This burial ground of St. Mary's was used for interments until comparatively recent years, perhaps as late as 1875. In 1899 the property was sold, and in May of that year the remains of those who had been interred there were removed under the direction of George A. Brennan, undertaker, who gathered the bones found into several burial cases and reinterred them at St. Mary's Cemetery, Tenth, Eleventh and Moore streets, which was bought in 1835. The author was present at the removal. But few of the inscriptions on the old tombstones could be deciphered. The stones also were buried in the newer cemetery. About this time, 1824 Rev. Michael Hurley secured land for a cemetery for the burial of the dead of St. Augustine's Parish. On May 25th 1824 the deed was signed by Andrew Hamilton and wife, ceding a lot of ground 180 feet on Sixteenth St., by 227 feet, 6 inches on St. Andrew, now Wallace St. It was subject to a ground rent of $180, which was released to the Brothers of the Order of St. Augustine by Henry Beckett, Trustee under the will of Mary Hamilton, by an instrument dated April 17th, 1860. (Sunday Despatch, Nov. 25th, 1883.)

At a meeting on May 19th, 1824, the Trustees received a complaint from the Board of Health concerning the mode of interment in the cemetery on 13th Street below Spruce. Doubtless it was becoming overcrowded. Accordingly Messrs. Keefe and Connell were appointed a committee "to procure a lot suitable for a burial ground." At this time the debts of the corporation of St. Mary's amounted to $5286.04. At the June meeting the yearly income was estimated at $3285.33 and the expenses at $3161. So the sum of $500 was deducted from the salaries of the pastor and others. The committee selected the plot of ground at the corner of what are now Passyunk and Washington Ave., afterwards called "the Bishop's burial ground", and occupying under that title much space in the records of the Diocese and law courts of Philadelphia. Perhaps they ob

tained merely an option of some kind on the ground, for it was, by an amicable arrangement transferred to Charles Johnson and Dennis McCready, friends of the Bishop, who in turn deeded it on September 15th to Dr. Conwell. The Deed Book shows the following records:

On December 31st, 1823, by James Paul and wife, to Charles Johnson and wife, the land herewith below described. Consideration, $1000. (Deed Book, I. H. No. 10, p. 615.)

Charles Johnson and Catherine his wife, and Dennis McCready and Margaret,

his wife,
to

Right Rev. Henry Conwell, D.D.

For a certain lot or piece of ground situate on the North Westerly side of the Passyunk Road, on the North side of Love lane or Prime street, and on the East side of Delaware Eighth street continued in Moyamensing Township, county of Philadelphia; beginning at the corner of land formerly of William Tidmarsh by the side of Passyunk Road and running by the said road South 45 degrees 15 minutes, West about 15 perches and 4/10ths of a perch, more or less, to a corner on the North side of the said Love lane or Prime street, thence along said lane or street North 67 degrees 50 minutes West to a corner on the East side of said eighth street, thence Northerly along said Eighth street to a corner in the land of the said William Tidmarsh and thence along the said line South 68 degrees 30 minutes East to the place of beginning.

Acknowledged September 16, 1824.
Recorded September 17th, 1824.
Deed Book I. H. No. 10, p. 615, &c.

The Bishop, Father McGirr and Father Cummiskey collected sufficient money to reimburse the Trustees and so the legal title became vested in the name of the Right Rev.

Henry Conwell. After his decease, the fact that it had been held in his name became the cause of a long and tedious law suit, his heirs claiming possession of it as his personal property. The Jesuits withstood their demands, claiming that it was held by the Bishop in trust. The testimony was very contradictory. At first the heirs gained some important decisions, but in the end the suit terminated in favor of the Jesuits. Though always known as "the Bishop's Burial Ground " it remained until 1899 in the possession of the Jesuits of Old St. Joseph's. At that time it was transferred to Archbishop Ryan, probably on account of the desire of the Provincial of the order to have the missions divested of all property not pertaining to church or educational work.

