Mary Driscoll

Birth Name Mary Driscoll
Gender female
Age at Death 83 years, 2 months, 6 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth February 23, 1907 Knockroe Townland, Kilnamanagh, County Cork, Ireland   1a
Event Note

Superintendent Registrar's District: Castletown, Registrar's District: Kilcatherine, County Cork
Births
February 23, 1907, in Knockroe
Mary, daughter of John Driscoll, a farmer of Knockroe, and Honoria Driscoll, formerly Harrington. informant: John Driscoll, father, of Knockroe

[I didn't find a match for the date given in her obituary and on her Social Security information.]

Immigration 1925     2a
Event Note

I didn't find Mary on the New York arrivals in the mid 1920's.

Census (Wife) April 2, 1930 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States 10129 Born Avenue 2a
Event Note

1930 Census Ward 24 Cleveland
April 2, 1930
at 10129 Born Avenue

Thomas Fearon, 30, married 1st at 28, born in Northern Ireland, parents also, arrived 1923, papers pending, motorman, electric railway
Mary Fearon, 23, married 1st at 21, born in Irish Free State, parents also, arrived 1925, naturalized
Mary T Fearon, 3m, born in Ohio

 

Census (Wife) April 9, 1940 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States 605 East 99th 3a
Event Note

1940 Census Ward 24 Cleveland
April 9, 1940
at 605 East 99th

Thomas Fearon, 40, unknown years of school, born in Northern Ireland, motorman, railway, naturalized
Mary R Fearon, 31, 8 years school, born in Eire, pie baker, pie factory
Mary T Fearon, 10, 4 years school, born in Ohio

All lived in Cleveland in 1935 but not in this home.

Death April 29, 1990 Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States   4a
Burial   Calvary Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States   4b
Event Note

Mrs. Mary Rose Fearon, 83, of Springfield died at 8:15 p.m. Sunday at St. John's Hospital.

She was born in County Cork, Ireland, on Jan. 21, 1907, the daughter of John and Nora Harrington Driscoll. She married Thomas Fearon in 1028 and he preceded her in death in 1957. She also was preceded in death by four brothers, three sisters and one grandson.

A resident of Springfield since 1957, Mrs. Fearon was a member of Blessed Sacrament Church.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Fenton (Mary Theresa) Drake of Springfield; eight grandchildren; two great-grandsons; three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Corr of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Thomas (Helena) O'Brien of County Kerry, Ireland, and Mrs. William (Theresa) Pheasant of London, England; several nieces, nephews and cousin.

Funeral Mass: Blessed Sacrament Church, Hugh Cassidy officiating. Burial in Calvary Cemetery.

State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) - May 1, 1990

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father John Driscoll
Mother Nora Harrington
         Mary Driscoll February 23, 1907 April 29, 1990
    Brother     Jeremiah Driscoll May 12, 1904

Families

Family of Thomas Fearon and Mary Driscoll
Married Husband Thomas Fearon ( b. June 4, 1899 d. September 5, 1957 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage October 30, 1928 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States   5a
Event Note

Marriage Record, Cuyahoga County
October 30, 1928

Thomas Fearon, 29, of 562 East 128th, a motorman, born in Ireland. parents: John [Fearon] and Catherine White.
and
Mary Driscoll, 21, of 10723 East Boulevard, a maid, born in Ireland. parents: John [Driscoll] and Nora Harrington.

Neither had been married previously.
Expect to be married by F A Mallou, St Clair Avenue
were married by F J Lavery

  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Mary Theresa Fearonabout January 1930

Source References

  1. Irish Civil Registration Records, Births
      • Page: February 23, 1907, Mary Driscoll, in Knockroe, Kilcatherine RD
  2. National Archives and Records Administration: 1930 United States Census
      • Page: Ward 24 Cleveland, ED 437, sheet 1B, line 74, family 15
      • Citation:

        United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X43N-LP9 : accessed 24 August 2018), Thomas Fearon, Cleveland (Districts 251-500), Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 437, sheet 1B, line 74, family 15, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1773; FHL microfilm 2,341,507.

  3. 1940 United States Census
      • Page: Ward 24 Cleveland, ED 92-593, sheet 1A, line 1, family 1
      • Citation:

        United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW5R-9VY : accessed 24 August 2018), Thomas Fearon, Ward 24, Cleveland City, Cleveland City, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 92-593, sheet 1A, line 1, family 1, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3227

  4. findagrave.com
      • Page: Memorial ID 38545496
      • Page: Memorial ID 38545496
  5. Ohio County Marriages
      • Page: October 30, 1928, Fearon-Driscoll, Cleveland
      • Citation:

        Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2Q7K-PW3 : 8 December 2017), Thomas Fearon and Mary Driscoll, 30 Oct 1928; citing Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, reference ; county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 1,901,659.