Requesting assistance locating any information on Maternal great Grandmother Mary Ann Manning and her family, from area over looking Lakes of Killarney.  Her parents were Michael Manning and Catherine (Jane) Prindiville. Her brother was Cornelius Manning. Her cousin was Maurice Andrew Prindiville, believed to be from Fossa, Kerry                                                                                        Maternal Ancestors / Relatives COLLONAN / MANNING Irish spelling – Callonen, Cullinane, etc.     My Great Grand Parents were:   William J. Collonan (b @ 1842  in Clonmel, (Old Irish Town; St Mary’s Parish) County Tipperary and d 11/20/1894 San Francisco, CA) and Mary Ann Manning (b 1842 County Kerry “… we could see the Lakes of Kilarney from our home” … d 1912 San Francisco, CA). They were married in St. Mary’s Church, San Francisco, CA in 1874.   The 1870 US Census, ED 53: file 2 of 22, Microfilm # M593-84, for San Francisco, CA, lists the occupation of Mary Manning as: “keeping house”. The 1880 US Census, District 184, in San Francisco, CA, lists the occupation of William J. Collonan, as “saloon keeper”. They reportedly lived on Minna Street in San Francisco about this time.   Mary Ann Manning had a brother, Cornelius Manning, S.J. (b 11/6/1834 County Kerry d 1911 Los Gatos, CA) who entered the Jesuit Noviate in Santa Clara, CA, on 8/17/1863 and pronounced his final vows on 8/17/1875 becoming a Jesuit Brother, in Los Gatos, CA Brother Manning listed the names of his parents, in the Jesuit Register, at the time he was accepted into the Noviate, as: Michael and Catherine Manning. He was baptized in the local parish and his father was a farmer. The information from the Jesuit Register was translated from the original Latin entry. He had obtained citizenship in San Francisco in 1860. The 1867 Great Register of San Francisco, CA, listed him as a 34 year old laborer, living at Mason and Vallejo Streets and gave his Naturalization date as, 7/30/1866, in San Francisco. The 1910 US census showed him to be residing at the Sacred Heart Noviate, Redwood Township, Santa Clara County. His occupation was listed a “tailor” and it has been confirmed that he made the cassocks for the Seminarians. Records from the Jesuit Noviate indicated he assisted a cousin by the name of Maurice Andrew Prindiville, who worked as a stone mason in San Francisco before moving to San Jose, CA, (mother’s maiden name).   At the time of the death of Mary Ann manning Collonan, her son, Michael Collonan, listed her parents as: Michael Manning and Jane Prindiville, both born in Ireland. On her death certificate it was also indicated that she had resided in California for 44 years and for 34 years at 61 Valley St., the family home. Doing the math, Mary Ann manning was probably in San Francisco about 1868, at age 26, six full years before she married William J. Collonan.   Their children included:   Michael William Collonan (b 7/15/1875 d 1/23/1958) William Joseph Collonan (b 5/30/1877 d 6/2/1949) Alice Collonan (b 1880 d 6/8/1948) Cornelius Francis Collonan (b 7/51884 d 1/13/1941) Julia Estelle Collonan (b 8/2/1882 d 9/28/1961) John Collonan (b 1886 d 1917)   My Grandmother was Alice Collonan and she married my Grandfather, George Washington Kyte in 1906.   Their only child was my Mother, Estelle Marie Kyte (b 1906 d 1980) who married my Father, Andrew Patrick Ahern (b 1911 d 1988) in San Francisco in the year 1937.   Thank you, Robert Patrick Ahern           ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com