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

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