Person:Hugh Donnelly (4)

Hugh Donnelly was born in Ireland about 1810. According to his death record at St. Peter's R.C. Church, Belleville, New Jersey he was born in County Antrim. It is not known when he came to America. He may have been living with Henry McLaughlin, who owned a house in which 26 people were living, including 15 aliens, in 1830. He is perhaps to be identified with the “Henry Downly,” aged 30-40, enumerated in the 1840 census in Belleville, with one female aged 30-40. In the 1850 census he is 41. In the 1870 census his age is given as 60. According to his death record, he died of paralysis in Belleville on 22 August 1875, at the age of 67. He married Ellen McLaughlin, born in Ireland about 1820. She is perhaps the sister of the Henry McLaughlin who appears in the 1830 Bloomfield census. She died of bronchitis on 25 October 1886 in Belleville, and was buried in St. Peter's R.C. Church cemetery.

At the time of the 1870 census, he was working in Hendrick's Copper Mill. His real estate was valued at $800 and his personal estate at $150. He had also by this time become a citizen. Neither he nor his wife Ellen are able to write.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 St. Peter R.C. Church, Belleville, Essex, NJ, USA, Registers.