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The Donoho Cousins

The Donoho Cousins are a great community for anyone of that spelling or closer variants. They carry many family trees on their web site at http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=site&htx=main&siteid=1tDC&_ref=SiteUpgrade%5CSponsorEmail&_lin=264.

Contact Berni Donoho-Cravens at berni cravens [bcrave99@yahoo.com]

Descendants of John (b. c.1810) and Margaret Donoghue of Co.Cork possibly

The Irish connection: John Donoghue b. circa 1810 (we are not sure where yet, but NZ folklore says they came from County Cork) married Margaret ……………….born 1816 in Ireland. (We know this from the 1881 Census in England) When Margaret was 39/40yrs old she had Michael Donoghue born 1855/56 in England. John was still living at the time of Margaret’s death in 1885, at the age of 69yrs. So far we haven’t been able to find a death cert for John, and we don’t know when or where they were married.
The Irish
Connection

The UK Connection: Michael Donoghue born in 1855/56 in Rotherhithe, Surrey, London. His parents being John and Margaret Donoghue.
Michael Donoghue married Alice Victory. His occupation being that of a Labourer. . At the time of the 1881 Census, they are listed as having only 2 children: John (Duck) Donoghue b. 1879 in West Ham Essex. and Michael Donoghue b. 1881in West Ham, Essex, London.. Michael’s mother, Margaret was also with them the night of the 1881 Census. We have as yet to locate other siblings.

John (Duck) and Michael Donoghue left England and arrived in
New Zealand

The UK
Connection

The Kiwi Connections: John (Duck) Donoghue as New Zealand folklore has it, came out to NZ as a fire stoker on a ship, and jumped ashore to stay in NZ. We don’t know how factual that is, nor do we know when it happened. At the age of 25yrs he married Martha Ann Tasker in 1904 in NZ, and they had one child John (Jack) Donoghue. The marriage didn’t last, John had two further sons Desmond O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Donoghue (By now John had added an ‘O’) Martha re-married Fred Chapman and had about 7 more children.

Michael Donoghue At this stage we don’t know when or how Michael arrived in New Zealand from England, we don’t even know if he came out at the same time as his brother John (Duck) Donoghue.
Michael plied the ships up and down the West Coast of the North Island. The Manukau Harbour being his home Port. He meet his future wife Martha St Paul at the Manukau Hotel which is located on the water front at the Port of Manukau where Martha worked as a Barmaid/Housemaid. They married in 1908 in Auckland, New Zealand and so began this branch of the Donoghue Family in New Zealand. It wasn’t till the 3rd April 02 that the Grandchildren of John and Michael found each other, the knowledge of these 2 brothers and their decendants being lost to the younger generation.

Michael died on the 16th April 1940 aged only 59yrs old at 1 Vine Street, St Marys Bay, Ponsonby, Auckland. The Funeral was held at the Sacred Heart Church on the 18th April 1940 and he was buried at his request over looking the sea. He is in a double plot in the Hillsborough Cemertary overlooking the Manukau Harbour that he used to sail in and out of.

Martha (now known to everyone as Nana Don), died some 38yrs later, on the 20th November 1978 aged 92yrs. She was cremated after a service at the Purewa Chapel, Meadow Bank, Auckland. At the time of her death she had 39 Grandchildren and 58 Great Grandchildren.
The Kiwi
Connections

Descendants of Thomas Donohoe (1844-1925) in Australia

This Group has been set up to facilitate the collection and sharing of information on the DONOHOE lineage in Australia, started by the immigration of Thomas DONOHOE (1844-1925) during the early 1870’s.

Apart from the recording and publishing of statistical information such as Birth, Deaths and Marriages, the major goal of the facility is to record information on the individual lives of the people that make up this lineage.

Photographs, anecdotal stories and facts about the lives of individuals will help to bring this Group to life, and in some way pay homage to the men and women that helped pioneer this great country.

I would urge all that are interested in preserving the triumphs and tribulations of ourselves and our ancestor’s lives, for future generations to ponder, is to immediately sit down with either yourself or with the oldest members of your family and document life-stories. It doesn’t have to be a manuscript – just a simply précis of the highs and lows; of special interest should be those anecdotal stories that that one tends to retell, over and over again. The ones that make you laugh – the ones that make you cry.

Upload these stories and/or titbits of information together with any photographic images you would like to share with the Group. They will be like gold nuggets to future generations.

The intention is to collate the information uploaded by members, and publish it via this web site for all interested parties to browse and ponder.

The O’Donoghues of Limerick and South Africa

THE O’DONOGHUES OF LIMERICK AND SOUTH AFRICA

The majority of the O’Donoghue families in South Africa are the descendents of two lines of 19th century immigrants.

They are James Michael O’Donoghue (1838-1894) from Limerick, County Limerick and Henry O’Donoghue (1836-1904) from Nenagh, County Tipperary. The latter can be read about in “O’DONOGHUE, People and Places” by Rod O’Donoghue.

Origins

My line of O’Donoghues originated from Limerick.
The parents of James Michael O’Donoghue (1838-1894), the first immigrant to South Africa, were Michael Donohugh and Bridget Landrigan. This is as it appears on the baptism certificate with James and Ellen Donohugh being the sponsors.
The name of Landrigan seems to be an uncommon name and difficult to trace at the moment.

