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  • 18-07-2017 9:50pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭


    I'm researching a particular family and would appreciate it if a few others took a look at them. I feel I may be missing something obvious.

    William Sweeney and Johanna Walsh were married 25 Jan 1874 in Macroom, Co. Cork. Their daughter Margaret Sweeney was born 1 Jan 1877 in the townland of Rathleigh/Raleigh and Hanoria Sweeney was born 6 Jan 1879 in Sleaveen. I have all the civil and church records for those events. What I'd like to know is what happened to them after that. Nothing in the census or death records seems to jump out at me.

    It's worth noting that Johanna Walsh's brother emigrated to Chester Co., Pennsylvania in 1883. I don't know whether she emigrated or not.

    Thanks!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 Rox_88


    Could this be Johanna and Margaret in 1901 & 1911?

    http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Macroom/Gurteenroe_Street/1125820/

    http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Macroom/Gurteenroe_Street/426118/


    EDIT: Definitely not them, I found that Margarets birth cert, daughter of Cornelius Sweeney and Hannah Leary. I'll keep searching.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 Rox_88


    I'm fairly certain I've located them in Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts on the 1900 census. There's 3 children born in Ireland: John, Nora & Catherine, I found John and Catherine's birth records on IrishGenealogy.

    JOHN SWEENEY
    Date of Birth 1875
    Group Registration ID 9116450
    SR District/Reg Area Macroom

    CATHERINE SWEENEY
    Date of Birth 1883
    Group Registration ID 10302299
    SR District/Reg Area Macroom

    The fourth child Lena was born in Massachusetts. I suppose the next step to confirm it's them would be to find Lena's birth record and unfortunately Margarets death record :(

    Link to census:
    https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9YB-G7G


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Mollymoo19


    and interestingly, Hannah's surname was Walsh:

    Katherine (born Ireland 1883) daughter of William Sweeney and Hannah Walsh married Patrick Finlay in Revere, Massachusetts, on 12 Jun 1910. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4D3-C5G

    John Sweeney (born Ireland 1875) son of William Sweeney and Hannah Walsh, died in Revere, Massachusetts on 25 Nov 1912. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N47C-Y56


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭RGM


    Rox_88 wrote: »
    I'm fairly certain I've located them in Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts on the 1900 census.

    I believe that you're right. It's interesting that they ended up in Boston while her brother went to Pennsylvania. Usually families tended to follow each other to certain places.

    I've traced Hannah through the 1940 census and found that a Hannah (Walsh) Sweeney died in Boston in 1940. It will have to go on my list of records to get. Hopefully her death record will have her parents' names and confirm it's the correct family.

    It appears this family has living descendants. I'll have to try to get in touch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 Rox_88


    That census also says that Hannah had 9 children but only 4 living, so that's 4 birth records to find. It says that William emigrated in 1888 and Hannah in 1891 so I reckon he went ahead to work before the family followed. It would be interesting to see where he was in 1890 but I think a lot of that census was destroyed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭RGM


    Rox_88 wrote: »
    That census also says that Hannah had 9 children but only 4 living, so that's 4 birth records to find. It says that William emigrated in 1888 and Hannah in 1891 so I reckon he went ahead to work before the family followed. It would be interesting to see where he was in 1890 but I think a lot of that census was destroyed.

    I have birth records for John, Margaret, Nora, Mary, Catherine, Jane, and Helena. There is a seven-year gap between Jane and Helena, so that's probably where the remaining two are.


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