SNGF - Your Most Recent Ancestors with No-Known-Name Parents

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:

1)  Sometimes we don't know the full names of both the parents of an ancestor.  In our family tree, those ancestors with unknown parent names are the end of the line, at least as far as we know. [Some researchers call them "brick walls."]

2)  Tell us about several of your ancestors who have no known-name parents, 

3)  When was the last time you looked for these unknown parents?

Here's mine:

My RootsMagic is set up with my daughter as no. 1, so I have both my genealogy and my husband’s genealogy in the same file.

For his line, the first unknown parents are the parents of his 2x-great-grandparents, Anders Petersson and Anna Larsdotter. I know through patronymics that Anders’s father’s first name would be Peter, and Anna’s father’s first name would be Lars. I bet my husband’s cousin has researched this line and may know their names. I should check her Ancestry tree. If she hasn’t researched them, then I’d have to use one of the Swedish websites to do some research.

On my side, I don't know the names of six 3x-great-grandparents.

1. Parents of Susanna Radunz. She and her sister came to America with the Sievert family from Schneidemühl, which was in Posen, now Poland. I don’t think that Susanna was born in the same area as the Sieverts.

2. Parents of Jeremiah Sullivan of County Cork. I have searched through Irish church records and can’t even locate baptisms of Jeremiah’s children, much less his own. I doubt I’ll ever know his parents.

3. Ditto with the parents of Jeremiah's wife, Mary Sheehan. Both have such common names; it is difficult to distinguish them from others of the same name.

I have many 4x-great-grandparents with no names, too many to list.

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