From Cyndi'sList - http://hometown.aol.com/mtmc525/myhomepage/index.html A listing of the names and dates of death of over 2300 Catholic priests who have served in the parishes of the Archdiocese of New York.

The name Nelligan is a Co Sligo name, if you live anywhere in the New York area theres an irish musician by the name Joe Nelligan >From: barbara bosy <dollar2penny@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com >To: IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Irish-American] My Great Grandmother >Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:48:07 -0700 (PDT) > >Does anybody know of people surnames in Ireland Name Gonelligan I can't to >seem to find them anywhere even though i know they came from Ireland.That >would help out a lot. Thank you . > > >==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== >The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service >http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ >Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

Annie Moore, a 15 yr old County Cork young lady, was the first person to enter Ellis Island as an emigrant when it opened in 1892. There are memorials to her both at Ellis Island and at Cobh, County Cork. Recently there was a discussion about her on the Ireland mailing list and Janet Sandberg (many thanks) sent me some pictures from her recent trip to Ireland. I have created a webpage for the pictures with a bit of Ellis Island history and links as part of the NY-Irish Mailing List website. You can check out the new page by going to the URL below my name and on my homepage, at the top under Mailing Lists, click on NY-Irish. On the NY-Irish webpage, near the bottom under 'Contributions from Subbers', you will find the link. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

Dear Barbara, I think Pat Procida and Mamme53196 may be on the right track. I've checked my surname books and the closest construction is Ó Niallagáin ('O'Nelligan'). In Irish Gaelic genealogy, you have later surnames like Mac Ó Briain ('Macobrien' = 'Son of Descendants of Brian') which reverted back to their ancestral form (Ó Briain => O'Brien) during the 17th-19th century, i.e., under pressure from the shift to English. It looks to me that Gonelligan may possibly be one such later Gaelic surname which came over here to America, became isolated, and was not revised under influence from later waves of Irish immigration. This typically happened in the American south as Irish immigration shifted north after the opening of the Erie Canal and the Civil War. So you have surnames in the south like 'Dawley' and 'Clarey' which retain the original Irish Gaelic pronunciation of Ó Dálaigh and Ó Cléirigh unlike Daley and Cleary. So it looks to me like this could have been Mac/Mag Ó Niallagái! n ('Son of Descendants of Niallagán') which shifted to Gonelligan in the same way that Mag Fhinn shifted to Ginn. If so, then Co. Kerry is the place as Mamme53196 has pointed out. It's a theory, anyway. Out of interest, did this name come through the American South at an early period? Best, - Jerry

In a message dated 9/21/2004 2:00:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, IRISH-AMERICAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: Any idea who owns the cemetery records? Sounds like too simple of an answer but perhaps you could get in touch with them to help you find exact location. Too bad about your trip to Pittsburgh but October 3 will be wonderful weather normally and the leaves should be turning by then... Great Scenery, bring a camera. Meanwhile, I contacted the cemetary and they gave me a map of the cemetary and a listing of every one of my family burried t here. But there are no stones where there should be. They wanted $75 to find them 4 years ago. Not an amount I can readily come up with for 4 people. I did find the plot for the otherside of the maternal line and there are 6 in there. But I don't think they'd have headstones since that was the poor side of the family (and we still are...LOL) Beth Beth Cherkowsky eBay id = woadieland My eBay Store My website

THIS IS ONLY A GUESS BUT I THINK THE NAME COULD BE NELLIGAN NELLIGAN CAN BE FOUND IN KERRY THE OLD IRISH HAD A THICK BROGUE AND A LOT OF NAMES WERE SPELT WRONG WHEN ENTERING THIS COUNTRY ONE PERSON AFTER ANOTHER

I am trying to find more info on the family of Stephen O'Donnell, who was born Dec.1834 somewhere in Ireland. He married Mary Collins, born either in England or Ireland about 1831. They had at least the following children: Stephen, Mary, Thomas, and Honorah. I know nothing more about Thomas and Honorah, except they were born in Canada. The younger Stephen, also born in Canada, married Caroline Neuhofer (1875-1959). The younger Mary, born in England, married Edward V. Barker of England, probably in that country. The family (minus the Barkers) were living in Toronto in 1881. By 1900 they were in Cleveland, Ohio. I have seen the 1881 Canadian census and those for Ohio for 1900 and 1910. The Barkers eventually came to Cleveland as well. Any additional info most welcome

Is it possible that that G or GO were added in US or along the way. I did a google search for Gonelligan and came up with Zero. Then I tried O'Nelligan and came up with several. Likewise with Nelligan. Perhaps someone has a better answer than I do, but it is a thought. Pat --- barbara bosy <dollar2penny@yahoo.com> wrote: > Does anybody know of people surnames in Ireland > Name Gonelligan I can't to seem to find them > anywhere even though i know they came from > Ireland.That would help out a lot. Thank you . > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup > Service > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, > etc. > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Does anybody know of people surnames in Ireland Name Gonelligan I can't to seem to find them anywhere even though i know they came from Ireland.That would help out a lot. Thank you .

