Dear Betty, You have your homework done very well. You obviously are an excellent researcher. I would give you Grade A+. "Annals of Beara", which can be obtained from HTTP://WWW.LULU.COM/ is so big that it was broken up into three parts: Vol. 1 contains the Parish of Adrigole and the Parish of Allihies. Vol. 11 (or 2) contains Bere Island and the Parish of Eyeries. Vol. 111 (or 3) contains the Parish of Castletownbere and the Co. Cork part of the Parish of Glengarriff/Bonane(Co.Kerry). You can start off with the Townland of Clochlin/Cloughland in Bere Island in Vol 11 (or 2). That would contain most of what you need. But there are "tails" to families, and you might be as well off to purchase all three of the Volumes of "Annals of Beara". It is up yourself. Riobard O'Dwyer. On 17 January 2016 at 03:00, elizabeth lawrence via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > My maternal great grandparents went to Argentina from County > Cork: Cornelius O’Leary, born August 24, 1845, from Cloghlin [or some records say from > Berehaven] and Catherine Crowley, born June 1859 in Derrycreveen, Bere Island. > They were married in Ireland February 5, 1877 and went to Argentina that > same year. The family lore is that he was the black sheep and she had been > forbidden from marrying him. He was 32 > at the time, and she only 18. They eloped by hopping on the first ship they > could, or so I was told. > > Cornelius' parents were Quinlan Leary and > Mary McCarthy, and Catherine's parents were Jeremiah Crowley and Catherine Quill [or Johanna Quinn?]—all > four seemed to have remained in Ireland. > Records show the name as Quinlan Leary, not O’Leary. Jeremiah Crowley seems to have married > twice: first to Johanna Harrington, with > whom he had six children, and then to Johanna “Jane” Quille, with whom he had > six more children. I believe all twelve > of the offspring went to Argentina, and only one, Denis, returned to Bere Island. I would love to hear from anyone who knows anything about these families. Thanks! > > Betty Lawrence > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Riobard (O'Dwyer)

My maternal great grandparents went to Argentina from County Cork: Cornelius O’Leary, born August 24, 1845, from Cloghlin [or some records say from Berehaven] and Catherine Crowley, born June 1859 in Derrycreveen, Bere Island. They were married in Ireland February 5, 1877 and went to Argentina that same year. The family lore is that he was the black sheep and she had been forbidden from marrying him. He was 32 at the time, and she only 18. They eloped by hopping on the first ship they could, or so I was told. Cornelius' parents were Quinlan Leary and Mary McCarthy, and Catherine's parents were Jeremiah Crowley and Catherine Quill [or Johanna Quinn?]—all four seemed to have remained in Ireland. Records show the name as Quinlan Leary, not O’Leary. Jeremiah Crowley seems to have married twice: first to Johanna Harrington, with whom he had six children, and then to Johanna “Jane” Quille, with whom he had six more children. I believe all twelve of the offspring went to Argentina, and only one, Denis, returned to Bere Island. I would love to hear from anyone who knows anything about these families. Thanks! Betty Lawrence

Thank you, Loretta for your kind reply. And thanks 'Beara' for letting me post this request. Robert Harrington -----Original Message----- From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of beara-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 2:00 AM To: beara@rootsweb.com Subject: BEARA Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9 Today's Topics: 1. Re: BEARA Digest (TLKids65ll@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:40:41 -0500 From: TLKids65ll@aol.com Subject: Re: [BEARA] BEARA Digest To: csaunders65@gmail.com, robert50@quixnet.net, beara@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <40e30c.1f3dc909.43c93799@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" While, I am not a Harrington, I am always so grateful for Beara Members. You are all so willing to help others in their research. Thank you, Loretta McDermott McGinn (Sullivan-Shea-Kearney-McCarthy) In a message dated 1/13/2016 10:43:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, beara@rootsweb.com writes: Robert, Here is a little information to get you started. What is the death dates for the principals? Your Harrington family arrived on 4 May 1852 in at Castle Garden, New York aboard the William D. Sewall. According to the ships manifest the family's destination was Pittsburgh. Ellis Island did not open until 1892. You can view the information at the Castle Garden site below or on ancestry.com where you can view the ship's manifest. It seems you were not aware of their son John. John Harrington, age 32 Elizabeth Harrington, age 30 William Harrington, age 3 John Harrington, age 1 http://www.castlegarden.org/search_02.php?m_ship=&po_port=&p_first_name=will iam&p_last_name=harrington&o_occ=&co_country=&province=&town=&m_arr_date_sta rt=1851&m_arr_date_end=1853&submit.x=47&submit.y=16 Mike On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Robert Harrington via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Beara 'Family', > > I have searched not 'in vain' because it has been fun, but I am > running out > avenues to search for my Harrington ancestry. Using Ancestry etc. > and working back, I find my last Irish relatives coming to NY, NY in May of > 1852. A John Harrington ( age 32 who died shortly after arriving in New > York ) with his wife Elizabeth Charlotte Harrington ( age 27 ) and > son William Harrington ( age 3 ). They sailed on the SS Wm. D. > Sewell. I have > good references for them from 1852 forward but discovering anything > earlier, including information on the ship, is proving difficult, so > I am hoping some of my dna matches at Familytreedna.com may be of > help. Haven't heard from > anyone there as yet. After John's death, Elizabeth and William Harrington > found their way into the Detroit, MI area and settled in Dowagiac, MI. > Elizabeth married a man named James Fenn and William served in the > civil war. Both Elizabeth and William are buried in Dowagiac, MI. > Hopefully one > you could fill in a bit... Thanks! robert50@quixnet.net > > Robert Harrington > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ To contact the BEARA list administrator, send an email to BEARA-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the BEARA mailing list, send an email to BEARA@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of BEARA Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9 ************************************

While, I am not a Harrington, I am always so grateful for Beara Members. You are all so willing to help others in their research. Thank you, Loretta McDermott McGinn (Sullivan-Shea-Kearney-McCarthy) In a message dated 1/13/2016 10:43:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, beara@rootsweb.com writes: Robert, Here is a little information to get you started. What is the death dates for the principals? Your Harrington family arrived on 4 May 1852 in at Castle Garden, New York aboard the William D. Sewall. According to the ships manifest the family's destination was Pittsburgh. Ellis Island did not open until 1892. You can view the information at the Castle Garden site below or on ancestry.com where you can view the ship's manifest. It seems you were not aware of their son John. John Harrington, age 32 Elizabeth Harrington, age 30 William Harrington, age 3 John Harrington, age 1 http://www.castlegarden.org/search_02.php?m_ship=&po_port=&p_first_name=will iam&p_last_name=harrington&o_occ=&co_country=&province=&town=&m_arr_date_sta rt=1851&m_arr_date_end=1853&submit.x=47&submit.y=16 Mike On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Robert Harrington via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Beara 'Family', > > I have searched not 'in vain' because it has been fun, but I am running out > avenues to search for my Harrington ancestry. Using Ancestry etc. and > working back, I find my last Irish relatives coming to NY, NY in May of > 1852. A John Harrington ( age 32 who died shortly after arriving in New > York ) with his wife Elizabeth Charlotte Harrington ( age 27 ) and son > William Harrington ( age 3 ). They sailed on the SS Wm. D. Sewell. I have > good references for them from 1852 forward but discovering anything > earlier, > including information on the ship, is proving difficult, so I am hoping > some > of my dna matches at Familytreedna.com may be of help. Haven't heard from > anyone there as yet. After John's death, Elizabeth and William Harrington > found their way into the Detroit, MI area and settled in Dowagiac, MI. > Elizabeth married a man named James Fenn and William served in the civil > war. Both Elizabeth and William are buried in Dowagiac, MI. Hopefully one > you could fill in a bit... Thanks! robert50@quixnet.net > > Robert Harrington > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Robert, Here is a little information to get you started. What is the death dates for the