My Irish side of the family

1. C H AP T E R 2 – T H E D O O L E Y S U R N AM E
IRISH FAMILY
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Artwork by Michael LambertCopyright 2017
Dr Andree (Brown) Swanson

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A RT W O R K B Y M I C H A E L L A M B E RT
THE GIANT CAUSEWAY, NORTHERN IRELAND

3. O’DOOLEY, DOOLEY & DOOLY
• Recorded as O'Dooley, Dooley and Dooly, this is a famous
Irish surname.
• It originates from the 12th century Gaelic O' Dubhlaoich
meaning 'The male descendant of the Dark Hero' and as such
a reference to the first chief of the clan.
• He may have been Celtic or Breton, as the early history of the clan
may suggest that they were 'comer ins'.
• Nevertheless the clan chiefs were also known as the Lords of
Fertullagh in County Westmeath, in medieval times.
• Arguments over land tenure with the O'Melaghins and the
Tyrrells, lead to a migration to the lower slopes of the Slieve
Mountains, where some name holders remain today.
• © Copyright: Name Origin Research www.surnamedb.com 1980 - 2016
• Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Dooley#ixzz3vxsk4rhl
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4. SLIEVE BLOOM MOUNTAINS
• For more information on the Slieve Mountains:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slieve_Bloom_Mountains
• “Only an hour and a bit from Dublin and Limerick and two
hours from Cork and Galway the Slieve Bloom are easily
accessible from all corners of Ireland.”
• “The Slieve Bloom, along with the Massif Central in France,
are the oldest mountains in Europe; they were once also the
highest at 3,700m. Weathering has reduced them to 527m.
On a clear day, one can see the high points of the four ancient
provinces of Ireland.”
• Source: http://www.slievebloom.ie/cms/
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5. A VIEW OF THE SLIEVE BLOOMS FROM
THE GLINSK CASTLE HIKING LOOP
5Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slieve_Bloom_Mountains#/media/File:SlieveBloomView.JPG

6. O’DOOLEY, DOOLEY & DOOLY
• In the Census of Ireland in 1659 they were also shown to be
numerous in Counties Leix and Offaly, and over the centuries
the latter county has become the main centre.
• The name is now rarely found as O' Dooley.
• The surname is familiar world-wide through Mr. Dooley, a
fictional humorous Chicago character created by Finlay Dunn
in the early part of this century.
• One of the earliest refugees from the dreaded Irish Potato
Famine of 1846 - 1851, was Patrick Dooley aged eighteen.
He left Dublin bound for New York on May 11th of that year.
• © Copyright: Name Origin Research www.surnamedb.com 1980 - 2016
• Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Dooley#ixzz3vxsk4rhl
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7. DOOLEY COAT OF ARMS
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8. ORIGINS
• Dubhchobhlaigh, aka Dubh Cobhlaigh is an Irish
language female forename.
• Dubhchobhlaigh was a Gaelic-Irish forename first used by
members of the royal dynasty of Connacht.
• It was borne by upwards of twenty notable Gaelic women
between the 10th and 16th centuries in Ireland.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubhchobhlaigh
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GENERATIONS 4
EARL BROWN MARRIES MYRTLE CONATY
Dublin 2016
Nick Swanson

10. GENERATION 4
Bob
Earl Leslie Brown
(great grandfather)
Birth
12 NOV 1895 • Seattle, King County, WA
Death
05 JUL 1950 • Seattle, King County, WA
Myrtle LaVera Conaty
(great grandmother)
Birth
10 OCT 1894 • Provo, Utah County, UT
Death
07 MAR 1962 • Seattle, King County, WA
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GENERATION 5
CHARLES CONATY MARRIES CLEO YORK
Artwork by Michael Lambert

12. GENERATION 5
Myrtle
Charles Augustus Conaty
(Great grandfather)
Birth
12 NOV 1895 • Seattle, King County, WA
Death
05 JUL 1950 • Seattle, King County, WA
Cleo Venetta York
(Great grandmother)
Birth
10 OCT 1894 • Provo, Utah County, UT
Death
07 MAR 1962 • Seattle, King County, WA
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Cleo and daughter Myrtle

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GENERATION 6
AARON MERION YORK JR. MARRIES MARY JANE DOOLEY
Artwork by Michael Lambert

14. GENERATION 6
Cleo
Aaron Merion York Jr
(2d great grandfather)
Birth
05 Oct 1844• Lima, Adams County, IL
Death
25 Apr 1901• Provo, Utah County, UT
Mary Jane Dooley
(2d great grandmother)
Birth
01 JAN 1845 • Tioga, Hancock County, IL
Death
11 MAR 1934 • Seattle, King County, WA
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Aaron and Mary Jane

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MYRTLE LAVERA CONATY FAMILY TREE

16. MARY JANE (POLLY) (DOOLEY) YORK
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F R O M S E AT T L E W A B A C K TO C O U N T Y A N T R I M , I R E L A N D
MARY JANE DOOLEY FAMILY TREE

