Hartnett, Mary Catherine

Mary Catherine Hartnett stated she came from Churchtown South, also known as Ballintemple or Ballygourney.
However, Jo cashman stated in her 2004 letter to me that the Hartnett family came from Garryvoe. The Garryvoe Hartnetts are relatives of Mary’s father, John Hartnett, perhaps his brothers.

Churchtown South is described in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837:

“CHURCHTOWN, or BALLINTEMPLE, a parish, in the barony of IMOKILLY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 4 miles (S. E.) from Cloyne ; containing 1756 inhabitants.

This parish, called also Ballygourney, is situated on St. George’s channel, and comprises 4730 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act and valued at £2123. 19s. 8d., per annum. The greater part of the surface is hilly; the soil generally is light and shallow, resting wholly on a substratum of clay-slate, and the lands are principally under tillage. The village consists of 35 dwellings, most of which are small mud cabins roofed with thatch. Between this parish and that of Kilmahon is a detached portion of the parish of Ballyoughtra, called Snugborough, containing 92 acres, and more than two miles distant from the main body of that parish.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne, and is part of the union of Lisgoold, and the corps of the precentorship in the cathedral church of St. Colman, Cloyne. The tithes amount to £500. 5s. The old parish church has long been in ruins; but a district church for this parish and that of Ballycotton was erected in 1835, at an expense of £330., raised by subscription. The glebe comprise seven acres in two portions.

In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union of Cloyne ; the chapel is a small neat edifice.

The male and female parochial school for this parish and those of Kilmahon and Ballycotton is situated at Ballybraher, and is supported by subscription; and there are two pay schools.

There are two coast-guard stations, situated respectively at Ballyandrein and Ballycotton, within the Youghal district.”

Here is the Baptism Record of Mary Catherine Hartnett:

First name(s)
Mary
Last name
Hartnett
Birth year
-
Baptism year
1866
Baptism date
22 Nov 1866
Parish
Cloyne
Alternative parish names
Churchtown, Churchtown and Kilteskin, Kilteskin
Diocese
Cloyne
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Father's first name(s)
John
Father's last name
Hartnett
Mother's first name(s)
Kate
Mother's last name
Duhig
Repository
National Library of Ireland
National Library of Ireland link
http://registers.nli.ie//registers/vtls000632999#page/1/mode/1up
Register
Baptism
Record set
Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
Category
Life Events (Birth, Marriage, Death)
Subcategory
Births & baptisms
Collections from
Ireland


The Passenger Record of Mary Hartnett-Dorgan:

First Name :   Mrs M. (Mary)
Last Name :   Dorgan
Nationality :   Ireland, Irish
Last Place of Residence :   Midleton
Date of Arrival :   June 9th, 1897
Age at Arrival :   28y
Gender :   Female
Ship of Travel :   Teutonic
Port of Departure :   Queenstown
Manifest Line Number :   0411
Passenger ID: 102902013041




Mary Catherine Hartnett-Dorgan sailed with her five children from (Queenstown) Cobh, County Cork on Wednesday, June 2, 1897 onboard the Teutonic. Passenger ticket#19673. Her occupation: Housekeeper. They arrived at Ellis Island a week later on Wednesday, 9 June 1897. She gave her address as Midleton, which is the Registration nearest Market town. She was 28.

Mary Catherine Hartnett had relatives in Rhode Island. Her husband, Patrick Dorgan, lived with these (unknown) relatives in 1897-1899 until he could find work and a place to live for his own family. They eventually resided at 296 Charles Street in Providence, Rhode Island.

I received this e-mail from Barbara Moriarty-Andrews on July 20, 2001 which describes one of her recollections of Mary Hartnett, her grandmother:

Hi Bill:

I received an updated Dorgan family tree from Pat Maguire. So many interesting things come out in researching our family tree. It is too bad that we do not talk to our older relatives about their past history and only find out after they have died about things that have happened to them.

My grandmother, Mary C. Hartnett Dorgan, used to swear that she watched the mermaids playing on the rocks in Ireland, and I believed her. She loved to have me comb and braid her long hair and roll it into a bun. Although she and I were very close, I never knew that she had had children who had died in infancy. She used to sit constantly with a rosary in her hands. At her wake, I swear that I could see her fingers moving on the beads of the rosary she held in her hands.

Mary Catherine (Hartnett) Dorgan died on November 23, 1950 at 930 PM at 34 Bellview Avenue in the Spring Green section of Warwick, Rhode Island. She had lived there for ten years. According to her death certificate she died of a coronary thrombosis caused by arteriosclerosis and a hypertensive heart disorder. She was 75 years, 10 months, and 24 days old. (Actually she was ten years older!) The informant of her death was her son, William Dorgan, who lived with her. She was buried on November 27, 1950 in St. Anne's Cemetery, Cranston, Rhode Island, Section 7, Lot 1123 next to her husband, Patrick Dorgan, who died 13 years previously on December 9, 1937. The funeral director was J. F. Skeffington.


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The Rhode Island death record of Mary Catherine Hartnett Dorgan says she was born in 1875 and died on 23 Nov 1950. She was 75 when she died. This is the wrong birth date. She was born on 22 November 1866.

"Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8C7-65F : 6 December 2014), Mary Dorgan, 23 Nov 1950; citing Warwick, Kent, Ri, reference 373; FHL microfilm 2,229,519.