Bowery Gallaghers

Summary

The Bowery Gallaghers are a documented Beaver Island Gallagher branch named in a February 2026 family-history interview. The account identifies Eleanor Gallagher McDonough as a child of James (“Young James”) and Theresa Gallagher, and identifies James and Kitty Gallagher as her paternal grandparents. It places the branch’s family home near the present Emerald Island Inn and describes a second farm at the Stone House.

Evidence and scope

The source uses the local name Bowery Gallaghers for this branch. This article models that documented family cluster as a graph entity; it does not treat every person named Gallagher as a member, reconstruct a complete pedigree, or infer descent from a shared surname. Eleanor Gallagher McDonough is the person node explicitly tied to this family in the held account.

The family’s setting belongs to the longer Irish and Arranmore history of Beaver Island, but the interview itself is a modern oral-history-style community account. Its named relationships and places are retained as reported rather than silently expanded into civil-record claims.

Places and community life

The account locates the family home in the Saint James community and the farm at the Stone House. The named parent, grandparent, and sister nodes are linked as source-bounded relatives; they are not a complete roster. It also describes children growing up among cousins, church activities, dances, music, and holiday programs. Those details are evidence for the family’s social setting, not a roster of all relatives.

Open questions

• Which James Gallagher and Theresa Gallagher records establish dates, marriage, and the names of all three children?
• Can land, census, cemetery, or parish records identify the Stone House farm and the earlier Gallagher residences more precisely?
• Is the local “Bowery” label attested in an earlier source than the 2026 interview?

See also

• Eleanor Gallagher McDonough
• Boyle family of Sloatown Road
• Irish settlement of Beaver Island
• Saint James