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It is believed that the wife of Michael Deasy (Virginia City, Nevada 1869), Henrietta Samyra Delmage (Brunswick, Minnesota 1876), received the letter that follows, apparently in response to an ad that was taken out in a publication in Ireland in 1937. There is some doubt about who took out the ad and who received the letter, since the author of the letter, James Deasy, states “Dear Mrs. Deasy” and later on “Now let me tell you and your husband …”, but Michael Deasy died in 1917.
Perhaps this was addressed to Michael and Henrietta’s daughter, Ina Marjorie Deasy, who was married to Stanford William Bradley in 1932. In 1937 neither Ina Marjorie nor her mother, Henrietta Delmage fit both the opening salutation, “Dear Mrs. Deasy” and the later statement about “your husband”.
We do not have the original letter. This is a scanned image of a typed copy that was made sometime later to preserve the content. We do not know who was depicted in the two pictures that were sent to the author of the letter. Henrietta and her husband, Michael, and three of their boys are in the picture on the front page of this site, but we have no pictures of the individuals in the earliest generations in America.
Apparently Henrietta (Nettie or Myra as she was commonly known) or Ina Marjorie was seeking the connection between Michael Deasy (Cork, Ireland 1845), his father, Patrick Deasy (Ireland), and anyone who knew the family before they immigrated to America.
James Deasy, the author of the letter, believed he might have witnessed the departure of the father of Michael (also Michael Deasy), in about 1868. Perhaps so, but we have not been able to substantiate the connection to any great extent. The estimated age of the individual is about right, but the date of departure seems much too late to coincide with information given by John Peter Deasy in the early Idaho biography, which indicates that both Patrick and his son Michael were in America at about the time of the gold rush in California (1848-1855).
Spelling of name “Deasy”
An interesting opinion stated by James Deasy at the end of the letter notes that the “proper spelling” of the name Deasy is “Deasy”. It happens that our branch of the clan does spell their surname “Deasy” although a lot of records from different eras for individuals in our family have variants of the spelling. Sometimes it is as phonetic as “Daisy”. Other times it is just plain misspelled.
We have also found one instance where the reverse was true. Apparently, due to it often being pronounced “daisy”, one of the officials who filled out a marriage license for one of the females in the family, Daisy Turnbull, noted her name as being, “Deasy R. Turnbull” when she married Frank W. Rice.
It is believed that the wife of Michael Deasy (Virginia City, Nevada 1869), Henrietta Samyra Delmage (Brunswick, Minnesota 1876), received the letter that follows, apparently in response to an ad that was taken out in a publication in Ireland in 1937. There is some doubt about who took out the ad and who received the letter, since the author of the letter, James Deasy, states “Dear Mrs. Deasy” and later on “Now let me tell you and your husband …”, but Michael Deasy died in 1917.
Perhaps this was addressed to Michael and Henrietta’s daughter, Ina Marjorie Deasy, who was married to Stanford William Bradley in 1932. In 1937 neither Ina Marjorie nor her mother, Henrietta Delmage fit both the opening salutation, “Dear Mrs. Deasy” and the later statement about “your husband”.
We do not have the original letter. This is a scanned image of a typed copy that was made sometime later to preserve the content. We do not know who was depicted in the two pictures that were sent to the author of the letter. Henrietta and her husband, Michael, and three of their boys are in the picture on the front page of this site, but we have no pictures of the individuals in the earliest generations in America.
Apparently Henrietta (Nettie or Myra as she was commonly known) or Ina Marjorie was seeking the connection between Michael Deasy (Cork, Ireland 1845), his father, Patrick Deasy (Ireland), and anyone who knew the family before they immigrated to America.
James Deasy, the author of the letter, believed he might have witnessed the departure of the father of Michael (also Michael Deasy), in about 1868. Perhaps so, but we have not been able to substantiate the connection to any great extent. The estimated age of the individual is about right, but the date of departure seems much too late to coincide with information given by John Peter Deasy in the early Idaho biography, which indicates that both Patrick and his son Michael were in America at about the time of the gold rush in California (1848-1855).
Spelling of name “Deasy”
An interesting opinion stated by James Deasy at the end of the letter notes that the “proper spelling” of the name Deasy is “Deasy”. It happens that our branch of the clan does spell their surname “Deasy” although a lot of records from different eras for individuals in our family have variants of the spelling. Sometimes it is as phonetic as “Daisy”. Other times it is just plain misspelled.
We have also found one instance where the reverse was true. Apparently, due to it often being pronounced “daisy”, one of the officials who filled out a marriage license for one of the females in the family, Daisy Turnbull, noted her name as being, “Deasy R. Turnbull” when she married Frank W. Rice.