principals? Your Harrington family arrived on 4 May 1852 in at Castle Garden, New York aboard the William D. Sewall. According to the ships manifest the family's destination was Pittsburgh. Ellis Island did not open until 1892. You can view the information at the Castle Garden site below or on ancestry.com where you can view the ship's manifest. It seems you were not aware of their son John. John Harrington, age 32 Elizabeth Harrington, age 30 William Harrington, age 3 John Harrington, age 1 http://www.castlegarden.org/search_02.php?m_ship=&po_port=&p_first_name=william&p_last_name=harrington&o_occ=&co_country=&province=&town=&m_arr_date_start=1851&m_arr_date_end=1853&submit.x=47&submit.y=16 Mike On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Robert Harrington via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Beara 'Family', > > I have searched not 'in vain' because it has been fun, but I am running out > avenues to search for my Harrington ancestry. Using Ancestry etc. and > working back, I find my last Irish relatives coming to NY, NY in May of > 1852. A John Harrington ( age 32 who died shortly after arriving in New > York ) with his wife Elizabeth Charlotte Harrington ( age 27 ) and son > William Harrington ( age 3 ). They sailed on the SS Wm. D. Sewell. I have > good references for them from 1852 forward but discovering anything > earlier, > including information on the ship, is proving difficult, so I am hoping > some > of my dna matches at Familytreedna.com may be of help. Haven't heard from > anyone there as yet. After John's death, Elizabeth and William Harrington > found their way into the Detroit, MI area and settled in Dowagiac, MI. > Elizabeth married a man named James Fenn and William served in the civil > war. Both Elizabeth and William are buried in Dowagiac, MI. Hopefully one > you could fill in a bit... Thanks! robert50@quixnet.net > > Robert Harrington > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Dear Beara 'Family', I have searched not 'in vain' because it has been fun, but I am running out avenues to search for my Harrington ancestry. Using Ancestry etc. and working back, I find my last Irish relatives coming to NY, NY in May of 1852. A John Harrington ( age 32 who died shortly after arriving in New York ) with his wife Elizabeth Charlotte Harrington ( age 27 ) and son William Harrington ( age 3 ). They sailed on the SS Wm. D. Sewell. I have good references for them from 1852 forward but discovering anything earlier, including information on the ship, is proving difficult, so I am hoping some of my dna matches at Familytreedna.com may be of help. Haven't heard from anyone there as yet. After John's death, Elizabeth and William Harrington found their way into the Detroit, MI area and settled in Dowagiac, MI. Elizabeth married a man named James Fenn and William served in the civil war. Both Elizabeth and William are buried in Dowagiac, MI. Hopefully one you could fill in a bit... Thanks! robert50@quixnet.net Robert Harrington

Dan, My back is "creaking" for the past few days. They say that your sense starts "creaking" once you start "acting the fool" in your (well over) old age now and then. A few days ago in the sitting room, with the others looking on, I started tickling one of my visiting grandchildren, aged 3. In order to protect himself, he drew up his legs ---- and the heel of one of his shoes banged on the bridge of my nose. Needless to say, I felt the "collision" fairly strongly. The day after that, I jumped off a rock beside the sea, and landed sideways on the pebbles of a beach trying to go playing with my young grandchildren. My back must have suffered a severe strain, and was pretty sore. Yesterday, I was jumping over mudbanks and water pools to show the highest pillar-stone in Western Europe (with ogham cut out writing on one side of it) to a visitor to Eyeries. I got out of bed crippled this morning, with darts of pain all over the lower end of my spine, and aching with pain every time I tried to get up off a chair. I suppose you start getting sense when you are almost 84 !! I guarantee you that I wouldn't go far in the hop, step and jump/triple jump after trying to pull myself out over the side of the bad this morning, and feeling sorry for myself. "Sensible" Riobard. [ I wonder, Dan, how much blood was pumping through my veins at that stage ? ]. On 11 January 2016 at 17:58, Daniel Shea <DanlShea@msn.com> wrote: > > > > > *What Your Body Does in a Day:* *Read on* > > *Sometimes you may feel like your body is beginning to creak and fail you > on the outside, but do you ever stop to consider the incredible work that > is taking place inside of it? There is so much going on and everything fits > together so well, that it's almost impossible to comprehend it. This > presentation will remind you that there are miracles going on inside your > body every single day.* > [image: Heart] > > > > > [image: Cancer] > > > [image: Brain] > > > [image: Stomach] > > > [image: Eyes] > > > [image: Energy] > > > [image: Red Blood Cells] > > > [image: Skin] > > > [image: Hair] > > > [image: Words] > > > [image: Liver] > > > [image: Saliva] > > > [image: Testicles] > > > [image: Kidneys] > > > [image: Hair] > > > [image: Digestion] > > > [image: Regeneration] > > > [image: Final Slide] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Riobard (O'Dwyer)

Oh my goodness, Sensible Riobard! You had me laughing out loud with your description of your activities. Not your pains, of course, but how you got them! Truly, I can't think of a better or nicer way than feeling sore after playing with grands in such a lovely setting. Can I be you when I grow up?!! Thanks for all you do... Loretta McDermott McGinn (Sullivan/McCarthy/Shea/Kearney/Collins) In a message dated 1/11/2016 4:14:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, beara@rootsweb.com writes: Dan, My back is "creaking" for the past few days. They say that your sense starts "creaking" once you start "acting the fool" in your (well over) old age now and then. A few days ago in the sitting room, with the others looking on, I started tickling one of my visiting grandchildren, aged 3. In order to protect himself, he drew up his legs ---- and the heel of one of his shoes banged on the bridge of my nose. Needless to say, I felt the "collision" fairly strongly. The day after that, I jumped off a rock beside the sea, and landed sideways on the pebbles of a beach trying to go playing with my young grandchildren. My back must have suffered a severe strain, and was pretty sore. Yesterday, I was jumping over mudbanks and water pools to show the highest pillar-stone in Western Europe (with ogham cut out writing on one side of it) to a visitor to Eyeries. I got out of bed crippled this morning, with darts of pain all over the lower end of my spine, and aching with pain every time I tried to get up off a chair. I suppose you start getting sense when you are almost 84 !! I guarantee you that I wouldn't go far in the hop, step and jump/triple jump after trying to pull myself out over the side of the bad this morning, and feeling sorry for myself. "Sensible" Riobard. [ I wonder, Dan, how much blood was pumping through my veins at that stage ? ]. On 11 January 2016 at 17:58, Daniel Shea <DanlShea@msn.com> wrote: > > > > > *What Your Body Does in a Day:* *Read on* > > *Sometimes you may feel like your body is beginning to creak and fail you > on the outside, but do you ever stop to consider the incredible work that > is taking place inside of it? There is so much going on and everything fits > together so well, that it's almost impossible to comprehend it. This > presentation will remind you that there are miracles going on inside your > body every single day.* > [image: Heart] > > > > > [image: Cancer] > > > [image: Brain] > > > [image: Stomach] > > > [image: Eyes] > > > [image: Energy] > > > [image: Red Blood Cells] > > > [image: Skin] > > > [image: Hair] > > > [image: Words] > > > [image: Liver] > > > [image: Saliva] > > > [image: Testicles] > > > [image: Kidneys] > > > [image: Hair] > > > [image: Digestion] > > > [image: Regeneration] > > > [image: Final Slide] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Riobard (O'Dwyer) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have five grandsons who love "wastling" My approaching 70 body can hardly take it! My profound sympathies...do get some physio... Reg Sent from my iPad > On Jan 11, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Riobard O' Dwyer via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Dan, > My back is "creaking" for the past few days. They say that your sense > starts "creaking" once you start "acting the fool" in your (well over) old > age now and then. A few days ago in the sitting room, with the others > looking on, I started tickling one of my visiting grandchildren, aged 3. In > order to protect himself, he drew up his legs ---- and the heel of one of > his shoes banged on the bridge of my nose. Needless to say, I felt the > "collision" fairly strongly. The day after that, I jumped off a rock beside > the sea, and landed sideways on the pebbles of a beach trying to go playing > with my young grandchildren. My back must have suffered a severe strain, > and was pretty sore. Yesterday, I was jumping over mudbanks and water pools > to show the highest pillar-stone in Western Europe (with ogham cut out > writing on one side of it) to a visitor to Eyeries. I got out of bed > crippled this morning, with darts of pain all over the lower end of my > spine, and aching with pain every time I tried to get up off a chair. I > suppose you start getting sense when you are almost 84 !! I guarantee you > that I wouldn't go far in the hop, step and jump/triple jump after trying > to pull myself out over the side of the bad this morning, and feeling sorry > for myself. "Sensible" Riobard. [ I wonder, Dan, how much blood was pumping > through my veins at that stage ? ]. > > > > > >> On 11 January 2016 at 17:58, Daniel Shea <DanlShea@msn.