About Michael Hayes and Margaret Real
When we were in Ireland, we spent the most time in the county of Limerick. We looked at the towns that Michael Hayes and Margaret Real came from, visited in the country stores, chatted with the people coming out of Mass...
Simon Real was mentioned in the Tith Applotment Book as having about thirteen acres of land in 1850, in the townland of Knockainy, West. July 19th, 1919, his daughter Margaret was born; her mother was born Catherine McArthy. Her sponsors were Edmond Carroll and Bridget Halpin. Jim corresponded with living descendants of the Real family -- in records it's often spelt Rael, and it's pronounced Rale. I remember Grandpa McJohn sitting in the living room of our little apartment in Chicago before Beth was born, saying that the spelling of his grandma's last name changed with the person who was spelling it! His Hayes aunts had lived with him after his dad's early death, cared for him all their lives, and they were beloved. They were, of course, Margaret's daughters.
Beth spent time sitting at Aunt Mary's side writing out the names on the back of old tinplates of the Hayes girls. Maybe there was a picture of Margaret Rael Hayes?
Michael Hayes and Margaret Rael had six children, and the first five were baptized in the Knockaney Catholic church from April 8, 1850 (John R) to March 9, 1861 (Margaret) but the youngest, Deborah, who married Joe Sheridan, was born after 1861.
Margaret Rael had married Michael Hayes in Knockaney on November 21st, 1848. She had a sister who stayed in New York, but she and Michael came to Chicago . Michael Hayes -- there's a picture of him in the Holy Family book, sitting with the other ushers in his stiff collar and black suit. As an old retired guy, he worked as an "inspector of curbs" which sounds to me like a good Chicago political appointment! His daughter Catharine was the businesswoman; she bought the plot in Mount Carmel where Michael was buried, in 1901, and then when John McJohn, her brother-in-law, died so young, he was buried there too. That's in the oldest section of Mount Carmel, off to the extreme north, under a pretty old tree.
Those Hayes girls pitched in to make a fine fun life for the youngsters. Money wasn't plentiful, but there were always houses to live in, because Edward McJohn and his oldest son, Christopher, had bought and sold so many buildings in the Holy Family parish. And all but Margaret worked, while Peg stayed home with the kids and kept house.
There's a family in LaGrange that's probably descended from Deborah Hayes, and a Sheridan who's in the choir in Lake Forest with Joe who probably is also. Deborah and Joseph Sheridan had six children who lived -- all lively, charming, and able; John Hayes and Nell Mahoney had six children -- his daughter Mary was the mother of the Howard boys, two priests and one surgeon, who had so many friends on the West Side. Monsignor Howard was another charmer -- I never met the other two Howards, but a priest who lived in SFX here for a number of years was very fond of their company.
And from John McJohn, of course, there's all our lot.
Reagan is another name which is spelled like Real and gets the pronunciation of the long a.
Simon Real was mentioned in the Tith Applotment Book as having about thirteen acres of land in 1850, in the townland of Knockainy, West. July 19th, 1919, his daughter Margaret was born; her mother was born Catherine McArthy. Her sponsors were Edmond Carroll and Bridget Halpin. Jim corresponded with living descendants of the Real family -- in records it's often spelt Rael, and it's pronounced Rale. I remember Grandpa McJohn sitting in the living room of our little apartment in Chicago before Beth was born, saying that the spelling of his grandma's last name changed with the person who was spelling it! His Hayes aunts had lived with him after his dad's early death, cared for him all their lives, and they were beloved. They were, of course, Margaret's daughters.
Beth spent time sitting at Aunt Mary's side writing out the names on the back of old tinplates of the Hayes girls. Maybe there was a picture of Margaret Rael Hayes?
Michael Hayes and Margaret Rael had six children, and the first five were baptized in the Knockaney Catholic church from April 8, 1850 (John R) to March 9, 1861 (Margaret) but the youngest, Deborah, who married Joe Sheridan, was born after 1861.
Margaret Rael had married Michael Hayes in Knockaney on November 21st, 1848. She had a sister who stayed in New York, but she and Michael came to Chicago . Michael Hayes -- there's a picture of him in the Holy Family book, sitting with the other ushers in his stiff collar and black suit. As an old retired guy, he worked as an "inspector of curbs" which sounds to me like a good Chicago political appointment! His daughter Catharine was the businesswoman; she bought the plot in Mount Carmel where Michael was buried, in 1901, and then when John McJohn, her brother-in-law, died so young, he was buried there too. That's in the oldest section of Mount Carmel, off to the extreme north, under a pretty old tree.
Those Hayes girls pitched in to make a fine fun life for the youngsters. Money wasn't plentiful, but there were always houses to live in, because Edward McJohn and his oldest son, Christopher, had bought and sold so many buildings in the Holy Family parish. And all but Margaret worked, while Peg stayed home with the kids and kept house.
There's a family in LaGrange that's probably descended from Deborah Hayes, and a Sheridan who's in the choir in Lake Forest with Joe who probably is also. Deborah and Joseph Sheridan had six children who lived -- all lively, charming, and able; John Hayes and Nell Mahoney had six children -- his daughter Mary was the mother of the Howard boys, two priests and one surgeon, who had so many friends on the West Side. Monsignor Howard was another charmer -- I never met the other two Howards, but a priest who lived in SFX here for a number of years was very fond of their company.
And from John McJohn, of course, there's all our lot.
Reagan is another name which is spelled like Real and gets the pronunciation of the long a.
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