Seanchas in ancient Ireland

This verse was written in a text of Féineachas in the 8th Century and describe the three most important groups in ancient Ireland:

Batar trí prímcheinéla i nHére, .i. Féini 7 Ulaith 7 Gáilni .i. Laigin.
There were three primary kinships in Ireland, i.e., the Féini and Ulaidh and Gáilióin, i.e., the Laighin.

But, what does it mean? In 2011, Gerald A. John Kelly M.A. Celtic Studies IrishTribes.com prepared a 70 page document about the Hoy/Hoey family as well as dozens of emails. This information comes from of his work. This list explains this quote.

• Féineachas is Brehon Law.
• nHére or Érainn. This originally referred to a single group of people who were noted on Ptolemy's Map of ireland. The Dál Fiatach were one of them.
• The Féini. These were a non-Érainn people who lived in the west of Ireland. They became the O'Neills.
• 7 is an abreviation for agus or in Béarla (English), 'and'.
• Ulaidh was the kingdom of Ulster which was originally all of the north until forced east by the Féini who became the Northern O'Neill. The Dál Fiatach were the principal tribe of the Ulaidh in historical times.
• The Laighin occupied the center of Ireland until driven south by the Féini who became the Southern O'Neill.

 Until the 17th Century, Seanchas was defined as the combination of law, history, and genealogy - the interwoven foundation of Gaelic society.

The Derbfhine

In early Ireland and Gaelic Scotland, the normal property-owning unit and unit for dynastic succession was the Derbfhine. For a royal Derbfhine, any male member of a king's derbfhine: son, uncle, brother, nephew-might succeed him. The members of the Deirbhfhine (those who could be elected as next King/Chief) were classified as Flaith (Princes). The title and authority were not inherited by primogeniture.

It was the basic unit of society, comprising all the patrilineal descendants over a four-generation group, i.e., back to common great-grandfather. The derbfhine held typical five or four rath/tech i.e. homesteads, which formed a Baile. Twenty Baile form a Tuath or Tricha Cet, the basic small kingdom level.

The Family of Hoy/Hoey - Sloinne Ó hEochaidh

The royal derbfhine of the Dál Fiatach, first took a surname soon after 1000 AD to honor their king Eochaidh who had died at the battle of Cráeb Tulcha in 1004 AD against the Northern O'Neill. They became the Desendants of Eochaidh - the Ó hEochaidh. In the 1659 'census', the English wrote it as O'Hoy which became Hoy and finally Hoey.

The first known reference to a person using the surname Hoy was Flagherty Ó hEochaidh in 1019 AD.

Some early spellings of the name often seen in the Irish Annals are these:

• Ua hEochaidh
• Ua hEochada
• Ua hEochadha

The first king to be recorded with this surname was Donn Slebhe Ua hEochadha who died on 1091 AD.

The grandson of Donn Slebhe Ua hEochadha took a new surname after him and became the Mac Duinnshléibhe (McDunleavy). His 5 sons mostly used the new name and became the last 5 kings of the Dál Fiatach. The last king of the Uladh was Ruaidhrí Mac Duinnshléibhe who died in 1201 AD. 

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The Dál Fiatach of Ancient Ulster

The medieval Irish dioceses were based upon the borders of the dominant small kingdom at that location. Francis J. Byrne says that when the Dál Fiatach split the Cruithin in two in the Eighth Century and created the new entities called Dál nAraide and Uí Echach Coba, the borders of Dál Fiatach became the borders of medieval the Diocese of Down  seen to the left. The Dál nAraide land became the Diocese of Connor and Uí Echach Coba the Diocese of Dromore.

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"On the east, the Rhogbogdioi occupy the area around the cape of Rhogbogion and may be related to the Dál Riata of early history who founded a kingdom in Argyll in Scotland in the fifth century. To the south of them are the Darinoi, whose name may be connected with the name Dáire, presumably an ancestor deity. It is interesting to note that Dundrum in County Down in the territory of the Dál Fiatach is known as Dun Droma Dáirine."

