MICHEAL BROPHY BORN ABT 1836. EAGLE HILL HACKETSOWN CO CARLOW. HAVE BEEN TO BROPHY COTTAGE, HIS PARENTS WERE PATT BROPHY AND MARY MURPHY, SHE LIVED AROUND THE CORNER AT THE MURPHY COTTAGE, HE HAD A SISTER MARGARET BORN 1835.
MICHEAL AND FAMILY WENT TO QUEBEC, QUEBEC ABT 1852. HE MARRIED MARY NESS DUNN IN NOTRE DAME QUEBEC NOV. 1855, HIS DAD WAS DESCEASED BUT MOM ALIVE.
HE SETTLED SHORTLY IN SPRINGFIELD MASS AND THEN WENT ON TO SAN FRANCISCO CA WHERE HE OWNED A LIVERY STABLE, HE HAD 2 MORE CHILDREN IN SAN FRANCISCO, MY GR GRANPA JOHN HENRY BROPHY A FAMOUS FIREMAN WHO LIVED TO BE 93 IN SF.
MICHEAL INJURED HIS HEAD WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 5O AT WORK AND WAS PUT IN STATE HOSPITAL IN STOCKTON CA WHERE IN DIED IN 1888 AND IS BURIED IN CATHOLIC CEMETARY THERE.
I HAVE VISITED CARLOW AND WAS TOLD MY PHOTO OF GR GRANPA LOOKED LIKE AN OLD JOHN BROPHY WHO LIVED IN THE BROPHY COTTAGE AT EAGLE HILL BEFORE HIS DEATH IN EARLY 2000.
I DO ALOT OF RESEARCH AND AM VERY PROUD OF MY CARLOW ROOTS.
ELIZA J SOETH
| Additional Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Father (First Name/s and Surname) | Patt Brophy | |
| Mother (First Name/s and Maiden) | Mary Murphy | |
| Spouse (First Name/s and Maiden/Surname) | Mary Ness Dunn | |
