Ireland XO
Back to Message Board

Donovan/Driscoll Dunmanway, Drimoleague

Cork

Looking for info on my family from County Cork.   Not sure if the info I have is correct, but here is what I have:

Daniel Donovan, born 3 Mar, 1855 in Dunmanway, with siblings Margaret, Johanna, Ellen and Mary.  Parents were Michael Donovan and Catherine Coughlin

Daniel's wife, Mary Driscoll, born 17 June 1868 in Drimoleague.  Father possibly Nicholas or Timothy Driscoll, mother Ellen Driscoll, siblings Johanna, Ellen, Nora, Catherine, Margaret.

 

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Nick

IrelandXO member

5 replies

 

Nick

 

we may have a connection.   i have very little confirmation, tho.   my gggrandmother-Ellen Driscoll, b. ? 1830-1840?, Ireland, married Patrick Cunningham, i believe 28 sep 1856 dunmanway.  i have no info  concerning either set of parents.  i have found the following children for  them:

 

Kate,  24 jul 1857

Mary,  13 mar 1859

 Ellen,  mar 1861

 Denis,  4 mar 1864

 Helena, 1867

 Johanna [Annie],  1 oct 1868

 Patrick.  8 aug 1869

 

now-the reason i think we may have a connection...the children’s sponsors...

 

kate=ML Donovan  ellen donovan

ellen=pat donovan  cath murray

Johanna [Annie]=tim donovan  joanna donovan

patrick=richard  donovan  mary mennis

 

i’d asume all of these donovans would be related.  Annie was my ggrandmother-migrated to Boston, married willis landry;  as did helena-who married john moynihan.   

 

is any of this familiar?  if so-i’d enjoy hearing from you.  if not-continued good luck with your search.

 

callie

 

IrelandXO member

Hi Callie,

Unfortunately,  this info doesn't match anything in my tree.  Thanks though.

 

regards

nick

IrelandXO member

Any connection with either of you?

I have a Johanna Driscoll, born Ballinacarriga, Dunmanway 1841. Parents: Denis Driscoll & Catherine Crowley. 

She had siblings: Ellen (1833), Mary (1835), Ellen II (1837), Catherine (1839) and Mary-Anne (1843)

The father, Denis, had at least two siblings: Michael and Mary.

 

 

IrelandXO member

Hi,

Unfortunately, I don't see a connection (not to say there might not be but it isn't obvious). The family names are not familar to my research and the only family I know came from Cobh (or formerly Queenstown), not Dunmanway.

Have you tried looking through the database on http://www.rootsireland.ie/ ? It is best to narrow your search as much as possible as everyone seems to have the same name in Ireland... but happy hunitng.

Lenore

 

IrelandXO member

No  connection here, either, based on what I know about my ancestors.

IrelandXO member

Reply

Reply
One image file up to 2 MB.