Michael Dooher, b abt 1831 in Ireland married to Mary or Margaret Irving b Ireland lived in Clifton, Welland, Ontario. They had 8 children: Elizabeth m John Burns, Mary m Callahan, Edward, Margaret may have become a nun, Winnifred m Hughson, John m Rutledge, Michael was in the military for the US in 1900, and Peter, who for a while was in the Father Baker home in Buffalo If anyone has any information I would really appreciate it. They are listed in the 1881 census but the name is spelled Doohar.

My grandmother was a sister of Nel Rutledge, the wife of John Dooher. John and Nel are buried with a Catherine Irving in Gate of Heaven Cemetary in Niagara Falls New York, along with the Burnses and Hughsons. We have assumed that there is a relationship between Catherine and Mary Irving, but have not yet found the connection. We find Michael Dooher married to Mary Irving. He is a widower in 1881 census. We find Michael married to a Mary McNulty in 1883, and her death record in 1895.

We show the parents of Michael Dooher as Edward Dooher and Elizabeth Hughes.

Kate in Oxford, Michigan

If you haven't already done so, you should check out the online site of Fairview Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario. There are several Doohers buried there and there is a digital photo for one of the Dooher plots. This is the link to the search box page: http://www.niagarafalls.ca/city_hall/departments/parks_recre...

Buried in this cemetery are:
Mary Dooher - Section C, Plot 0107, Grave 4 (no photo so perhaps no stone)

In Section C, Plot 0158, there are 5 burials with one gravestone photo (first three names):
Michael J. Dooher 1834-1907 grave 1
Michael E. Dooher 1875-1906 grave 2
Winifred "Winnie" Campbell 1846-1892 grave 6
Edward Dooher grave 4
William Harry Burns (baby) grave 5

If you type into the search box other surnames on your family tree, you may come up with more burials. Also, if you contact the cemetery you may get more information regarding the above burials.

FYI I have no connection to this family...just trying to help.

Sharon
Welland, Ontario, Canada

Sharon, THANK YOU!!! I will need to check a couple of things to be sure but I will be very surprised if this isn't my family!! I do appreciate your help. I live about 2 1/2 hours south of Niagara Falls and hope to get there in the very near future. Again, thank you for your help.

Kate, thank you for sharing your information with me. I did know that some Doohers and Catherine Irving were buried in the Gates Of Heaven. Some of the names were only first names, do you happen to know which Hughsons' are buried there? Again, thank you for your reply! Jeanne

Hi Jeanne,

I have the infor on Hughsons. I'll get it too you this evening.

For your further information here is part of a very old posting on RootsWeb (2001) by Kate Parle that lists the names of the children of John Dooher and wife Nell Rutledge Dooher:

Children of CATHERINE KENNEDY (b. 1851) AND JOHN Rutledge (b. 1847):

1. CATHERINE Rutledge (b. 1878),my grandmother, married WILLIAM WALSH (b.
1875), of Merritton, Ontario. They lived at 1008 19th Street, Niagara Falls,
NY, until 1926-7, moving to Pontiac, Michigan. William's sister, MARY and
her husband, ALEXANDER ROUNTREE, lived next door at 1012 19th Street.

2. NELL Rutledge, married JOHN Dooher, who, prior to their deaths in 1918,
owned the Dooher-Seiger Plumbing Company, in Niagara Falls, NY. Their
children: WILLIAM, KATHERINE, IRVING, EDWARD, HELEN (m. Ollie Hooker). JAMES
RUTLEDGE, #5 below, became the childrens' guardian.

3. AGNES Rutledge, married JOHN CASEY, one son, JOHN (JACK). Agnes was
widowed young, remarried a farmer.

4. GEORGE Rutledge, married BEATRICE, one son, JOHN Rutledge (b. 1916).
George was widowed young, and remarried ALBERTA.

5. JAMES Rutledge, married and widowed young, no issue, a banker on Falls
St., Niagara Falls, NY.
Thank you for any help.

Kate Parle
Oxford, Michigan, USA
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Apparently both John and Nell died in the Spanish Flu epidemic that hit at the end of WW1.

There is further information online about James Patrick Dooher (1933-2007), son of William and his wife Agnes Dowling Dooher and grandson of John and Nell. At these two sites you will find a lot more names to add to your family tree:

http://www.pbs.org/secondopinion/episodes/flu/panelists/inde...

his obit: http://www.legacy.com/DemocratAndChronicle/Obituaries.asp?Pa...

Sharon

Once again, Thank YOU! Please feel free to email it directly to me if you like, my address is jpie@pennswoods.net