California Connections

My Sullivans and O'Sullivans always had California connections, as far as I can tell from as early as 1870.  Hannah (Dealey) O'Sullivan, my great great grandmother, had a sister Mary Anne (Dealey) Hagerty who lived in San Francisco at the time of the 1870 census.

Mary Anne was in Boston on May 16, 1857 when she placed the advertisment below in the Missing Friends column of the Pilot, at the time a national Catholic newspaper.

• OF RICHARD DALY, a painter and glazier by trade, native of Bantry [co. Cork], who landed in New York about six years ago. Please address his sister Mary Anne, care of Richard Daly, No 25 Washington square, Boston, Mass.

She was looking for her brother who had come to America around 1850.  In 1862 she married William Hagerty, who was born  in New York.  They had several children born in Boston and at some point between the birth of William Richard in 1866 and the 1870 census migrated to San Francisco.

By 1880 her two surviving children were living with her sister Hannah in Charlestown. 

Hannah also had a daughter, Helena, who married first George Councilman and later Louis Mueller. She had at least 4 children, George and Eva Councilman and later, Caroline and Hella Mueller.  Eva lived at one time with Hannah in Charlestown, and after Helena's death in Sacramento in 1895, Hannah raised her two granddaughters, Hella and Caroline.

My grandfather's brother Richard and his wife Mary Alice (Behan) Sullivan moved to California sometime after their marriage in 1929.  I hope to learn more about them soon.!

Note to Katherine:  I added my email address to the about me section on my blog.  I wasn't able to find your email address through my blog.  Please email me, my cousin June has more pictures of your grandfather when he was young.  She will get them together for you.

Jeremiah O'Sullivan (1857-1916) (Part 3)



City Square, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Family tradition says that Jeremiah O'Sullivan was employed as a bartender in the City Square area of Charlestown.  In the 1910 census his occupation is listed as bartender and his place of employment as a saloon.  Jeremiah lived in Charlestown from at least 1880 until he moved his family to 29 Newbury Street, Revere, sometime between the birth of his son John in Charlestown in June 1900 and the birth of his daughter, Lauretta, in Revere in April of 1902.  

Boston Globe, January 26, 1916

Jeremiah was arrested on the evening of Tuesday, January 25 in City Square and charged with drunkeness.  The next morning he was taken ill in the City Square Charlestown Police Station.  He was taken to the Relief Hospital where he was pronounced dead. 

On his death certificate the Cause of Death is listed as "Not determined".  This is followed by "oedema of the brain and of the lungs, associated with fracture of the skull sustained under circumstances unknown and fr...... into the overuse of alchohol."

Boston Globe, January 1916

This was signed by Medical Examiner McGrath on Thursday, January 27 and the body would have then been released to the undertaker, Bernard S. Macken.

His funeral was held from his mother's home at 180 Chelsea Street, Charlestown on Saturday, January 29 at 8:30 a.m.  A requiem Mass was celebrated at St Catherine's Church at 9 o'clock.  Burial was the same day at Holy Cross Cemetary in Malden.

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