Doon is a parish which straddles the Tipperary-Limerick Border. Our O'Connor family members who are still there live in the village of Doon and at the farm at Muine Doon. Many O'Connor family members emigrated to Minnesota: Patrick who settled in Goodhue County and married Margaret Rowles, Timothy who settled in St. Paul and married Winifred Nee, and Nell who married James O'Dowd and also settled in St. Paul. (Nell and James O'Dowd were the parents of Mike O'Dowd, the St. Paul Cyclone, World Middleweight Champion 1915-1918.) Mary married a Gillespie and probably settled in St. Paul also. Edward O'Connor married Ellen Franklin (of another Doon family) and lived in Minneapolis. Johanna apparently did not marry and also lived in Minneapolis. Patrick's name was usually written as Conners. Many Irish people dropped the "O'" from their names in order to lessen the prejudice and discrimination against them in England and later in the United States. This helps to explain how Patrick was known as Connors, but later the O' was restored, and for a period the name was O'Connors. Beginning with the Gaelic Revival near the end of century has come full circle and this family is now known as O'Connor both in the U.S. and in Ireland. Here is an outline of what I have collected on this branch: Descendants of John O'Connor 1 John O'Connor . 2 Michael Patrick O'Connor b: 1838 in Muine Doon, Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 1912 in Muine Doon, Doon, Limerick, Ireland ..... +Mary Buckley b: 1838 in Shanacloon, Doon, Limerick, Ireland m: 18 February 1857 in Cappawhite Ch., Cappawhite, Co. Tipperary, Ireland d: 1925 ..... 3 Ellen O'Connor b: in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: Aft. 1949 in Minneapolis?, Hennepin, MN ......... +Hugh Reilly ..... 3 Mary O'Connor b: in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: in USA ......... +Gillespie ..... 3 John "Jack" O'Connor b: in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: in USA ..... 3 Nell O'Connor b: in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: in USA ......... +James O'Dowd ..... 3 Patrick O'Connor b: 17 March 1857 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 10 March 1949 in Cannon Falls, Goodhue Co., MN ......... +Margaret Rowles b: 29 March 1862 in Waupun, Dodge, WI Baptism: 15 February 1891 St. Columbkill's, Belle Creek, Goodhue, MN d: 10 July 1923 in Belle Creek, Goodhue, MN ..... 3 Con O'Connor b: 1859 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 16 March 1939 ..... 3 Michael O'Connor b: 1862 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 3 March 1932 ..... 3 Thomas O'Connor b: 1865 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 1951 in Limerick, Ireland .... . 3 Edward O'Connor b: 1866 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 4 February 1909 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN ......... +Ellen Franklin b: 15 August 1866 in Goodhue, MN d: 20 February 1933 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN ..... 3 Margaret O'Connor b: 1869 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 1950 in Limerick, Ireland ......... +John? English ..... 3 Johanna O'Connor b: 25 January 1874 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 26 July 1963 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN 3 Timothy O'Connor b: 14 March 1879 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 24 March 1946 in St. Paul, Ramsey, MN ......... +[1] Winifred Nee d: 30 September 1934 in St. Paul, Ramsey, MN ..... 3 James O'Connor b: 1881 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland ..... 3 Denis O'Connor b: Abt. 1883 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland d: 1968 in Doon, Limerick, Ireland Anne Lamb Duvall, Washington