I am looking for a needle in a haystack. My great great great grandparents were John and Mary Sullivan. My ggrandmother was Mary J Sullivan. and she had a sister, Kathleen ( or Kate) Baptiste Sullivan. I believe MAry was born on November 19, 1872. Katherine was born @1885. I have found Mary and Katherine in the 1900 census in NY( ED 1347 pg 138 Roll T625-1178) I know Mary died in 1906 (at age 33) from lockjaw and is buried in Greenwood cemetery. She married Theodore L Stewart. Kathleen was also on the census living in the house with Mary and her family. After she died, Kathleen stayed and raised the 6 children. I have not been able to find a marriage certificate for Theodore and Mary and looking for John and Mary Sullivan is almost impossible since it was a very common name. My father never really learned much about his grandmother's family. Family legend is that Mary and Kathleen were adopted by Theodore's mother, Josephine Cushing Stewart, to have them help her in the dress shop she owned ( haven't found it yet) . It is also said that Mary and Kathleen were orphaned and were either sent here from Ireland when parents died or parent's died in NYC. during an epidemic of some sort. And looking at censuses looking for birth information is interesting since many people did not say they were born in Ireland with the "Irish not apply" prejudice shown in NYC. So any ideas since John and Mary Sullivan are such common names? What I've written here is the total knowledge about the Sullivans ( could also have been 0'Sullivan?????)