If one looks at the family tree of my direct links one can see the names of James, Michael, Bridget and Ellen appearing through the generations. This is even more evident when one looks at a comprehensive family tree that I am busy compiling.

First Generation

James Michael O’Donoghue arrived in Table Bay (Cape Town) aboard the Maria Somes which left Southampton on 22nd November 1859 as part of the British Government emigration scheme from 1857 to 1861. He arrived here on 18th February 1860 and is recorded as being a Blacksmith and aged 21. It indicates that he went to a Mr Clerk of Cape Town.

Very little is known about him during the gap of fourteen years from the time he arrived and the time he got married in 1874. He settled in the Langkloof area of the Cape Province, South Africa. The coincidence is that Limerick and the Langkloof are known for their apple orchards. A certain Mr Baldi however established the apple orchards after he arrived in the Langkloof. His Death Notice shows him as being that of a shopkeeper.

He married Dirkje Margaretha Aletta Strijdom in 1874. She was born on the 9th September 1848 at Baviaanspoort in the Langkloof area of the Cape Province and was a descendant of a Dutch family that landed in the Cape in 1674.

Second Generation

They had ten children during the twenty-year period, 1875-1894.

Michael John Heyns O’D 8 children
Mathew Johannes O’D 8 children
John James Michael O’D 6 children
Martha Maria Magdalena O’D (married Oosthuizen) 3 children
Bridget Elllen O’D (married Van Rooyen) –
James Patrick O’D 3 children
Mary Leonie O’D (married Tait/Pearce/Lesley) 3 children
Margaret Ellen O’D (married Greenaway) 4 children
Johanna Petronella O’D (married Hale) 3 children
George Edward O’D 2 children

James Michael O’Donoghue died in April 1894 and the death certificate only reflects nine children as being dependents. The tenth child was born in December, 1894.
When the five older children were old enough to start work they left home and the five youngest children were raised by the mother and of course with the Dutch influence.

This was very evident in that today it will be found that those that stayed in the Langkloof area with their mother, reared their children under the Dutch influence and those that trekked to Natal, reared their children under the English influence. This has continued until today.

The story goes that one brother fought for the British and the other for the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War. This I still have to confirm.

James Michael O’Donoghue’s one son was my grandfather, John James Michael O’Donoghue (1880 – 1936). He also married a girl of Dutch descendency.
Margaretha Sophia Castelyn (1897 – 1965 )

Third Generation

Here I document only my direct line to the ancestry. The more comprehensive tree will be found as an addendum later.

John James Michael O’Donoghue had six children as follows:

Gladys Ellen (married Allchin)(1913 –1996) 2 children
James Thomas (my father) (1915-1984) 3 children
John Patrick (1917-1983) 3 children
George Douglas Haig (1918-2004) 2 children
Donald Charles (1920-2000) 4 children
Michael Basil (1928-) 5 children

My father was James Thomas O’Donoghue
James Thomas O’Donoghue also married a girl from Dutch descendents. Her name was Wilhelmina Hendrina Boshoff (1919-1972) and in her family line there was a J.N.Boshoff who was the President of the Orange Free State Republic in 1855-1859.
Because of the depression years, three brothers joined the railways in different capacities and eventually landed up being train drivers until their retirement.

April 2006
South Africa
e-mail:o_donoghue@mweb.co.za

Mary O’Donoughue – immigrated from Dublin, Ireland mid 1800’s

My great Grandmother Mary O’Donoughue immigrated from Ireland via Dublin to England. She settled in Lacanshire. Married Richard Tootell in 1854 in Chorley, Lancashire. She had two children Mary (my grandmother) and Richard. Husband died young and she remarried a Robert Marsden in 1872, also in Chorley. Do not know where she was born in Ireland, but marriage certificate shows her father’s name as Charles Donoghoe from Ballina, Co Kildare. Her name was spelled Donahue on the marriage certificate.

Patrick Donohoe/Donahue of Marlborough, MA.

I am the 6th generation descendant of Patrick Donohoe(Changed in 1868 when naturalized to a US Citizen to Donahue) who came to the USA from Ireland, County Galway June of 1857. Patrick arrived in the Port of NY. (New York, Ellis Island). Patrick settled in Malborough Ma. in (?) year to work in a shoe factory.

It was one of Patrick’s sons, Edward “William” Donahue, that came to reside in Lynn, MA. from Marlborough, MA. (Date unknown)
Patrick and Betsy had many children and I am still researching those names at this time.
Edward “William” Donahue married Annie Madden and they had John (my G-grandfather) in 1904 who lived his whole life in Lynn, MA just outside of Boston, MA. USA. Again I don’t have all the information on all of William and Annie’s Children. Just my G-Grandfather for now.

John went on to marry Florence Samuelson in 1920 or so, and they had John "Jack" Donahue, my grandfather in 1923. My Grandfather was the eldest of 4, his siblings names Richard Donahue, Kenneth Donahue, and Phyllis Donahue Samuelson. My G-Grandmother Florence, died at the young age of 31 or 32 from pneumonia. My Grandfather Jack was left as the head of the house at the age of 13 after my G-Grandfather John had a nervous breakdown and left the family to fend for themselves.

My Ancestors, Patrick Donahue/Donohoe and Betsy Donahue are buried in an Irish cemetary in Malborough, MA.

Please contact me if anyone has any further information about this Patrick, thanks.

Tim Donahue
Tkd4673@comcast.net

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