Helen Theresa Dirrane (1899-1984)

Helen Dirrane is my maternal grandmother.

Ellen (Helen) Dirrane - Baptismal Record information

Helen was born Ellen Dirrane in 1899 and was baptised the 8th of December 1899 in Aran Islands, Galway, Ireland to Michael Dirrane  and Margaret McDonagh.

Helen Harney Naturalization Paper

She left Ireland and came to Boston, Massachusetts, USA on the 5th of July 1926 on the ship Samaria. She came here and worked as a house servant. She became a citizen in August of 1942.

James Harney & Helen Dirrane on Wedding Day

She married James Joseph Harney on the 20th of June 1937 and they had two children.

Anne Marie Harney (1938-living) - (my mother)
James Harney (1940-1940) - died at birth

Helen passed on the 20th of August 1984 from complications after a stroke in Milford, Massachusetts, USA an is buried at St. Joseph's alongside her son and husband in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA.