I prepared this chronology of my ancestors' movements to share with my extended family, but decided to post it in case the surnames might be of interest to others. This is a year-by-year account of the documented (for the most part) events in the lives of my SULLIVAN and KERRIGAN families from 1838 to 1944: births, marriages, deaths, emigration. The SULLIVANs and allied families emigrated from County Clare. My KERRIGAN and related families emigrated from counties Tyrone and/or Fermanagh, and Donegal.Click on the footnote number to go directly to the relevant footnote. Use the BACK button of your browser to return to the text.
1838: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
Mary McCormack, daughter of Michael McCormack and Catherine Carmody, was married to John Mescall on 26 February according to the Kilkee/Doonbeg(1) parish register. Their first son, Patrick, was born and baptized in December 1838; his baptismal sponsors were Patrick and Johanna McNamara1841: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
George Cunningham married Bridget McCormack, sister of Mary (McCormack) Mescall, on 03 AUGUST; the record is found in the register of the Catholic parish of Kilkee/Doonbeg. George and Bridget, my great grandparents, would later emigrate to the United States and settle in New Britain, Connecticut. A son Simon, was born to John and Mary Mescall on 21 February at Clohanes, civil parish of Killard. His baptismal sponsors were James Carmody and Jane Crowe. I believe him to be the Simon Meskell who married Margaret Geary in New Britain, Connecticut in 1874.1845: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
A daughter, Mary, was born to John and Mary Mescall, and was baptized on 09 January; her baptismal sponsors were Thomas and Jony[sic] McCormack.1847: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
A son, William, was born to George and Bridget Cunningham. James Mescall was born to John and Mary Mescall in this year; his baptismal sponsors were Thomas McCormack and Catherine Carmody.1850: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
John Meskell, son of John Meskell and Mary McCormack, was born on 15 August; he would later marry Mary Dawson in New Britain.1851: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
In February a daughter, Bridget, was born to George and Bridget Cunningham; her baptismal sponsors were John Mescall and Mary McNamara. I assume that she died fairly young, as another child named Bridget was born to the couple in March 1857.1852: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
A son Patrick Meskell was born to John and Mary McCormack Mescall; he would later marry Hannah O'Brien and settle in Meriden, Conn.1853: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
A daughter, Ellen Cunningham, was born to George and Bridget. She would eventually marry Thomas Lynch.1854: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
Michael Cunningham was born in September to George and Bridget. He would die of tuberculosis in New Britain in 1882.1856: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
It is probable that my great grandfather Cornelius Sullivan was born in this year. In the 1881 census for the county of Essex, England he gives his age as 25 at his last birthday.(2)1857: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
Bridget Cunningham, daughter of George and Bridget, was baptized in the Catholic parish of Doonbeg on 29 MARCH; baptismal sponsor was Ellen Cunningham1857: CO. DONEGAL, IRELAND
Mary McGrath, daughter of William McGrath and Winifred Mullen, was born on (possibly) 18 July 1857. The month and year are extremely difficult to decipher.1858: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
Matthew Meskill, son of John and Mary, was baptized on 05 OCTOBER; his baptismal sponsor was Bridget Nugent. On 31 December Catherine O'Dea(3), daughter of John O'Dea and Hannah McCormack, was baptized in the Catholic parish of Doonbeg; baptismal sponsors were Patrick McCormack(4) and Catherine Mescall.1859: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
My great grandmother Johanna Cunningham was baptized on 02 May; her baptismal sponsors were Pat and Hanna McCormack, probably brother and sister of her mother Bridget (McCormack) Cunningham.1864: NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT
William Cunningham, brother of George Cunningham, married Mary Hartney on 10 April.1865: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
Another daughter, Margaret, was born to George and Bridget Cunningham on 09 February in Craggaknock registration district; the family was renting land at Carrowmore North. Margaret would die of tuberculosis in New Britain in 1889.1868: IRELAND>GLASGOW>NEW YORK
