McCarthy family (Haverhill, Mass.)
Biographical note
Patrick McCarthy (1831-1910) married Kate Keane in 1855, and they had eight children: Jeremiah (1856-1883), Dennis (1859-1935), Mary (1862-1900), Ellen (1865-1940), Honora, I (1867, died in infancy), Timothy (1868-1909), Katherine (1872-1896), and Honora II "Nora" (1876-1953).
Nora McCarthy was baptized in the Kilmacabea Parish church on February 17, 1876 and emigrated to Bradford, Massachusetts in May 1895 with her sister Ellen McCarthy. Their destination was the home of another sister, Mary McCarthy, who was married to Daniel Donovan of Dreenlamane, Ireland. After Mary McCarthy died in 1900, Nora McCarthy married Daniel Donovan on May 12, 1903. They had two children, Lenora Marie (1903-1999) and Daniel Harold (1906-1962).
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Patricia Trainor O'Malley collection of Donovan and McCarthy family papers
Collection primarily consists of correspondence of the Donovan and McCarthy families, Irish immigrants who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts in the late nineteenth century. Also included are biographical records, ephemera, and photographs.
Collection is open for research.
Letters in Shared box 1823 Folder 1 and Shared box 2524 Folder 1 are restricted due to fragility.