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Second Day Search Part 3
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When we found Patty's house we didn't know what to do. Thank God Patty had come in from the fields. Patty is a farmer and he owns at least 4 beautiful cows at least they were the ones I saw. He was just inside his fence sitting there and so I got out of our car and went down to talk to him. He smiled at me and I just simply asked him if he was Patty Joe Boyle and he said he was and I calmly told him that I think I was his cousin, just like that. We just kept talking, me trying to explain myself and this whole crazy thing and Patty just taking it in. I mean here I show up like magic from America, the first relatives to visit them since 1870, 135 years. You can imagine what was going through his mind. Finally after we talked long enough and I gave him the right information he just smiled and said we were cousins. to say the least I was very happy. Patty for the record book is Anne Doherty's grandson and I am Ann Doherty's grand nephew which makes Patty and me second cousins once removed, again as amazing as that all sounds that is the relationship. One of the things Jerry had told me back at the Post Office is that the old house was still there. I mean the old house that John Doherty and Elizabeth Wynne my great-great grandparents lived in. That is the picture on the top right. We know that John and Elizabeth were married in 1845, but I don't know how long they lived there. I still have not found who lived there in 1846 through the Griffith Data Base which is a land evaluation of Ireland. As far as I know it wasn't a Doherty, so who knows how old the building is, but John and Elizabeth lived there, so did Anne and Peter and so did Mary Boyle and her husband Danny Boyle till Patty built the home on the previous page in 1959. The bottom right picture is the back of Patty's house where he keeps his cows when they aren't across the street in the pasture. And of course in the picture top left is Philamena, Patty's wife, me in the middle and of course Patty on the right.
