Mary Delaney

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Delaney was born in 1869, in Franklin Township, Houghton, Michigan, United States, her father, Patrick Shawn Delaney, was 37 and her mother, Mary Flynn, was 23. She died on 3 June 1870, in her hometown, at the age of 1.

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Family Time Line

Patrick Shawn Delaney
1832–1905
Mary Flynn
1846–1908
Johanna or Josie Delaney
1864–1951
Michael Delaney
1865–1933
Patrick B. Delaney
1867–1941
Mary Delaney
1869–1870
William Delaney
1871–1946
Jeremiah Delaney
1873–1905
Edward Delaney
1875–1974
Bridget Delaney
1877–1920
Anthony Francis Delaney
1880–1948
James S. Delaney
1881–1963
Ellen A. Delaney
1883–1946
Henry Thomas Delaney
1886–1965

Sources (2)

  • Mary Delaney, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
  • Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952

World Events (2)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Cormac, Clancy, Colm, Conley, Conor, Dermot, Donal, Eamon, Eamonn, Finbar.

English (of Norman origin): variant of Laney with fused preposition de.

Irish: Anglicized form, influenced by the Norman name, of Gaelic Ó Dubhshláine ‘descendant of Dubhshláine’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + slán ‘challenge, defiance’. MacLysaght, however, suggests that this element may be from the Sláinge river.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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