Murder in a time of cholera remembered as Duffy’s Cut Irish victims finally reburied

Bythebay, Your information is completely wrong. The person's name is John Ruddy (not Duddy). The workers were not miners but laborers looking for work. When they departed the ship John Stamp in June 1832, they were immediately recruited by Mr. Duffy who had a contract for the railroad. They determined who John Ruddy was by a genetic anamoly found in his teeth. An anamoly that still exists in his family in Ireland today. Not through DNA. The ships manifest did include each of the names of the individuals plus the names of an additional 70 or so individuals who left the ship in New York City. As for their religion, you are correct there is no proof they were Catholic. That is one reason why they had both a Catholic and Protestant ceremony at the Memorial Service. However, prejudice in that area of the country against all new Irish immigrants was real. As was the fear of the spread of Cholorea. This story is extremely credible based on facts, scientific research, anthropological studies (by University of Pennyslvania Antiquities Museum personnel) police investigation (because this site, although almost 200 years old was still considered a crime scene). No split decisions - just good investigation by the research team...

Congrats to the Watson brothers for making this remarkable piece of sad Irish history come to public attention

So many years later, these people can receive a Christian burial, symbolic of how their experiences, and that of all the other immigrants to this country have made this country a better place. De go raibh a hanam uasal.