"Woluntioi is one of the more recognisable tribal names on the map. It is undoubtedly connected with the Ulaid, occupying an area between Isamnion, possibly Emain Macha, and the Buvinda (the Boyne river) on Ptolemy's map. In the early historic period they were known as the Dál Fiatach and occupied the area between Dundrum Bay and Belfast Lough. Their historic centre was at Dún-Dá-Lethglass (Downpatrick), originally a secular rather than a religious site."

Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide No. 21 - Ireland in the Iron Age Map of Ireland by Claudius Ptolemaeus

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"This study of the people known as Dál Fiatach, or Ulaid, is not a history of Ulster as a whole. They and the Dál Araidi were the two leading population-groups in N.E. Ireland from the third to the twelfth centuries. The ancient name of Ulster was Ulad, and it included the whole country north of the Boyne and across to the Shannon. It subsequently shrank to the limits of the present counties of Antrim and Down. The Dál Fiatach were predominant in Down. Their records were kept in the monasteries of Saul and Downpatrick and have survived in a compilation of history, tradition and genealogies, known as Senchus Sil hIr. There are other sources for their history, viz., the Annals, the Ban-shenchus, the lives of saints."

"They hold an important place in the life of St. Patrick, for when he landed at Inber Slainge in Loch Cuan, i.e. Strangford Lough, he landed in Dál Fiatach territory. His first converts in Ulster were people of this stock. Dichu was a chieftain of Dál Fiatach. His brother, Ros, helped Patrick to revise the Senchus Mor. They and their kindred held all East Down and the Ards. The early monasteries and schools of Bangor, Moville, Nendrum, Saul, grew up in their midst. St. Finnian of Moville, St. Domongort and St. Tuan of Boirche, St. Mael Cethir of Kerry, Iarlathi, third bishop of Armagh after Patrick, St. Samthann, all traced their descent from Dál Fiatach."

"Members of the race have left their names on the map to this day in Slieve Donard, Ben Madigan, Glengormly, Rademan, Dunsy Island. In the Annals and the Book of Rights they are the leading people in east Ulster from 600 a.d. down to the Norman invasion, 'The Irish have twelve kindreds of noble birth : six in Leth Cuinn = Northern Eire, Dál Cuinn, Dál Cúin, Dál Araidi who are the Picts, Dál Fiatach who are the Ulaid'. Professor McNeill considers this statement to be of great antiquity."

Margaret Dobbs

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More information about the Dál Fiatach of the Uladh of the Dairfhine

• The Journey of the Dál Fiatach after the fall of Emain Macha
• The Last 50 Years of the Dál Fiatach
• The list of kings of the Dál Fiatach and the Uladh
• Spreadsheet of Dál Fiatach Genealogies from old Irish sources
  • Francis J Byrne - Irish Kings and High Kings  Page 1  Page 2  Original
  • O'Clery Genealogies - Genelach .h. Dhuinn shlebhe
  • Kings of Ulster by Mac Fhirbhisigh - Leabhar na nGenealach  Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4
  • Laud 610
  • Genelach ceneoil nDeamain - Book of Lecan (Saul)  Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Page 5  Page 6  Page 7  Page 8
  • Rawlinson
• The Kings of Uladh from the Genealogical Work of Duald Mac Firbis taken from 'Ecclesiastical antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore' by William Reeves 1847
• The story of the Dál Fiatach
• History of the kings of the Dál Fiatach
• The Dál Fiatach in the Irish Annals.
• The first member of the Dál Fiatach with the surname Hoy
• The Book of Genealogies of the Dál Fiatach

Margaret Dobbs from he Glens of Antrim, translated many ancient documents and wrote about many others

The Dál Fiatach
Author(s): Margaret E. Dobbs
Source: Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Third Series, Vol. 8 (1945), pp. 66-79
Published by: Ulster Archaeological Society
Read her work on the Dál Fiatach here (PDF)

The Genetic Genealogy of the Hoy Family

The Genetic Genealogy of the Hoy Family

In recent years, the new science of Genetic Genealogy has been developed which applies DNA analysis to Genealogy. It uses three types of DNA from a human cell. These are the following:

• mDNA - Mitochondrial DNA, passed only from the mother to daughter/son, mutates less than the others and useful for ancient lines.
• yDNA - Y-Chromosome DNA, only in males and passed from the father. Mutates quickly and useful for ancient lines.
• aDNA - Autosomal DNA, everything but the sex-chromosomes (X and Y), useful for cousin matches. The X-chromosome is of limited use.

yDNA measures the changes between parts of the Y-chromosome and how it affects people's descendants. The Y-chromosome is unique to the male line, as are surnames.

