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Catherine (Kate) Connelll or O'Connell

Catherine (Kate) Connelll or O'Connell

Born
1838-01-01 12:00:00
Died
1911-01-01 12:00:00
Gender
Female

I have been tracing my family line back to Tipperary, Ireland.  My great, great, grandmother is Catherine (Kate) Connell who married Bernard Sweeney on the 23 November 1871 at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Ballingarry. Bernard was a shopkeeper and also a postmaster possibly in Moyne. Catherine was a farmers daughter and her father was called William Connell and they both came from Ballingarry. Her children were Mary (b1873),Johanna (b1875), Anastasia (b1876), Anne (b1876) and Edward (Edmund) (b 1877).Her husband Bernard Sweeny (or O'Sweeney) was born in Thurles Rest on 3rd February 1850. His father was Michael Sweeney and I think has mother was called Mary Donoghue. His father is shown as a labourer on his marriage certificate. 

The family are shown next in Kirkdale in Liverpool on both 1901 and 1911 census returns.  Bernard was then working on the Liverpool docks. I would like to try to find more on the Tipperary connection and the family and the possible reasons for leaving Ireland.

Associated communities

Tipperary

County Tipperary, or Tiobraid Árann in Irish, is part of the central plain of Ireland.  We are a landlocked, rural county home to mountains, rivers and lakes.  Our county town is Clonmel and we have a population of approximately 160,441. We look forward to helping you connect with your ancestors’ place of origin.

Other ancestors in this community

Buildings in this community

  • Castle Fogarty

    Location: Tipperary

    Ballycahill, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, E41 YP68

  • Cahir House Hotel

    Location: Tipperary

    E21H244 TIPPERARY (Ireland)

  • Spring Mount Tipperary

    Location: Tipperary

  • St. Ruadhans Abbey - Lorrha

    Location: Tipperary

Timeline events in this community

  • 1840s

    Hogan/Murphy Emigration to St Louis

    1848-01-01 12:00:00

  • 1840s

    Irish press warns against Jamaican Indentured Servitude

    <p>The theme was always the same: the pestilential climate of the island, the reduction of poor emigrants to slaves, the severity and cruelty of the planters (and planter-dominated Assembly clinging to every vestige of oppression) and, of course, the absence of priests and chapels.</p>

    1840-12-01 12:00:00

  • 1880s

    1889 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1889-10-20 12:00:00

  • 1890s

    1895 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

    1896-03-15 12:00:00