On 28 JUNE James Kerrigan, of Ireland, arrived at New York, a passenger on board the steamship Caledonia from Glasgow. He was listed as a laborer, age 20 years.(5) Later that year, Ellen McCann, of Ireland, age 20, a passenger on the steamer Iowa from Glasgow, arrived at New York on 12 October.(6) It is by no means certain that James and Ellen are my great grandparents, but their ages and the year of immigration roughly corresponds to other information, so they are in the running.1869/70: MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT
Michael Carrigan appears in the Meriden City Directory, residing at the Astor House on Cook's avenue. I have no proof that this is our Michael Kerrigan, son of John and Bridget, but it is known that some family members were in Meriden before coming to New Britain.1870: MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT
Ellen McKann, age 23, servant, born in Ireland, is enumerated in the 1870 Federal census in the household of Hiram Yale, at the corner of Broad and Liberty streets. I can't be sure that she is my great-grandmother Ellen McCann, but her age corresponds to other information. Michael Keragan is enumerated in the same census, age 21, gardener, in the household of F.A. Breckinridge. He is possibly the brother of my great-grandfather James Kerrigan.1871: BERLIN, CONNECTICUT
Mary Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neill, was born on 15 August. This information is from the index to births; I still have to get her birth and baptismal records. I believe she died before 1880, as she is not listed in the family on the 1880 census.1870/71: NEW BRITAIN
William Cunningham, brother of George, appears in the City Directory, living at East Dublin, and John McNamara(7) appears at Stanley.1871/72: NEW BRITAIN
William Cunningham is now living "East of Lawlor;" and Michael Kerrigan appears in the City Directory at Arch cor. Webster ave1872: MERIDEN
James Kerrigan married Ellen McCarlin at St. Rose of Lima Church on June 13th; witnesses were Charles Mackin and Mary Kerrigan. My great grandmother's maiden surname was McCann, not McCarlin. However, some town clerks evidently had difficulty with her Irish accent, and her surname changed at times with each new birth of a child. James Kerrigan, although a New Britain resident at the time of his marriage at St. Rose, settled first in Meriden (according to his obituary).1872/73: NEW BRITAIN
John Carrigan, probably my great-great-grandfather, appears in the City Directory, living at Grove near North; his son James Kerrigan appears also for the first time in the City Directory living at Washington, corner of North; John Miskell appears in the City Directory for the first time at Washington above North.1873: NEW BRITAIN
Ellen Kerrigan, born in New Britain on 14 March, daughter and first child of James Kerrigan and Ellen McCann, was baptized at St. Mary Church on March 17. Her baptismal sponsors were Charles Glasken(8) and Mary Kerrigan. Bridget Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan(9) and Mary Ann O'Neil, was born on 28 July; she would later marry John Ramsay.1874: NEW BRITAIN
Mary Kerrigan was born to James and Ellen Kerrigan on 2 or 7 September. City Hall records show September 2; baptismal records show September 7 as date of birth. Mary was baptized on 8 September at St. Mary Church in New Britain. Godparents were Charles Kerrigan and Margaret Lynch.1875: BERLIN
On 22 June of this year, John Corrigan, son of John and Mary Ann (O'Neill) Corrigan, was born in Berlin. I believe he is later known as Michael Kerrigan. There are no further records for "John," but "Michael" turns up on the 1880 census. I hope to get his baptismal record from St. Mary Church.1876: KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT
Corrigan, _____, female, was born to James Corrigan and Ellen "McCabe" on 14 August. Her birth was also registered in New Britain, as Margaret Kerrigan. Her father's occupation is listed as "moulder." This is the first record I have found of our great grandparents' residence in the town of Berlin.1876: NEW BRITAIN
John Carrigan (father) is now living at 213 Washington, and William Cunningham is at 62 Tremont. Margaret Jane Kerrigan, daughter of James and Ellen, born on 14 August in Kensington, was baptized on 20 August at St. Mary Church; her baptismal sponsors were James Murphy and Jane McGee. Her birth was also registered in with the New Britain City Clerk1877: KENSINGTON
Charles Kerrigan, son of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neil, was born on 20 July. In the Berlin records he is recorded as Charles Corrigan; he is listed as the fourth child of his mother. Therefore, John and Mary Ann Kerrigan were living at that date in the Kensington section of Berlin.1877/78: NEW BRITAIN