There are two kinds of analysis called STR and SNP.

STR was the first developed and the less accurate. The changes occur very often which leads to a lot of uncertainty. An early STR analysis from 2006 is shown in the graphic here.

SNP was developed later and is much more definite. The changes seldom occur and are very rarely repeated. This is not useful for finding cousins (as of now) but is very useful in tracking the movements of peoples and tribes going back hundreds or thousands of years.

The McEvoy 2006 DNA paper and M222

The first work that was important for Irish Genetic Genealogy was done in 2005/2006 by Brian McEvoy of Trinity College Dublin. He used STR data from a sample of a few hundred surnames drawn from the phonebook throughout Ireland. Among the names were Haughey and Dunleavy. Haughey can be a phonetic rendition of Ó hEochaidh. The 1659 spelling of O'Hoy in Pendar's work was from an English viewpoint. In Ireland, Hoy is now Hoey and pronounced closer to Haughey. The last five kings of the Dál Fiatach were brothers who changed their surname from Hoey to MacDunleavy after Dunleavy Ó hEochaidh who was a king who died in 1091. After the Normans drove the Dál Fiatach out of County Down, the MacDunleavy were known to have become the hereditary physicians to the Cenél Chonaill in southwest Tir Chonaill (Donegal) near their base in Donegal Town.

From Griffith's Valuation from 1856 in Donegal, we find the almost all Haughey clustered in far southwest Donegal near Glencolumbkille and the MacDunleavy in the same area. The graphic above is taken from McEvoy's work for the Haighey/MacDunleavy and compares a living Hoy at the top with McEvoy's results. He identified several markers called haplotypes among the STR data. Among them were R1b, M222 (subgroup of the former), and 'I' which is likely pre-Bell-Beaker and associated with a subgroup of the Uladh and the Maginness and McCartan lines in west County Down. We can see the closeness of the living Hoy with the M222 men.

This link will show the Hoy family connections to these Donegal men.

The Genetic Genealogy of the Hoy Family

The Royal Sites of the Táin Bó Cúailnge of Ancient Ireland

The Royal Sites of the Táin Bó Cúailnge of Ancient Ireland

This verse was written in a text of Féineachas ('Brehon Law') in the 8th Century:

Batar trí prímcheinéla i nHére, .i. Féini 7 Ulaith 7 Gáilni .i. Laigin.
There were three primary kinships in Ireland, i.e., the Féini and Ulaidh and Gáilióin, i.e., the Laighin.

These three kinships which have been remembered for two millennia through poems and stories, have been associated in recent times with four ancient Iron Age sites located in the central area of Ireland.

Iron Age Royal Sites of Ireland

• Rathcroghan - Cruachain of the Connachta, the Féini, located in Connacht and Ulser as the O'Neills
• Navan Fort - Emhain Macha of the Ulaidh, the Men of Ulster
• Knockaulin - Dún Ailinne of the Laighin, located around Tara
• Tara - Teamhair na Rí, Sacred to all three kinships

Navan Fort - Emhain Macha of the Ulaidh, The Men of Ulster

• Emain Macha

Articles by C.J. (Chris) Lynn

• Navan Fort - Home of Gods and Goddesses?
• Navan Fort - Legendaty Capital of Prehistoric Ulster
• Data Structure Report: Navan Fort, Co. Armagh (PDF)

Articles by J.P. Mallory

• Navan Fort - A Monument for all Myths
• Dating Navan Fort
• Recent excavations and speculations on the Navan complex

Articles by Ann Hamlin

• Emain Macha : Navan Fort

Articles by Helen Steele

• The Archaeology Of Navan, Ireland

Articles by The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA)

• NAVAN FORT - Emain Macha, County Armagh

Video of the Figure of Eight Structure

• Figure of Eight Structure (Video) 

'Time Team' (English television) video about the Navan Fort area (YouTube)

• Time team at Emain Macha (Video)

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Knockaulin - Dún Ailinne of the Laighin

Articles by Gerald A. John Kelly

• Who are the Fir Bolg?
• Descendants of the Celtic Tribes of Ireland

Articles by Bernard Wailes

• Excavations at Dun Ailinne (eBook)

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Rathcroghan - Cruachain of the Connachta, the Féini in Connacht and the O'Neills in Ulser

Articles by John Waddell

• Rathcroghan where the Táin Bó Cúailnge began (eBook)

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Tara - Teamhair na Rí, sacred to all three kinships

Articles by Edel Bhreathnach

• Tara: A guide to the Ceremonial Complex (eBook)

The Four Ancient Royal Sites of Ireland

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Early Migrations into the Isles

 

The Genetic Genealogy of the peoples of Ireland and Great Britain had been the same from the end of the last Ice Age until the Anglo-Saxon period. Even today, 'The People of the British Isles' DNA study found Anglo-Saxon DNA generally in the southeast half of England with a maximum of 38% in the far southeast nearest the Continent. Recent DNA work has shown that there were three waves of migration into western Europe after the last Ice Age. There were people from the earlier time called the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), but these lived in southern Europe in the Pyrenees area, Italy, and the Balkans.

The waves began as the ice receded throughout Europe and the first wave into the Isles began around 8,000 BC. (There are remains of a hut from about 7000 BC at Mount Sandel, County Derry.) Mount Sandel, a Mesolithic Campsite. These Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) people are called Hunter Gatherers and were not yet settled in a single permanent place. It was Western Hunter Gatherers (WHG) who made their way to Mount Sandel. (There are different labels for various related HG group across Eurasia.)

• Read about the Early Migrations into Ireland

Ptomemy's Map of Ireland

Claudius Ptolemy or in Latin, Claudius Ptolemaeus, lived about 100 AD to about 170 AD and was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and astrologer. He lived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Ptolemy's Almagest is the only surviving comprehensive ancient treatise on astronomy. Because of its reputation, it was widely sought and was translated into Latin and later European languages.

Ptolemy's model, like all those of his time, was geocentric and was universally accepted until the appearance of simpler heliocentric models by Copernicus around 1500 AD.

Because Claudius Ptolemy chose to begin his description of the known world-the Oikumene in the extreme northwest, Ireland was given pride of place in the Geography.

Book 2, Chapter 2 comprises a list of forty geographical features, together with their latitudes and longitudes, and the names and approximate locations of known tribes.

• These sixty items fall into the following categories:
• 5 Promontories or headlands
• 15 River mouths or estuaries
• 11 Towns or settlements
• 9 Offshore islands
• 20 Tribes

Ptolemy's other main work is his Geography, a compilation of geographical coordinates of the part of the world known during his time. The coordinates that he used in his Geographia showed that he knew the earth was a sphere, but he misjudged the circumference of it by about 16% too small. No complete copy of his Geographia survives, but there are several fragments extant, the best of which is in the The Vatican Archives

ArchaeoIogy Ireland's 'Ireland in the Iron Age Map of Ireland by Claudius Ptolemaeus'

The Second American Generation

John Michael Hoy

When John Michael Hoy was born in June 1876 in Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 23. He married Elizabeth F Gorman in 1903. They had one child during their marriage. He had nine siblings.

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James Raymond Hoy

When James Raymond Hoy was born on January 24, 1878, in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 25. He married Anastasia Walter on June 23, 1904. They had five children in 12 years. He died on March 23, 1955, in Wilson, Pennsylvania, at the age of 77, and was buried in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Thomas Joseph Hoy

When Thomas Joseph Hoy was born on February 20, 1880, in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 27. He had 11 children with Sarah Katherine McGinley. He died on November 19, 1950, in his hometown at the age of 70, and was buried there.

