Elizabeth Martha Connelly

London-born daughter of an Irish family on the move, who came to America in 1850 and in 1857 was with her brothers in Dakota County, Minnesota. She married Henry Tisdell at St. Louis in 1860 and had ten children, among them Martha (Tisdell) Dwyer; she died in Lakeville Township, Dakota County, in 1913, and was buried at St. John's, Morton.

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Life

  1. c. 1839
    Born
    c. 1839-1840, London, England

    June 1839, England (1900 census); London on her death record. Came to America in 1850.

    documentedproven
    Sources· 2 found
  2. 1857
    Lived
    Dakota County, Minnesota

    In the Connolly household, Township 27, Range 24 (the Burnsville and Lakeville area).

    documentedproven
    Sources· 1 found
  3. 1860
    Married Henry Tisdell
  4. 1880
    Lived
  5. 1900
    Lived
    Birch Cooley, Renville, Minnesota

    Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.

    documentedprobable
    Sources· 1 found
  6. 1910
    Lived
    Birch Cooley, Renville, Minnesota

    Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.

    documentedprobable
    Sources· 1 found
  7. 1913
    Died
    11 Jul 1913, Lakeville Township, Dakota County, Minnesota

    Certificate 3187; Find a Grave has 10 July.

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    Sources· 1 found
  8. —
    Buried
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Family

Father
Thomas Connelly

"Thos. Conally" on her death record; her brother Michael Thomas's also names Thomas. FamilySearch's Thomas O'Donnell and Mary Lonergan are disproven.

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Sources· 2 found
Mother
Martha Burchis

Her surname indexed "Burchis" on Elizabeth's death record; image not seen.

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Sources· 1 found
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Pedigree

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Notes

Born in London about 1839 to an Irish family on the move: her brother Michael Thomas Connelly was born at Manchester in 1836, and an older brother James in Ireland about 1829. She came to America in 1850. The county history of 1916 says she “came to America as a young girl, lived in Cohoes, New York, for a while, and in 1854 came to Minnesota to keep house for her brothers” (source); in 1857, aged 16, she was with them in Dakota County (record). Cohoes, the mill town where she had lived, is where her daughter Martha’s future in-laws, the Dwyers, were living in 1875. She married Henry Tisdell at St. Louis in 1860 and had ten children. She died in Lakeville Township, Dakota County, on 11 July 1913, four months after her brother Michael in the same township; buried at St. John’s, Morton.

In the records the tree attaches (not checked here):

  • 1850. Arrival (record)
  • 1863. Arrival (record)
  • 1880. Birch Coolie, Renville, Minnesota; Occupation: Housekeeper; marital status: Married; relation: Wife (record)
  • 1900. Birch Cooley, Renville, Minnesota; marital status: Married; relation: Wife (record)
  • 1910. Birch Cooley, Renville, Minnesota; marital status: Married; relation: Wife (record)
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Connections

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