Shea/O'Sheas and Doyles
I am searching for records about or descendants of my great-great grandparents, Michael Shea (born: 1833; father: Patrick Shea) and Margaret Doyle Shea. They were married in Knockane parish on Feb. 7, 1863. They reportedly had eight children. My great grandmother Catherine was the fifth child. She was born in 1870 and at the age of 13 seems to have been the first to leave home. In 1883, she arrived in the US and went to Bucksport Maine where she had an aunt , the sister of her father, Mary Cullity. She exaggerated her age when leaving Ireland and is on the manifest of the vessel S. S. Cephalonia that arrived Boston June 7, 1883 as Cath. Shea, age 19. She married Thomas Sheehan in Bucksport and had seven children. She died at 75 in 1945. Michael Meserve. Arlington, VIrginia 22207. Please use this email to contact me. : wmichaelmeserve@gmail.com Attached photo is of Catherine Shea Sheehan on the porch of her house in a Bucksport, Maine around 1929-1930 with her daughters Harriet Sheehan Kiley, Anna Sheehan a McCann, and Margaret Sheehan Turner. The little girl is my mother Kathleen Mary Kiley.
