One of my intentions with this blog was to publish genealogy information – both general genealogy and stuff about my family. I noticed that I’ve been neglecting that in favor of politics these days. So here is some genealogy at last.

My great grandfather (GGF) William RIEDY of Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland was born around 1861/1862 and emigrated to New York about 1880. We have not found a birth or baptismal record so the years is only our best guess. Hsi father Edward or Edmund RIEDY or READY married twice. First to Margaret CONWAY and then Mary SCANLAN in 1857. William was of the second marriage and we believe he traveled to New York city with his half-brother John. The surname has been recorded as REIDY, RIEDY, REEDY, and READY.

On December 24, 1895, he was injured in a blasting accident. My GGF was a wagon driver working on a construction site. A blast went off a few minutes early and a 150 pound rock was thrown 200 feet and landed on my GGF. The foreman was arrested and charged with reckless blasting. I actually saw a microfilm of a news article about this this summer in the NYC Public Library.

I have no idea how the foreman fared. My GGF never left the hospital and died about a month later.

More information is on my website at http://www.jackreidy.com/genealogy/family/reidy.htm