donahue’
Contributed by Thomas Witte Elopement Frustrated by Sheriff Donahue This interesting little account of long ago was in the Winona Minnesota Republican-Herald on Saturday August 10, 1907 in which a certain Sheriff Donohue of Mankato, MN played a part. Research on Ancestry.com and Find-a-Grave.com provided the following information on the above mentioned Sheriff Donahue. […]
August/September snippet: Irish Ghettos, where did the Irish settle in large numbers in your hometown? Response Seven: Worcester Massachusetts Irish
Contributed by Daniel Flynn In Worcester Mass, the first large group of Irish arrived in 1820 to build the Worcester to Providence canal. They were prohibited from living in the village proper and were relegated to the swamp land along the Blackstone river where the canal was being built. Many of them stayed to build […]