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> *What Your Body Does in a Day:* *Read on* >> >> *Sometimes you may feel like your body is beginning to creak and fail you >> on the outside, but do you ever stop to consider the incredible work that >> is taking place inside of it? There is so much going on and everything fits >> together so well, that it's almost impossible to comprehend it. This >> presentation will remind you that there are miracles going on inside your >> body every single day.* >> [image: Heart] >> >> >> >> >> [image: Cancer] >> >> >> [image: Brain] >> >> >> [image: Stomach] >> >> >> [image: Eyes] >> >> >> [image: Energy] >> >> >> [image: Red Blood Cells] >> >> >> [image: Skin] >> >> >> [image: Hair] >> >> >> [image: Words] >> >> >> [image: Liver] >> >> >> [image: Saliva] >> >> >> [image: Testicles] >> >> >> [image: Kidneys] >> >> >> [image: Hair] >> >> >> [image: Digestion] >> >> >> [image: Regeneration] >> >> >> [image: Final Slide] > > > -- > Riobard (O'Dwyer) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Vicki I have two different Beara Sullivan lines that were in Wisconsin and one of them was first in Fall River, MA before Wisconsin.   In Wisconsin my families were first in New Diggings,  then Iowa County around Arena; and finally in Eau Claire.  Where in Wisconsin did your Beara ancestors settle? Jerry Brosious in Minneapolis, Minnesota On Saturday, January 9, 2016 2:53 PM, Vicki Sullivan via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: I know how you feel! I have Daniel and Mary Sullivan , from Dursey Island. They lived in Fall River,MA, and moved to Wisconsin. Children were Timothy, MaryAnne, Bridget, John, and Eugene. Have not checked on anything in awhile,I am sure there are more records available Now.  Good Luck! Vicki Sullivan

Christine, I wish I could help with your search. I have Sullivans and Hanleys who lived in FR but your information does not sound familiar. My Sullivans came from Glenera Townland about 1880 and the Hanleys (John and Mary) from  Killaugh about  1870.John's parents were John and Honorah Hanley and he was born about 1800.Sorry not to be more help but I will keep your  info just in case. Jane Sullivan  On Saturday, January 9, 2016 12:18 PM, Riobard O' Dwyer via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: Susan, Robert Hampston & Julia O'Sullivan were living in the Townland of Bunskellig (near Glenbeg Lake, Ardgroom, Eyeries Parish), and they had 8 children: the first was born in April 1843. Robert was known as Robin. There seemed to have been a strong connection by the Hampstons with the Lauragh area (including Glenmore Lake), Co. Kerry. Riobard (O'Dwyer). On 9 January 2016 at 04:22, Susan Twomey via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Christine, > > Murphys and Sullivans "ring a bell", but there are so many it's hard to find the connections...and Charlestown, MA... > > I do know that my great great grandmother Mary Murphy from Urhan (Beara) married Batt aka Bartholomew Holland (aka Houlihan) and they settled in Cummeendeach near Ardgroom.  They are in Riobard's book "Who were my ancestors". > > > > Also there is a possible connection with Cain Holland who married Norry Murphy...but haven't been able to prove this yet... > > > Then there are LOTS of Sullivans...I will work on this over the weekend and see what I can find...I just printed out a 4 page list of names from my family tree on Ancestry.com.  - some from Eyeries Parish, and county Kerry ... after Ireland - lots from Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan, and Ashfield, Huron, Ontario, Canada.  Also a few moved from Eyeries Parish to Butte, Montana and Nevada and Arizona ("following the mines").  I will look more closely this weekend. > > I do know that my father's great-great-grandparents were Julia O'Sullivan and Quinlan aka Robert Hampston Riobard Robert "Robin" Hampston both born c. 1830 who lived in Eyeries Parish. > > More later. > > Susan > > On Jan 8, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Christine Kelley via wrote: > >> Hi Beara listers— >> >> I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey branches.  I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then.  I do have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the others. >> And I’m still looking.  I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here and see if anyone has any ideas.  I have lots of potential connections, but every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it doesn’t exist.  And every generation repeated the same names….. >> >> >> My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora Hanley some time before or around the 1830s.  The only record I’ve come across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. >> As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): >> Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. >> >> Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston around 1850,  married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, Mary and Francis deSales.  They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH.  Jeremiah is always listed in records as a grocer.  He died in NH in 1872.  Daniel died as an infant in Fall River and is buried there.  Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH.  Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s.  Francis went on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and married to either James or John Casey.  Johanna may have had a brother James Patrick or Patrick James.  Johanna claimed on a census record to have been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her other siblings or where they are from.  Honora was buried in a plot owned by an O’Leary family and later moved.  Not sure if the O’Learys are related or not.    Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. >> >> James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John in Ireland in 1847.  There is a record for a birth matching this one in the Allihies record—could be them?  They ended up in Fall River MA and had about 6 children.  Don’t know anything about them or what became of them.  There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell (after 1860) which family is the right one. >> >> Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in the mills there.  They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a body from one to the other in the 1880s.  They also had a daughter Margaret who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence.  Sad thing about them—James abandoned the family at some point.  Ellen continued working in the mills and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two weeks before she passed away.  There is no official record of her death in MA, probably because the mill hid it. >> >> Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where.  He must have died young, she never remarried and had no children.  But, in 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his will that his $700 debt to her be paid!  She also ended up raising her sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death.  She remained in Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97.  She worked as a dressmaker and seamstress. >> >> But—there’s more! >> Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the connection is yet. >> >> Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 children.  Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving the children.  In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related??    The two families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney.  I have no idea where Mary is from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish registers. >> By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River.  I have no idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. >> >> And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses.  Tim Sidley and Dan Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 according to a newspaper article.  Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s naturalization papers.  The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the same house or on the same street at different times.  