Dinner for Two - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

This post is part of a project called 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Johnson Crow.  The prompt for this week is invite to dinner.

I would love to have dinner with my great grandmother, Laura Josephine (Shaw) Sullivan/O'Sullivan, also known as Marie Eleanora Chauvin.  For many years Laura was the penultimate brick wall in my genealogy research.  According to the family Bible she was born on January 22, 1878 in Montreal, Quebec.  I had looked for Shaws in Montreal for years, but never found a family that seemed to match what I knew.

Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal

I knew from later records that Laura's mother's name was Mary Ann McCarthy and she was born in Ireland.  I knew that Laura's father's name was Joseph Shaw.  In 2008 I made a research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.  I found an 1881 Canadian census for a Chauveau family with a French father named Joseph and an Irish mother named Mary A.  There were three daughters, with names and ages similar to Laura's known sisters, as shown below:

Josephine Chauveau compared to Josephine Shaw
Marie E. Chauveau compared to Laura Shaw
Louisa M. Chauveau compared to Mary Louise Shaw

Since this census was not available on line at the time, I had a copy printed to take home with me, just in case.  Fast forward to 2011, I was watching Who Do You Think You Are? with Rosie O'Donnell.  She was in Montreal viewing her great grandfather's baptismal record at Notre Dame Basilica.  I was sure if Rosie could find her great grandfather, I could find Laura.  I located Laura and all her siblings that evening in the Drouin database on Ancestry.com, as shown below:

Commonly Known As	Baptismal name	Date and Location
Joseph	Joseph	March 6, 1874, St Vincent de Paul, Montreal, Quebec
Joseph (buried)	Joseph	Sept 11, 1874, St Antoine de Pade, Montreal, Quebec
Josephine Shaw	Josephine Sophronie Chauvin	Dec 25, 1876, St Bernard de Lacolle, Quebec
Laura Shaw	Marie Elionore Chauvin	January 22, 1878, St Bernard de Lacolle, Quebec
Mary Louise Shaw	Marie Louise Chauvin	March 27, 1881, St Joseph, Montreal, Quebec
Edith Amelia Shaw	Emmilee Ida Chauvin	April 22, 1883, St Brigide, Montreal, Quebec
James Simon Shaw	James Simon Chauvin	Feb 6, 1886, Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal, Quebec

Mary Ann (McCarthy) Shaw and a daughter

In these records, the parents were identified as Joseph Chauvin and Mary Ann McCarthy.  Laura, her siblings and her mother emigrated to Boston by train in 1886.  I haven't found any record of her father, Joseph, in Boston, other than his mention in family obituaries.
Some of the questions I would like to ask Laura are below.
1. How did you lose your hearing, and what was it like living as a deaf person in the early 20th century?
Family stories vary about how Laura lost her hearing.  I was always told that she had scarlet fever as a child, which left her deaf.  June was told that she lost her hearing because of an explosion where she was working.  My grandfather spoke to her with a kind of sign language. 

We know that she belonged to a group for deaf people and that she had deaf friends.   My cousin June has a panoramic photo of a large group of deaf people, including Laura, visiting Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.

2. How did you cope with losing all your immediate family members in a 5 year period, from 1898 to 1903?
In 1898, Laura's sister Josephine was the first to die, from pulmonary phithisis.  She was followed by sister Mary Louise from consumption of the lungs in 1900 and Edith Amelia in 1902 from phithisis.  Her mother, Mary Ann (McCarthy) Shaw, died in 1903 from phithisis.  This left Laura, age 25, with five young children, and her brother, James Simon, age 17, as the only surviving members of the family.
Despite her deafness, and the prevalence of tuberculosis in her family, Laura lived to be 88 years old.



