like to trace my grand aunt in Bridgeport Connecticut USA

Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reasonwhy they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given atthe port of arrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g.Liverpool, New York, etc.), this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps evenfind out an exact place of origin. Ellis Island: http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden: http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info: http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/ The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

Hello Connaught,

Many thanks for reading my post and sending a reply.  I actually live in Ireland and would love to know what happened to this woman.   All the information posted is from reliable sources.  I have her birth cert, her record going through ellis island and all that information contained therin.

I have all the family history preceding her emigration to the united states but the trail goes cold there in Bridgeport.

Thank you so much for an additional source in the boston pilot.  this is an avenue that I haven't yet tried.

Thank you for taking the trouble with all your suggestions.  It's much appreciated.

Sincerely,

Anne

Hi Anne,

It's a little out of my area but did some digging and hopefully may have some possible leads and/or useful information.

I found an Ellen Kennedy who arrived in New York City, NY on July 7, 1901, by way of Liverpool, England. She is listed on both the "Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists" and "Record of Detained Alien Passengers" of the Campania. The text is hard to read in the detained passengers list, specifically the "Cause of Detention" section (possibly says "cous. E. Orange, N.J."), but listed in the "Disposition" section is "[cous.?], Mary Doyle, 61 S. Grove St., [Brick Church?], N.J.". 

There is a Mary Doyle who was living at this address. According to the 1900 United States Census, this Mary Doyle immigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and is listed as a servant of the Jackson family headed by Francis Whiting Jackson (Mar. 20, 1841-Feb. 28, 1922). The Jacksons lived at the address from around 1893 to 1904, and Mary remained with the family at 125 Grove St., East Orange, NJ, until at least 1910 (per the 1910 U.S. Census). If this is the same Mary Doyle, it's unclear how long Ellen was employed and/or living at the 61 S. Grove St. address. 

Do you have any more information on Mary? She was 44 and unmarried at the time of the 1910 U.S. Census. It's possible Ellen may be mentioned in Mary's obituary.

Presumably, Ellen married and settled in Bridgeport sometime after 1905? 590 E. Main Street was the address of the "White Mig [Mfg] Co." [The Coe & White Co.]. It apparently housed several employees, or they used it as a forwarding address, during the 1900s but I wasn't able to find an Ellen Kennedy or Ellen Cullinane among them. 

The only "Cullinane" found in the Bridgeport, CT City Directory during that time period was a Mary Cullinane who was living at 352 Warren in 1908. There is an "Ellen E. Cullinan" listed in the Bridgeport, CT City Directory. However, she was the daughter John J. Cullinan (1864-1952) and Katherine Kennedy (1880-1960) who married in Naugatuck, CT on June 8, 1904 (Katherine was born in Naugatuck to John and Mary Kennedy).

The Cullinan family were fairly prominent in Bridgeport around the turn of the 20th century. Its patriarch, John Cullinan (1840-1924), a widely known funeral director-undertaker, was an Irish immigrant who arrived in Bridgeport around 1869. His sons, John J. (1864-1952) & Thomas M. Cullinan (1867-1928), founded the Cullinan & Cullinan law firm. Is there any chance Ellen's husband could be related?