Judy's Family History

by Judy (Devaney) & Conrad Terrill, last edited 19 Jan 2024

Click on a name below to go to the appropriate project page.

In this project we've written what we know of Judy's family history, from her great-parents to their earliest known (to us) ancestors. We've been able to learn a lot about some and very little about some others. All of what we've written is based on contemporary records as much as possible, along with stories which have been passed down in the family. In both cases we have included the sources of these records, much of it in what we call "records histories," bare-bones histories in the form of a chronological list of records. Here's a list of Judy's greatgrandparents:


   Michael Devany (ca. 1836 - ?), of Arraghan, County Roscommon, Ireland
    & Mary Noone (ca. 1841 - ?), possibly of Tartan, Co. Roscommon

   Thomas Higgins (ca. 1824 - 1890), of Killaster, Co Roscommon
    & Mary Coll (ca. 1833 - 1909), of Killaster, Co. Roscommon

   Charles Catalani (ca. 1846 - 1905), of Lucca and Florence, Italy, and Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A
    & Elizabeth Kehoe (ca. 1862 - 1932), of Belleville and Newark, NJ

   Andrew Marshall Blair (1846 - 1920), of Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Ireland, and Newark, NJ
    & Emma Magdalene Hauch (1855 - 1933), of Newark, NJ


Here's more detail, in the form of trees extending back three generations from each grandparent:

                                       / (unknown)
                         / Luke Devany (? - ?)
                         |             \ (unknown)
           / Michael Devany (ca. 1835 - 1896)
           |             |             / (unknown)
           |             \ (unknown)
           |                           \ (unknown)
Paternal grandfather
           |                           / (unknown)
           |             / Patrick Noon (? - ?)
           |             |             \ (unknown)
           \ Mary Noone (ca. 1841 - 1915)
                         |             / (unknown)
                         \ (unknown)
                                       \ (unknown)


                                       / (unknown)
                         / Bernard Higgins (? - ?)
                         |             \ (unknown)
           / Thomas Higgins (ca. 1824 - 1890)
           |             |             / (unknown)
           |             \ Bridget Mahan (? - ?)
           |                           \ (unknown)
Paternal grandmother
           |                           / (unknown)
           |             / Thomas Coll (? - ?)
           |             |             \ (unknown)
           \ Mary Coll (ca. 1833 - 1909)
                         |             / (unknown)
                         \ Sarah (Sally) Elwood (? - ?)
                                       \ (unknown)


                                       / (unknown)
                         / Alessandro Catalani (? - ?)
                         |             \ (unknown)
           / Charles Catalani (ca. 1846 - 1905)
           |             |             / Bartholomew Menchine (1793 - 1866)
           |             \ Angeline Menchine (1822 - ?)
           |                           \ Louisa Lilbourne (1802 - 1858)
Maternal grandfather
           |                           / (unknown)
           |             / Peter Kehoe (ca. 1808 - 1868)
           |             |             \ (unknown)
           \ Elizabeth Kehoe (1862 - 1932)
                         |             / (Thomas Doyle (? - ?))?
                         \ Eliza Doyle (ca. 1813 - 1905)
                                       \ (Mary ___ (ca. 1777 - 1863))?


                                       / James Blair (? - ?)
                         / John Blair (ca. 1809 - 1872)
                         |             \ Elizabeth Cunningham (? - ?)
           / Andrew Marshall Blair (1846 - 1920)
           |             |             / (unknown)
           |             \ Anne Marshall (? - bef. 1848)
           |                           \ (unknown)
Maternal grandmother
           |                           / (unknown)
           |             / William Hauch (1823 - 1906)
           |             |             \ Loisa Haug (1796 - ?)
           \ Emma Magdalene Hauch (1855 - 1933)
                         |             / Michel Jaquillard (1791 - ?)
                         \ Sophia Jaquillard (1827 - 1905)
                                       \ Christine Elizabeth Gruber (1793 - ?)

Our documentation of the first four great grandparents listed above starts from our Devany/Higgins project page. They were near neighbors in townlands south of Bellanagare, County Roscommon, and came to America (Newark, NJ) in the 1880's. Documentation of the Catalani and Kehoe families starts from our Catalani/Kehoe project page, and that of the Blair and Hauch families starts from our Blair/Hauch project page.