Dougherty - a few questions
- Who are the parents of Gerard Adolphus Dougherty b. 1827 VA- d. 1898 MO? https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KFRX-4K4Listed here are John Alexander Dougherty and Katherine Sherbourn Dougherty, however I find no proof of that.
- did Gerard make it into West Point? He was on the list of Virginia applicants in 1840, but they realized he was too young, his father (named John Dougherty from Harrisburg VA) wrote a letter in 1842 requesting to keep him on the list of applicants until he was old enough. I’m not sure what the age requirements were. I haven’t found any information after that date yet.
- Is my Gerard Adolphus Dougherty (from the link above) the same Gerard Adolphus Dougherty who is the subject of the photos of Documents relating to the West Point cadet applicants of 1840?
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At first I thought that the parents in Family Tree were correct, but after I looked more carefully at his page, I see that they're probably not. Gerard was born in Virginia, but all of his supposed siblings were born in Pennsylvania except the oldest who was born in Ireland like his father. Also, his "brother" Charles has the same birth and death years as Gerard. Someone merged another Gerard Dougherty whose father was John (no middle name) with this one back in January of last year, but I think that was an error. Whoever put the information in Find a Grave may have been mistaken when they added Gerard to this family.
I need to do more research, but I just wanted to let you know what I think and that I'm working on it.
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Thank you so much @lorene walker1 !
Yeah I’m trying to get him straightened out. The things I know FOR SURE, I listed above ... he lists his father as being born in PA in the few census records I’ve been able to find ... and I found some curious records from ancestry, the United States military academy (West Point) cadet applications 1840... there is a Gerard Adolphus Dougherty (applicant) born same time as this one and in VA. His father’s name in those records is John Dougherty living in Harrisonburg Virginia. Now 🤷🏻♀️i dont know🤷🏻♀️ if that is the same Gerard Adolphus Dougherty as mine or not. I’m still working on trying to find his cause of death and who his parents were ... I do know that it’s def not the one listed on FS, and not the one on findagrave, I think I have his parents listed as Hugh Dougherty and Mary Halfrey on Ancestry, but I think I grabbed those from someone else when I first started there I don’t really remember when or why I added them as his parents. Ugh it’s just one big mess! 🤦🏻♀️ 🤣
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Oh wait lol ... I thought you were responding to the other post about the wrong parents on fs 😬. 🤷🏻♀️I dont know🤷🏻♀️ why it’s so hard to find anything solid for him before his marriage to Mary Ann Harding.... and it’s not like I’m finding a whole bunch of people named Gerard Adolphus Dougherty 😂 I’m just having a hard time finding anything for him
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It's very frustrating, I know! I'll let you know if I find anything.
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