18. GENERATION 7
Myrtle
Jacob H. Dooley
(3d great grandfather)
Birth
20 MAR 1822 • Madison County, KY
Death
26 JUN 1853 • Tioga, Hancock County, IL
Mary Jane Carter
(3d great grandmother)
Birth
13 MAR 1823 • Newry, Oxford County, ME
Death
09 MAR 1911• Sultan, Snohomish County, WA
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Mary Jane
Carter

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F R O M T I O G A I L B A C K TO C O U N T Y A N T R I M , I R E L A N D
JACOB H. DOOLEY FAMILY TREE

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J A C O B H E N RY A N D M A RY J A N E ( C A RT E R ) D O O L E Y ' S
S O N S .
L TO R : GIDEON LOUIS DOOLEY WITH HIS BROTHERS JOHN RICHAD, JACOB HENRY (NUMBER 3 FROM
THE LEFT) AND WILLIAM PHILLIP DOOLEY.

21. GENERATION 8
Jacob
Gideon Underwood Dooley
(4th great grandfather)
Birth
1792 • Bedford, Madison County, KY
Death
03 Mar 1847 • Jefferson City, Monroe County, MO
Polly McDaniel
(4th great grandmother)
Birth
1796 • Madison County, KY
Death
1847 • Jefferson City, Monroe County, MO
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F R O M J E F F E R S O N C O U N T Y, M O B A C K T O C O U N T Y A N T R I M , I R E L A N D
GIDEON UNDERWOOD DOOLEY FAMILY TREE

23. GIDEON MARRIAGE TO POLLY
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24 Jul 1817 • Madison County, KY, USA

24. GENERATION 9
Gideon
Private Jacob Dooley
(5th great grandfather)
Birth
1755 • Bedford, Bedford County, VA
Death
25 MAR 1842 • Richmond, Madison County, KY
Elizabeth “Betty” Bush
(5th great grandmother)
Birth
1755 • Bedford County, VA
Death
01 JUN 1830 • Bedford County, VA
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F R O M B E D F O R D C O U N T Y, VA B A C K T O C O U N T Y A N T R I M , I R E L A N D
PRIVATE JACOB DOOLEY FAMILY TREE

26. JACOB MARRIAGE TO BETTY
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1778• Bedford County, VA, USA

27. BEDFORD COUNTY, VA
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28. JACOB SERVED IN THE
REVOLUTIONARY WARY
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GENERATIONS 10 - 11
FROM BOTECORT VA TO COUNTY ANTRIM, IRELAND
Dublin 2016
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30. GENERATION 10
Jacob
Capt Henry B. Dooley
(6th great grandfather)
Birth
1710 • Derry, County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
Death
08 MAY 1772 • Botetourt County, VA
Martha Patty Anderson
(6th great grandmother)
Birth
1720 • MD
Death
1788 • Bedford County, VA
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Martha is our connection to a line
that connects to Elvis.

31. HENRY MARRIAGE TO MARTHA
Name: Martha Anderson
Gender: Female
Birth Place: MD
Birth Year: 1737
Spouse Name: Henry Duley
Spouse
Birth Place:
Ir
Spouse Birth Year: 1710
Marriage State: of VA
Number Pages: 2
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Source Information
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

32. HENRY DOOLEY
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Through Martha Anderson, we are connected to Elvis
Presley.
Source:
https://jeracgallero.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/flashback-
friday-elvis-presley/

33. FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS (1754–1763)
• The Heritage Book of Bedford County, 2003, page
102:
• "Lived in Augusta Co, VA in 1764, but later moved to Bedford Co,
VA. Henry was a Sergeant in the Colonial Militia and fought in the
French and Indian Wars."
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Source: http://www.thewartourist.com/French_n_Indian_War.html Source: Ancestry.com

34. FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS (1754–1763)
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War#/media/File:French_and_indian_war_map.svg

35. BEDFORD COUNTY DEED BOOK 1761
• Deed Book 1, pages 401-402: Boyle to Dooley
24 Apr 1761
• Alexander Boyle of Bedford County sells to Henry Dooley of the
same county 104 acres on the north side of Otter River adjacent
to Henry Dooly's plantation for 50 pounds Current Money of
Virginia.
• Deed Book 1, page 488: 1761
• Henry Dooley buys from Richard Randolph, 200 acres on
Harmon's branch adjacent Adam Beard.
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36. BEDFORD COUNTY, VA 1766
• The Heritage Book of Bedford County, 2003, page
102:
• 17 June 1766: Henry Dooley sells to Peter Harmon 200 acres N
Fork of Otter River for 50 pounds, being pt patent of 400 acres
grtd unto Alexander Boyle, dtd 26 Sept 1760. B/S North fork Otter
River.
• Pres: Robt Ewing, Adam Beard, Charles Ewing, Thomas Dooley,
William Armstron, Michael Carns.
36Source: Ancestry.com