A long and interesting letter of the Bishop's to Marechal gives other interesting details of the occurrences of this year. On Oct. 3rd, 1824 he writes that

A small lot of ground about a mile from St. Joseph's has lately been purchased by me for a burying ground at $1500. This will help to support our persecuted establishment. There are 115 pews in St. Joseph's rented at $10, $15 and $20 yearly. This will enable the clergy to live. The men calling themselves Trustees, with a few Deists and women of abandoned character, their number much declined since Hogan's departure, the church nearly deserted,—they will have great difficulty in making $1000 a year for the Apostate Priest.

Oct. 5th. He speaks of the visit of Lafayette to Philadelphia, and the procession in his honor in which Bishop Conwell walked side by side with Bishop White of the Episcopal Church. He sends Address to Lafayette. (Baltimore Archives, Case 15, Letter C.)

Lafayette arrived in Philadelphia on October 1st. On the 2nd he dined with 300 or more Masons. On Sunday, the 3rd he attended at Christ Church where Bishop White officiated. On the 4th the civic parade was held, and in this Bishop White and Bishop Conwell walked together arm in arm to the Navy Yard.

(To be continued.)

HISTORICAL NOTES

BISHOP-ELECT MCDEVITT.

It was with general satisfaction that the news was received that the Right Rev. Mons. Philip R. McDevitt had been elevated to the see of Harrisburg. Monsignor McDevitt has been for many years a member of the American Catholic Historical Society; for two terms he was its president. His membership has always been that of an earnest and enthusiastic worker, especially as a frequent contributor to the pages of these RECORDS. The same capability which has distinguished the Bishop-elect in his nation-known activity in educational circles will serve him well in the new field to which the Holy See has appointed him. To painstaking labor and untiring attention to detail Monsignor McDevitt joins great breadth of view and a grasp of public questions. His work in the episcopate should make the Church better understood and more respected for he has ever believed in Catholics coming forward to take their part in public affairs. The deep religious faith and the unaffected piety which inspire the life of the new Bishop and the kindly sympathy which characterizes all his relations with others give reason to congratulate the diocese of Harrisburg that it has received as its Shepherd not only an ecclesiastic of intellect and ability but one who is universally respected as a model priest and loved as a kind man. The American Catholic Historical Society joins its felicitations to those of the many friends of Monsignor McDevitt in wishing him its heartiest " Ad multos annos ".

W. J. L.

O'MEALLY-O'MALLEY.

Dr. Austin O'Malley, of Philadelphia, whose interest and competency in questions of Celtic nomenclature is well known and widely appreciated, writes as follows to the Editor:

PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 19, 1916.

The Editor of the RECORDS A. C. H. S.

Dear Sir:

In the June number of the RECORDS is an account of Father Thadeus J. O'Meally, who is called also O'Malley in Mr. Griffin's Life of Bishop Conwell. Bishop Conwell himself in the text of the decree of excommunication calls the man O'Meally. The real name was O'Malley, not O'Meally, which is as different from O'Malley as Smith is. In Irish O'Meally is ó Mellaig; O'Malley is ó Máille. O'Meally, Melia, O'Mally, Melly, are variants of ó Mellaig; O'Malley, O'Mayley, Malia, O'Malia, Mally, are variants of ó Máille.

This Thadeus (for Teige, Tadgh in Irish) O'Malley belonged to the Limerick Clan O'Malley, an unimportant sept of the Mac Namaras, and they lived in the Tuath Luimhnigh, the district about the City of Limerick. They were in no manner connected with the O'Malleys of Umhall in Mayo, my own Clan. This recurrence of clan and family names without kinship is common in Ireland.

Thady O'Malley of the Hogan Schism was born at Garrytown, near Limerick, in 1796, and died in Dublin in 1877. He was a political writer, an educator, and a journalist, and always "agin the government ", whatever the government might be, ecclesiastical or civil. He was a thorn in Cardinal Cullen's side. He wrote a very good book on Education in Holland, which has been translated into Dutch. There is a copy of the translation in the New York City Library. Anyone interested in the man will find an account of him in the Dictionary of National Biography, London, 1895.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY.