The Probable Irish Ancestry of Gertrude Davenport Dorsey

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 Generation No. 1

1. Gertrude Davenport Dorsey, born November 18, 1867 in Buffalo, NY; died February 18, 1954 in Salinas, CA1. She was the daughter of 2. James Dorsey and 3. Sarah Jane D'Arcy. She married (1) Henry Warren Hawes. He was born October 29, 1867 in Hampton Falls, NH2, and died November 10, 1938 in Monterey, CA3. He was the son of David Cobb Hawes and Mary Hannah Sanborn.

Notes for Gertrude Davenport Dorsey:

According to family tradition, Gertrude's father James died or separated from her mother when Gertrude was young; she was schooled for a time in a convent, likely Catholic, and possibly in Boston, perhaps in Buffalo. Her daughter Florence talked of Gertrude living on Nob Hill at some time, perhaps with her mother Sarah and step-father William Still*, and they may have lived there during the earthquake, although the Hawes family was living in Monterey or Seaside by the time Florence was born in 1908 and all her siblings were at least partially schooled in Monterey; the family may have also spent some time in Boston.

Gertrude is interred with her husband Henry and her mother Sarah, her daughter Florence, her grand-daughter Adrienne, and her great-grandson James, five generations, at a family plot at the Carmelo Cemetery in Pacific Grove.

Gertrude's grand-daughter Nadine called her "Hawes". Her other grand children remember from their mother Adele that Gertrude was fond of singing Irish songs.

*Henry's brother Levi (Hawes) lived in San Francisco for many years. This may be the Nob Hill connection.

More About Gertrude Davenport Dorsey:

Burial: February 23, 1954, El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA

Cause of Death: Possibly stroke, after a prolonged convalescence, following an earlier stroke.

Living: Bef. May 31, 1951, 1401 Lomita, Seaside

Medical Information: Monterey County Hospital from May 31, 1951- February 18, 1954

Nationality: probably Irish

Religion: Catholic (?)

Web Site: http://www.pioneerfamily.com

More About Henry Warren Hawes:

Date born 2: November 18, 1880, New Bedford, MA4

Family religions: Congregational, Puritan, Quaker

Nationality: English, Welsh

Generation No. 2

2. James Dorsey5, born Abt. 1840 in ? - "unknown" on Gertrude's death certificate; died August 21, 1871 in Buffalo, NY6. He married 3. Sarah Jane D'Arcy July 3, 1866 in Buffalo, NY7.

3. Sarah Jane D'Arcy7, born December 19, 1843 in Buffalo, NY - death certificate says 18478,9; died May 30, 1925 in Pacific Grove, CA. She was the daughter of 6. Daniel D'Arcy and 7. Eliza Davenport.

More About Sarah Jane D'Arcy:

Burial: June 4, 1925, El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA

Cause of Death: Chronic myocarditis, angina pectoris, artero sclerosis

Migration: Abt. 1885, from New York

Note: May 30, 1925, D'Arcy spelled D'Arcey on death cert

Child of James Dorsey and Sarah D'Arcy is:

1 i. Gertrude Davenport Dorsey, born November 18, 1867 in Buffalo, NY; died February 18, 1954 in Salinas, CA; married Henry Warren Hawes.

Generation No. 3

6. Daniel D'Arcy10, born Abt. 1805 in Ireland (census), France (Sarah's birth certificate)11; died Aft. 1861 in Buffalo, NY. He married 7. Eliza Davenport Bef. 1830 in ?Ireland, Buffalo.

7. Eliza Davenport12, born Abt. 1815 in Ireland (census) France (Sarah's birth certificate)13; died Aft. 185014. She was the daughter of 14. Davenport.

Notes for Daniel D'Arcy:

from 'Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1861' , page 182, by Wm. D. Murphy, NY, 1861:

JAMES DARCY

"Mr. Darcy was born in the city of Buffalo, on the 12th of November, 1834, and is a descendant of pure Irish stock. His father, Daniel Darcy, a prominent and influential man is still living in that city, and his mother, whose maiden name was Eliza Devenport, died in 1848, at the age of thirty-two . . .

" . . . he has, like his father, been a Democrat of the old-fashioned conservative stamp, and has never faltered in his devotion to the real-interests and policy of that party."

Dorcy, Dorcey, Dorsey, Darcy, D'Arcy (Galway), D'Arci, Darkey = O'Dorchaidhe

O'Dorcey, MacDarcy

also Darcey, Darcye - 16th century

also Arcy, Arcie

"D'Arcy occasionally used as a synonym of the Gaelic surname, the best known of the Norse, Norman and English names which have become "naturalized" by long association with Ireland."

from 'Your Irish Coats-of-Arms', Paul Murtaugh, Ainsworth Company, NY, 1960.

Erie County Obituaries "Darcy, Daniel, Aug. 5, 1863, age 61"

More About Daniel D'Arcy:

Date born 2: Ireland (census)

Occupation: 1850, Mason

More About Eliza Davenport:

Date born 2: Ireland (census)

Died 2: 184815

Died 3: March 13, 1848, age 3416

Name (Facts Page): Devenport17

Children of Daniel D'Arcy and Eliza Davenport are:

i. James D'Arcy, born November 12, 1834 in Buffalo, NY.