Name	Date of Death	Cause of Death	Burial
Josephine A. Shaw	May 5, 1898	Pulmonary Phithisis	Calvary, Mattapan
Mary L. (Shaw) Callhan	Feb. 28, 1900	Congestion of the lungs	Calvary, Mattapan
Edith Amelia Shaw	June 5, 1902	Phithisis	New Calvary
Mary Ann (McCarthy) Shaw	Aug. 28, 1903	Phithisis	New Calvary



3. When did you come to Boston, and who came with you?


Other than Laura, who married in 1897,  the Shaw family has not been located in Boston in the 1900 census.  According to various birth marriage and death records they lived at 29 Spring Street, 5 Ransom Court and 42 Wall Street, all in the West End.  James Simon Shaw's naturalization papers, filed on February 13, 1922, state that he emigrated by rail on the 21st of January 1886.  He gave his birth date consistently as January 21, 1884, but he was baptized on February 6, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec.  He may not have known his actual birth date, and may have believed that he came to Boston around the age of 2 years.


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Longevity - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Hannah (Dealy) Sullivan (1841? to 1919)

This post is part of a project called 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Johnson Crow.  The prompt for this week is longevity.    My longest living direct ancestor would be Hannah (Dealy) Sullivan .... maybe.

My great great grandmother, Hannah Dealy Sullivan was very consistent in reporting her date of birth as May 1, 1841.  When she died on October 31, 1919 her age was reported by her daughter Hannah as 87 years, 5 months, with a birth date of May 1, 1932.

In order to resolve this discrepancy I developed a time line for Hannah's life, as shown below:

Date	Event	Source
1832 May 1	Birth of Hannah Dealy	"Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, Family Search
1850 February 7	Married at Bantry, Jeremiah Sullivan	“Church Records” database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie
1851 January 9	Baptism of daughter Mary	“Church Records” database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie
1852 October	Baptism of daughter Helena	“Church Records” database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie
1857 November 8	Baptism of son Jeremiah	“Church Records” database with images, IrishGenealogy.ie
1861	Birth of daughter Hannah, New York City	Notation in daughter Hannah’s will that she was born in New York City
1880	99 Pleasant St, Boston, Mass.; age 40	1880 United States Federal Census; Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
1887	Naturalization, Boston; Birth date May 1, 1841, age 47	U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 (Indexed in World Archives Project); Ancestry.com
1888 May 23	Naturalization, Boston; birth date May 1, 1841, age 47	Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950 Ancestry.com
1894 September 1	Arrival at Boston from Queenstown, Ireland; age 52	Boston Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1943; database with images, Ancestry
1900	180 Chelsea Street, Charlestown, Mass.; age 60	1900 United States Federal Census; Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
1910	180 Chelsea Street, Charlestown, Mass.; age 70	1910 United States Federal Census; Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
1919	Death of Hannah Dealy, Charlestown; age 87 years, 5 months	"Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, Family Search

It seems pretty clear from the date of Hannah's marriage and the birth dates of her first two children, that 1832 is a more likely birth date.  There are not civil records from Bantry in the time from 1832 to 1841.  I could not find a baptism for Hannah in that time period either.

But why, other than for reasons of vanity, would a woman consistently report her age as 9 years younger on all available legal documents?  I believe the answer lies in this quote, taken from the Family Search Wiki on United States Naturalization and Citizenship.

The Act of May 26, 1824 allowed immigrants who arrived before their 18th birthday to, upon reaching age 21, petition for naturalization without filing a prior declaration of intention.  Petitions filed under this provision are usually called "Minor Naturalizations" because they relate to individuals who arrived as a minor (but who were an adult, age 21 or older, when actually naturalized).  They are also examples of "one paper naturalizations" because no declaration was required.  Many courts combined the declaration and petition documents into a form for this document which may or may not include the word "minor" in the title. Regular forms will cite the 1824 Act.  The minor naturalization provision was often abused and was repealed in 1906.

Because her Naturalization petition reports her arrival as May 5, 1858, she would have been age 17 years and 4 days on the date she arrived in America.  I think that starting with the 1880 census, this was Hannah's strategy for citizenship.  For this  reason, I am confident that her correct birth date is May 1, 1832 and she is my longest living recent direct ancestor.

