Elizabeth Dillon was born in Ireland in about 1818. This date of birth is based on census records and information on her gravestone. She came to the U.S. sometime before 1938. We are not sure whether she met her husband, Patrick Duffy, in Ireland or the U.S..
After the birth of their first son, John, the Duffys moved to Lockport and stayed there all their lives.
Patrick and Elizabeth Duffy had nine children, three of whom died in infancy and one who died as a young child. You can read their names and ages here.
The other five survived to adulthood:
Elizabeth Duffy (b 1844)
William George Duffy (b 1846)
Margaret J. Duffy (b 1850)
After her husband Patrick died in 1879, her widowed daughter Elizabeth Duffy Westerman and Elizabeth’s daughter, Mary Westerman moved with her at 277 Glenwood in Lockport.
William Westerman, a son of Elizabeth Westerman Duffy, was living with his aunt Mary Duffy Hogan in Fairview, Pennsylvania in 1880, but returned to Lockport before his death in 1885.
When her daughter Elizabeth remarried in 1888, Elizabeth Dillon Duffy moved with her daughter and granddaughter to the Northern Hotel at 297 Gooding, owned by her new son-in-law, Charles Scheffer.
Elizabeth Dillon died on March 3, 1895. She is buried in St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery in Lockport.
The obituary below, from the Lockport Union, misstated her first name, perhaps mixing it up with her daughter’s name, and misspelled her son-in-law’s name.
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Among others, sources for this post include:
“United States Census, 1840” Lockport, Niagara, New York, Roll 311, Page 63 Image 131; FHL Film 0017199
“New York State Census, 1855,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-25918-9964-36?cc=1937366 : accessed 7 May 2016), Niagara > Lockport, E.D. 1 > image 5 of 43; county clerk offices, New York.
“United States Census, 1860”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCWJ-GPX : accessed 7 May 2016), Pat Duffy, 1860.
“New York State Census, 1865,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-13031-126099-13?cc=1491284 : accessed 7 May 2016), Niagara > Lockport, E.D. 01 > image 3 of 52; State Library, Albany.
“United States Census, 1870,” 1st Ward, Lockport, Niagara County, New York, page 88, lines 1-3; census taken 28 June 1870. (Accessed 7 May 2016) http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=31519124&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
“United States Census, 1880,” Lockport, Niagara County, New York, Supervision District 11, Enumeration District, 197. Image number 467. page 39, lines 44-46; census taken 14 June 1870. (Accessed 8 May 2016) http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=4462571&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
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