Dear Tammy, I don't know if any of this will ultimately help you, but here goes. I am also descended from a Newport Sullivan. My John Sullivan (John Bernard Sullivan) was born on December 29, 1842 in Caherciveen, County Kerry, Ireland. He came over with his parents, Daniel and Bridget, and sister Abby in about 1847. There I believe they joined Daniel's brother Timothy C. Sullivan. Timothy was married to Hannah Curran of Drommond, County Kerry, Ireland. Timothy and Daniel's parents were Michael and Margaret Sullivan. John B. Sullivan served in the Navy during the Civil War and married Mary Murphy of Dublin on November 28, 1867. She came over during the Civil War, had originally planned to settle with family in North Carolina (I think), but blockades prevented that, and she ended up with family of a sort in Newport. As she came over with a cousin, I think the family may have been the cousin's rather than hers, and may have been Fitzgeralds. At any rate, John B. and Mary had 9 children, Irene, Mary Agnes, Michael H., Annie C., Francis B., Elizabeth, Theresa, John B., and Katherine (Kitty). Irene married a Gorman, Mary Agnes married Michael Connolly (my great grandparents), Theresa married Al Fraser and had two children, Michael H. Died age 24 of appendicitis, but may have married and had a daughter, Theresa married Al Fraser, John B. Sullivan I believe also died of appendicitis, but did have two children Robert and Annie, and Kitty married a Boucher. None of which may help you, but what MAY help is that it seems that many of the Sullivans in Newport may have come from Caherciveen, County Kerry, Ireland. I found Daniel and Timothy's stones (along with their wives') together in the old St. Mary's cemetery in Newport, and my mother has the receipt of the purchase of the sites. John B. Sullivan's stone, along with many others in the area was destroyed by vandalism several years ago, and no one seems to know where he is now. My great aunt Alice Connolly told me that her Sullivan grandparents John Sullivan and Mary Murphy) sponsored and took in many people who were recent immigrants from Ireland, and many of them were family and friends, until they were able to support themselves. A couple of other points. I was not born in Newport, my grandfather was. But it is my understanding that the St. Mary's church records burned in 1929 or so, and coincidentally, so did those in Cahersiveen (I was in Ireland in 1993). I was able to obtain some Newport info by writing O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home, 465 Spring St. Newport RI, 02840, but that was back in 1993. Good Luck in your search. -Pat. Wary amusic@epix.net