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Edward A Hoy

When Edward A. Hoy was born on August 27, 1882, in Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 29. He had nine siblings. He died on October 23, 1903, at the age of 21, and was buried in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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Philip Frances Hoy

When Philip Francis Hoy was born on May 23, 1884, in Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 31. He had nine siblings. He died in January 1963 in Easton, Pennsylvania, at the age of 78, and was buried there.

Mary Catherine Hoy

When Mary Catherine Hoy was born on August 20, 1886, her father, Thomas, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth, was 33. She had nine siblings. She died as a child on February 7, 1889, and was buried in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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Eleanor Hoy

When Eleanor R Hoy was born on November 20, 1888, in Pennsylvania, her father, Thomas, was 39, and her mother, Elizabeth, was 35. She had one son and two daughters with Charles George Glanz between 1919 and 1922. She died in July 1974 in Easton, Pennsylvania, at the age of 85, and was buried in West Easton, Pennsylvania.

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Francis Clement Hoy

When Francis Clement Hoy was born on January 21, 1891, in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 38. He had three sons with Frances Elizabeth McHugh. He died on February 1, 1954, in Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 63, and was buried there.

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Michael A Hoy

When Michael A Hoy was born on January 5, 1893, in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 40. He had one son with Grace C Mahoney in 1924. He died on July 1, 1964, in Raritan, New Jersey, at the age of 71, and was buried in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

Joseph E Hoy

When Joseph Edward Hoy was born on March 16, 1899, in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, Thomas, was 50 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 46. He had two sons with Marion Garr between 1918 and 1919. He died in November 1975 in Jacksonville, Florida, at the age of 76.

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The First American Generation

Margaret Hoy was born in Newark, NJ. She and Paddy Brennan left Easton after the Civil War

Name:	Margaret Hoye
Gender:	Female
Birth Date:	5 Oct 1835
Birth Place:	Saint John Catholic Church, Newark, Essex, New Jersey
Christening Date:	18 Oct 1835
Christening Place:	Newark, Essex, New Jersey
Father:	James Hoye
Mother:	Margaret Felan

Margaret Hoy married Patrick Brennan in Easton, Pennsylvania, on February 20, 1851, when she was 15 years old.

Patrick Brennan was born in Ireland and lived in Warren County NJ. He worked as a civilian engineer during the Civil War.

Name:	Patrick Brennan
Gender:	Male
Age:	20
Birth Year:	abt 1830
Birth Place:	Ireland
Home in 1850:	Greenwich, Warren, New Jersey, USA

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Greenwich Township, NJ is just across the Delaware River from Easton PA.

Sarah Jane Hoy

Sarah Jane Hoy was born in Newark NJ

Name:	Sarah Jane Hoye
Gender:	Female
Birth Date:	6 Jul 1841
Birth Place:	Saint John Catholic Church, Newark, Essex, New Jersey
Christening Date:	7 Nov 1841
Christening Place:	Newark, Essex, New Jersey
Father:	James Hoye
Mother:	Margaret Phelan

In 1870 Edward was an Ironsmith and her brother Thomas lived with them.

Sarah Jane Hoy died on January 30, 1889, in Easton, Pennsylvania, when she was 47 years old.

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Edward Kelly lived in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1870 and 1880.

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When Catherine Hoy was born in 1843 in Newark, New Jersey, her father, James, was 50, and her mother, Margaret, was 35. She had two brothers and four sisters. She and her sister Rosanna purchased the family headstones in Easton. She died on May 13, 1877, in Easton, Pennsylvania, at the age of 33.

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When Mary Hoy was born in 1845 in Easton, Pennsylvania, her father, James, was 51, and her mother, Margaret, was 36. She married Cornelius J McCarty in 1883. They had two children during their marriage. Her sister Rose was also in Philadelphia and she often lived with Mary. She died on December 28, 1923, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 78, and was buried in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.

Cornelius J McCarty was born in August 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Hoy in 1883. They had two children during their marriage. He died on March 22, 1922, in his hometown at the age of 67, and was buried in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.