John Carrigan (father) is still at 213 Washington, while William Cunningham is now at 68 Tremont1878/79: NEW BRITAIN
Michael Carrigan is now at 225 Washington, and William Cunningham is at 62 Tremont. John Meskill, possibly mine, is at 11 Broad.1879: KENSINGTON
Mary, 4-yr.-old daughter of James and Ellen Kerrigan, died on 7 May. James Kerigan, their first son, was born here on 23 May; his mother is listed as Ellen McCrathy. For some reason, possibly because he was baptized at St. Mary's, James' birth was also recorded in New Britain. Jane Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neil, was born on 3 September. She was registered as Jane Corrigan. She is later listed on the 1880 census as Anna J., and married as Anna Nancy Kerrigan.1879: MERIDEN
On 15 April, Michael Fitzgerald married Mary McGrath (of Co. Donegal) at St. Rose of Lima Church. Witnesses were John Cunnane and Mary A. Liddy.1879: NEW BRITAIN
Anna Kerrigan, daughter of Michael Kerrigan and Ann McGee, was born on 27 February. She would marry Richard Wright in 1910. James Kerrigan, son of James and Ellen Kerrigan, was born on 23 May in Berlin, but his birth was also recorded in New Britain, where his mother is listed as Ellen McCann. James was baptized at St. Mary's Church on 25 May; his baptismal sponsors were James Flanagan and Joan Watson. His family was living in Kensington.1880: KENSINGTON
John Kerrigan was born on 10 October 1880 and died on 27 November. He is recorded as John Corrigan, son of James Corrigan and Ellen McCann. The cemetery marker at St. Mary's Cemetery in New Britain lists 1882 as his year of birth and death. He is listed as Ellen's 6th child.1880: CO. CLARE, IRELAND
The marriage of Cornelius Sullivan and Johanna Cunningham (my great grandparents) is recorded on 7 January in the Roman Catholic parish register of Doonbeg, in the civil parish of Killard, Co. Clare. Marriage witnesses were Patt Haley and Mary Duggan.1880: PLAISTOW, COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND
George William Sullivan, son of Cornelius Sullivan and Johanna Cunningham, was born on 7 December at 10 Clarkson Street, Plaistow(10) (registration district of West Ham), in the County of Essex. Grandpa was baptized on 26 December at the Church of St. Margaret and All Saints, Canning Town (now part of London). His baptismal sponsors were Michael O'Dea and Bridget Cullinane. His father Cornelius was a "Dock Labourer."1880: NEW BRITAIN
Robert Kerrigan, son of Michael Kerrigan and Ann McGee, was born on 26 November.1881: NEW BRITAIN
Kate Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neill, was born on 16 October; she died a few months later.1881/82: NEW BRITAIN
John Carrigan (son) appears at Brook street in the City Directory, and Michael Kerrigan is now at 134 Curtiss.1882: PLAISTOW, COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND
Mary Margaret Sullivan, daughter of Cornelius Sullivan and Johanna Cunningham, was born on 1 August; the family was living at 4 Clarkson Road, Plaistow, County of Essex. Cornelius was listed as "Labourer in Pitchyard.." Mary Margaret was baptized on 10 September 1882 at St. Margaret and All Saints, Canning Town. Her godparents were Michael Lynch and Ellen Howard.1882: NEW BRITAIN
Mary Kerrigan, first child of Charles Kerrigan and Ann Farrell, was born in May 1882. Kate Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neill, died on 8 January.1882/83: NEW BRITAIN
Mrs. John Carrigan (nee Mary Ann O'Neil) appears in the City Directory at Sand Bank; and Michael Kerrigan is now at 446 Myrtle.1883: NEW BRITAIN
John Carrigan, son of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neill, was born on 25 February. His birth was also recorded on 26 February under the name Joseph Kerrigan. I do not yet have his baptismal record, but I believe that Joseph was the name which he was known.1883/84: NEW BRITAIN
George Cunningham, my great-great-grandfather, makes his first appearance in the New Britain City Directory at 2 Pleasant street. Mrs. William Cunningham, nee Mary Hartney, is at 62 Tremont. John Markham, husband of Mary McCormack, makes his first appearance at 123 Whiting. John Meskill (son of John Meskill and Mary McCormack) appears at 11 Broad, as does his mother, Mrs. Mary Meskill, whom I presume to be widowed.(11)1884: BERLIN
The birth on 27 JUNE of my grandmother Mary Ann Carrigan, daughter of James Carrigan and Ellen McCann, is recorded in the birth register of Berlin; the family is listed as living in the Kensington section. The index to the Berlin vital records lists Mary Ann's surname, erroneously, as CARRINGTON. She is listed as the sixth child of her mother.1884: NEW BRITAIN
