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Note: Catherine McCarthy's maiden name was learned from her marriage record where the name is spelled "Hierlihy." That record also included the names of witnesses John and Francis "Hierlihy" who were likely brothers or one, perhaps, her father. Her address is "not recorded" nor are the names of her parents.
I suspect that Catherine's birthdate was closer to 1790 than 1795, despite census records, given her marriage in 1808. She bore at least 7 children, 6 sons and a daughter; other children, especially married daughters, may have remained in Ireland. At the 1860 census she was living in the home of son Richard McCarthy, his wife and two young daughters in Brady's Bend, PA, apparently a widow.
I've not located her in any Butler Co. cemetery record; she may have died and been buried in Armstrong Co. where she was living in 1860. A Catherine McCarthy is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh in the same plot at a Patrick McCarhy, d/1855. That Catherine was born 1823 and died after 1890, clearly not this Catherine. Patrick died in either Butler or Armstrong Co. 1850-1860 and Catherine was still alive at the 1860 census, but was deceased before 1870. Both were both in the 1790's or even earlier, so this Catherine born in 1823 was of the wrong generation. The rest of the family didn't move to Pittsburgh until after 1870 so it's unlikely that they would have buried the patriarch there in 1855.
In Griffith's Valuation for Shandrum there were several Herlihys names, all in Killabraher South or Killabraher North. They were Janes, James John Patrick David and Richard.
In the 1766 Census for the Parish of Ballyhay in the Union of Charleville, Diocese of Cloyne, posted online at [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/countycork/1999-02/0919437062], I found among the "papists" listed: Timothy Hearlihy, William Holohan, John "Carthy," & Michael Herlihy.
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"Hierlihy Heraldry and History" from Your Irish Ancestors by J. Anderson Black, Great Irish Families, page 192: "O'Hurley Gaelic: O'hUrthhuile Common Variations: Hurley, O'Herlihy
"This very common surname is the anglicized form of two distinct Gaelic names, O'huirthile of Thomond and O'Muirthile or O'Murghaile of County Cork. The Thomond Hurleys are now found mainly in County Limerick although their original homeland was in County Clare. The vast majority of Hurleys in Ireland today however come from County Cork and are sometimes, though rarely called Murley. Their ancestral territory was situated near Kilbritain in Carbery East, County Cork." ____________________________________________
The following are baptisms listed at rootsireland.it online for a search on Catherine's name, birthdate 1790 +/- 8 years. Nothing for Cork...but Charleville, when Catherine and Patrick were married, is right on the border with Limerick.
Church Baptism Hearlehy Catherine 1790 Co. Limerick
Church Baptism Hurley Catherine 1790 Co. Limerick
Church Baptism Hurly Catherine 1790 Co. Kilkenny
Church Baptism Herlihy Catherine 1787 Co. Limerick ____________________________________________________ Griffiths Valuation of Ireland - Rathgoggan, County Cork
Herlihy Daniel Ballysallagh Rathgoggan Cork Herlihy Daniel Rathgoggan South Rathgoggan Cork Herlihy John Garrynagranoge Rathgoggan Cork Herlihy Patrick Rathgoggan South Rathgoggan Cork Herlihy Thomas Charleville Whelan's Lane Rathgoggan Cork Herlihy Timothy Charleville Smith's Lane Rathgoggan Cork
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