Luke Dempsey was eldest child of James Dempsey and Alicia Clinch of Skerries, Co Dublin, Ireland. James and Alicia married in Skerries on 9 May 1859; James lived on Balbriggan Street in Skerries and Alicia lived in Hoar Rock at their marriage. Luke was born 10 months later.
Luke was the eldest of his siblings:
James, born 5 Jan 1863 in Skerries
William, born 3 Mary 1865 in Skerries
John Joseph, born 24 Jun 1867 in Holmpatrick
Mary Ann, born 8 September 1869 in Holmpatrick
Christina, born 14 December 1871 on Balbriggan St in Skerries
Mary Alice, born 3 July 1874 on ditto
Joseph, born 17 Sept 1876 in Skerries
Anne, born 15 Jan 1880 in Black Bank.
Luke left home around 1876 for the USA. He lived in Cincinatti, Ohio, where he met Augusta Dempsey at church. They had three children, Elizabeth, Mary Alice, and Harry William.
Luke's health was weak, and his doctor sent him to California circa 1905. He went to So Cal first, but they were anti-union, so he went up to Berkeley. He sent for his family, who arrived a few months before the earthquake in SF.
Luke Dempsey died at the Alameda County Infirmary from complications of smallpox. At that time, the Infirmary was considered the shame of Alameda County. Smallpox and cancer patients were kept in tents in a cattle field in both winter and summer.
His DC states Luke was buried in the Catholic Cemetery. According to the San Lorenzo page archived at the wayback machine, "This practice continued until 1879, when a burial took place in the "Catholic Cemetery." This likely referred to Mount Calvary Cemetery, located in close proximity to the hospital at the north end of Van Avenue, which also featured a "potter's field" (pauper's graveyard) within the larger cemetery grounds. It appears that Catholic patients continued to be buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery after this time, while patients of other religious faiths continued to be buried in the hospital's Pauper's Graveyard."
Mount Calvary Cemetery was associated with Saint Leander's RC Church, but church records don't have a mention of him. If there was a funeral/memorial service, it was likely in Berkeley.
archive link: web.archive.org/web/20161130020240/http://www.sanlorenzoheritage.org/history/fairmont.htm
Luke Dempsey was eldest child of James Dempsey and Alicia Clinch of Skerries, Co Dublin, Ireland. James and Alicia married in Skerries on 9 May 1859; James lived on Balbriggan Street in Skerries and Alicia lived in Hoar Rock at their marriage. Luke was born 10 months later.
Luke was the eldest of his siblings:
James, born 5 Jan 1863 in Skerries
William, born 3 Mary 1865 in Skerries
John Joseph, born 24 Jun 1867 in Holmpatrick
Mary Ann, born 8 September 1869 in Holmpatrick
Christina, born 14 December 1871 on Balbriggan St in Skerries
Mary Alice, born 3 July 1874 on ditto
Joseph, born 17 Sept 1876 in Skerries
Anne, born 15 Jan 1880 in Black Bank.
Luke left home around 1876 for the USA. He lived in Cincinatti, Ohio, where he met Augusta Dempsey at church. They had three children, Elizabeth, Mary Alice, and Harry William.
Luke's health was weak, and his doctor sent him to California circa 1905. He went to So Cal first, but they were anti-union, so he went up to Berkeley. He sent for his family, who arrived a few months before the earthquake in SF.
Luke Dempsey died at the Alameda County Infirmary from complications of smallpox. At that time, the Infirmary was considered the shame of Alameda County. Smallpox and cancer patients were kept in tents in a cattle field in both winter and summer.
His DC states Luke was buried in the Catholic Cemetery. According to the San Lorenzo page archived at the wayback machine, "This practice continued until 1879, when a burial took place in the "Catholic Cemetery." This likely referred to Mount Calvary Cemetery, located in close proximity to the hospital at the north end of Van Avenue, which also featured a "potter's field" (pauper's graveyard) within the larger cemetery grounds. It appears that Catholic patients continued to be buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery after this time, while patients of other religious faiths continued to be buried in the hospital's Pauper's Graveyard."
Mount Calvary Cemetery was associated with Saint Leander's RC Church, but church records don't have a mention of him. If there was a funeral/memorial service, it was likely in Berkeley.
archive link: web.archive.org/web/20161130020240/http://www.sanlorenzoheritage.org/history/fairmont.htm
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