Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Daniel Dempsey and Mary E. McCalister




Husband Daniel Dempsey 1

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           Died: Bef 1831 - Ireland
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Wife Mary E. McCalister 1

           Born: Abt 1792 - ? Ireland
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           Died: 1864 - ? Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Children
1 M John Dempsey 1

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2 M James Dempsey 1

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3 F Mary Dempsey 1

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         Spouse: [Unk] Quinn (      -      ) 1


4 F Catharine Dempsey 1

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         Spouse: [Unk] Logrin (      -      ) 1


5 F Mary Dempsey 1

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         Spouse: [Unk] McGaghey (      -      ) 1


6 M David Dempsey 1

           Born: 22 Aug 1828 - County Derry, Ireland 1
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           Died: Aft 1889
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         Spouse: Mary Disert (      -Bef 1889) 1
         Spouse: Isabella Lightcap (      -      ) 1



General Notes: Wife - Mary E. McCalister


Her husband died in Ireland, so in 1831 she came to America with her children, and settled at Girty's run, later Millvale, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on the same place where her son David later resided. She rented thirty acres of land from William Sample, farmed this and built a home. Here she reared her six children. She died aged seventy-two years, a woman of remarkable courage, a devout Catholic, much beloved and esteemed.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 730.


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