Bridget Margaret Kerrigan (Bessie), daughter of Charles and Ann Kerrigan, was born on 17 February. According to the 1900 Federal Census for New Britain, Michael Kerrigan, son of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neil, was born in this year.1885: CANNING TOWN, COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND
Bridget, also known as Delia, daughter of Cornelius and Johanna (Cunningham) Sullivan, was born on 19 May at 10 Carlton Street, Canning Town, County of Essex. Cornelius was listed as "Fireman." She was baptized at St. Margaret and All Saints, Canning Town, on 07 June 1885. Her godparents were Peter Allen and Helena Kirkham.1885/86: NEW BRITAIN
Charles Kerregan is now at Kelsey, corner of East.1886: BERLIN
John Stuart Parnell Glackin, son of Charles Glackin and Margaret McGuire, was baptized at St. Paul's Church on 11 April. Godparents were James Cookley and Mary McAlur.1886: PLAISTOW, COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND
Kate Sullivan, daughter of Cornelius and Johanna Sullivan, was born on 11 September at 87 Mary Street, Plaistow, County of Essex. Cornelius is now listed as "Gas Fitter." She also was baptized at Saint Margaret and All Saints, Canning Town, on 03 October 1886. Her baptismal sponsor was Margaret Devitt.(12)1886: NEW BRITAIN
Ellen, daughter of Charles and Ann Kerrigan, was born on 8 February and died on 5 March. Mary Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neil was born on 26 June. She would later marry Andrew Follette, and move to Troy, New York.1886/87: NEW BRITAIN
John Carrigan (son), John Kerrigan (fath.) and Michael Kerrigan have not changed residence, but Charles Kerragan is now at 90 So. Stanley St.1887: NEW BRITAIN
On 18 July Marcella Kerrigan was born to Charles Kerrigan and Ann Farrell. She would later marry and move to Waterbury. Michael Joseph Kerrigan, son of Michael Kerrigan and Ann McGee, was born on 24 December. He would later marry Anna Rose Hart. In this same year, according to the 1900 census, Thomas Kerrigan was born in January to John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neil.(13) On November 17, Mary Kerrigan, daughter and youngest child of John Kerrigan and Bridget Coughlin, was married to James Murphy at St. Mary Church. Marriage witnesses were Michael Flynn and Julia Fitzpatrick.1887/88: NEW BRITAIN
George Cunningham reappears at 2 Pleasant St., John Cunningham, probably his nephew, is at 70 Tremont, and William Cunningham is now on Cemetery Lane. John (father), Charles and Michael Kerrigan have not changed residences.1888: WEST HAM, COUNTY OF ESSEX, ENGLAND
Ellen Sullivan,(14) daughter of Cornelius and Johanna Sullivan, was born on 6 October at 13 Carleton St. She was the last child born before the family emigrated. Cornelius was employed as a "Gas Stoker." Ellen was baptized on 28 October 1888 at the church of St. Margaret and All Saints in Canning Town.(15) Her baptismal sponsor was Margaret Mulberry.1888: NEW BRITAIN
John Thomas Murphy, son and first child of James Murphy and Mary Kerrigan, was born on 14 September. He married Elizabeth Mullins on 15 October 1924. Thomas Kerrigan, son of Charles and Ann, was born on 20 December.1888/89 NEW BRITAIN
Charles Kerregan is at 90 So. Stanley Street.1889: BERLIN
Margaret Troy was born on 15 JANUARY to Daniel Troy and Ann Sullivan. Her mother died in 1891, her father in 1892. At some point she was adopted or "taken in" by my great grandparents James Kerrigan and Ellen McCann. She was renamed "Maud" probably because the Kerrigans already had a daughter named Margaret.1889: NEW BRITAIN
Catherine (Katie) Kerrigan, daughter of John Kerrigan and Mary Ann O'Neill, was born on 2 April. She would marry Adolf Asal in 1908.1889: NEW YORK
On 13 May my great grandparents Cornelius and Johanna (Cunningham) Sullivan arrived in New York aboard the SS EDAM from Amsterdam. With them were their five children: George, Mary Margaret, Bridget, Kate and Ellen.1889/90: NEW BRITAIN
George Cunningham is still at 2 Pleasant, John Cunningham remains at 70 Tremont, and William Cunningham is at Stanley Quarter, over the city line. Charles Kerrigan is now with his father John at 213 Washington, while Michael Kerrigan remains at 446 Myrtle.1890: NEW BRITAIN
Mary Agnes Murphy, daughter of James and Mary (Kerrigan) Murphy, was born on 21 September; she would marry Wallace Francis Richardson on 2 May 1917.1890/91: NEW BRITAIN
John Markham appears at Rocky Hill Rd, while John McNamara is now at 3 Pleasant and John Meskill is now at 468 Myrtle. Mary Meskill (I believe Mary McCormack Meskill) is at Rocky Hill rd on Berlin line, living with John and Mary Markham, her daughter and son-in-law. James Murphy, husband of Mary Kerrigan, appears for the first time in the City Directory at 100 Beaver St. My great-grandfather Cornelius Sullivan appears for the first time in the City Directory at 33 Lawlor; he was employed by the New Britain Gas Works.1891: NEW BRITAIN
Patrick Joseph Sullivan, youngest child of Cornelius and Johanna Sullivan, was born on 13 March. He was baptized on 15 March; his godparents were John McNamara(16) and Maria Lynch.(17) Two months later, on 25 May, Cornelius Sullivan, my great grandfather, was struck by a train and died shortly afterward in the New Britain railroad station. Link to newspaper account.1891/92: NEW BRITAIN
Charles Kerrigan is now at 17 Oak St. Susan Sullivan, born Johanna Cunningham, widow of Cornelius, appears at 33 Lawlor.1892: NEW BRITAIN
James Murphy, Jr., son of James Murphy and Mary Kerrigan, was born on 01 May; he would later marry Isabelle McNessa. On 26 September Bridget (Delia) Sullivan, daughter of Cornelius and Johanna, died of spinal meningitis. She is buried at Old St. Mary's Cemetery with her father, in a plot owned by Eugene Sullivan, whose relationship to the family is unknown.1894: NEW BRITAIN
Irene Annie, daughter of Charles and Ann Kerrigan, was born on 31 July; she would later join the Sisters of Mercy and be known as Sister Mary David. My great-great grandfather John Kerrigan died on 24 March. Bridget (Coughlin) Kerrigan, his wife, and my great-great grandmother, died a few months later, on 6 May.1895: NEW BRITAIN
Joseph Murphy, son of James and Mary Murphy, was born on 27 February.1897: NEW BRITAIN
Eleanor Kerrigan, daughter of Charles and Anna, was born on 06 October.1898: NEW BRITAIN
Walter Leo Murphy, son of James and Mary (Kerrigan) Murphy, was born on 02 April. He would later marry Emma Osberg.1902: KENSINGTON
My great grandmother Ellen (McCann) Kerrigan died on 9 August.1902: NEW BRITAIN
On 15 November my great-great grandfather George Cunningham died.1903: NEW BRITAIN
Bridget (McCormack) Cunningham, my great-great grandmother, died on 2 September.1904: KENSINGTON
Margaret Troy, orphaned and taken in by James and Ellen Kerrigan, died by drowning in the upper Paper Goods pond on 1 August. Fifteen years old, she was the daughter of Daniel and Ann (Sullivan) Troy. In the Kerrigan household, she was known as Maud Troy or Maud Kerrigan.1910: HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
James E. Kerrigan (son) is listed in the City Directory as foreman in the pressroom at 45 Grove St.; he resides at 63 Belden Street. According to my father James Sullivan, his uncle James Kerrigan apprenticed as a printer at the American Paper Goods factory in the Kensington section of Berlin.1911: NEW BRITAIN
George William Sullivan, my grandfather, was elected to the New Britain Common Council on Tuesday, April 10, as the youngest councilman elected to that date.1912: KENSINGTON
George William Sullivan (son of Cornelius and Johanna) of New Britain and Mary Ann Kerrigan of Kensington (daughter of James and Ellen), were married on 19 June at St. Paul's Church.1914: HARTFORD
James E. Kerrigan, my great uncle, is still foreman in pressroom at 45 Grove St.; his residence is now 62 Edgewood St.1916: HARTFORD
James E. Kerrigan is now listed as printer at 297 Park; his home is still at 62 Edgewood.1918: HARTFORD
James E. Kerrican is now listed as printer, 1086 Broad St.; there is a large advertisement for his business, Kerrigan's Press, on page 985 of Geer's Hartford Directory (surname spelled correctly). Hannah Meskall, daughter of Patrick Meskell of Meriden, is listed as a clerk at 956 Main St., and living in Meriden. There is a listing for W. C. McNaughton at 311 Trumbull St.; obituary for his mother-in-law Johanna (Cunningham) Sullivan, in January 1918, lists her daughter Catherine as Mrs. W. C. McNaughton, so I am assuming that Catherine and Willard were married by the time the directory went to print.1918: NEW BRITAIN
My great grandmother Johanna (Cunningham) Sullivan died on 23 January. Anna Nancy Kerrigan, whose birth was registered as Jane Corrigan, was married on 31 July to Monroe William Hefflon.1920: HARTFORD
James E. Kerrican [James E. Kerrigan] is listed as printer, 1088 Broad St. The large advertisement on p. 989 of Geer's Hartford Directory gives the name of the business as J. E. Kerrigan Printing Company, 1088-1090 Broad St. His residence is still at 62 Edgewood St. My father would often spend time there with his "Uncle Jim" in the summer.Frank E. Hammond, who will marry Ellen Josephine Sullivan (Aunt Nell) in 1922, is listed as a salesman at 118 Asylum, with residence at 440 Hillside St. W. C. McNaughton is still listed at 311 Trumbull Street; Nellie J. Sullivan is boarding at the same address. There is also a listing for W. C. MacNaughton, stenographer at 311, boards 311 Trumbull. I am assuming that this is probably Catherine (Sullivan) McNaughton, wife of Willard C.
