I am new to this site - just found a link today. Looking for information on a Duggan family who emigrated from Dromavally (Farmer's Bridge area ) of Kerry c. 1880 -1890 to Mass. My grandaunt Mary McGuire married Denis Duggan of Dromavally in 1892. Through some Duggan relatives in Mass Mary McGuire Duggan arranged for my aunt Anna Healy /Kerrisk to move to Mass where she did her nurse training.
I believe this was the family of Daniel Duggan - occupation tailor -who was living with his wife Mary and 5 children Julia Walter Arthur Edwin Mary -niece Catherine Barry -Patrick Hogan father-in-law -Thomas Hogan brother-in-law in Cambridge St Worcester per 1910 US Census. An Anna Healy -occupation maid -is listed as lodging with a Thayer family in the same street. John Thayer and his son Denis's occupations are given as general practice which I assume means medical doctors. This would fit with my family information that Anna stayed with a doctor's family when she first arrived. By Nov 1918 she had completed training at Cambridge Traiining School for Nurses. Her US passport issued in 1928 when she returned to Ireland gave her address as 90 Hamilton St Dorchester Mass.
At least three of the children of Mary McGuire and Denis Duggan moved to Mass. Daniel b. 1894 in 1914 and was possibly the Daniel Duggan occupation policeman living with wife Helen children Dennis John Joseph and brother Jeremiah in Centre Ave Boston per 1930 US Census. Sister Hannah came to Boston in 1923 as a 23 yr old. would welcome any information on either Duggan family.
Clare Tuohy
e-mail annclare@gofree.indigo.ie