Lois and her Irish-ness Digital Flip Book December 10, 2018

All we know of Patrick Conroy from family sources is that his daughter Mary Conroy Arno
stated in the 1920 census return that the native language of his father and mother was Irish.
Another source of information is a note by Margaret Ellen Conroy Walker’s daughter Irene
(1905-1994). When drawing a family tree of her family, she inserted the date of death of her
grandfather, Patrick Conry, as January 1890.
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The closest match we found was
Patrick Conroy who died
February 17 th 1891. The
certificate of this death was
found amongst the genealogical
documents belonging to his
grandson, Bill Conroy.
Following extensive research, it
is the author’s opinion that this
is the correct person who was
the father of Margaret Ellen
Conroy and husband of Mary
Ann Cain.
The death certificate recorded his cause of death as a cerebral hemorrhage he suffered six
hours before he finally passed on. He was born circa 1825 in County Roscommon, Ireland
and was buried at Calvary Cemetery. He was single, white and male, had been resident in the
State of Illinois for twenty-two years and his occupation listed as a car conductor. The
corresponding notice in the Chicago Daily Tribune of Feb. 1891 read:
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