♀Mary O'Hara

Mary O’Hara is named in a printed family history as the wife of Daniel De La Haunte (died by 1748) of Kent County, Maryland. She was probably the fifth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son John Silas Dillahunty (1728–1816). Her name comes from one source only, Margaret Gardner Cannefax’s compiled family history Cannefax-Gardner and Related Lines, which states that “Daniel de la Haunte, son of David, married Mary O’Hara”, and that the couple “migrated to America in 1715, landing at Havre de Grace, Maryland”. The same page places the family’s earlier history among Huguenot refugees in Ireland, but it cites no record for any of this, and no record confirms it. Her husband’s will, written on 2 December 1746 and proved on 18 August 1748, names his sons and daughters but does not mention a wife or leave anything to one; the will does not say whether she was then alive. No record of her birth, her parents or her death has been found, and no Kent County record naming Daniel’s wife has been found.

Notes

The descent from her to Floyd Amatus Delahorne passes through John Dillahunty (1780–1830), whose descent from John Dillahunty (1750–1797) of Davidson County, Tennessee, is probable but not proved.