I have lots of info on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or related to the Sullivans. >> >> And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, O’Learys, and Caseys. >> >> Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a wall.  Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to check them out to make sure.  I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my results.  I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other matches. >> >> So, thank you for reading through this!  If you have any bells going off in your head, let me know.  Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be found…. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Christine (Sullivan) Kelley >> Chelsea, MA >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >From the... > Music Studio of Susan Twomey > 89 - 12th Street > Arcata, CA 95521 > tel. 707-826-0920 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Riobard (O'Dwyer) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Susan, Robert Hampston & Julia O'Sullivan were living in the Townland of Bunskellig (near Glenbeg Lake, Ardgroom, Eyeries Parish), and they had 8 children: the first was born in April 1843. Robert was known as Robin. There seemed to have been a strong connection by the Hampstons with the Lauragh area (including Glenmore Lake), Co. Kerry. Riobard (O'Dwyer). On 9 January 2016 at 04:22, Susan Twomey via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Christine, > > Murphys and Sullivans "ring a bell", but there are so many it's hard to find the connections...and Charlestown, MA... > > I do know that my great great grandmother Mary Murphy from Urhan (Beara) married Batt aka Bartholomew Holland (aka Houlihan) and they settled in Cummeendeach near Ardgroom. They are in Riobard's book "Who were my ancestors". > > > > Also there is a possible connection with Cain Holland who married Norry Murphy...but haven't been able to prove this yet... > > > Then there are LOTS of Sullivans...I will work on this over the weekend and see what I can find...I just printed out a 4 page list of names from my family tree on Ancestry.com. - some from Eyeries Parish, and county Kerry ... after Ireland - lots from Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan, and Ashfield, Huron, Ontario, Canada. Also a few moved from Eyeries Parish to Butte, Montana and Nevada and Arizona ("following the mines"). I will look more closely this weekend. > > I do know that my father's great-great-grandparents were Julia O'Sullivan and Quinlan aka Robert Hampston Riobard Robert "Robin" Hampston both born c. 1830 who lived in Eyeries Parish. > > More later. > > Susan > > On Jan 8, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Christine Kelley via wrote: > >> Hi Beara listers— >> >> I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then. I do have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the others. >> And I’m still looking. I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it doesn’t exist. And every generation repeated the same names….. >> >> >> My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I’ve come across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. >> As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): >> Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. >> >> Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston around 1850, married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, Mary and Francis deSales. They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH. Jeremiah is always listed in records as a grocer. He died in NH in 1872. Daniel died as an infant in Fall River and is buried there. Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH. Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s. Francis went on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and married to either James or John Casey. Johanna may have had a brother James Patrick or Patrick James. Johanna claimed on a census record to have been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her other siblings or! where they are from. Honora was buried in a plot owned by an O’Leary family and later moved. Not sure if the O’Learys are related or not. Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. >> >> James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John in Ireland in 1847. There is a record for a birth matching this one in the Allihies record—could be them? They ended up in Fall River MA and had about 6 children. Don’t know anything about them or what became of them. There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell (after 1860) which family is the right one. >> >> Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in the mills there. They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a body from one to the other in the 1880s. They also had a daughter Margaret who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence. Sad thing about them—James abandoned the family at some point. Ellen continued working in the mills and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two weeks before she passed away. There is no official record of her death in MA, probably because the mill hid it. >> >> Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where. He must have died young, she never remarried and had no children. But, in 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his will that his $700 debt to her be paid! She also ended up raising her sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death. She remained in Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97. She worked as a dressmaker and seamstress. >> >> But—there’s more! >> Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the connection is yet. >> >> Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 children. Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving the children. In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related?? The two families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney. I have no idea where Mary is from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish registers. >> By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River. I have no idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. >> >> And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses. Tim Sidley and Dan Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 according to a newspaper article. Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s naturalization papers. The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the same house or on the same street at different times. I have lots of info on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or related to the Sullivans. >> >> And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, O’Learys, and Caseys. >> >> Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a wall. Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to check them out to make sure. I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my results. I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other matches. >> >> So, thank you for reading through this! If you have any bells going off in your head, let me know. Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be found…. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Christine (Sullivan) Kelley >> Chelsea, MA >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >From the... > Music Studio of Susan Twomey > 89 - 12th Street > Arcata, CA 95521 > tel. 707-826-0920 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Riobard (O'Dwyer)

Do you have a Dennis Sullivan married to Catherine Flynn in Kerry? Dalton O'Sullivan San Francisco, CA -----Original Message----- >From: Susan Haines via >Sent: Jan 9, 2016 7:49 AM >To: Susan Twomey , beara@rootsweb.com >Cc: Christine Kelley >Subject: Re: [BEARA] Sullivans/Hanleys/Caseys/Sidleys > >I have Sullivan's (doesn't everyone); I don't know of any connection with Beara but mine are from Kerry (Caherdaniel, Cahirciveen,????). I have Rees, Sullivan's living in near/with my Shea's, Morans in Dowlais, Glamorgan and New Haven, CT. I have no Hanleys, Caseys nor Sidleys, so this is probably a wild goose chase? > >Sue > >> On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:22 PM, Susan Twomey via wrote: >> >> Christine, >> >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I know how you feel! I have Daniel and Mary Sullivan , from Dursey Island. They lived in Fall River,MA, and moved to Wisconsin. Children were Timothy, MaryAnne, Bridget, John, and Eugene. Have not checked on anything in awhile,I am sure there are more records available Now. Good Luck! Vicki Sullivan Sent from my iPad > On Jan 8, 2016, at 9:50 PM, Christine Kelley via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Hi Beara listers— > > I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then. I do have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the others. > And I’m still looking. I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it doesn’t exist. And every generation repeated the same names….. > > > My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I’ve come across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. > As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): > Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. > > Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston around 1850, married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, Mary and Francis deSales. They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH. Jeremiah is always listed in records as a grocer. He died in NH in 1872. Daniel died as an infant in Fall River and is buried there. Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH. Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s. Francis went on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and married to either James or John Casey. Johanna may have had a brother James Patrick or Patrick James. Johanna claimed on a census record to have been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her other siblings or ! where they are from. Honora was buried in a plot owned by an O’Leary family and later moved. Not sure if the O’Learys are related or not. Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. > > James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John in Ireland in 1847. There is a record for a birth matching this one in the Allihies record—could be them? They ended up in Fall River MA and had about 6 children. Don’t know anything about them or what became of them. There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell (after 1860) which family is the right one. > > Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in the mills there. They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a body from one to the other in the 1880s. They also had a daughter Margaret who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence. Sad thing about them—James abandoned the family at some point. Ellen continued working in the mills and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two weeks before she passed away. There is no official record of her death in MA, probably because the mill hid it. > > Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where. He must have died young, she never remarried and had no children. But, in 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his will that his $700 debt to her be paid! She also ended up raising her sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death. She remained in Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97. She worked as a dressmaker and seamstress. > > But—there’s more! > Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the connection is yet. > > Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 children. Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving the children. In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related?? The two families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney. I have no idea where Mary is from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish registers. > By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River. I have no idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. > > And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses. Tim Sidley and Dan Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 according to a newspaper article. Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s naturalization papers. The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the same house or on the same street at different times. I have lots of info on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or related to the Sullivans. > > And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, O’Learys, and Caseys. > > Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a wall. Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to check them out to make sure. I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my results. I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other matches. > > So, thank you for reading through this! If you have any bells going off in your head, let me know. Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be found…. > > Thanks, > > Christine (Sullivan) Kelley > Chelsea, MA > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Christine -- Here is some information I have found some of which you probably already have. I am sending Johanna Casey Sullivan's Death Certificate directly to you. 1860 USC Name: Jeremiah Sullivan Age: 28 Birth Year: abt 1832 Gender: Male Birth Place: Ireland Home in 1860: Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Post Office: Charlestown Family Number: 3823 Value of Real Estate: View image Household Members: Name Age Jeremiah Sullivan 28 Joanna F Sullivan 24 1870 USC Name: Jerry Sullivan Age in 1870: 40 Birth Year: abt 1830 Birthplace: Ireland Home in 1870: Manchester Ward 5, Hillsborough, New Hampshire Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Manchester Value of Real Estate: View image Household Members: Name Age Jerry Sullivan 40 Johannah Sullivan 35 Frank Sullivan 7 Mary Sullivan 4 Mary Sullivan 37 Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 Name: Johanna F Sullivan [Johanna F Casey] Gender: Female Birth Date: abt 1843 Birth Place: Ireland Death Date: 3 May 1904 Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Age at Death: 61 Father: James Casey Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980 Name: Francis D Sullivan Death Date: 1940 Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Volume Number: 7 Page Number: 548 Index Volume Number: 99 Reference Number: F63.M363 v.99 Name Frank Desale Sullivan Gender Male Birth Date 28 Apr 1863 Birthplace Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Father's Name Jeremiah Sullivan Mother's Name Joanna Citing this Record "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTS-DMG : accessed 9 January 2016), Frank Desale Sullivan, 28 Apr 1863; citing Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Vol 6; FHL microfilm 859,617. Name Frank De Sales Sullivan Gender Male Birth Date 28 Apr 1863 Birthplace CHARLESTOWN,SUFFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS Father's Name Jeremiah Sullivan Mother's Name Joanna Citing this Record "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCPX-BJF : accessed 9 January 2016), Frank De Sales Sullivan, 28 Apr 1863; citing CHARLESTOWN,SUFFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 859,617. Name Francis D. Sullivan Birth Date 1864 Age 38 Spouse's Name Lillian M. Carroll Spouse's Birth Date 1875 Spouse's Age 27 Event Date 05 Jan 1902 Event Place Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Father's Name Jeremiah F. Sullivan Mother's Name Johanna F. Casey Spouse's Father's Name Bernard Carroll Spouse's Mother's Name Hannah M. Hogan Citing this Record "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHFQ-373 : accessed 9 January 2016), Jeremiah F. Sullivan in entry for Francis D. Sullivan and Lillian M. Carroll, 05 Jan 1902; citing reference 45; FHL microfilm 824,990. Name Mary Sullivan Gender Female Birth Date 26 Apr 1866 Birthplace Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts Father's Name Jeremiah Mother's Name Joanna Casey Citing this Record "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZHC-CQS : accessed 9 January 2016), Mary Sullivan, 26 Apr 1866; citing Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 1,428,037. Mike On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Christine Kelley via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Beara listers— > > I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey > branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped > with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have > as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then. I do > have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the > others. > And I’m still looking. I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here > and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but > every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything > together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it > doesn’t exist. And every generation repeated the same names….. > > > My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora > Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I’ve come > across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. > As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston > area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): > Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. > > Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston > around 1850, married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, > Mary and Francis deSales. They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in > the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH. Jeremiah is always listed in > records as a grocer. He died in NH in 1872. Daniel died as an infant in > Fall River and is buried there. Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH. > Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s. Francis went > on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City > Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was > living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and > married to either James or John Casey. Johanna may have had a brother > James Patrick or Patrick James. Johanna claimed on a census record to have > been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her > other siblings or where they are from. Honora was buried in a plot owned > by an O’Leary family and later moved. Not sure if the O’Learys are related > or not. Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from > 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along > with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. > > James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John > in Ireland in 1847. There is a record for a birth matching this one in the > Allihies record—could be them? They ended up in Fall River MA and had > about 6 children. Don’t know anything about them or what became of them. > There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan > and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell > (after 1860) which family is the right one. > > Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in > the mills there. They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 > and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall > River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a > body from one to the other in the 1880s. They also had a daughter Margaret > who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence. Sad thing about them—James > abandoned the family at some point. Ellen continued working in the mills > and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an > overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two > weeks before she passed away. There is no official record of her death in > MA, probably because the mill hid it. > > Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where. He > must have died young, she never remarried and had no children. But, in > 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his > will that his $700 debt to her be paid! She also ended up raising her > sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death. She remained in > Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97. She worked as a > dressmaker and seamstress. > > But—there’s more! > Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that > may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the > connection is yet. > > Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 > children. Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving > the children. In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living > with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related?? The two > families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the > road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s > parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney. I have no idea where Mary is > from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish > registers. > By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were > written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from > New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River. I have no > idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. > > And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) > interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses. Tim Sidley and Dan > Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 > according to a newspaper article. Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s > naturalization papers. The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the > same house or on the same street at different times. I have lots of info > on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or > related to the Sullivans. > > And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish > registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, > O’Learys, and Caseys. > > Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a > wall. Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to > check them out to make sure. I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my > results. I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further > back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other > matches. > > So, thank you for reading through this! If you have any bells going off > in your head, let me know. Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be > found…. > > Thanks, > > Christine (Sullivan) Kelley > Chelsea, MA > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Dear Christine, By what I can see, you have done a tremendous amount of researching. The trouble is that, as far as you are concerned, the only record of the above in the Allihies Parish re the Reentrisk area of the Beara Peninsula in which Daniel O'Sullivan & Hanora Hanley resided, and that the only child they had there was a Daniel in November 1831. Other children could have been born to those parents before 1831, but the Allihies records only go back only so far. There is no record of Daniel & Hanora residing in any other part of the Beara Peninsula, so the family must have emigrated to the States some years before the Famine in Ireland. They weren't the only ones who had emigrated from the Reentrisk area (and from many other Parishes) before the Famine of 1845 etc., so it could be open to surmise that there wasn't another Famine in Ireland before the 1845, etc. one. Interesting. The potatoes failed in 1845 etc., but who is to say that there may not have been another Famine before that, for some other reason ? Another thing is that people here spoke Irish/Gaelic only in those times, and often when people like "Customs" asked them for their names, the "Customs" man or woman wrote down what they thought they heard, instead of what was actually told to them. Also, people in those times married people from around their own places at home when they got to the States. I hope that this may be of some help to you. Riobard. -- Riobard (O'Dwyer)

I have Sullivan's (doesn't everyone); I don't know of any connection with Beara but mine are from Kerry (Caherdaniel, Cahirciveen,????). I have Rees, Sullivan's living in near/with my Shea's, Morans in Dowlais, Glamorgan and New Haven, CT. I have no Hanleys, Caseys nor Sidleys, so this is probably a wild goose chase? Sue > On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:22 PM, Susan Twomey via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Christine, > > Murphys and Sullivans "ring a bell", but there are so many it's hard to find the connections...and Charlestown, MA... > > I do know that my great great grandmother Mary Murphy from Urhan (Beara) married Batt aka Bartholomew Holland (aka Houlihan) and they settled in Cummeendeach near Ardgroom. They are in Riobard's book "Who were my ancestors". > > > > Also there is a possible connection with Cain Holland who married Norry Murphy...but haven't been able to prove this yet... > > > Then there are LOTS of Sullivans...I will work on this over the weekend and see what I can find...I just printed out a 4 page list of names from my family tree on Ancestry.com. - some from Eyeries Parish, and county Kerry ... after Ireland - lots from Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan, and Ashfield, Huron, Ontario, Canada. Also a few moved from Eyeries Parish to Butte, Montana and Nevada and Arizona ("following the mines"). I will look more closely this weekend. > > I do know that my father's great-great-grandparents were Julia O'Sullivan and Quinlan aka Robert Hampston Riobard Robert "Robin" Hampston both born c. 1830 who lived in Eyeries Parish. > > More later. > > Susan > >> On Jan 8, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Christine Kelley via wrote: >> >> Hi Beara listers— >> >> I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then. I do have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the others. >> And I’m still looking. I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it doesn’t exist. And every generation repeated the same names….. >> >> >> My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I’ve come across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. >> As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): >> Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. >> >> Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston around 1850, married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, Mary and Francis deSales. They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH. Jeremiah is always listed in records as a grocer. He died in NH in 1872. Daniel died as an infant in Fall River and is buried there. Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH. Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s. Francis went on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and married to either James or John Casey. Johanna may have had a brother James Patrick or Patrick James. Johanna claimed on a census record to have been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her other siblings or! where they are from. Honora was buried in a plot owned by an O’Leary family and later moved. Not sure if the O’Learys are related or not. Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. >> >> James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John in Ireland in 1847. There is a record for a birth matching this one in the Allihies record—could be them? They ended up in Fall River MA and had about 6 children. Don’t know anything about them or what became of them. There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell (after 1860) which family is the right one. >> >> Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in the mills there. They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a body from one to the other in the 1880s. They also had a daughter Margaret who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence. Sad thing about them—James abandoned the family at some point. Ellen continued working in the mills and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two weeks before she passed away. There is no official record of her death in MA, probably because the mill hid it. >> >> Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where. He must have died young, she never remarried and had no children. But, in 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his will that his $700 debt to her be paid! She also ended up raising her sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death. She remained in Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97. She worked as a dressmaker and seamstress. >> >> But—there’s more! >> Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the connection is yet. >> >> Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 children. Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving the children. In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related?? The two families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney. I have no idea where Mary is from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish registers. >> By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River. I have no idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. >> >> And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses. Tim Sidley and Dan Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 according to a newspaper article. Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s naturalization papers. The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the same house or on the same street at different times. I have lots of info on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or related to the Sullivans. >> >> And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, O’Learys, and Caseys. >> >> Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a wall. Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to check them out to make sure. I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my results. I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other matches. >> >> So, thank you for reading through this! If you have any bells going off in your head, let me know. Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be found…. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Christine (Sullivan) Kelley >> Chelsea, MA >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> From the... > Music Studio of Susan Twomey > 89 - 12th Street > Arcata, CA 95521 > tel. 707-826-0920 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Christine, The first thing I thought of was to take a look at www.findagrave.com and see what you can find for the RC cemeteries in Fall River (especially St. Patrick's that Julie McGrath mentioned. You can easily play around with finding all the Sullivans, Hanleys, Caseys, and Sidleys that might be listed. Also, check out any Town/City Directories. You might find them there. Kathleen Tracy 2nd G-grandparents, Michael Lynch & Mary O'Shea from Glengarriff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Part of Original Posting: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 21:50:37 -0500 From: Christine Kelley <mweelin@comcast.net> Subject: [BEARA] Sullivans/Hanleys/Caseys/Sidleys Hi Beara listers I?m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped with Riobard?s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn?t have as much information then to find them as I?ve uncovered since then. I do have the ?Who are my ancestors?? book for Castletownbeare, but not the others. And I?m still looking. I thought I?d put the newest info I have out here and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but every time I think I?ve found the record I need to pull everything together, it doesn?t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it doesn?t exist. And every generation repeated the same names?.. My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I?ve come across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary.

Hi Christine, I don't have any matches in my tree but I had other Sullivans from Allihies that were buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Fall River (established in 1876). It may be worth trying there for Robert Emmett, Ph (508)679-2535 they were helpful to me when I visited. Good Luck, Julie Mc On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Christine Kelley via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Beara listers— > > I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey > branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped > with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have > as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then. I do > have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the > others. > And I’m still looking. I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here > and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but > every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything > together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it > doesn’t exist. And every generation repeated the same names….. > > > My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora > Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I’ve come > across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. > As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston > area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): > Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. > > Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston > around 1850, married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, > Mary and Francis deSales. They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in > the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH. Jeremiah is always listed in > records as a grocer. He died in NH in 1872. Daniel died as an infant in > Fall River and is buried there. Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH. > Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s. Francis went > on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City > Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was > living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and > married to either James or John Casey. Johanna may have had a brother > James Patrick or Patrick James. Johanna claimed on a census record to have > been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her > other siblings or where they are from. Honora was buried in a plot owned > by an O’Leary family and later moved. Not sure if the O’Learys are related > or not. Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from > 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along > with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. > > James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John > in Ireland in 1847. There is a record for a birth matching this one in the > Allihies record—could be them? They ended up in Fall River MA and had > about 6 children. Don’t know anything about them or what became of them. > There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan > and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell > (after 1860) which family is the right one. > > Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in > the mills there. They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 > and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall > River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a > body from one to the other in the 1880s. They also had a daughter Margaret > who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence. Sad thing about them—James > abandoned the family at some point. Ellen continued working in the mills > and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an > overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two > weeks before she passed away. There is no official record of her death in > MA, probably because the mill hid it. > > Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where. He > must have died young, she never remarried and had no children. But, in > 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his > will that his $700 debt to her be paid! She also ended up raising her > sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death. She remained in > Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97. She worked as a > dressmaker and seamstress. > > But—there’s more! > Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that > may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the > connection is yet. > > Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 > children. Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving > the children. In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living > with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related?? The two > families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the > road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s > parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney. I have no idea where Mary is > from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish > registers. > By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were > written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from > New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River. I have no > idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. > > And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) > interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses. Tim Sidley and Dan > Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 > according to a newspaper article. Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s > naturalization papers. The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the > same house or on the same street at different times. I have lots of info > on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or > related to the Sullivans. > > And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish > registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, > O’Learys, and Caseys. > > Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a > wall. Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to > check them out to make sure. I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my > results. I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further > back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other > matches. > > So, thank you for reading through this! If you have any bells going off > in your head, let me know. Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be > found…. > > Thanks, > > Christine (Sullivan) Kelley > Chelsea, MA > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Beara listers— I’m looking (still) for information about my Sullivan-Hanley-Casey branches. I was on the Beara list-serve about 15 years ago and was helped with Riobard’s amazing work and an concert in his kitchen, but didn’t have as much information then to find them as I’ve uncovered since then. I do have the “Who are my ancestors?” book for Castletownbeare, but not the others. And I’m still looking. I thought I’d put the newest info I have out here and see if anyone has any ideas. I have lots of potential connections, but every time I think I’ve found the record I need to pull everything together, it doesn’t exist or there is a weird story to accompany why it doesn’t exist. And every generation repeated the same names….. My great great great grandfather is Daniel Sullivan married to Honora Hanley some time before or around the 1830s. The only record I’ve come across for a couple with the same names is from Reentrisk in Allihies. As far as I know, they had at least four children who went to the Boston area (Charlestown, Fall River, Lawrence): Jeremiah (my line) , James, Ellen and Mary. Jeremiah— born in Ireland around early 1830s, supposedly came to Boston around 1850, married Johanna Casey around 1860, had three children—Daniel, Mary and Francis deSales. They lived in Charlestown MA, Fall River MA in the Corky Row area, and Manchester NH. Jeremiah is always listed in records as a grocer. He died in NH in 1872. Daniel died as an infant in Fall River and is buried there. Mary died at age 11 and is buried in NH. Johanna and Francis returned to Charlestown in the mid 1880s. Francis went on to play semipro baseball in the Boston area then went on to work in City Hall. Weird thing I found in the 1880 census is that Johanna’s mother was living with them—Honora Sullivan Casey, born in Ireland around 1800 and married to either James or John Casey. Johanna may have had a brother James Patrick or Patrick James. Johanna claimed on a census record to have been born in 1841 and to have arrived in the US in 1846. Not sure about her other siblings or where they! are from. Honora was buried in a plot owned by an O’Leary family and later moved. Not sure if the O’Learys are related or not. Francis was my great-grandfather, and he kept a daily diary from 1913 to 1940, so I was able to get some family connections from that, along with vivid descriptions of every Red Sox game he attended. James—James was married to Catherine Murphy and had their first child John in Ireland in 1847. There is a record for a birth matching this one in the Allihies record—could be them? They ended up in Fall River MA and had about 6 children. Don’t know anything about them or what became of them. There are multiple couples in Fall River at the time named James Sullivan and Catherine Murphy with kids all having similar names, so I can’t tell (after 1860) which family is the right one. Ellen—Ellen married a James O’Neil in Lawrence MA and they both worked in the mills there. They had a son Robert Emmett who died at age 4 in 1886 and was buried in Fall River, but I can’t find where. Lawrence and Fall River are about three hours apart today by car, so I can’t imagine taking a body from one to the other in the 1880s. They also had a daughter Margaret who went on to be a teacher in Lawrence. Sad thing about them—James abandoned the family at some point. Ellen continued working in the mills and died in a horrible accident in 1890 where her hair got caught in an overhead twisting machine—it pulled her scalp off and she suffered for two weeks before she passed away. There is no official record of her death in MA, probably because the mill hid it. Mary—Mary married a John Sullivan, but I’m not sure when or where. He must have died young, she never remarried and had no children. But, in 1870 she was living with Jeremiah in NH, and he left instructions in his will that his $700 debt to her be paid! She also ended up raising her sister Ellen’s daughter Margaret after Ellen’s death. She remained in Lawrence until she died in 1927 at the age of 97. She worked as a dressmaker and seamstress. But—there’s more! Also living in Charlestown at the time was another Sullivan family that may be connected to the above family, but I can’t figure out what the connection is yet. Daniel Sullivan and Mary Walsh married in Charlestown in 1841 and had 6 children. Both parents died within months of each other in 1862, leaving the children. In the 1865 Massachusetts census, the 6 children are living with my Jeremiah and his family—they must have been related?? The two families continue to sponsor each other’s weddings and baptisms down the road. Daniel’s parents were Eugene Sullivan and Ellen Downey, and Mary’s parents were Richard Walsh and Ellen Sweeney. I have no idea where Mary is from or if she had other family here—there are other Walshes in the parish registers. By the turn of the century, some of Daniel and Mary’s granddaughters were written up in the Boston Globe for having entertained their “cousins from New Bedford, Easton and Taunton”, all towns around Fall River. I have no idea who they would be, but it keeps a link to some family in Fall River. And, there is also a group of Sidleys (Daniel, Patrick and Tim) interacting with both groups of Sullivans as witnesses. Tim Sidley and Dan Sullivan both contributed a $1 to the Bunker Hill Repealers in 1845 according to a newspaper article. Tim Sidley also sponsored Jeremiah’s naturalization papers. The Sidleys and Sullivans also often lived in the same house or on the same street at different times. I have lots of info on the Sidleys but can’t figure out if they were just good neighbors or related to the Sullivans. And there are some other names as sponsors in the Charlestown parish registers that could be relations—Hanleys, Murphys, other Sullivans, O’Learys, and Caseys. Lots of info here, but after about 20 years of working on this, I’ve hit a wall. Some of the connections may just be coincidences, but I want to check them out to make sure. I did do the AncestryDNA test and just got my results. I’m still going through the matches (4th cousins and further back), and I am finding lots of Beara place names in common with other matches. So, thank you for reading through this! If you have any bells going off in your head, let me know. Sometimes I think my Sullivans don’t want to be found…. Thanks, Christine (Sullivan) Kelley Chelsea, MA