Cuddigans and McCarthys from Ballycroneen

Hello,

I am searching for information on the McCarthy and Cuddigan family from Ballycroneen. John Cuddigan was born around 1785 and married Ellen McCarthy around 1826-7. They had Johanna (1827), William (1829), Michael (1831), John (1832), Mary (1833), Patrick (1836), Thomas (1838), and another Johanna in (1841). I assume that the first Johanna died as a young child or infant. I know that John, Mary, Patrick, and Thomas came to the U.S. around 1850. It looks like William, Michael, and Johanna may have stayed back in Ireland. There is a William at Ballycroneen that married in 1849 and had a number of children through 1860. There is another William that pops up in American but he looks to be the son of a Cuddigan-Upton marriage at Tullough. there is also a Michael from Ballycroneen who married in 1849 as well. I can find no reference to a Johanna in either America or Cloyne after her birth. 

It appears that they were related to Crotty's and that a Jeremiah Crotty went to the U.S. around the mid-1820's. Cuddigans trickled to the states after with the bulk of them arriving around 1850. Jeremiah Crotty did very well for himself and began a town in Illinois. By 1860 most of the Cuddigans had congrated in Crotty (now Seneca) Illinois along with several other Cork families such as the Powers family. I am both interested in the line of the family that remained in Cork (apparently the family was in the line of butchering. John whom I am descended from was listed as a butcher in the army and my grandmother visited cousins who had a butcher shop in the 1980's) and how we are related. I am also interested in the reasons why a number of siblings left. They look to have been doing well enough despite the famine so I imagine the draw of possible opportunity pulled them. If anyone has any information on Cuddigans or McCarthys in Cloyne I would be most appreciative. I am also looking for information on Powers and McNamara families from Glenanemore, Imogeela, Cork.

Thank you,

Heather