When Rosanna Hoy was born in 1846 in Easton, Pennsylvania, her father, James, was 52, and her mother, Margaret, was 37. She had two brothers and four sisters. She never married and moved to Philadelphia with her sister Mary after the Civil War. She and her sister Kate purchased the family headstones in Easton. She died on December 10, 1921, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 75.

The photograph on the right shows Rose with her nephew Joseph the son of Thomas Hoy and Elizabeth Lynch.

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Thomas Hoy

When Thomas Hoy was born on February 19, 1849, in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, James, was 55 and his mother, Margaret, was 40. He married Elizabeth Lynch on August 12, 1875, in his hometown. They had ten children in 22 years. He died on June 14, 1912, in Easton, Pennsylvania, at the age of 63, and was buried there.

Thomas Hoy (son of James Hoy and Margaret Phelan ) was born 19 Feb 1849 in Easton, PA, and died 14 Jun 1912 in Easton, PA.

He married Elizabeth Lynch on 12 Aug 1875 in St Bernard's Church>, Easton PA. She was the daughter of Phil Lynch and Mary McInerny.

1850 census: Residence	Williams Twp, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1870 census: Residence	Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Note:	Living with Sarah J working as motorman at RR.
1880 census: Residence:	South Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Note:	Brakeman on RR.
1890 census: Residence	1002 Berwick St. South Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Note:	Conductor on RR.
1900 census: Residence	Jersey City, New Jersey.
Note:	His sons James R, Edward and Thomas were also Brakemen while John was an Iron moulder.
1910 census: Residence	Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Note:	His younger children Philip was a Salesman, Eleanor was a Saleslady, Francis was a Printer and Michael was a Trollyman.

His wife's mother Mary Lynch lived next door with her children Francis and Ellen.

Children of Thomas Hoy and Elizabeth Lynch are:

1. John Hoy , b. 02 Jun 1876, PA, d. date unknown, PA.
2. Thomas Joseph Hoy , b. 20 Feb 1880, d. 1950, Easton, PA.
3. Edward Hoy , b. 27 Aug 1882, PA, d. 23 Oct 1902, PA.
4. Philip Frances Hoy , b. 23 May 1886, Easton, Pennsylvania, d. date unknown, PA.
5. Mary C Hoy , b. 20 Aug 1886, PA, d. 07 Feb 1889, PA.
6. Eleanor Hoy , b. 20 Nov 1888, PA, d. Jul 1974, Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
7. Francis Hoy , b. 23 Jan 1891, PA, d. date unknown, PA.
8. Michael Hoy , b. 1893, Pennsylvania, d. date unknown, NJ.
9. Joseph Hoy , b. 16 Mar 1899, PA, d. date unknown

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When Elizabeth Lynch was born on December 14, 1852, in Easton, Pennsylvania, her father, Phillip, was 28, and her mother, Mary, was 26. She married Thomas Hoy on August 12, 1875, in her hometown. They had ten children in 22 years. She died on July 25, 1933, in Easton, Pennsylvania, at the age of 80, and was buried there.

Elizabeth Lynch (daughter of Phil Lynch and Mary McInerny ) was born 14 Dec. 1852 in Easton, PA, and died 25 July 1933 in Easton, PA. She married Thomas Hoy on 12 Aug 1875 in St Bernards Easton PA, son of James Hoy and Margaret Brennan.

1860 census: Residence	South Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania..
1870 census: Residence	South Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1880 census: Residence:	South Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1890 census: Residence	1002 Berwick St. South Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1900 census: Residence	Jersey City, New Jersey.
1910 census: Residence	Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
1920 census: Residence	Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Note:	She lived as a widow with her son Joseph E, his wife Marian F and their son Fred R.
1930 census: Residence	Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Note:	She lived as a widow with her daughter Elenore, her husband Charles Glantz, their daughter Mary Elizabeth and their son Charles P. Her name was listed as Hoey.

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When John Hoy was born in 1851 in Easton, Pennsylvania, his father, James, was 57 and his mother, Margaret, was 42. He had one brother and five sisters. He died as a child in 1862 in his hometown.