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My GGF seems to have been the eldest son of Denis Callaghan and Ellen Donoughue, christened in Ballyvourney in 1819.
That family lived in Clondrohid vicinity (Garranenagapul?) as of 1823 per christening records of later children, but might have lived there earlier in what would have been Denis' property; with Ellen going back to Ballyvourney and what would have been her parents' home for the birth of her earliest children, which I have read was common practice.
Patrick migrated to the US before 1853, when he married Margaret Sweeney, a widow with a daughter Johanna born in 1849, in Chicopee, Massachusetts. In 1855 the family moved to Lemonweir, Wisconsin, and then to Waseca County, Minnesota in 1865. Along the way they had five sons: Eugene (1854), John A. (1856 JosephLuke (1860, my patermal GF), William H. (1863), and Denis M. (1865).
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| Date of Birth | 1st Feb 1819 (circa) | |
| Date of Death | 1st Jan 1881 | |
