Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again
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Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings tonight is to:
1) This Sunday is St. Patrick's Day. Are you a descendant of Irish ancestors? Who are your most recent ancestor(s) who were born in Ireland? Do you have DNA Irish ethnicity? Have you performed any Irish genealogy research?
Here's mine:
This is easy. I am one-quarter Irish. My father is one-half
Irish. His mother is 100% Irish. Here is how it comes out:
Irish Family
Anna Marie Sullivan
was born in 1892 in Anaconda, Montana.
Her father, John H. Sullivan, was an immigrant from County Cork, Ireland. I have not found the ship listing, but he might have come with his parents, Jerry and Mary (Sheehan) Sullivan. All his siblings also immigrated and the last brother was born in Michigan, where Jerry was a miner.
Her mother, Anna Marie Gleeson, was born in 1860 in Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. She was the second of ten children born to John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney. She came to the Dakota Territory with her family in 1879. She applied for a homestead, along with her father and two brothers, Martin and John James.
John Gleeson was born in Canada around 1833. His parents were Martin Gleeson and Ann Gleeson. It is possible that the Gleesons were from County Tipperary. Margaret Tierney was also born in Canada in 1832. Her immigrant parents were John Tierney and Ann Murray. John’s father was Denis Tierney. They likely came from County Tipperary, also.
Irish Research
I have done little Irish research. Many years ago, I paid Riobard
O’Dwyer, a Baera researcher, to locate my family and all he found were baptisms
for two of the Sullivan children. The book that would have had the marriage of
Jerry and Mary was missing. When the Irish Catholic church records came online,
that same book was missing, so it was missing at the time of the microfilming.
I have not found any of the Gleesons in Tipperary either.
Irish DNA
At Ancestry, my Irish estimate is 32% (April 2023). They
show it comes from Munster, Ireland, particularly the Beara Peninsula. This is
true of the Sullivans. County Tipperary is not far from County Cork. Here are
two charts that I made screenshots of.
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If I'm actually Irish, I have no idea where in Ireland. But my ex's grandmother's family was from Ballyvourney, County Cork. (Wow, I still remember how to spell that!) According to Google Maps, that's about 40 miles from Beara.
ReplyDeleteCelebrate your Irish ancestors! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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