I was afraid of that. It's been tough tracking Patrick son of Patrick son of Patrick of Ireland. Thanks for trying. Bob Trehearne <photobob@frontiernet.net> wrote: Mary, I have a program based on just the surnames that lists all of the possible combinations of O'Sullivan and O'Brien by townland. In other words, it looks at each townland and if there was an O'Sullivan and an O'Brien in the same townland in the 1847-1864 time period it shows a match and the resuslts are printed out. For Cork there are many possibilities- based on just the surnames only: The following is for Cork only. PARISH O'SULLIVAN 0'BRIEN Ballymodan 1 5 Buttevant 2 4 Caheragh 1 1 Carrigaline 2 1 Castleyons 1 4 Clonmeen 1 8 Cloonmel 1 2 Desertmore 1 1 Drishane 1 2 Fanlobbus 4 1 Ightermurragh 1 1 Kilcrumper 1 2 Kilgarriff 2 7 Killaconenagh 8 1 Kilmeen(Duhallow) 1 1 Kilmichael 1 2 Kilmocomoge 8 2 Kilworth 1 13 Macroom 1 5 Rathgoggan 1 11 Shandrum 1 6 Templerobin 1 4 Tracton 1 2 Yougal 5 16 For Cork City Holy Trinity 3 11 St Annes Shandon 6 15 St Finbars 2 5 St Mary' Shandon 9 7 St Nicholas 3 7 St Pauls 1 3 St Peters 4 2 At least the townlands of your two citations are listed above!! This program actually lists the whole of Ireland but you were interested in just Cork. I would not know how to narrow this list down unless you actually know of the townlands of your ancestors. Bob Trehearne ----- Original Message ----- From: "MARY THOMAS" To: "Cork List" Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:48 PM Subject: [Cork] Process of elimination...am I off base? > Hi Listers, > I was blessed/cursed with ancestors by the name of O'Sullivan and O'Brien > in Cork. Kind of like Smith and Jones so I thought I'd run a check > against Griffiths. My O'Sullivan was Patrick who married Margaret > O'Brien. They had two sons that I know of for sure....Jeremiah born 1829 > and Patrick born about 1830. I don't know the name of Margaret's father. > > While there are tons of O'Sullivans and O'Briens throughout Cork, I found > only two places where the two families were together. > > There is a John O'Brien in Castle Town Bearhaven, Kilaconenagh and there > is also a Patrick O'Sullivan. > > There is a Jeremiah O'Brien in Ballybeg Middle, Buttevant and again there > is also a Patrick O'Sullivan. > > These are the only two places where the two families lived together...at > least in Cork. Now supposition kicks in. Since there are no Johns that I > know of in the family, I put him on the back burner. Problem is, there > could have been other sons named for Margaret's father and I just haven't > located them yet. > > That leaves Jeremiah O'Brien. According to custom, Patrick and Margaret > would have named their second son after her father (I think that's right.) > but, as far as I know, Jeremiah was their first son. > > Now I'm babbling so I ask...what's my next step? (Other than praying > that it's one of the two and not one of the hundreds) I know virtually > nothing about Patrick and Margaret and their sons married in Massachusetts > rather than Cork so I can't use the maiden names of their wives to narrow > it all down. I'm hoping that, if I can figure out where in Cork Patrick > and Margaret were from, I can find out more about them. > > Help! > > > > > Stay well, stay safe, and may you always have enough, > Chris > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-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 IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Stay well, stay safe, and may you always have enough, Chris