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My Favorite Photo - 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

This post is part of a project called 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Johnson Crow.  The prompt for this week is my favorite photo.  This is a photo of my mother’s second cousin, Michael J. Manning.  One reason it is a favorite of mine is the note on the back.  The writer names everyone in the photo and where they are from:

 

Joe Cheparon Omaha

Gene Shepard Ogden

Mike Manning ?

Wm. Jarrell N. Carolina (Rebel)

Any genealogist or family historian appreciates this attention to detail.  Fortunately, I know Mike Manning and I know where he is from.  Michael Joseph Manning was born May 31, 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third child and second son of Michael and Mary Ann (Scanlon) Manning.  Mike enlisted in the U S Army of February 16, 1943 and served through February 24, 1946.  Mike died on June 19, 1984 and is buried at Good Shepherd Cemetery, Monroeville, Pennsylvania.  His wife Joan Alice (Riffle) Manning died September 15, 2002 and is buried with him.

The other reason I love this photo is Mike and Joan were very close to my mother.  Although I don’t remember ever meeting them, they always kept in touch with letters and photos.  It made the distance from Pittsburgh to Boston seem very small.  Although my mother had over 40 first cousins, her second cousin Mike and his wife Joan are ones I remember hearing about.

This is what I know about the Manning family:

Michael Thomas Manning was born  on May 6, 1888 at Ballyneanig, County Kerry, the son of Thomas and Mary (Shea) Manning.  He married, circa 1920, Mary Ann Scanlon, born November 3, 1890, at Scrag, Dingle, County Kerry, daughter of Patrick and Catherine (Foley) Scanlon. 

The children of Michael and Mary Ann (Scanlon) Manning, born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:

Mary Ellen, born April 29, 1921; died July 25, 2002; married (?) Irvine

Thomas Michael, born April 29, 1922; died August 3, 1998, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michael Joseph, born May 31, 1924; died June 19, 1984, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; married Joan Alice Riffle

John Francis, born July 3, 1926; died October 28, 1957, Miami, Florida; married Elizabeth (?)

Catherine Theresa, born September 23, 1927; died July 1982

Brendan, born and died December 31, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Florence, born December 15, 1929; died December 22, 2005; married (?) Ott

I would love to hear from any members of the extended Manning family of 7060 Kelly Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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A Tale of Three Sisters

A Tale of Three Sisters

When I was growing up in West Lynn the 1950's, I would often accompany my mother on errands.  This always included a running commentary on various people and places we passed by or visited.  "My father's cousin Jim Gould's farm was down that road", "the Mahoneys lived there, my parents played cards with them", "my cousins own that flower shop, Gould's Florists" or "my cousin Walter Curran won a prize in that art show" were some of the things I heard.  But when I asked who these people were and how we were related, I was only told "they're cousins!".

I knew many of these people worked at the GE (General Electric) or went to our church (Sacred Heart).  I went to grammar school with cousin Walter's son Leo, but he didn't seem to know anymore than I did.  Another classmate was Jimmy Clancy, who lived next door to my grandmother.  We were understudies for Mary and Joseph in the first grade Christmas play.  But he denied we were related at all.

I was determined to untangle theses relations.  I know that when my grandmother, Mary Scanlon, came to this country, she lived with her uncle, Pat Griffin, in Westfield, Massachusetts.  I found Uncle Pat and his family in the 1920 census, and working back, found he was married in 1890 to Catherine Murphy.   His marriage record showed his parents as Thomas Griffin and Mary Wholean.

My birth grandmother, Mary (Scanlon) McDermott, died when my mother was 16 days old, in Westfield, and my mother was raised by her maternal uncle and his wife, John and Nellie (Bryan) Scanlon.  My mother told me when she came home with them to Lynn, her great aunt, Margaret Devaney, knitted her a sweater.  Margaret was Uncle Pat Griffin's sister.  I found Great Aunt Margaret and her husband Patrick in the census, and through Vital Records found that they were married on April 18, 1890, in Lynn.  Margaret's parents names were listed as Thomas Griffin and Mary Holland.

