Descendents of Mary Devlin Cassidy
Francis Cassidy (c 1820-1890) married Mary Devlin
(1827-1897)
Their Children were:
James, Johhny, Hugh, Tommy, Francis, Edward, Pat, Andy
(died at 18),
Katie, Biddie, Mary Ann
James (1854-1940) m. Bridget Murphy (1862-1956). (See Mary McGuire
Cassidy Chart). Their children were Andy, Paddy, Frank (see “Frank
Cassidy” by Don Cassidy), Edward, John James (died around 20), Michael,
Anthony, Mary, Maggie Alice.
Johhny’s children included Big Frank who emigrated to the Bronx, John
who emigrated to Ft. Lee, N.J., James (Horner), Leghowney, whose wife
was Murphy, and a daughter who married one of the Hones (children
included James & Margaret Drury). (See section on Horners)
Edward married Mary Ann Gallagher (aunt of Margaret Gorman, Aggie
Fury, Hugh and Frank, all of the Dykeman Street area of Manhattan).
Their children were Tommy (b 1899), who emigrated to Boston and was a
church sexton in Cambridge (father of Mary Margaret); and Frank, who was
known as “Young Fella” and “Young One” because he was one of Frank and
Mary’s youngest grandchildren;
Margaret, who married Frank Murphy and lived in Leghowney; and Ellen,
who married William Carroll and lived in Glasgow.
After Mary Ann died Edward remarried and had two daughters, Mary Anne
Cassidy and Bridget Sweeney
