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Mulloy Family of
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Provided by Barbara Sutton
Mary Ann
Mulloy Leahy (Nana) was born on Aug. 9, 1883, in Belvidere IL. She
was one of 10 children of Anthony Mulloy, a grocer, and Mary Murrin.
Anthony was born about 1835 or 1840 in Glenties Ireland, in Donegal,
Mary was born on Aug 15, 1847 in Killybegs, also in Donegal. They
were married in
Belvidere on Feb, 6, 1870
On Jan. 18, 1888, when Nana was four,
her father died, leaving her mother with 10 young children: Daniel,
Patrick, John, Anthony, Joseph, Thomas, Charles, Bernard, Teresa and
Nana. According to his death certificate, Anthony Mulloy is buried
in Belvidere, but it doesn’t indicate the cemetery.
Because the
1890 census was
destroyed by fire, it’s not clear how long Mary Mulloy and the
children stayed in Belvidere, but by 1900, they were all living,
together with an unmarried aunt, Ann Mulloy, at
133 S. Western in Chicago. At that time, the children ranged
in age from 12 to 29. In that census Mary Mulloy is said to have
immigrated in 1860, but information in later censuses indicates she
may have come to the United States about 1866.
Nana lost two of her brothers and her
sister at an early age. In July, 1902, her only sister, Teresa, died
at 17. In 1904 her brother Charles died at 23. By that time, the
family was living at
1164 W. Adams in Chicago. According to the Tribune obituary
on Oct. 24, 1904, Charles is buried in Belvidere.
Nana married James Leahy, a native of
Sterling IL, (date and place unknown) and they
had their first child, Edward, on Aug. 30, 1906. Ultimately they had
seven boys, including my father, Joseph, who was born Aug. 3, 1914.
Their five other boys were Bernard, Robert, James, Francis and
Richard.
In 1910, Mary and James were living
with their babies Edward and Bernie at 146 S. Whipple. Nana’s
mother, Mary Murrin Mulloy, and Nana’s brother Joseph also lived
with them.
Soon after the 1910 census, the
family moved to 328 S. Spaulding where they were living on Feb. 15,
1916 when Nana’s mother, Mary Murrin Mulloy died at 68.
On Sept. 12, 1918, James Leahy
registered for the
World War I draft. According to that document, which he
signed himself, James had blue eyes and brown hair. He lived then
with his family at
231 N. Latrobe in Chicago and worked for the U.S post office
as a letter carrier,
In 1920, when the boys ranged in age
from 3 to 13, the Leahys were living in an apartment at 3344 (ck)
West Adams. At that time, James was still working as a letter
carrier and Nana worked as a bookkeeper. By 1930, they owned a home
at 140 N. Mason, in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, valued at
$18,000. At that time, James worked for a health supply firm
and Mary was office manager for a health service lab. Anna Ward,
James Leahy’s aunt, lived with them. She might have been “Auntie”
who dad used to mention
Another of Nana’s brothers, Bernard
Bendict, became a Holy Cross missionary priest based at
Notre Dame
until he died in 1940 at age 52. At least two of her brothers,
Daniel and
Joseph, were
Chicago policemen. Joseph died on Aug. 10, 1917.
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