I knew from our travels that cousin Jim Gould's farm was in Saugus.  I found Jim and his wife Nellie in the 1920 and 1930 census.  They were married in Lynn on June 24, 1908, Jim's parents were identified on the marriage record as James Gould and Nora (Houlihan) Gould.  In my reading about Irish surnames I found that Holland could be a derivation of Houlihan.  Now, the name of Uncle Pat's mother, Wholean, made more sense.  It could be a phonetic spelling of Houlihan.

Catherine (Houlihan) Curran

Leo Curran was my grade school classmate. His father Walter was related somehow to my mother and he painted as a hobby.  I found Walter in the 1920 and 1930 census.  His parents were James and Mary E. (Collins) Curran.  They were married in Worcester on November 29, 1899.  James parents were listed as John and Catherine (Houlihan) Curran.  Eventually I located marriage records for 10 children of Catherine, Mary and Nora Houlihan, Wholean or Holland.  My working theory was that Catherine, Mary and Nora were sisters, But I had no way to prove this.

I had put this part of my genealogy aside for a time, hoping that when I went back to Ireland I would be able to find out more.  Then a fortuitous encounter on Facebook changed everything.


Marian Pierre-Louis is a house historian and a realtor.  Marian lectures on African American and New England genealogy.  Because we have a common friend, Connie Reik, she friended me on Facebook.

While Connie is a librarian and an active genealogist, I know her originally from my knitting guild.  But, not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I accepted Marian's request.

Nell, Cornelius & Catherine Curran

On April 21, 2010 Marian posted a link to Michael Brophy's blog.  I know Michael as a member of TIARA (The Irish Ancestral Research Association), and I think I knew he had a blog, but I had never read it.  I learned from Michael's blog that the Irish Board of Tourism had put up pre-1900 Church Records online.  These included many records for the Dingle area, where my ancestors had emigrated from.

That evening I found the marriage record of Mary Houlihan of Milltown, daughter of Denis Houlihan and Catherine Doody.  She married Thomas Griffin of Scrag Commons on 11 February 1861 at the parish of Dingle R. C., Diocese of Kerry.

And the marriage record of Catherine Houlihan of Milltown of Denis Houlihan and Catherine Dowd.  She married John Currane of Milltown on 13 February 1866.

And the marriage record of Hanora Houlihan of Milltown, daughter of Denis Houlihan and Catherine Doody.  She married James Goold of High Street on 2 February 1871.

Since Dowd is a common variation of the surname Doody , I am satisfied that these three women were sisters, and the link connecting all my cousins is the marriage of our common ancestors Denis and Catherine (Doody) Houlihan of Milltown, Dingle, Ireland.

Patrick Griffin, John Griffin, Margaret (Griffin) Devaney, James Curran, Margaret Curran, Catherine (Curran) Leahy, Elizabeth (Curran) Mahoney, James Gould, Dennis Gould, Ellen (Gould) Shea and Nora (Gould) Sullivan, all first cousins, came to Massachusetts between 1886 and 1909.  They were 11 of the 28 children of the Houlihan sisters.  All but two of these immigrants had children.  Of the nine that did, I have identified 53 grandchildren of the Houlihan sisters.*

Kate (Griffin) Scanlon, my great grandmother, never joined her cousins in American , but 5 of her 10 children.  John Scanlon, Maurice Scanlon, Nellie (Scanlon) Sullivan, Mary (Scanlon) McDermott and Catherine (Scanlon) Cavanaugh joined their relatives in Westfield and Lynn, Massachusetts.

And, as always, Jimmy Clancy was right.  We are not related, by blood anyway.  His paternal grandmother, Alice (Bryan) Clancy, was the sister of Nellie (Bryan) Scanlon, the aunt we raised my mother as her own child.

