Mullanes from Killeedy

My great-grandmother was Ellen Mullane, daughter of Daniel Mullane and Johanna Cregan. She emigrated about 1865 and in 1876 married Michael Ahern from possibly Minagay in Chicago, Illinois, where a large number of Limerick people settled. Michael has emigrated in 1863 and had enklisted in the 63rd New York Infantry shortly afterward. Within six weeks he was wounded and lost his arm above the elbow, spending the remainder of his service in hospitals.. The Aherns became O'Hearns in the US. they had five children, tghree boys and two daughters.  Their eldest son became a priest in Chicago. Michael died in 1905 and Ellen in 1929.

Ellen's sister, Margaret Mullane Wall (Mrs. John) also emigrated to Chicago in about 1880. Michael's sister Margaret Ahern Flynn (Mrs. William) and their children preceded him in locating in Chicago. By 1870 Michael and his younger brother Patrick  were living there with the Flynns. In 1876 Patrick married a Mullane - Deborah, daughter of Michael Mullane and Ellen Hartnett of Limerick.

Another of Ellen's sister, Catherine, married Daniel Casey in Limerick. Two of their daughters, Ann and Catherine, emigrated in the mid-1880s, settling in Chicago. Both married: Catherine to John T. Sullivan from Limerick, and Ann to a widowed German farmer from Indiana.

Many Mullanes in Chicago, mostly hidden under their married names!