Know of any Deedy's in Dingle?
1 Comments Published by Jane on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM.
Every so often an email is sent to me after someone comes across this blog. Usually I can figure out if the person contacting me is a relation or not. But this latest query has me a bit befuddled. While Deedy is a very uncommon last name, it is not 100% unique to my family. The following email arrived today from England:
HelloIf any of the above sounds familiar or if you are researching any Deedy's from Dingle please let me know and I will connect you with R.G. from Oxford to discuss...
I love your website, so much work has gone in to it, it is a pleasure to see.
My paternal grandmother was Norah/Noreen Deedy from Dingle in County Kerry Ireland. She was one of four daughters of ? Deedy, a fisherman from Dingle. My grandmother emigrated to Boston and worked there in service to a wealthy Jewish family for something like 12 years, she married Gerald/Gerry Sheehan in Boston and returned to Ireland in the early/mid 1930s, she never returned to Boston. She lived the rest of her life in Coombaha, Co Kerry, Ireland.
If you have any knowledge of my Grandmother or her relatives I would love to find out more about her.
Kind regards
R. G.
Oxford UK
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Our family is from Firies which is just a few miles from Dingle. Nora is a common name in our family. See the family tree in my reunion presentation.
Given the above and the small number of Deady/Deedy families in Ireland my guess is that there probably is a relation.
Our Family in Firies, Connie McCarthy, John McCarthy, & Kathleen McCarthy would be the best ones to ask.
Cousin Shaun