Martin
Conroy
born: 21 Feb 1846, Tuam Ireland
died: 21 Feb 1909, St. Louis
spouse: Bridget Haley
born: 22 Mar 1853 St. Louis
children: Patrick M. (1873-1916)
John E.
(1875-?)
Michael
Joseph
(1877-1958) *my great-grandfather
Mary A.
(1879-1916)
William F.
(1881-1966)
1.3 Michael Joseph Conroy (Martin's third son)
born: 21 Jan 1877, St. Louis
died: 14 Nov 1958, St. Louis
spouse: Mary A. McCarthy
born: 24 Apr 1884 St. Louis
died: 2 Apr 1917 St. Louis
children: Francis J. (1908-1967)
Joseph M.
(1910-1989)
*my grandfather
Mary Johanna
(1910-1989)
Robert John
(1915-1983)
Rose Mary
(1917-1993)
"M.J" was a plastering contractor who started his craft at the age of
14, where he helped build the house he eventually moved into in 1918 on
Pennsylvania Ave. in St. Louis. He remarried Mary Allen Bedford
after his
first wife, Mary McCarthy died. M.J. was also an artist, and it
is said
he liked to build little grottos out of colored rocks in his backyard
for his
children. Being a strict Irish Catholic his whole life, these
"devotional moments" for his children were very important.
Robert John became a Jesuit preist and geometry teacher at Saint Louis University High
School from
1954-1970. He also constructed language labs for SLUG and the Jesuit
mission
school in Progresso,
Honduras.
Rose Mary also became a missionary at the OLVM congregation in 1939,
where she
served on the West Coast.
1.3.2 Joseph M. Conroy (Michael's son)
born: 7 Feb 1910, St. Louis
died: 5 Sept 1987 St. Louis
spouse: Lucille Charlotte Bovyn
born: 20 Sept 1920
children: Gregory Joseph (1949-)
Patrick Conroy (1957-)*my father
Joseph also grew up on Pennsylvania Ave. and worked with his dad as a
plastering contractor until getting a job at GM. In 1942, he joined the
military and was stationed in San
Juan
until 1943. He then got a job at the Cahokia Plant where
eventually died
of asbestos poisoning.
1.3.2.2 Patrick Conroy (my father)
born: 20 Jan 1957
spouse: Louise Anne Hessi, 20 Aug 1955
children: John Patrick (25 Aug 1987)
Maggie Louise (9 Apr 1988) *me!
Julia Estelle (14 Nov 1990)
Claire Adele (25 Jan 1993)
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The Conroys (from left to right): Robert, Mary, Joseph, Francis, Rose
Mary (1929).
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Cited
Barnaby,
William F., S.J. The
St. Louis
Irish. Missouri
Historical Society Press, 2001.
Cook, Jane Stewart. Belgian
Americans.
Adavag, Inc. 2008. 24 Apr 2009. <www.everyculture.com>
The Statue of Liberty. The Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. 24 Apr
2009.
<www.ellisisland.com>
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