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I believe my great grandparents came from the Mountain Common-Ardfield area based on immigration records. The head of the family was Denis Sullivan, born approx 1851, wife Mary, children Eleanor (b: 1882), Julia (b: 9/1887), Mary, & Hannah. My grandmother Eleanor immigrated ot the US in 1891, Julia in 1911, settling in Boston.

dwh46

Saturday 3rd Jan 2015, 07:09PM

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  • David:

    You were correct. They lived in Mountain Home townland in Ardfield civil parish. The 1911 census indicates 6 living children as of 1911.

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Ardfield/Mountain…

    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Ardfield/Mountain…

    The 1911 census indicated that the couple was married 36 years. I looked in the Clonakilty registration district and found an 1875 civil marriage index record and also an 1876 record. I think the wife of Denis had one of the following surnames: Manning, Regan, White or Hart. Any look familiar?

    Roger mcDonnell

     

    First name(s) Denis
    Last name Sullivan
    Registration year 1875
    Registered Quarter/Year 1875
    Registration district Clonakilty
    Volume 5
    Page 87
    County -
     

    MarriageFinder?

    		 Denis Sullivan married one of these people
    Mary Mauning, Ellen Harte, Mary Regan, Mary Manning, Johana White, Laurence Callanan

     

    First name(s) Denis
    Last name Sullivan
    Registration year 1876
    Registered Quarter/Year 1876
    Registration district Clonakilty
    Volume 5
    Page 109
    County -
     

    MarriageFinder?

    		 Denis Sullivan married one of these people
    Mary White, Ellen Hart, Margaret Quirk, Mary Driscoll

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    Saturday 3rd Jan 2015, 08:23PM

  • Roger: Thanks for helping me out...I was hitting a wall via ancestry.com & the LDS site. This confirms what I had scraped together fm my paternal Great Aunt's Julia's input on her immigration form in 1911. I don't know nor could find the maiden name of my great-grandmother Mary using those same sources. For some reason, on my grandmother's marriage certificate she listed Johana White as her mother; but that is my paternal great grandmother's maiden name so I assume it must have been a transcription error by the clerk at the records office in Boston where he simply repeated what was right above the line as my grandfather's mother's name. BTW, I see you are from MD. I am down the road in Alexandria, VA.

    Again, thanks for geting me "unstuck"; I'll continue to search to see if I can find her maiden name so I may be able to expand the tree to the next level. Believe it or not, when I began this project this past Nov, never even knowing my paternal grandparents who died long before I was born; and my father passing in my teens, I didn't even know their first names, where they were born, anything at all etc. So, making it to this point is great fm my point of view. 

    Thanks again, Dave Hurley

     

     

    dwh46

    Saturday 3rd Jan 2015, 09:17PM

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