The Great Fire (of Chicago) overshadowed another huge blaze at the same time. On October 8, 1871, the most devastating forest fire in American history swept through northeast Wisconsin. Apparently, railroad workers clearing land for tracks started a brush fire that soon became an inferno. Peshtigo, Wisconsin, a lumber town not far from Green Bay, was devastated along with sixteen other towns and 1.25 million acres of surrounding forest. Nearly 1,200 people died. There are several books, etc. available about the Peshtigo Fire. One is "The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account" by Reverend Peter Pernin. You can view this at http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext Another is "Fire at Peshtigo" by Robert W. Wells written in 1968. A third is "Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History" by Denise Gess and William Lutz. This was just published in 2003. My 2nd great granduncle Thomas Hawley was the Captain of the Steamboat Union and rescued around 300 people from the Peshtigo area during the fire. When he arrived in Green Bay, he reported what was happening at Peshtigo, which was the first that people knew about the fire at Peshtigo and diverted their attention from the Chicago fire that was taking place at the same time. I have several other relatives who escaped the fire when it hit Birch Creek, MI. If anyone is interested in this area, the above books are very good and cover much detail. Sandra Hawley

SNIPPET: For your information - The 128-page "LIFE" special issue, "The American Immigrant," (September 2004) contains, on its very first page, a photo of lovely Irish immigrant Annie MOORE, shown in 1910 with her infant daughter Mary Catherine. Annie, as a girl of 15 in 1892, was the first person to pass through Ellis Island processing station. This issue, which I found at my local supermarket, contains marvelous drawings, paintings, photos and history of immigration from earliest times on. There are photos of Castle Garden and Ellis Island, ships, passengers in steerage, tenements, street life, child labor, the Irish Brigade, frontier towns, mining, notable people and their contributions, right up to the present day. You can also check ou the LIFE/Time, Inc. website for more information about their special issues. In the forward Frank McCOURT (author and former NYC school teacher for 30 years) tells us about what immigration means to him, and his love-affair with the American films he watched in Ireland as a youngster. "We knew who discovered America: St. Brendan, the Navigator: It's not something the Italians like to hear - not to mention the Vikings - but Irish history is Irish history and different from all other histories. We knew who built America: the Irish. It was all up there on the screen at the Lyric Cinema in Limerick, Ireland. It's not something other ethnic groups like to hear about but there was no getting around the names that built railroads and canals and ran the great political machines in the big cities. Irish. There was little to be proud of at home - eight hundred years of subjugation and lamentation - but, boy, did we make up for it when we arrived in America! If I know anything about American history I learned it by going through that Irish door. I had read textbooks on American history and taken courses but they were dull, dull, dull. Not a bit like Irish history, where something was always happening, always a fight or a promise of a fight and would you l! ike to step outside? When I taught at various high schools around New York I heard the students complain about their American history classes and I didn't understand. The movies at the Lyric Cinema opened up to us an American past that was glorious, colorful and sweeping, and with music playing no matter what happened. One of my earliest memories is of a movie with Deborah Kerr in which she plays the wife of William Penn, how he came to America with a vision of peace and love. There were the westerns, classic in form and subject: the lone gunman; noble Indian chiefs, forts attacked, scalps taken; gun-fighter showdowns on Main Street; whiskey knocked back by the bottleful; chaste blond heroines and dark-haired temptresses; the heroes in white, the bad guy in black. Then there were the gangster movies with our Cuchulain, James Cagney, up to all kinds of devilment, and Father Pat O'Brien praying over him. And how about Hopalong Cassidy? .... It was the Irish who nobly ! went toe to toe with everyone, killed the Indians, fought on both sides of the Civil War, joined the cops, fought the Mafia, earned the most medals of honor of any ethnic group -- or so we were told. American history sneaks up on you. It can come in shapes of huddled masses, barrows in streets, cries of hawkers, whores in Victorian doorways, lines of doomed infantryment moving toward one another at Gettysburg, Roosevelt soothing our Great Depression fears or telling the Daughters of the American Revolution we are all immigrants. The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a great multilayered museum of American immigration. Walk the streets. Look at the old tenements with fire escapes where families slept during sizzling summers. Sigh over bricked-up synagogues. Imagine the people moving through these streets between the Civil War and WWII: the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians. Closer to our time came the Chinese and Puerto Ricans. The walls tell stories. The streets sing of romances on stoops, stickball, men going to war, returning as heroes, maimed, nor not at all. ... Take the ferry to Ellis Island and prepare to weep. This is the Golden Door, and yet a tragic place! . You'll see the Great Hall a mound of bags, trunks, boxes. In other rooms are glass cases filled with the artifacts of exile: books, clothes, rosary beads, babies' shoes, diaries ... These are your people - it does not matter where they come from.... How did they survive it, the ones who were turned away? To have traveled across Europe and Atlantic, betrayed at the Door by eyes or lungs or an uncomprehending mind? To be escorted along Manhattan piers and put aboard another ship while their families wailed on the docks? Is there a single story or novel or play about the terrible tragedy of the rejects? .... But the East Coast is only part of it. We know the Chinese struggle, how they worked on the Central Pacific RR, how they brought supplies to the wild men in the '49 Gold Rush, how they did the laundry and cooked and prospered in SF till a mad Irishman, Denis Kearney ranted and waved signs that said, Chinese Must Go. They were excluded for a time but they hung o! n, and you can't imagine SF or NY .... without them. Every ethnic group has a story. They get into this country one way or another. They dig in, work like ants, beavers .... They wear themselves out but they insist on education for their children .... In the old westerns I watched at the Lyric Cinema, I squirmed with pleasure when the wagon master called 'Move out,' and whips cracked and men urged on horse and oxen and women and children gazed out of the wagons and music soared from a heavenly orchestra and you knew that out there lay .... locusts, outlaws, drought, Apaches, impassable mountains, no never impassable, not if they had to lift the damn wagons over the peaks and if they kept on, they'd come to lush land where they could claim hundreds of acres ... all that land and sky and greatness of heart and vision, those tremendous people in their Conestoga wagons, good-humored, unblinking, ready for anything. Native or foreign-born, they rode from horizon to horizon and that, for me, is the American story."

