Margaret "Maggie" Foley

Notes:

She graduated from San Jose Normal School, but died of Bright's Disease, a kidney ailment, shortly thereafter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Jun 1829, Ireland
• Alternate birth: Abt 1836
• Alternate birth: Abt 1838, Ireland
• Alternate death: Aft 1912, San Jose, Santa Clara, California
• Alternate death: Dec 1916, Santa Clara County, California

Notes:

According to California records, he was naturalized on 1 Oct 1857 in Moniteau County, Missouri.

"Another interesting bit of information about the original John Foley was that, once he got to America, he paid for the passage of some of his siblings to emigrate. I believe there were at least two sisters who came to America that way, because there are two characters who appear in some family stories that were referred to as John J’s cousins. One was named Jim Hickey, and he came from back East (for some reason I think Bridgeport, CT), and another was named Sullivan and was a stone carver who lived right next to the Foley house at 50 S. 9th St., San Jose.' [Correspondence with Foley descendant Teri Smith, 2020]

"John Foley […] came to the United States from Ireland in 1850, and for a while lived at New Orleans and worked on the steamboats plying on the Mississippi. Then he joined the U.S. Cavalry and saw service on the great plains for five years. After that, for two years, he was a pony express rider from Box Elder to Salt Lake City, and finally, in 1860, he came to California. Until 1863 he was at Virginia City, and on his return to San Jose, he sailed in steamer service from San Francisco to Panama. He married Miss Honora Fleming, an accomplished lady, the mother of our subject. John Foley died in December, 1916, but his devoted widow is still living. They had two boys and two girls, and one of the latter died in 1894. A brother and sister are living on the old home place with their mother, the lot of which was purchased by the wide-awake father in early days in the trade of a saddle horse." [History of Santa Clara, California, citation details below]

John married Honora Fleming on 19 Sep 1870 in Santa Clara County, California. Honora (daughter of Jacob Fleming and Sabina Caveny) was born in 1839 in Ireland; died on 25 Nov 1935 in San Jose, Santa Clara, California; was buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery, San Jose, Santa Clara, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1842, Ireland

Notes:

"She came to the United States around 1860, by way of the Isthmus of Panama; having no money to ride across, she walked from the Caribbean shore to the Pacific." [Patrick Foley, citation details below]

Notes:

Cahersiveen, in Kerry, is alternately spelled Cahirciveen or Caherciveen; in Irish, Cathair Saidhbhín, meaning "little Sadhbh's stone ringfort."

It is where the first shots of the Fenian Rising were fired in 1867. A village of only slightly more than a thousand people in 2016, it is notable for its disproportionately large Catholic church, the only one in Ireland named after a layperson, the crusader for Catholic emancipation Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) who was born in Cahersiveen.

Cahersiveen is also given by Patrick O'Brian as the childhood home of his novels' co-protagonist Stephen Maturin. From Post Captain (1972):

At present two Highlanders were talking slowly to an Irishman in Gaelic...as he lay there on his stomach to ease his flayed back. "I follow them best when I do not attend at all," observed Stephen, "it is the child in long clothes that understands, myself in Cahirciveen."

William married Catherine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Sabina Caveny. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]