Getting back on track to Sharon's original posting about Michael Malley, Sheila had written awhile back:
The Michael Malley who was sentenced to penal servitude in 1882, and for whose wife and young family a fund was being raised, must be the same Michael as the one in Paddy Casey’s posting of 2008:
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=230. Paddy Casey found this report in
The Birmingham Daily Post of Wed. Nov. 22, 1882. There may be a fuller account in the
Clare Journal around that time, but I doubt that there will be much more information on the identity of Michael Malley. I made a small attempt at finding him, but failed, and I’ve decided to treat that newspaper item as just an illustration of the times that were in it.
The trial of Michael Maley in 1882 is documented on the link to the below thread (page 17) along with background of the 1882 Land War violence in Tulla:
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtop ... &start=240
The American newspaper posted by Sharon stated that Michael Maley was married with children. This made it very difficult for Sheila to determine which Michael Maley of Tulla would fit this description. But in fact, Michael Maley was single and most likely never saw a penny of the funds raised in America.
Michael Maley was sent from Limerick Gaol to Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin on 23 October 1882. His description was: 22 years of age; single; hazel eyes, dark brown hair, fresh complexion, with a "cast of left eye". His trade was mason. Unfortunately the right side of the register with comments has been cut off, but the release date states "12 April 1888".
This 22 year old Michael Maley is the son of Thomas Mealy and Susan McMahon of Fortane baptized on 2 September 1861 in the Tulla baptism records. In the 1900 USA Census, Michael Malley (age 38) is living with his wife Elizabeth (Iowa born, age 37) and two adopted children in Buffalo, New York. His occupation is "Foreman Brick Stone Mason". Michael O'Malley, "the mason's son", was still working as a mason in Buffalo in the 1920 census where he states his year of immigration as 1890. By 1922 he and his wife had moved to West Palm Beach, Florida where he worked as a general contractor. As Sheila had previously discovered, Michael died in 1926 in Florida, parents reported as Thomas O'Malley and Susan McMahon.
The entire family of Thomas Malley, the mason, and Susan McMahon Malley would move to Buffalo, New York in the 1880's. The obituary of Thomas Malley, aged 66 years, of 249 Breckenridge Street was reported in the
Buffalo Evening News of 23 April 1891. Most of the remaining family were recorded in the 1892 NY State Census living at 249 Breckenridge as follows:
Susan Malley (age 52, housekeeper), Thomas Malley (age 28, stone mason), James Malley (age 24, brick layer), Katie (22), Susie (19), Patrick (17), Frank (15) - all born in Ireland. There are also two American born children: Alice Malley (age 6) and Frank P. Malley (age 2). They are the two children who would be adopted by Michael and Elizabeth O'Malley. On the 1910 census questions about birthplace of parents, their father is reported as Irish born (possibly Thomas, age 28 in 1892, perhaps a widower? in hospital in 1900, he died in 1902) and mother born in England. Also living in the household in 1892 are two other Irish born men: Edward O. Rourk (age 22, brick layer) and James Murphy (age 21, mason).
There was also a John O'Malley living in Buffalo in the 1892 census (age 32, bricklayer) with his wife and five children; this is the brother John who was recorded in the Tulla baptism records in 1859. There are a few descendant family trees on ancestry.com that have traced back to these Tulla baptism records. Little information on Michael, much more on his older brother John and a few other siblings. They state that John O'Malley arrived in America in 1872, probably based upon census reports. It is very unlikely that John would have left Tulla at age 12 without his parents. John O'Malley married in New York in 1883. I reckon John left Ireland after his younger brother Mick Maley was arrested in 1882 as there may have been a giant target on his back.
I had a look for the passenger listing of the O'Malley family arriving in New York as it has not yet been discovered by any of the Buffalo descendants. There are so many name variations for O'Malley, Mealey, Maley etc that it might appear to be impossible to find. But there is a fairly short window for when this family arrived in America, prior to 1892 and after 1885 with the birth of Alice Malley in the USA. Most immigrants at this time would be younger in their 20's. So I searched for a "Susan Malley", born in Ireland around 1840 which led to the direct hit of the "Molloy" family from "Cork" on their way to Buffalo on the
SS City of Chicago arriving in New York City on 23 April 1886. The family included: Thomas Molloy (age 50, "S Mason"), Susan Molloy (age 50, wife), Thomas Molloy (age 20, "S Mason"), James (age 15, "S Mason"), Kate (11), Susan (9), Pat (8), and Frank (7). They brought three pieces of baggage on the journey, one of which would have surely contained the tools of the mason trade.
The
SS City of Chicago left Liverpool on 13 April 1886 for a stop at Queenstown and then headed for New York. This is only a fortnight after Michael O'Malley of Glandree used abusive and threatening language against Andrew Sheedy McNamara of Glandree on 29 March 1886 (see detail on same link as above). Was this timing only coincidental? The petty session register also had two separate complaints by Daniel McNamara and John Molony, both of Glandree, against Patrick Malley of Glendree for "assaulting complainant and attempting to strike him with a stone at Kilmore on 28 March 1886". Witnesses were Daniel McNamara, Denis Cooney, James McNamara, Con Rodgers, and Wm Allen. I have not yet mentioned on this forum several other complaints which indicate turbulent times in Tulla. The complaint of Cornelius Rodgers of Glandree against John Holohan of Glandree for abusive and threatening language on 29 March 1886. The complaint of John Howard of Ballyblood against Michael McNamara of Lisofin for assaulting and kicking him at Cutteen on 25 March 1886. The complaint of Michael McNamara of Lisofin against John Howard of Ballyblood for assaulting and striking him on his mouth with a stick at Cutteen and breaking his tooth on 25 March 1886.
Is it not probable that Thomas O'Malley and Susan McMahon simply got fed up with all the violence in Tulla and decided it would be better to raise their family in New York? To join their son John O'Malley in Buffalo where there was plenty of work for a mason? Rent a nice two story house with a basement and a small attic at 249 Breckenridge Street and finally have some peace there? To arise and go now, and go to Buffalo?