I have updated the IGP County Limerick website by adding or updating the following townland webpages: Anglesborough, Annagh, Ardrahin, Ballyfauskeen, Ballygeana, Ballylooby, Ballynamona, Ballynamuddagh, Ballynatona, Baunteen, Baurnagurraghy, Bohercarron, Boolanlisheen, Castlecreagh, Corbally, Curraghkilbran, Curraghroche, Deerpark, Duntryleague, Galbally Town, Newtown (10), Barna, Athea Town, Knockainy, Toornafulla, Garrynalyna, Inchacoomb, Keeloges, Kilgreana, Killinane, Kilscanlan, Knockanebrack, Knockaunnacurraha, Lack West, Lackelly East, Lissanarroor, Lissard, Lyre, Park, Snugborough, Athea Lower, Athea Upper, Clash North, Clash South, Anhid East, Anhid West, Ballymacrory, Dohara, Tullovin I also started a new section (found on the Townland webpage) for Civil Parishes where eventually I will have a webpage for each CP. This month I created pages for both Anhid and Galbally civil parishes with links to all their townlands and the Samuel Lewis description of the CP from 1837 plus other info and links. Other new additions includes wonderful maps of Galbally CP contributed by Pete Schermerhorn and John O'Brien plus the tithe applotments for Kilteely CP. You can find the website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllim/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

In a message dated 9/21/2004 7:08:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, CougarToys@aol.com writes: > GAAnnie is gone now and I have no clue where she thought > they were buried but I do have the cemetary map so I'd like to "Probe" where > > they are supposed to be and see if there are any grave stones. Too bad I > didn't go with her when I was old enough to remember where she thought they > were. > Any idea who owns the cemetery records? Sounds like too simple of an answer but perhaps you could get in touch with them to help you find exact location. Thanks for more tips on what to bring to the cemetery. Sadly my trip was canceled this weekend due to a terrible storm Pittsburgh received Friday night. Major flooding and many streets closed. So we decided not to make the trip. It's rescheduled for Oct 3rd though ; - ) Leigh in Ohio

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Some more suggestions for "equipment" while hunting graves: 1 metal probe (sort of like a tire iron that you can stick into the ground in the "plot" where they are supposed to be...to find buried markers. 2. Armor-all for cleaning the metal markers given out by the government to veterans. 3. A hat - it doesn't always rain...sometimes the sun shines brightly on our work and makes it darn near unbearable. A hat also makes it easier to see in the sun - at least for me. 3. A flag. Which you can stick into the hole made by your probe when you're successful. So it will make it easier to locate the same grave the next time. Ok, I have a question - suppose you find a "buried" head stone? Do most cemeteries have rules about excavating those? Do they do it? Will they let you do it? What has been everyone's experience? I ask that because my Great Aunt Annie insisted for years that the grave the cemetary said were her father's and her mother's were wrong. There's no marker (on either plot). GAAnnie is gone now and I have no clue where she thought they were buried but I do have the cemetary map so I'd like to "Probe" where they are supposed to be and see if there are any grave stones. Too bad I didn't go with her when I was old enough to remember where she thought they were. But she died when I was 23 and I had not gotten too interested in genealogy yet. Shame on me. Beth

