Gearyville From the River Lee of Cork City to Lee Rd Follansbee WV

Gearyville From the River Lee of Cork City to Lee Rd Follansbee WV Geary Family History

Found an interesting article in the National Archives about a John Geary in 1834 partitioning his release from the Cork ...
07/24/2026

Found an interesting article in the National Archives about a John Geary in 1834 partitioning his release from the Cork City Gaol. He was incarcerated in 1831 over a disputed right to run the ferry from Passage West to Carrigaloe.
John could be the older brother (or cousin) of my 4G grandfather Peter Geary (b. 1798) both baptized at St. Finbarr’s South RC Parish in Cork with John being baptized in 1795. In this dispute, Pierce Cotter is also named and in a previous find in the Griffiths Valuation, a John Geary rented from a James Cotter.
Be interesting to know more to the story….and if these Cotters are related.

An interesting find here. Peter Geary a vagrant?Finding any record of my 4G Grandfather Peter Geary in Ireland (besides...
07/24/2026

An interesting find here. Peter Geary a vagrant?

Finding any record of my 4G Grandfather Peter Geary in Ireland (besides his baptism in 1798) has been very elusive. Not much record of him anywhere.

1847 was the worst year of the Irish Famine. Many poor Irish were purposely evicted from their homes by scrupulous Landlords who purposely raised rents so high they couldn’t afford to pay it. Evictions were to get rid of the Irish and to take their lands. This left many poor peasants with nowhere to go but roaming the streets homeless, starving, and dying of hunger and fever. It was the year of the Coffin Ships. Sick with fever and starving Irish were crowded onto ships by the thousands and sent to North America with many unfortunates sent only to die at sea.

Many who were unable to secure funds to get onto a ship went to the workhouses for relief, a bare minimum existence. Fed soup that was basically weak broth and little to no medical care. These workhouses basically were overcrowded with poor starving and sick with fever Irish. Many dying on a daily basis. It was basically a death sentence for most. A final place to go to die with some kind of dignity.

Some who couldn’t get on a ship or refused to go to the workhouses became vagrants, with many committing crimes so they would be sent to the jails to get some kind of relief from the misery of the streets. That’s what I always imagined what possibly happened to Peter and other family members. They were just poor illiterate commoners with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Below I found this record of a Peter K Geary in the Cork City jail in 1847. Looking close at the below written record, it looks like the name Patrick was written first, then Peter scribbled over top. Most Irish at this time were not given middle names or middle initials, so this is odd. Only people of upper classes probably did so. I just wonder that when the name Peter was transcribed for the printed record below that if the ‘K’ in the scribbled over name Patrick in the written record was mistaken for a middle initial. Just a thought. Anyway, could this be the Peter Geary who made it to America, then to Pittsburgh, and the ancestor of our Geary family? It is possible. ☘️

For those descending from my Grandmother Violet (Owens) Geary married to my grandfather Edward Geary, I always wondered ...
07/12/2026

For those descending from my Grandmother Violet (Owens) Geary married to my grandfather Edward Geary, I always wondered where in England her Parents Benjamin and Clara Owen’s came from, and just recently I found this on Benjamin. Looks like he hailed from Wolverhampton, Staffordshire England. A new find for me. Try saying that 3 times in a row lol

More photos of our Gearyville neighborhood and vicinity on Lee, May, and Woodcrest roads….***See comments on each photo.
07/11/2026

More photos of our Gearyville neighborhood and vicinity on Lee, May, and Woodcrest roads….
***See comments on each photo.

At the top of the hill where LEE, May, and Woodcrest Roads meet, you can see the little white house at the bottom of the...
07/09/2026

At the top of the hill where LEE, May, and Woodcrest Roads meet, you can see the little white house at the bottom of the hill where I (Dennis Geary) was born into. Back then it was our little green house, covered in green asbestos siding. This was a dead end Street and we were the last house on the right. I do believe it is now called Lancaster St, as the second (not pictured) house on the left going downhill belonged to Ralph and Helen Lancaster and family. The last house on the left belonged to Mrs. Percina. I believed I lived here until I was 7 yrs old. I do remember living here.
**please see comments under each photo for more information.

From the River Lee in Cork City, Ireland, Co. Cork, to Lee Road in Follansbee, WV on Hooverson Heights, the Family of my...
07/07/2026

From the River Lee in Cork City, Ireland, Co. Cork, to Lee Road in Follansbee, WV on Hooverson Heights, the Family of my Geary Family traveled. The Family of my 3Great Grandparents William and Annie (Montgomery) Geary arrived in 1926 after buying property here, moving across the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio. So this is part of our Geary trail from Ireland in 1852 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Steubenville in 1872, to “Gearyville” in 1926.
***For more information, please read the comments. And sorry, I had the photos in an organized order, but FB as usual mixed them all up, 😑.

Just made a few interesting finds. For yrs I’ve been trying to find out about the family of Peter Geary (my 4G grandfath...
04/12/2026

Just made a few interesting finds. For yrs I’ve been trying to find out about the family of Peter Geary (my 4G grandfather) while they lived in Cork City in the early-mid 1800’s. The Cork City Directory only seems to mention Business owners, so if the Gearys didn’t own any businesses, what did they do?

With a little help from an Irish researcher Patrick O’Donovan from the Cork Historical Society, he found a couple Cork City Newspaper articles mentioning an Owen Geary and William Geary, who are a great possibility of being Peter’s brothers. William b. 1805 and Owen b. 1808.

Owen was a boat repairman and mentioned in an article from 1842 working on a boat repair, the ship Barbara, in Cobh (pronounced “cove”), a port town situated on the South side of Great Island in Cork Harbor that eventually leads into Cork City.

Cobh is most famous as the last port of call for the Titanic on April 11, 1912 at 11:30am. The Titanic dropped its last anchor in Queenstown (now called Cobh) at Roches Point outer anchorage. Cobh was renamed Queenstown in 1849 in honor of Queen Victoria and kept that name until 1922.

Cobh harbor is also the Port most Irish left Ireland after the famine (1845-51). Even though there were also other Irish Ports that the Irish left from, it is most likely that Peter and son William, my 4g and 3g grandfathers, left Cobh Harbor to come to America. William’s date of departure was in 1852. Peter’s unknown.

Owen Geary is also listed as living on Blarney Lane in Cork City in 1860.

William was the Head Turnkey in Cork Prison in 1843. According to the article, William appears to lose an argument about his wages and duties. A prison Turnkey was a prison guard responsible for locking and unlocking cell doors.

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