James
"Jimmie"
McCarthy
Born in Ironwood, Gogebic, Michigan
Ancestors 
Son of John McCarthy
and Hannah (Sullivan) McCarthy
Brother of
Joseph McCarthy, Edward McCarthy, Anna Loretta (McCarthy) McDermott, John McCarthy, Agnes (McCarthy) Brown and Ruth (McCarthy) Potter
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 49
in Noumea, New Caledonia, New Zealand
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Biography
Killed while serving in Merchant Marines when his Liberty boat, Edgar Allen Poe, was torpedoed. He was one of two people killed and was awarded the Mariner's Medal of Honor posthumously
Sources
- A Careless Word...A Needless Sinking by Capt. Arthur R. Moore; U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of WWII by Robert W. Browning; The Liberty Ship, A to Z by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Loretta (McDermott) McGinn 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A485244 [compare], Ancestry member ludsyred
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