In a message dated 9/20/2004 1:28:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, Lejax99@aol.com writes: > would some kind person please send me the image. As soon as I receive it I > will post that I have it so that this kind act does not need to be repeated. > thanks so much for your time > I no longer need this image....thanks so much!

In a message dated 9/20/2004 3:34:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, Dustbunnytoo@aol.com writes: > I'm not sure if everyone knows that most peple in Ohio can acess > HeritageQuest in home, on line, for free by going thru > _http://www.oplin.org/access.php?Id=67-22537&msg Oh my goodness...Oh my goodness.. I am so excited..yes this worked for me..BIG SMILES I called my library a month ago asking them if I could get access to either Ancesty or HeritageQuest from home and they told me NO. wowza! this is great...thanks so much for letting me know

I'm not sure if everyone knows that most peple in Ohio can acess HeritageQuest in home, on line, for free by going thru _http://www.oplin.org/access.php?Id=67-22537&msg_ (http://www.oplin.org/access.php?Id=67-22537&msg) = Look thru the library selection drop down screen. Chances are very good there is a library listed there that is near you from which you can obtain a library card. Just call up the above screen and select your library, enter your card number, and HeritageQuest is all yours. Your local libary is paying for it.

Hi listers... you all have been so helpful to me in trying to break down my first brick wall..I feel I am really close now! I spent a few hours at my library today looking over ancestry images. But my library does not have access to heritage quest so I was unable to capture the following 1910 image.. would some kind person please send me the image. As soon as I receive it I will post that I have it so that this kind act does not need to be repeated. thanks so much for your time Joseph Hartman age 63 birth 1846 Oakdale boro, allegheny, Pa T624 roll 1296 part 2 page 153B

SNIPPET: John MORRISSEY, born Templemore, Tipperary, in February 1831, was raised by an immigrant Irish family in Troy, NY. He became a one-man symbol for the way in which the Irish used the available social structure to at first shock and then replace the old-stock ruling elites in America. As a young man in the Hudson River city of Troy, he was a barroom brawler whose fists were fast enough to earn him fame as a heavyweight champion. From the saloon and the ring, MORRISSEY grabbed the next available rung and used his fame as a fighter to win election as a congressman from NY, and from that position he became an owner of racehorses and a gambling saloon in Saratoga. His background, with its aroma of sweat, liquor, and cigar smoke, confirmed every artistocrat's image of the emerging Irish-American politician. But he was wildly popular, ever more so when it became known that he had been turned away at Troy's city hall by a newly-installed mayor who insisted that visi! tors first present their cards. MORRISSEY had no card, but he showed up at city hall next time in formal dress, feigning an interest in speaking French, since, he pointed out, that was now the style at city hall. John MORRISSEY got his nickname "Old Smoke" from a battle against a Native American named Tom McCANN. MORRISSEY, was pinned on his back over burning coals from a stove that had been knocked over in the bout. Although smoke and the smell of burning flesh wafted through the air, he continued to fight. John didn't have many fights but did go on to win the Heavyweight Championship of America in October of 1852 at Boston Corners, NY, on the border of MA and NY against "Yankee SULLIVAN" (James AMBROSE, alias Frank MURRAY). SULLIVAN apparently won the fight but left the ring and ignored the "time" call so the referee declared MORRISSEY the winner. John upheld his Heavyweight title to Troy-native John C. HEENAN (Benicia Boy) in October of 1858 at Long Point, Canada. HEENAN broke his right hand early on in the fight, which brought a disadvantage. MORRISSEY gave up the heavyweight championship and retired from the ring. Although a strong, tough fighter, he was said to have lacked boxing quickness of judgement. As stated, MORRISSEY became a prominent politician, serving two terms in the U. S. Congress and twice in the NY State Senate. He is probably best know for creating the Saratoga Racetrack and gambling operations in the 1860s-70s and was a pioneer in using the newly-invented telegraph to make betting available to everyone. He died in the Adelphi Hotel in 1878 at the age of only 47, just after winning an important NYC election and was buried in Saratoga. The New York State Legislature closed on the day of his burial and the entire elected body attended the funeral services in Troy. An estimated crowd of 12,000 stood outside the church to pay tribute to the American Champion. He was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954.