John Sullivan 1844, son of Timothy Sullivan & Ellen Hartnett

Thanks for checking Roger. Timothy, Ellen and daughters all were in Massachusetts between 1866-1870. Since the women had no naturalization records it's hard to pinpoint their arrival. Timothy was never naturalized. I think my distant Sullivan connection has Polynesian roots as well. I may never figure it out but I think John may have left first and wandered the world!

The death record for Timothy Sullivan (1810-1895) states his parents were Patrick Sullivan and Bridget. One of my great aunts had recorded on her family tree that Timothy's wife, Ellen Hartnett (1826-1885), was the daughter of Charles Hartnett and Clara Nalley. I know they married in Kilworth in 1843. They immigrated to Great Barrington, Massachusetts about 1865. I have the Griffith's Valuation record which shows them living in Graigue.

While researching on an unrelated family I came across another Hartnett family, a Patrick Hartnett married to an Elizabeth Sullivan, from Bantry. This Hartnett was born in the late 1860s. I figured it was coincidence, the distance between Graigue and Bantry is a problem. However, on two of Timothy & Ellen's children's baptismal records the sponsors are Sheas. The Hartnetts from Bantry had a son Patrick who married a Mary Bridget Shea. Are these family names just so common in Cork that it is entirely possible that none of these people are related to each other? I am ready to tear out my hair over all these names that everybody seems to share withing their family trees! How do you ever disentangle them?