Re: OBRIEN / HART; COR,IRL>MA,USA; 1833-1890 For those who served in the Civil War, have you obtained their pension records? For those who died before pensions were given, their widows may have applied. In the the pension papers of a brother of my great great grandmother, there was a handwritten copy of the baptismal record that gave the location of the church. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Charles E. Tucker <[email protected]> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland,soc.genealogy.surnames.usa,soc.genealogy.surn ames.global To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: OBRIEN / HART; COR,IRL>MA,USA; 1833-1890 >OBRIEN / HART; COR,IRL>MA,USA; 1833-1890 > >Is it possible that you would have any connections with our >O'Briens, Robinsons, Bryants, >etc.? In a nutshell, here are the particulars on ours . . . > >Timothy O'Brien and his wife, Joanna (Hart) Obrien, were >born Feb 1798 and 19 Jun 1798 >(respectively) in Cork, Ireland. Their first child, Michael >Cullen O'Brien, was born on 17 >Mar 1828, also in Cork. Sometime between this date and >September of 1832, the family >emigrated to Essex, England in an apparent "stepped >emigration" effort. Their second >child, Daniel W. O'Brien, was born on 8 Sep 1832 in Essex, >England. > >Then, sometime between that date, Sep 1832, and Dec 0f 1835 >the family emigrated to >North America. One source isolates the year of 1833 as the >year this movement took >place. Although we have not identified their port of entry >with any degree of certainty as >of yet, we do know that they were in Georgetown, Essex, >Massachusetts, by the time >their first daughter, Mary Emily O'Brien, was born on 22 Dec >1835. Then, sometime in >1836/37 the second daughter, Ann Louisa, was born in >Georgetown. > >Quick summary of some key points . . . > >1. Timothy was a general laborer and farm worker most of his >life. Joanna was always >home. We are not aware of any vocational pursuit for her >outside of the home. > >2. Michael was a shoemaker. He married Harriet Naramore >Hawley in 1850, and they had >six children. They moved to Rochester, NY, in 1857, and in >1862 he enlisted in the 108th >New York Volunteers, Company E. He was wounded three times, >at Gettysburg, Laurel >Hill, and Antietam. After visiting family in 1872 in Racine, >Wisconsin and Chicago, he was >taken off the train at Tiffin, Iowa, due to illness. He died >there in August in the house of >Mr. and Mrs. Beam. He is buried in Oakhill at Tiffin >Cemetery. The reason he had been >heading west (alone) was threefold: 1) His health had been >poor ever since the war, and he >wanted to seek a better climate, 2) He was going to Nebraska >to stake a land claim in >accordance with the advance credit granted to veterans of >the Union Army, and 3) He >had relatives there someplace although we do not know where >they were or what their >names were. > >3. Daniel was also a shoemaker. He married Harriet Frances >Robinson in 1855, and they >had two children, Frederick and Alice Maria in 1856 and >1857. Daniel enlisted in the 19th >Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in 1861. He was in Company >C. He was wounded at >the Battle of Glendale, and then also at Antietam. In the >case of the latter, he was seriously >wounded at the battle of the West Woods (Antietam) which >took place in the first phase >of the battle, the morning. He had his leg amputated at >Smoketown field hospital, and he >died of ensuing infection on 5 Oct 1862, 18 days after the >battle. He is buried in the >National Cemetery at Antietam. > >4. Mary Emily married Alan Robinson, and they had several >children: Allen, jr., Frances >(f), Bernice, Amos, John, etc. > >5. Ann Louisa was in Rochester living near Michael in 1862 >when Daniel mentioned her in >a letter to Michael's family. > >6. The entire family, except for Daniel and his wife, moved >to Rochester in 1857. >However, by 1865 Timothy, Joanna, and Mary Emily and her >family had relocated back to >Georgetown, MA. Michael and his family and Ann Louisa >stayed in Rochester. > >7. Timothy, Joanna, Michael, and Daniel all were originally >Roman Catholics. However, >owing to the fact that there was no Catholic option for >worship in Georgetown in their >period of arrival, the family did join the First >Congregational Church in the 1840's, with >the girls being baptized in that church. However, there is >no indication that the boys joined >that church at anytime. They were, however, married to girls >who were members of that >faith. > >When a Catholic option was available to Timothy and Joanna, >they apparently exercised it >and returned to their own church. At the time that consisted >of household masses, but by >1874, St. Mary's parish was established. A reliable source >has advised that Timothy and >Joanna are credited with being the first Irish Catholics in >Georgetown. When they died, >Timothy in 1878 and Joanna in 1891, they were both buried in >St. James Cemetery in >Haverhill, Massachusetts. At the time, it was the only >Catholic Cemetery in the vicinity. It >also just happened to be filled with most of the Irish >Catholic Immigrants of the 19th >century from that area of Essex County, Massachusetts. It is >possible that the final resting >place is in lot #148, as indications are that the original >lot owner was a Joanna O'Brien. >However, as nothing is ever very easy, there is no tombstone >there or anyplace else in the >cemetery that I was able to locate when I walked all those >rows in July of '99 (this year). >Even more complications, there is a Johanna T. O'Brien, >spouse of Patrick P. O'Brien >buried in the ten grave plot. Well, in fact, there are seven >burials there, all covered on a >single tombstone. There are three graves unaccounted for. >Are Timothy and Joanna in two >of them? Unfortunately, we may never know as there was a >great fire that destroyed all >detailed and original burial records prior to 1940. > >Well, any possible connections would be interesting. would >love to connect with more >living cousins. > > > > > > > >"Charles E. Tucker" <[email protected]> > > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. 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