This is my third year
working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each
week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern
Family or at My Trails Into
the Past. I have enjoyed writing
about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways.
My
father, William J. Hork, was half Irish and half German. His mother, Anna Marie
Sullivan was one hundred percent Irish. Her father, John H. Sullivan was born
in County Cork and her mother, Anna Marie Gleeson, was born in Carleton County,
Ontario, Canada to Canadian-born Irish. Her grandparents, Martin & Ann
Gleeson, and John Tierney & Ann Murray were probably born in County
Tipperary.
Growing
up, we were very proud of our Irish ancestry. We looked forward to St. Patrick’s
Day when we could wear green (so as to not get pinched) and have corned beef
and cabbage for dinner. Mom would make a cake for dessert, decorated with green
frosting. Or perhaps we had green-frosted cupcakes at school.
People
talk about the “luck of the Irish” but I don’t know that I have been very lucky
in my research of my Irish family. I am grateful for the records I have found,
especially those in Canada, but I have not been so lucky with those from
Ireland. I hired a researcher many years ago to research the Sullivan/Sheehan
family and he found a few records, but just our luck, the one church book that
would have had the Jerry Sullivan-Mary Sheehan marriage was missing/lost. My
great-grandfather’s baptism wasn’t in the church records, either, though some
of his siblings were. When the Irish Catholic Church records were released, I’d
hoped to find him baptized in another parish but no such luck.
Maybe
with luck, I’ll meet these ancestors in Heaven and can ask where they were
born.
Other
blog posts on my Irish families:
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