1922: HARTFORD
On 5 January Ellen Sullivan(18) was married to Francis Hammond at St. Patrick Church. Wedding witnesses were Thomas O'Neill and Ellen's sister Mary Margaret Sullivan. James E. Kerrican is still listed as a printer at 1088 Broad St., with residence still at 62 Edgewood.1923: MERIDEN
On 27 November Ellen (Goucher) McGrath, widow of Thomas Andrew McGrath, was buried following a funeral Mass at St. Rose Church. The floral tributes were listed in the Meriden Daily Journal; among those listed was the following: flat piece: "asters, James Kerrigan" (my great grandfather)1925: KENSINGTON
James E. Kerrigan, my great grandfather, died on 1 July. He is buried in the family plot at St. Mary's Cemetery in New Britain.1928: HARTFORD
James E. Kerrigan and wife Mary F. are listed as living at 62 Edgewood; he is employed by G. F. & Co.; Mary is listed as employed at 74 Union Place. I haven't yet found their marriage record.1939: HARTFORD
James E. Kerrigan died on 16 June. His funeral was held at St. Patrick Church; he is buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery in this city.1944: HARTFORD
Mary (Fox) Kerrigan, widow of James E. Kerrigan, died on 17 October and is buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Hartford.
FOOTNOTES
1. The Catholic parish of Kilkee/Doonbeg is found within the civil parish of Killard.2. A possible place of birth is the townland of Cloonmore in the civil parish of Killard, or Creegh North in the civil parish of Kilmacduane. He was married in the Catholic parish of Doonbeg.
3. Catherine O'Dea would later marry, in New Britain, Conn., John McNamara
5. NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) microfilm Series M237 - Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1820-1897; Roll #297 June 20-July 7, 1868
6. NARA microfilm Series M237, Roll #302 Sept. 26-Oct. 20, 1868
7. John McNamara would become George Cunningham's nephew through his marriage to Catherine O'Dea
8. Probably Charles GLACKIN, said to be cousin of James Kerrigan
9. Brother of my great-grandfather James Kerrigan, and first son of John Kerrigan and Bridget Coughlin. I don't yet know where he and Mary Ann O'Neil were married. Mary Ann was born in New York, and John Kerrigan is supposed to have gone first to Troy, New York before coming to New Britain. At least two of his children were born in Berlin/Kensington.
10. Plaistow, plus Canning Town and West Ham, mentioned in other birth records, are now part of London. When Grandpa Sullivan and his sisters were born, it was part of the county of Essex. Cornelius and Johanna lived close to the Victoria and Albert Docks.
11. I haven't yet found the death record of John Meskill (father); it is possible that he died in Ireland
12. In 1891 a Margarita Devitt was a witness at the wedding, in New Britain, Conn., of John Cunningham and Ann Devitt. Sisters? To be investigated.
13. According to the 1900 Federal Census.
15. I have been told that St. Margaret and All Saints is still a thriving parish
16. Married to Catherine O'Dea, first cousin of Johanna Cunningham
18. Daughter of Cornelius Sullivan and Johanna Cunningham; youngest sister of George William Sullivan, and known as Nellie, Nellie Josephine, and Aunt Nell
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