Update: Since this was originally published in 2010, I have located two more children of the Houlihan sisters, Ellen (Curran) Canane and Mary (Griffin) Sweeney, bringing the total number of grandchildren to 68.

* this article was originally published in Volume 27, number 2, Spring 2010 newsletter of TIARA (The Irish Ancestral Research Association).  These are the numbers as of that point in my research.

View from the Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast

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A Year of Memories

April

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This year I gave my brother and sisters a calendar of memories for Christmas.  Priscilla Fairbanks (Sullivan) Reed is my Aunt Cill and her birthday is April 21, so this is her month.  Pictured, counter-clockwise from lower right:

• Grade school picture inscribed to her grandmother, Laura O'Sullivan.
• Her high school graduation picture, inscribed to her grandmother, Laura O'Sullivan
• Her Air Force picture
• A picture of her with my Uncle Frank.  I think this may have been take on Charlonne Street in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

Thanks  to June Russell Casaletto for the grade school and high school pictures.

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Happy New Year

From Francis Tolliver, 1914

To Martin Richard, 2013

Peace on Earth, goodwill to men.

Merry Christmas!

My cousin James Edward Clancy enlisted in the U S Army on February 24, 1941, at the age of 31.  He was the eighth child and sixth son of John Francis and Alice (Bryan) Clancy of Lynn, Massachusetts.

In the 1940 census he was living at home with his parents, sister Alice, and 3 brothers at 112 Cottage Street and working as a restaurant manager.

My grandmother, Jimmy's aunt, saved this clipping about him, probably from February or March, 1941.  It most likely appeared in the Lynn Daily Item..

The caption reads In this group are selectees at Fort Bragg, South Carolina, two of whom are from Lynn.  Who is that big man in the front row, white shirt and cigar in mouth?  He is Jim Clancy, Lynn umpire.  He left Lynn one morning with a group of guys from West Lynn and Uncle Sam has not found an army jacket for him.  Directly behind him is John Blackjohn, son of George Blackjohn, proprietor of the 20th Century Barber Shop.

This is the last Christmas card my mother and grandparents received from Jimmy.  The back reads Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Uncle John, Aunt Nellie, Cousin Mary, Love, Jimmy.

Jimmy was a Staff Sergeant, 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, died January 23, 1945.  He is buried in Plot G, Row 6, Grave 16 at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial located in Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

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The Year of the McDermotts (Part 3)

The Graves

The next day Mary and I spent the day with Tom in Cork City.  We had a great time shopping for books, visiting the English Market and touring the city.  In the early evening, Tom drove us over Michael's in Castlewrixon so we could all visit.  Michael met us at the car and told Tom he could come back to pick us up in a few hours.

Since it was still daylight, Michael drove Mary and I to visit the family graves.    There are three gravestones.  The gravestone in the center is very hard to read.  It is the grave of "the English lady",  Nora Barry, the wife of  David McDermott.  David emigrated to England at some point and married there.  He and the English lady eventually bought the big house at Castlewrixon and David's parents and siblings moved into the little house on the same property.


The stone on the left is the grave of my great grandparents, Peter and Ellen McDermott.  It reads Peter McDermott Castlewrixon He Died 4 April 1913 His wife Ellen Died 26 September 1918 And of their children, Christina, Peter and David.


The stone on the right is the grave of Michael's parents, Michael McDermott and Bridget Houlihan, Michael's parents and Tom's grandparents.

Michael and I at the family graves.

We had a lovely visit with Michael, Bridie and John Roche, grandson of Christina (McDermott) Roche, my great aunt.  We made copies of the family tree done by Sr. Mary Rosario (Bridget Josephine McDermott) and Michael showed us different family things in the house, including a clock that his aunt Catherine (McDermott) O'Sullivan brought back from America.



Tom came back to pick us up.  He joined us as we were sitting in the parlor.  He said he had not been in that room before, but we were not sure this was the whole truth.  The next adventure was to visit the little house, the home of my grandfather

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The Year of the McDermotts (Part 2)

The Visit 

I had emailed Tom, looking for a B & B in his area, and he insisted that Mary and I stay with him.  Checking FaceBook just before we left, I saw a post from Tom that he had moved!  He assured me he was still in Churchtown, but at a larger place.

