WEST
STOCKBRIDGE - MASSACHUSETTS
"Mr. Losty will be long remembered and missed by the people of State Line"
... NY/MA ...." and by many acquaintances in other parts, as a gentleman at all times, honest and honorable, who had the welfare of his fellow men at heart and the courage of his convictions which were at all times of a dignified and christian nature."
When Patrick passed away
his funeral was held in West Stockbridge at St Patrick's Church.
"His funeral procession was the largest ever seen there, there being 168 teams in line, 26 of which were covered
coaches" Reference:
February 4th, 1891 Chatham Courier News, Chatham New York.
Patrick Losty, of Kildare County
Ireland was born in 1825. He is the son of
Matthew J. Losty and Mary Jane (unknown) Losty. At the
time of Patrick's birth, his mother was 45 years old and sometime
between the time of his birth and his 18th birthday, Patrick suffered
the loss of his father as did Mary Jane and the rest of the
family. He is buried somewhere in Ireland, most likely close to
Halverstown which is where his wife Mary Jane originated and their son
John Losty baptized his daughter Bridget Losty. In 1843 at the peak of the potato
famine in Ireland, Patrick Losty, age 18,
left Halverstown, Kildare County Ireland, with his widowed mother Mary Jane Losty 63 years of age, and headed for the United
States of America arriving in 1843.
Patrick's brother
John
Losty, whose birth year is unknown remained in Ireland and later
married Miss. Julia
Byrne.
Patrick and his mother Mary Jane
Losty arrived three years after the 1840 US Census was taken so it is
unknown exactly where in New York they landed and who met them, if
anyone, when they arrived.
In 1850, we find a Patirck Listee age
25 working as quaryman in New York boarding at ( ).
We do not know if this was our Patrick, but for the sake of future
investigations we have listed this person and the census record he is
found in - just in case he might turn out to be our
Patrick.
Note: Our research team
has, time and time again found variations in the surnames of other
family member surnames, who are related to the Losty's; and we
suspect the name Listee, may be a variation of the name
Losty. There are other variations of the name Losty listed
the Ireland Genealogy pages found online such as: Lasty,
Lusty, and Lofty, however, we have seen no signs of misspellings
in the surname Losty related to our family in the United States
until now. We suspect, Patrick Listee, occupation quaryman,
age 25, born in Ireland, was at work when the 1850 US Census was
taken. He was boarding in a household with many other men,
so it would be safe to assume, Patrick was not the one providing
the information about himself to the census takers, but rather,
whomever was at home the day the census was taken. We have
no knowledge of this persons ability to speak, read, or write
English and we theorized, when asked, who lives in the household
in question, the responder provided the names of the individuals
verbally and Patrick Losty came out sounding like Patrick Listee.
Sandra Losty, of Ireland, was recently questioned in 2004
regarding Irish accents. She gave the opinion the name
"Losty" spoken with a heavy western Irish accent would
sound like 'Listee".
With that said our story about
Patrick Losty resumes in 1847 when he married his bride Miss. Mary
Roughan in New York.
Mary and Patrick's destination in the
United States is unknown. However, Patrick Losty was in Cannan, New
York in 1850 and then later moved to West Stockbridge, Massachusetts
as noted in the 1860 US Census. Patrick Losty married Miss. Mary
Roughan
and all of their children were born in the United States.
he was in New
York in 1849 because that is where his first child,John, was born and
he married in 1847 and I believe he married in Kings County as
that is where the Roughans were found in 1850, he is in West
stockbridge in 1860, he owned 25 acres of land valued at 1500 dollars
in Canaan NY in 1865 according to the land owners list but was
living in West Stockbridge, or Stateline Massachusetts. When Patrick
and his mother arrived in the US I think they stayed in New York
City,Kings County, until he saved money to move to a more desirable
location,remember the fighting that was going on in New York at that
time and I think he wanted to live in a place that resembled Ireland
and so he moved to the Berkshire area, hills and farms, and was
probably in the process of moving many miles north and missed the
census takers and that is why we do not see him in 1850
