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.
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 |
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