Edmund Harty (1884)

Born 1 Jan 1884 in Abbeydorney, County Kerry, Ireland

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in St. Mary's, 36 Cedar St. Saugerties, New York 12477, USA

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Biography

Edmund “Ned” Harty was born on the 1st of January 1884. He was the eldest son of Thomas Harty and Mary O’Sullivan Harty of Abbeydorney, County Kerry. His father had a public house and grocery business in Abbeydorney and also did some farming..^[1] Ned was baptized in the parish church of Abbeydorney and the sponsors at his baptism were Mary Harty and David Roche.^[2]

Ned became a priest

Ned went on for the priesthood, attending St Munchen’s seminary in Limerick. ^[3] After ordination aged 26 Ned left Ireland in 1910 to work as a priest in New York^[4] He spent the rest of his days working as a priest in New York assigned to different churches.

Churches in New York

In 1920 he was assistant priest in St. Monica’s Church in Manhattan.^[5] Msg Arthur Kenny was the parish priest. The church was a great center of activity with around 5,500 attending every Sunday. In the 1920s a large school was built beside it.
Afterwards for many years Ned was pastor or parish priest of St Mary of the Snow at 36 Cedar St, Saugerties, New York 12477. He died there at St. Mary’s while pastor and was buried in the old cemetery beside the church.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Civil Registration Group Registration ID 9530183, SR District/Reg Area Tralee.
2. ↑ Register of Baptisms, Abbedorney Book Number 3, Entry Number 19, Record Identifier KY-RC-BA-5052.
3. ↑ In the 1901 Census returns his name appears among the students, though it mistakenly gives his home as Limerick.
4. ↑ He departed from Queenstown aboard the Mauretania and arrived in New York on the 3rd November 1910. Ellis Island Website. Passenger ID 101470020815, Frame 570, Line 22.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJBR-31V : accessed 3 June 2017), Reverend Edmund E Harty in household of Reverend Arthur J Kenny, Manhattan Assembly District 16, New York, New York, United States; citing ED 1120, sheet 13B, line 70, family 327, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1214; FHL microfilm 1,821,214.
6. ↑ https://stmaryofthesnow.org/history-of-st-mary-of-the-snow History of Our Lady of the Snow] From the 175th Anniversary Book.

• Civil Registration Group Registration ID 9530183, SR District/Reg Area Tralee