Notes for James D'Arcy:

from 'Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1861' , page 182, by Wm. D. Murphy, NY, 1861:

JAMES DARCY

"Mr. Darcy was born in the city of Buffalo, on the 12th of November, 1834, and is a descendant of pure Irish stock. His father, Daniel Darcy, a prominent and influential man is still living in that city, and his mother, whose maiden name was Eliza Devenport, died in 1848, at the age of thirty-two.

"Mr. Darcy was educated in the public schools of his native city, and after removing, in January, 1851, to the city of Brooklyn, where he now resides, served his time as a house-carpenter, which has always since been his chief occupation. He was elected to the Assembly, which is the first public position he ever held, in the fall of 1859, by a majority of upwards of six hundred, over the combined American and Republican parties in his district, and during the last session of the Legislature was a member of the Standing Committee on Internal Affairs of Towns and Counties. He introduced the bill, last winter, establishing a public market in the city of Brooklyn, and also the Brooklyn Ferry Bill, and has again introduced them this session, with the determination, if possible, to secure their success. At the last election he received the unanimous nomination of both the Douglas and Breckenridge branches of the Democratic party, and was again triumphantly elected to the position he now occupies. His legislative career has, thus far, been quiet and unpretending; but he has shown himself an honest, capable, industrious, and intelligent representative. He has, like his father, been a Democrat of the old-fashioned conservative stamp, and has never faltered in his devotion to the real-interests and policy of that party.

"Mr. Darcy is married. He is a young man of more than ordinary promise; has a fine, prepossessing personal appearance; and enjoys a high degree of personal as well as political popularity wherever he is known."

ii. Charles D'Arcy, born Abt. 1835; died October 13, 1876.

Notes for Charles D'Arcy:

from Erie County Obituaries "Darcy, Charles" October 13, 1876 age 42"

iii. Daniel D'Arcy, born Abt. 1839; died Abt. 1876 in Uttica.

Notes for Daniel D'Arcy:

from Obituaries of Erie County:

Darcy, Daniel, "formerly of Buffalo, Aug 30, 1876, age 38, d. at Utica, bur in Buffalo"

iv. Margaret D'Arcy, born Abt. 1839.

v. Thomas D'Arcy, born Abt. 1842.

3 vi. Sarah Jane D'Arcy, born December 19, 1843 in Buffalo, NY - death certificate says 1847; died May 30, 1925 in Pacific Grove, CA; married (1) James Dorsey July 3, 1866 in Buffalo, NY; married (2) William G. Still Aft. 1871.

vii. Eliza D'Arcy, born Abt. 1844.

viii. Ellen D'Arcy, born Abt. 1846.

ix. Joseph D'Arcy, born Abt. 1847.

x. Bridgit D'Arcy, born Abt. 1849.

Generation No. 4

14. Davenport

Notes for Davenport:

There is a Joseph Davenport found in Directory of Buffalo, 1801-1832, "clerk, U.S.B. Bank, Franklin St." Eliza has son named Joseph.

"Davenport = surname common in Britain used as the Anglicized forms of Gaelic Irish surname Donarty."

from 'Your Irish Coats-of-Arms', Paul Murtaugh, Ainsworth Company, NY, 1960.

Child of Davenport is:

7 i. Eliza Davenport, born Abt. 1815 in Ireland (census) France (Sarah's birth certificate); died Aft. 1850; married Daniel D'Arcy Bef. 1830 in ?Ireland, Buffalo.

Endnotes

1. SSDI.

2. Florence Conger's notes, death certificate of Henry Warren Hawes

3. Death Certificate

4. Frank Mortimer Hawes, Hawes, The Descendants of Richard, of Dorchester, (1932, The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, Hartford, CT), The birth date here (November 18, 1880) does not agree with that of Henry Warren Hawes death certificate. Perhaps there is another sibling confused here.

5. Early Settlers of Erie County.

6. Erie County Obituaries

7. Early Settlers of Erie County.

8. Census 1850, 24 July 1850, 3rd Ward City of Buffalo, Erie County, pg 211.

9. D'Arcy/death certificate - Sarah J. Darcy Still.

10. Census - 1850, 24 July 1850, 3rd Ward City of Buffalo, Erie County, pg 211.

11. D'Arcy/death certificate - Sarah J. Darcy Still.

12. Wm. D. Murphy, D'Arcy/Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1861, (for the author, NY, 1861), 182-183, Wm. D. Murphy, NY, 1861.

13. D'Arcy/death certificate - Sarah J. Darcy Still.

14. Census - 1850, 24 July 1850, 3rd Ward City of Buffalo, Erie County, pg 211.

15. Wm. D. Murphy, D'Arcy/Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1861, (for the author, NY, 1861).

16. Erie County, NY, Vitial Statistics obituaries.

17. Wm. D. Murphy, D'Arcy/Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1861, (for the author, NY, 1861).