Hello,
I started a Cushing surname project on FTDNA. If you know of any Cushings (or people who have one of its variants) who may be interested in joining, let me know.
There's a theory all Cushings stem from one ancestor. My haplogroup, E-Z21466, is rare in Ireland, so that'll be easy to verify, or not.
I'm descended from an Edward Cushing b 7 August 1809 in "Cork" (somewhere in that huge county), son of John & Ann.
How best to find which parish?
Dave
Dave:
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!
I'm drawing blanks for the most part. No Tithe records. No Griffiths records except that three Cushing families were in Co. Laois at that time (mid-19th century). The 1901 census showed one Cushing family in Fermoy but the whole family was born in England. The only clue I have is the article below on Richard Cardinal Cushing. It indicates his father came from Glanworth which is a parish in northeast Co. Cork.
Maybe others can add more details.
Roger McDonnell
Thanks for looking! Cardinal Richard's family is a good place to try starting; wonder if I can fnd he had any brothers!
Hi Dave, I’m a descendant of Cardinal Cushing. My grandfather was his first cousin. My grandfather was born in county cork glanworth. I believe at one time they both lived in the same house as I was told growing up. My grandfather was also named Richard Cushing. My maiden name was Cushing. My grandfather married Catherine Caufield from Gallway. They came from Ireland to theBoston area. There are many of us Cushing’s in and around Boston area.
Hi Bubbabean!
Lost my account for awhile.
Here it is 2 years later, and the international Cushing Y-DNA project in FTDNA has 6 seperate unrelated lineages.
The Irish Cushings are not related to the Norfolk, England Cushings who came to south Boston Bay in 1638.
www.familytreedna.com/groups/cushing
Am deep into this! I'll send you a DNA test kit free if you'd like.
In my own line, the guy who moved from Cork to Quebec in 1833 has 2 lines of descendants & only one is legitimately his by DNA, so I'm looking for maches for either me or the other guy; a mystery!
DaveCushing@Yahoo.com
Bubbabean and Dave Cushing ~
My paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Cushing was first cousin of Cardinal Richard Cushing also. I do know that her father, John Cushing and Cardinal Cushing's father, Patrick, we're brothers. They were the children of James Cushing and Bridget Tracy or Treacy. The brothers were born in Glanworth, County Cork. I do know that my grandmother did have a brother named Richard. They were siblings, in total, 14 children, only 11 of whom survived young childhood. They were the children of my grandmothers parents, John Cushing and Mary Roache. I also know that these siblings often named their own children the same family names as their own first cousins. The name Cushing has been spelled several various ways through the ages. Cussen, Cussion, Cushion, Cushan...When my grandmother arrived in Boston on the ship, Saxonia in October 1910, at age19 , with her brother Garrett, the name on the register was Cushing. And it stayed that way from that point on. I grew up in the southeast suburbs of Boston as a Fitzgerald. My parents were first generation Americans. I also know that Cardinal Cushing was born in So. Boston, and not Ireland, in 1895, 3rd child of Patrick Cushing and Mary Dahill. I have quite a few more details that have recently come to light for me since I recently joined this venue. My volunteer has uncovered a great deal of ancestral information for me that I really never thought I would know. Before his death, I discovered my great uncle Jack (John) Cushing, (married to Rose). He was a complete stranger to me, but he was my grandmother's younger brother, whom she had not seen in years. I admitted him into the hospital where he soon thereafter died. I was his nurse! He had the "Cushing nose" and he looked just like my grandmother, his sister. I found it serendipitous that he should spend his last day in the loving hands of his great niece... me!
I can see by the dates on these posts that several years have passed between your posts and this one. It's always possible that we could be somehow related! You can contact me at maelan56@yahoo.com if you think I might have some answers for you. ☘️Mary... CushingFitzgerald in this venue.
Regarding CushingFitzgerald... My grandmother Elizabeth Cushing's parents were John Cushing and Elizabeth 'Eliza' Roache... NOT Mary Roache... To answer Dave's question, Cardinal Cushing was one of six children. Bridget E. Cushing, Mary Jane aka 'Dolly', Richard himself, Rebecca E., Annie E., and John E. Cushing. So he only had one brother. These children were my grandmother's first cousins. All born in Boston. There is a Mary Immaculate grotto in Glanworth, commonly called a Marian Grotto, erected on the old homesite of Cardinal Cushing's father's birthplace, where Patrick (his father) and my great grandfather John, (Patrick's brother) and family, grew up. It was dedicated on December 8, 1954, to Richard Cushing when he was still the Archbishop of Boston. My parents visited the site in 1984. It was also the birthplace of my father's maternal grandfather, John Cushing. I've been told that my grandmother Elizabeth was born there. She would be John's daughter, one of 14 children born to John and Eliza (Roache) Cushing. My grandmother Elizabeth Cushing was a first cousin to the Cardinal. She married Patrick Fitzgerald, also from County Cork, (Leenane, Goleen, Crookhaven) in Boston in 1918. My father, a Fitzgerald, is the last of a generation, first generation Americans, as he will be 98 years old only days from now.
Must say, it can become confusing, as the names of offspring are repeated over and again!