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Mary Mahady Moynihan

c. 1638 – ?
Also written as Mary Mahady; Mary Moynihan; The manuscript's own research treats "Mahady" and "Moynihan" as two variant renderings of one name, not two different women — but this itself is an assumption, not something independently confirmed.

A name preserved only in family tradition and in the Two Roads from Munster manuscript's own research, proposed as the mother of Darby Shawhan and wife of Daniel Shawhan ("Daniel Shahan"). Treat everything below as unproven unless a primary source is found.

Life events

  1. No documented events. The following are the manuscript's proposed (unverified) dates:
  2. ca. 1638traditional birth date, Munster
  3. ca. 1665–1675 — traditional marriage to Daniel Shahan, likely Barbados
  4. ca. 1673traditional mother of Darby's birth
  5. ca. 1680–1698 — traditional migration to Maryland with young Darby, after Daniel's 1679 death

Sources

  • No primary or secondary source names her directly. All content below comes from the manuscript's own reasoning about why such records would be expected to be missing, and from family tradition as reported in later genealogical compilations.