Do you have this: New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 PASSENGER LISTSView Image NAME: Georgine Sheehan BIRTH: year ARRIVAL: date - New York, New York Sent from my iPad > On Mar 21, 2015, at 9:09 PM, Reg Volk <regvolk@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Navy > > I presume you have all this: > > https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bfather_givenname%3ADennis~%20%2Bfather_surname%3ASheehan~%20%2Bmother_givenname%3AEllen~%20%2Bmother_surname%3ASpring~ > > Some different dates than yours and they seem to be from Kilcatherine? > > Fo you have Patrick in any census records? > > Reg > > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:00 PM, Nancy Avis via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >> My great grandmother (Georgina Sheehan) had a brother Patrick Sheehan (1881-1912) who ended up in Fall River although he died in a US military accident in the Philippines and buried Fall River but not sure when he arrived in the US. They had another sister Eliazabeth Sheehan who at one point lived in Fall River but ended up in Providence RI. They were from castletownbere >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Quin Shea via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Ed, this is fascinating and important information. Well done. Keep posting your results, please. Quin Shea >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> For those of you with Beara roots whose ancestors came to live in Fall >>> >>> River, Massachusetts, I say you have plenty of company. I spent a day at the >>> >>> Massachusetts archives in Boston last week and discovered a trove of Beara >>> >>> men. >>> The archive has microfilmed the naturalization applications for the >>> latter >>> part of the 1800’s. The applications were only from men. The >>> applicants >>> listed their birthday, current address, day and place they came to >>> the US, >>> their age and the age they were when they immigrated. I spent a day >>> going >>> through the first films available from the 2nd District Court of Fall >>> >>> River. I covered only the years 1886 to 1890. The results were astounding >>> to >>> me. >>> Although I did not keep track of the total number of applications I >>> looked >>> at during these four years I found 30 individuals who claimed the Beara >>> as >>> home. They noted their homes as Bearahaven, Bar Haven, Bear Haven, >>> >>> Castletownbere, Airies Cork, and many other variations, but from the Beara in >>> any >>> case. I did keep track of the number of some surnames in total and found >>> >>> for instance that 88% of the Sullivan applicants for those 4 years (17 >>> total) >>> were from the Beara. 80% (5 total) of all the Harringtons were from the >>> >>> Beara. All of the Leary’s (4) and all of the Shays/Sheas (4). There was >>> >>> also a Sheehan, Toomey and a Foley from the Beara. >>> If you consider the >>> percentages of surnames etc in the naturalization >>> records represent a good >>> sampling of the families in the city at this time, you >>> have many Beara familes >>> there. There were 574 Sullivans listed My great grandmother (Georgina Sheehan) had a brother Patrick Sheehan (1881-1912) who ended up in Fall River although he died in a US military accident in the Philippines and buried Fall River but not sure when he arrived in the US. They had another sister Eliazabeth Sheehan who at one point lived in Fall River but ended up in Providence RI. They were from castletownbere >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Quin Shea via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Ed, this is fascinating and important information. Well done. Keep posting your results, please. Quin Shea >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> For those of you with Beara roots whose ancestors came to live in Fall >>> >>> River, Massachusetts, I say you have plenty of company. I spent a day at the >>> >>> Massachusetts archives in Boston last week and discovered a trove of Beara >>> >>> men. >>> The archive has microfilmed the naturalization applications for the >>> latter >>> part of the 1800’s. The applications were only from men. The >>> applicants >>> listed their birthday, current address, day and place they came to >>> the US, >>> their age and the age they were when they immigrated. I spent a day >>> going >>> through the first films available from the 2nd District Court of Fall >>> >>> River. I covered only the years 1886 to 1890. The results were astounding >>> to >>> me. >>> Although I did not keep track of the total number of applications I >>> looked >>> at during these four years I found 30 individuals who claimed the Beara >>> as >>> home. They noted their homes as Bearahaven, Bar Haven, Bear Haven, >>> >>> Castletownbere, Airies Cork, and many other variations, but from the Beara in >>> any >>> case. I did keep track of the number of some surnames in total and found >>> >>> for instance that 88% of the Sullivan applicants for those 4 years (17 >>> total) >>> were from the Beara. 80% (5 total) of all the Harringtons were from the >>> >>> Beara. All of the Leary’s (4) and all of the Shays/Sheas (4). There was >>> >>> also a Sheehan, Toomey and a Foley from the Beara. >>> If you consider the >>> percentages of surnames etc in the naturalization >>> records represent a good >>> sampling of the families in the city at this time, you >>> have many Beara familes >>> there. There were 574 Sullivans listed in the >>> 1890 Fall River City Directory. >>> We can estimate 505 of them were from the >>> Beara. Harringtons, Sheas, Learys, >>> Murphys, Toomey and more area living side >>> by side in these old records, >>> working in this center of the industrial >>> revolution in textile manufacturing. >>> >>> I have been working with the census and immigration manifests to assemble >>> >>> these family groups. Next step will be to match them to their homes using >>> >>> Riobard’s work. >>> Although tedious, with the records now available you can >>> project that >>> someday we will be able to make many connections from this >>> popular center of >>> 1800’s employment in Massachusetts back to the Beara in >>> Ireland. >>> Regards >>> ED FOLEY >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: EFoley1 <EFoley1@aol.com> >>> To: beara <beara@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 10:34 am >>> Subject: [BEARA] Beara familes in Fall River >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> For those of you with Beara roots whose ancestors came to live in Fall >>> >>> River, Massachusetts, I say you have plenty of company. I spent a day at the >>> >>> Massachusetts archives in Boston last week and discovered a trove of Beara >>> >>> men. >>> The archive has microfilmed the naturalization applications for the >>> latter >>> part of the 1800’s. The applications were only from men. The >>> applicants >>> listed their birthday, current address, day and place they came to >>> the US, >>> their age and the age they were when they immigrated. I spent a day >>> going >>> through the first films available from the 2nd District Court of Fall >>> >>> River. I covered only the years 1886 to 1890. The results were astounding >>> to >>> me. >>> Although I did not keep track of the total number of applications I >>> looked >>> at during these four years I found 30 individuals who claimed the Beara >>> as >>> home. They noted their homes as Bearahaven, Bar Haven, Bear Haven, >>> >>> Castletownbere, Airies Cork, and many other variations, but from the Beara in >>> any >>> case. I did keep track of the number of some surnames in total and found >>> >>> for instance that 88% of the Sullivan applicants for those 4 years (17 >>> total) >>> were from the Beara. 80% (5 total) of all the Harringtons were from the >>> >>> Beara. All of the Leary’s (4) and all of the Shays/Sheas (4). There was >>> >>> also a Sheehan, Toomey and a Foley from the Beara. >>> If you consider the >>> percentages of surnames etc in the naturalization >>> records represent a good >>> sampling of the families in the city at this time, you >>> have many Beara familes >>> there. There were 574 Sullivans listed in the >>> 1890 Fall River City Directory. >>> We can estimate 505 of them were from the >>> Beara. Harringtons, Sheas, Learys, >>> Murphys, Toomey and more area living side >>> by side in these old records, >>> working in this center of the industrial >>> revolution in textile manufacturing. >>> >>> I have been working with the census and immigration manifests to assemble >>> >>> these family groups. Next step will be to match them to their homes using >>> >>> Riobard’s work. >>> Although tedious, with the records now available you can >>> project that >>> someday we will be able to make many connections from this >>> popular center of >>> 1800’s employment in Massachusetts back to the Beara in >>> Ireland. >>> Regards >>> ED FOLEY >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 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