Coney's of Gloucester

Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, Massachusetts

There were many great fisherman in the Gloucester, Massachusetts area but none could compare to the Portuguese who came over the Atlantic from the Azore Islands to make a better life for themselves and their families.  

~One of these families was Da Cuhna.~  

Over the next two generations of that family, they changed their names to Coney and Cooney.  John Coney is my ancestor and is the only one who changed his name to Coney, the rest of his brothers and sisters went to Cooney.  Many other families are interlaced within the Coney/Cooney family as well, names like:  Enos, Silva, Perry, Williams, Inacia, Azevedo, Gomes, Frietas, Swarz, and Jacinta.

Descendants of Jose De Sousa Da Cuhna

~Generation No. 1~

1. Jose De Sousa Da Cuhna*. He married Maria Inacia.

Child of Jose Da Cuhna* and Maria Inacia:

+ 2 i. Jose De Sousa Da Cuhna, died Aft. 1863 in Pico, Azores.

~Generation No. 2~

2. Jose Da Cuhna was born ?; died Aft. 1865 in Pico, Azores. He married Vincencia Constancia De Azevedo, October 31, 1844 in Lajas Pico, Azores, daughter of Francisco Antonio De Azevedo and Maria Jacinta Do Coracao De Jesus, who was born February 12, 1821, Lajas, Pico, Azores.

Children of Jose Da Cuhna and Vincencia Azevedo are:

3 i. Marry Cooney. She married Piedoza Gomes. In 1910, living in California.

4 ii. Antone Cooney, In 1910, living in California.

5 iii. Manuel S. Cooney, (Manuel) born December 22, 1859 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died ? In 1910, living in California.

+ 6 iv. Joseph S. Cooney, (Jose) born August 02, 1845 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died November 07, 1917 in Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts.

+ 7 v. Frank E. Cooney, (Francisco) born January 06, 1850 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died July 07, 1931 in Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts.

+ 8 vi. Vincencia Cooney, born January 1, 1865 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died December 27, 1927 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.

+ 9 vii. John S. Coney*, (Joao) born February 10, 1854 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died September 08, 1929 in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

+ 10 viii. Mary C. Cooney, (Maria) born June 18, 1856 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died September 09, 1929 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.

+ 11 ix. Marion S. Cooney, (Mariano) born February 19, 1862 in Lajas, Pico - Azore Islands; died April 05, 1895 in Rockport, Essex , Massachusetts.

~Generation No. 3~

9. John S. Coney* was born February 10, 1854 in Lajas, Pico, Azores, and died September 08, 1929 in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts. He married Mary L. Williams, June 24, 1880 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of George Williams and Marion Silva, who was born March 7, 1861 in Gloucester, Massachusetts and died June 4, 1917, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Children of John Coney* and Mary Williams are:

35 i. George William Coney, born July 6, 1883 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. In 1929, living in Greenport, Long Island.

36 ii. John Souza Coney, Jr., born March 13, 1885 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. In 1929, living in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

37 iii. Mary Coney, born September 29, 1886 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died in Wollaston, Norfolk, Massachusetts? She married Louis F. Dewsnap.  In 1929, living in Quincy/Wollaston, Massachusetts.

38 iv. Vincencia Coney, born September 26, 1888 in Massachusetts; died October 1966 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married (1) Joseph Cox. She married (2) Henry Amarald November 15, 1911.  In 1929, living in East Boston, Massachusetts.

39 v. Aurora Eulalie Coney, born 1893; died May 18, 1903 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.

+ 40 vi. Eugenia Louisa Coney*, born September 06, 1900 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died December 29, 1925 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

~Generation No. 4~

40. Eugenia Louisa Coney* was born September 06, 1900 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, and died December 29, 1925 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married Lester Menchin Remington* March 14, 1920 in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, son of Charles Remington* and Fannie Menchin*.

Child of Eugenia Coney* and Lester Remington*:

+ 87 i. Louise Mary Remington*, born January 31, 1921 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died May 11, 1982 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.

~Generation No. 5 ~

87. Louise Mary Remington* was born January 31, 1921 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and died May 11, 1982 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. She married (1) Ralph F. Spencer, Jr. November 19, 1938 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married (2) James Carlton April 27, 1940 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married (3) Othar Lee Kirtley* March 12, 1943 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of George Kirtley* and Verdie Carter. She married (4) Kenneth Leroy Hocker May 06, 1946 in San Diego, California. She married (5) William Robert Hull September 03, 1954 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. She married (6) Carl Lee Seeberger December 31, 1960 in El Reno, Canadian, Oklahoma.

Child of Louise Remington* and Othar Kirtley*:

+ 147 i. Mary Jean Kirtley*

~Generation No. 6~

147. Mary Jean Kirtley* she married (1) Charles Stafford Withers* October 09, 1961 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, son of Robert Withers* and France Weast*. She married (2) Danny Leo Davis* September 05, 1962 in Welling, Oklahoma, son of John Davis* and Bessie Tyner*.

Child of Mary Kirtley* and Charles Withers*:

+ 231 i. Toni Lea Davis*

~Generation No. 7 ~

231. Toni Lea (Birth name - Withers, Adopted Name - Davis* )Lasseter

This page only shows my direct lineage, I have much more about the Coney/Cooney family in my database.  If you find that you are connected to this family or have additional information, please email me!

Our Lady of Good Voyage

"WRECK OF THE HESPERUS"

It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintery sea;
And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.

Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds,
That ope in the month of May.

The Skipper he stood beside the helm,
His pipe was in his mouth,
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.

Then up and spake an old Sailor,
Had sailed the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
for I fear a hurricane.

"Last night the moon had a golden ring,
And to-night no moon we see!"
The skipper, he blew whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.

Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast,
The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.

Down came the storm, and smote amain
The vessel in its strength;
The shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,
Then leaped her cable's length.

"Come hither! come hither! my little daughter,
And do not tremble so;
For I can weather the roughest gale
That ever wind did blow."

He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat
Against the stinging blast;
He cut a rope from a broken spar,
And bound her to the mast.

"O father! I hear the church bells ring,
Oh, say, what may it be?"
"Tis a fog-bell on a rock bound coast!" --
And he steered for the open sea.

"O father! I hear the sound of guns;
Oh, say, what may it be?"
Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"

"O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.

Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,
With his face turned to the skies,
The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow
On his fixed and glassy eyes.

Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed
That saved she might be;
And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave,
On the Lake of Galilee.

And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe.

And ever the fitful gusts between
A sound came from the land;
It was the sound of the trampling surf,
On the rocks and hard sea-sand.

The breakers were right beneath her bows,
She drifted a dreary wreck,
And a whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.

She struck where the white and fleecy waves
Looked soft as carded wool,
But the cruel rocks, they gored her side
Like the horns of an angry bull.

Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Ho! ho! the breakers roared!

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.

The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
The salt tears in her eyes;
And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Reef of Norman's Woe - Gloucester, Massachusetts

Read about Captain John Coney and the shipwreck of the Leader

Obituaries of the Coney/Cooney family

In Remembrance of Eugenia - She is the one to whom we pay tribute for the propagation of our family - The Remington's.

Family Portraits

Stop by and see old family photos

Links

Portuguese Genealogy Home Page

World Gen Web - Azores Site

Down to the Sea in Ships

Out of Gloucester

Essex County, Massachusetts

Gloucester, Massachusetts

LUSAWEB

Gorton's - Fisherman Lore

Gloucester Daily Times

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