37. SOURCES OF INFO FOR HENRY
Source: Ancestry.com

38. WIDOW MARTHA DOOLEY
38Source: Ancestry.com

39. GENERATION 11
Henry
Thomas O’Dooley
(7th great grandfather)
Birth
1670 • County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
Death
20 AUG 1774 • County Antrim, Ulster
Rebekah
(7th great grandmother)
Birth
1670 • County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
Death
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40. LIVED IN ULSTER IRELAND CAME TO
AMERICA IN 1726
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• When did the Scottish come to the US?
• The first Scots began coming to the New World in the early 1600's,
Emigration picked up during the Cromwellian Civil War in Britain, as
many Scots from both sides were transported to the American
Colonies in the mid-1600's.
• The Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745 also saw numbers of
Scotsmen transported to America, as did the Highland Clearances
which came somewhat later.
• Scottish emigrants who had gone to northern Ireland as colonists of
the Ulster plantations in the first half of the 16th century also
emigrated to America in the early 1700's.
• These people, who were referred to as the "Scotch-Irish" were
by far the most numerous group of Scottish Colonists to come
to America.
Source: Wikipedia

41. LIVED IN ULSTER IRELAND CAME TO
AMERICA IN 1726
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• Why did they come?
• Some were transported, they had no choice other than prison or
execution, the reasons ranging from political prisoners of rebellions,
to paupers, to petty thieves and criminals.
• Others came because of poverty. They had no hope of ever
breaking out of their set place in the Class-system which existed in
Britain, but in America, a man could make something of himself,
regardless of his background.
• Most of these came as bonded-servants and would be given
passage to America, paid by the person who brought them over and
would have to work off their passage upon their arrival as per their
contract, a period which often lasted for seven years. At the end of
that time, they were on their own and it was up to themselves to
make something of their life in the New World.
Source: Wikipedia

42. SCOT-IRISH
• Several thousand from Northern Ireland arrived each year after the
peace of Utrecht in 1713 reopened the atlantic sea lanes.
• Mostly poor farmers these scot-irish streamed into the same
background country areas where the germans were settling,
thoughmore of them followed the mountain valleys south into
thevirgininas, carolinas and georgia.
• Mingling with the germans these ulster county families washed over the
ridges of the appalachia mountains until their appetitefor land brought
them face to face with the ancient occupiers ofthe land. Indians.
• No major indian wars occurred between 1715 and 1754, but the frontier
bristled with tension as the newsettlers pushed westward.
• These seventeenth-century immigrants had come from many rungs on
the social ladder. Farmers, skilled craftsmen and shopkeepers.They
formed the backbone of the society. By arriving intoamerica they rose
up a notch or two in society.
42Source: Wikipedia

43. ULSTER SCOTS
• Considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots just a few generations after
arriving in Ulster migrated to the North American colonies throughout
the 18th century (250,000 settled in what would become the United
States between 1717 and 1770 alone).
• According to Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the
Irish Exodus to North America (1988), Protestants were only one-
third of the population of Ireland, but they comprised three-quarters
of all emigrants from 1700 to 1776; 70% of these Protestants were
Presbyterians.
• Disdaining (or forced out of) the heavily English regions on the
Atlantic coast, most groups of Ulster-Scots settlers crossed into the
"western mountains", where their descendants populated the
Appalachian regions and the Ohio Valley.
• Here they lived on the frontiers of America, carving their own world
out of the wilderness. (Source: Wikipedia)
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44. THOMAS O’DOOLEY
• Starting with Thomas O'Dooley, who lived in Ulster, Ireland.
He was born in Ulster, Ireland, in 1670, and died on August 20
1774, in Rockingham, Virginia. (Not sure on this birth and
death date)
• He had at least two sons, Henry Dooley, and Thomas Dooley.
Both of which moved to America in 1726. Once they arrived,
they hurried to lands where promoters promised them cheap
and fertile land.
• On the trip over to America from Ireland, it was only Henry
and Thomas II, and they faced many hardships while
traveling.
• (Source: http://odooleyfamily.weebly.com/odooley-
origins.html)
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45. THOMAS O’DOOLEY
• The deathrate of the trips was about %15. The ship conditions were
truly wretched, but in 1720 the English attempted to reform
conditions.
• In a small attempt to reduce tight packing of passengers, they
allowed each passenger a 6 feet by 18 inch space, but it did little.
• Passengers suffered from small box, fevers, rotten food, impure
water, cold, and lice.
• The brothers arrived in Virginia, and like stated, rushed to lands
where they had been promised cheap and fertile land, as they had
lost most of their land in Ireland due to the Cromelian War.
• (Source: http://odooleyfamily.weebly.com/odooley-origins.html)
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46. COUNTY DERRY OR ANTRIM?
Derry Antrim
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Not clear if
they are
from Derry
or Antrim.