We arrived bright and early in the morning on Sunday, and picked up our rental car.  We received a free "upgrade" vehicle which we really appreciated until we found out it was a delivery van with no back seat.  We set off to meet Tom for the 9 am Mass at St Nicholas in Churchtown.  We found Churchtown earlier than expected so we parked and walked around a bit to get some fresh air and stretch after the long night flight.  We were just wondering how we would find Tom, when we rounded a corner and saw a man standing in the middle of the road, talking on a cell phone.  He was saying "They just drove by, I don't know where they went."  I would have recognized Tom anywhere, since we look just alike.  Well, other than the fact that he is 18 years younger, a foot taller, and has much less hair!

We joined Tom for Mass and then went back to his house to freshen up and take a nap before joining the rest of the family for Sunday lunch at .Springfort Hall.  We had a lovely meal and I had the good fortune to sit next to Uncle Michael for dinner.  He told me about how the family look for my grandfather after losing touch with him.  They had hired a detective at one point to search for him in New York City, but were never able to locate him.  I explained to him how after my grandmother's death the children were separated and eventually abandoned by their father.



Above: U. S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, side 1; Image courtesy of Ancestry.com

Above: U. S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, side 2; Image courtesy of Ancestry.com



The last know residence I had found for him was 200 E 30th Street, New York City.  This was from his U. S. World War II Draft Registration card for what is called the old man's draft.  He was 55 years old and working for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.  None of us could find any further evidence of what became of him.

After Sunday lunch, Mary and I returned to Tom's house to chat and adjust to the time difference.  We really enjoyed Tom's new coffee machine!  In the early evening, the phone rang, and Tom answered in.  There was a quiet conversation, Tom hung up and turned to us.

"You've passed the test.  You have been invited to the house tomorrow evening!"




Back row: Michael McDermott, Claire McDermott, Tom McDermott
Front row: Bridie McDermott, Mary McDermott, Kathy Sullivan at Spring fort Hall

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The Year of the McDermotts (Part 1)

My major genealogy goal for 2015 is to organize and document my McDermott family, starting with the children of Peter and Ellen (Roche) McDermott who had emigrated to the United States.  This will include, as far as I can tell now,  John, Thomas, Richard, Mary, Margaret, and to some extent, David and Catherine.

My grandfather Richard McDermott disappeared from the lives of his children sometime between 1925 and 1930.  Following the death of his wife on May 26, 1925, living arrangements became confused and the four children lived with various relatives or with foster parents and no one ever knew what became of Richard.  Because we had a copy of his citizenship papers, we knew his full name and birthplace.  Since McDermott is not a common name in County Cork, I was hopeful to make a connection.

My work on the McDermotts of Castlewrixon began in 2009 when I Googled my grandfather's name, Richard, and his birthplace, Charleville, County Cork.  I turned up an email address for a Fr. Tom McDermott, stationed in Churchtown, but originally from Charleville.  I emailed Fr Tom, explaining what I knew of my grandfather and asking about the possibility of being related.  Time went on and I waited, but no response.  After 3 weeks, I had pretty much forgotten about it, when I opened the reply from Tom, which started Dear Cousin Kathy, your grandfather and my grandfather were brothers!.  

Tom went on to detail how he had checked with his uncle Michael and found out that my grandfather had been missing from their family also and they thought he had stayed in America and lost touch.  I had been hoping he had returned to Ireland, so we were both disappointed.

As we corresponded it became clear that I needed to make a visit in person.  My cousin Mary McDermott and I planned to come the following September and spend a week in Cork and Kerry before driving to Dublin for a research week with TIARA (The Irish American Research Association).

On September 25, the 92nd anniversary of  Ellen (Roche) McDermott's death, Mary and I left Boston for Shannon.  Thus began the great adventure.

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