Brief history

Brief History of Patrick and Bridget McIntyre

Patrick McIntyre (c1831-1901) married Bridget Stevens (c1829-1908) on March 3, 1851 in St. Attracta’s Roman Catholic Church, Toulestrane, County Sligo, Ireland. They had eleven known children. The first five were born in Ireland: Edward (1852-1931); Bartholomew (1854-1924); Mary (1856-1934); Dominick (c1860-1932); and Catherine (1861-1914). Patrick, his wife and five children, left Ireland in 1863 sailing on the SS Orient into New York harbor and finally settling in San Francisco, California where the last six children were born: John Dunn (1864-a1908); Elizabeth (1867-1869); William (1869-1879); James (1871-1874); Thomas (c1874-a1931); and Ellen (1879-1963). Patrick and Bridget homesteaded in Oregon in the 1880s. Patrick died in 1901 and Bridget died in 1908. They are both buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.

Patrick's parents, Edward (c1805/6-1881) and Ann McIntyre (c1803/07-1889), both born in Ireland, also came to the US settling in the San Francisco area. From the records, it appears Edward and Ann came a few years before Patrick.


Stevens Name

Stevens, Stephens, Stevenson

In Ireland a family called Stephens may be of various origins. If not of comparatively recent immigration from England, as a number of those in Leinster and Ulster are, they could be of Norman stock, descendants of some FitsStephen, a name much in evidence in mediaeval Munster and Ormond records; or they might be true Gaels of the small sept of MacGilstefan (Mac Giolla Stiofáin), which Woulfe says belongs to Leix.... It is probable that any survivors of this sept in Connacht are now called Stephens.  It is in the north Connacht the name Stephens is chiefly found today, apart from the metropolitan area of Dublin.  MacStephen is of frequent occurrence in sixteenth and seventeenth century Connacht records such as the Composition Book of Connacht.

MacLysaght, Edward. More Irish Families. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996. Page 196.

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