Timothy FooheyAge: 84 years1842–1927
- Name
- Timothy Foohey
- Given names
- Timothy
- Surname
- Foohey
 Birth | 17 October 1842 |
 Emigration | 1859 (Age 16 years) |
 Marriage | Catherine Connolly — View this family 2 May 1864 (Age 21 years) |
 Birth of a son#1 | Timothy Foohey about 1865 (Age 22 years) |
| Naturalisation | 1866 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Mary K Foohey about 1866 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a son #3 | John M Foohey about 1867 (Age 24 years) Address: Cleveland, Ohio, as per daughter Margaret's Marriage cert. |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Joanna Foohey about 1869 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #5 | Bridget Foohey about 1870 (Age 27 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #6 | Margaret Foohey about 1872 (Age 29 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #7 | Ellen M Foohey about 1874 (Age 31 years) |
| Birth of a son #8 | Michael J Foohey about 1877 (Age 34 years) |
| Birth of a child #9 | Anne Catherine Foohey about 1879 (Age 36 years) |
| Death of a wife | Catherine Connolly 21 March 1883 (Age 40 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John M Foohey — Margaret Pulse — View this family 17 April 1895 (Age 52 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Margaret Foohey 25 August 1896 (Age 53 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | John P Foohey 1899 (Age 56 years) |
| Birth of a grandchild #3 | Robert Foohey 17 April 1900 (Age 57 years) |
| Marriage | Mary Elizabeth Logan — View this family 23 April 1900 Wife: 31 |
| Birth of a child #10 | Virginia E Foohey about 1902 (Age 59 years) |
| Death of a grandchild | Robert Foohey 19 July 1902 (Age 59 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #11 | Agnes G Foohey about 1903 (Age 60 years) |
| Birth of a child #12 | William Logan Foohey about 1905 (Age 62 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #4 | Joseph F Foohey 6 July 1906 (Age 63 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #13 | Florence C Foohey about 1907 (Age 64 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | Jerome Sullivan Foohey 2 May 1908 (Age 65 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #14 | Aletha E Foohey about 1909 (Age 66 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #6 | Richard Foohey 1 December 1910 (Age 68 years) |
| Birth of a son #15 | James M Foohey about 1913 (Age 70 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #7 | Conley Foohey 1913 (Age 70 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #8 | Donald Foohey 1916 (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage of a grandchild | Vincent Peter Reilly — Margaret Foohey — View this family 10 February 1926 (Age 83 years) |
 Death | 1927 (Age 84 years) |
| Family with Catherine Connolly |
| himself |
Timothy Foohey Birth: 17 October 1842 — Ireland Death: 1927 |
| wife |
Catherine Connolly Birth: 1841 — Ireland Death: 21 March 1883 — Cleveland, Ohio USA |
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Marriage: 2 May 1864 — |
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4 years son |
John M Foohey Birth: about 1867 24 26 — Cleveland, Ohio USA Death: 27 January 1936 — Fort Wayne Indiana |
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-1 year son |
Timothy Foohey Birth: about 1865 22 24 — Ohio Death: |
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2 years daughter |
Mary K Foohey Birth: about 1866 23 25 — Ohio Death: |
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4 years daughter |
Joanna Foohey Birth: about 1869 26 28 — Ohio Death: |
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6 years daughter |
Ellen M Foohey Birth: about 1874 31 33 — Ohio Death: |
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6 years child |
Anne Catherine Foohey Birth: about 1879 36 38 — Bement, Illinois |
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-8 years daughter |
Bridget Foohey Birth: about 1870 27 29 — Ohio Death: |
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3 years daughter |
Margaret Foohey Birth: about 1872 29 31 — Ohio Death: |
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6 years son |
Michael J Foohey Birth: about 1877 34 36 — Illinois Death: |
| Family with Mary Elizabeth Logan |
| himself |
Timothy Foohey Birth: 17 October 1842 — Ireland Death: 1927 |
| wife |
Mary Elizabeth Logan Birth: 1869 Death: |
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Marriage: 23 April 1900 — |
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3 years child |
Virginia E Foohey Birth: about 1902 59 33 — Indiana |
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2 years daughter |
Agnes G Foohey Birth: about 1903 60 34 — Indiana Death: |
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3 years child |
William Logan Foohey Birth: about 1905 62 36 — Indiana |
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3 years daughter |
Florence C Foohey Birth: about 1907 64 38 — Indiana Death: |
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3 years daughter |
Aletha E Foohey Birth: about 1909 66 40 — Indiana Death: |
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5 years son |
James M Foohey Birth: about 1913 70 44 — Indiana Death: |
| Note | Source of details for Timothy and Catherine Foohey
For his birth date and year of citizenship, letter he sent to his cousin in Ireland in 1899.
Labelle Family Tree on Ancestry.com (TOS Sept 2015)
Also the 1880 and later census.
Most of the children in the first marriage were born in Ohio, though the youngest were born in Bement, Illinois, where they were living for the 1880 census.
They later moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana (TOS Sep 2015) |
| Note | Timothy married twice.
According to the Foohey/Logan family tree on Ancestry.com,
He had 9 children in the first marriage and 6 in the second.
His occupation in the Directories for Fort Wayne is given as "Contractor". He lived at 205, Douglas Ave, Fort Wayne IND.
This was about 10 Blocks from where his son, John M lived, at 210 W Creighton Ave. (TOS Sept 2015)
In the City Directory for Fort Wayne IND for 1911, Timothy and his son John M are listed as Dredging Company Contractors |
| Note | FOOHEY FAMILY LORE (as per Greg Fahey, Sept 2015) HAS IT THAT THE FIRST FOOHEY IN THIS FAMILY CAME TO THE USA IN 1869 FROM CASTLELYONS, IN COUNTY CORK |
| Note | Emigration date from 1900 Feferal Census |
| Note | "Fort Wayne Journal Gazette" - Aug 14, 1906
Headline: Fort Wayne Companies Incorporated
"Timothy Foohey Dredging Company, Fort Wayne. Capital Stock $35,000. Directors, Timothy Foohey, Timothy Foohey Jr., George Rasmusson, C.S. Black and William H Kelly".
(TOS Sept 2015) |
| Note | "Fort Wayne Journal Gazette" June 13, 1908
"The Timothy Foohey Dredging company, of this city, has received a contract for dredging a ditch in Champaign County, Ill. The contract price was %25,000".
(For comparison, the house Timothy bought for his son, John M (Jack) around the same time cost $5,000.) (TOS Sept 2015) |
| Note | The Foohey children went to the Central Catholic High School (CCHS) in Fort Wayne. They were involved in many school activites , including the school magazine, the "Echo".
In it, it is reported that Timothy Foohey was instrumental in setting up a fund for the Cathedral etc (TOS Sept 2015) |
| Note | The link below is to a book about the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana and features Bill Foohey, Timothy's son, who went to Notre Dame. In it, it is stated that Timothy's family were evicted in Castlelyons, Cork and that he came to the USA with nothing and worked his way up.
It also says that he had nine children, when he had fifteen.
(TOS Sept 2015)
https://books.google.ie/books?id=YErpG9ExKNUC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Bill+Foohey+Fort+Wayne&source=bl&ots=TXxRE5k6O6&sig=NRmbyXD-pmXeDGgXqQuAcTgZHNM&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Bill%20Foohey%20Fort%20Wayne&f=false |