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Michael GEARY was born around 1842. He was a Shoemaker. He died on 8 December 1919 in Galway Workhouse Hospital.
Margaret FLANNERY was born around 1845 in Shop Street, Galway. She was a brushmaker. She was 5 feet, three inches tall, with brown hair and blue eyes and weighed 112 pounds. In later life she was partly deaf. She served terms in prison in 1886, 1897 and 1906. On another occasion, she appeared before the Petty Sessions accused of abusing and threatening her son, Patrick but the case was dropped. She died on 18 July 1913 in Galway Workhouse.
Michael and Margaret married on 7 March 1865 in St Nicholas Church, Francis St, Dublin. At the time of the marriage, they were living in 9 Bride Street, Dublin but then lived in a three-roomed house in Fairhill Road in Galway with a thatched roof, which also had access to a piggery. They had nine children. In 1886, the family were mentioned in a newspaper item describing poverty in Galway. In 1909, there was a newspaper item about Michael Geary attempting to obtain alcohol on a Sunday, under the pretence of being a traveller.
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