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James McDermott and Bridget Flynn

James McDermott and Bridget Flynn both immigrated from the Manorhamilton area of Co. Leitrim, Ireland, James in 1906 from Cloonaquinn and Bridget in 1908 from Cornacloy. They met and married in New York before returning to Ireland to care for James's sick father Patrick (Pat 19) in 1920. James and Bridget purchased a farm in West Barrs, near their respective childhood homes, and had three children: Rose, Mary Grace and Patrick Joseph (Joe). After caring for Pat 19 until his death in 1923 and saving enough money for the trip, the family returned to America in 1928, living first in Connecticut and then settling in Otisville, NY in 1931. Two more children were born in the United States: Merici and John.
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Pat 19 (center) with some of his children and grandchildren in America. Back row: ?, ?, James, Thomas, Bridget, ?. Front row: Lawrence, ?, Pat 19 with ?, Sister Mary Merici, ? with ?.
James and Bridget's Wedding
James and Bridget's passport photo
Rose, Mary Grace, Merici (in Mary's arms), and Patrick Joseph
The McDermott home in Otisville, NY
Merici
Merici and John
Merici
Merici's First Holy Communion
Front row: James, Merici, Bridget. Back row: Patrick Joseph, John, Mary Grace
Merici, Rose, Patrick Joseph, Mary Grace, John
Mary Grace
Merici
Merici and Mary Grace
Merici
James's brother Joe, Bridget and James
James's brother Joe, Bridget, James, and Joe's wife
Bridget with some of her grandchildren. Front row: Cheryl McDermott, Thomas McDermott, Bridget McDermott, Brian Killian, Patrick McDermott. Back row: Patricia Thomas, Bonnie McDermott, Charles (Tommy) Thomas, and John McDermott.
James McDermott and his grandson James Ullrich
The Thomas Family: Patricia, Charles and Rose
James McDermott with his granddaughter Brigette Ullrich
Brigette Ullrich, Bridget McDermott
A Thanksgiving Meal: (facing the camera) Charles Thomas, Joe Ullrich, Bridget McDermott, (not facing the camera) James Ullrich and Thomas McDermott

Joseph James Ullrich and Anna E. Matthews

Joseph James was born and lived in New York City. His family settled in New York City after his grandfather John Ullrich and grandmother Elisabeth Hock immigrated from Germany in the 1820s or 1830s. Anna was born in Vermont to parents John Matthews and Annie McLaughlin, both from Co. Sligo, Ireland. Anna's parents died when she was 12 and 13, respectively, and she was sent to live with an uncle in Connecticut. To get away from this unkind uncle, Anna and her younger sister left for New York when she was still in her teens. Joseph James and Anna met, married, and lived in Manhattan and had four children: Joseph Francis (Joe), Ann, John and Rose. ​ Joseph James was killed in 1929 when Rose was a baby. As their fortunes changed, Anna moved the family to Brooklyn. Joe and John joined the Navy in early 1942.
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Joseph James Ullrich
Joe
Anna, Joe their son, and Joseph James
Joe
Joe
Ann, John, Rose, and Joe
Rose, Ann, John, and Joe
John and Joe
Joe
Joe
(behind) Rose, Joe, Ann, (in front) Mike Milo, a friend from the neighborhood
Joe (right), possibly in Russia
Joe (left) in the Philippines
Joe
Joe
Joe
Joe
Joe
Joe

Joe Ullrich and Merici McDermott

At the end of World War II, Joseph James and Anna’s son Joe was sent to the Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Otisville, NY. When he was discharged, he decided he liked the area and took a job working as a cook in the Sanitarium's kitchens (he had been a cook on an air craft carrier in the Navy). James and Bridget’s daughter Merici was raised in Otisville, NY after her parents settled there in 1931. She met Joe when they were both working at the Sanitarium, Merici as a waitress, and they married in Otisville, NY in 1953. They bought a lot from (and adjacent to) Merici's parents James and Bridget in Otisville, NY and built a house. Together they had four children: Joseph, who died in infancy, James, Brigette, and Maire.
James and Joe
Joe and James
James
Brigette and James
James, Brigette and Joe
James and Joe
James and Brigette
Joe, James and Bridget
Joe
Joe
(back row) James and Joe, (front row) Merici and Maire
Mary Grace and her husband Frank (Buddy)'s 25th Wedding Anniversary Party

Documents

Bridget Flynn's Ellis Island entrance paperwork, 1908
James and Bridget's passport, 1920
Letter from James McDermott to his sister informing her of the death of their father Patrick (Pat 19), 1923

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