Looking for Jeremiah Sullivan (b. abt 1778, d. abt 1848) Meenygorman, Newmarket and descendants

MJ:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Meengorman is a 495 acres townland in Clonfert civil parish in Co. Cork.

We have a parish liaison for the Newmarket area and I will let her know about your message.

Roger McDonnell

Thank you Roger!  I appreciate it.

Roger,

Regarding "Meengorman"... how is that pronounced?  I have seen it on various documents as "Meenygorman," "Meenigorman," "Meenegorman" and you refer to it as "Meengorman."  Do you know the reason for all of the variances?

Thanks!

MJ:

Meengorman is the official spelling of the townland. Here is a link to a property that was just sold. Many of the townlands have different spellings that you will see all over either from a mistranscription or other reason. I've seen many different spelling variances for my grandmother's townland of Knockanaconny in Co. Roscommon.

Roger

http://www.daft.ie/cork/commercial-property-for-sale/agricultural-farm-…

I was wondering if Anne Marie, the parish liaison could assist me in finding confirmation of Jeremiah Sullivan's birth date (about 1778), death date (about 1848?) and/or marriage (I do not have a date for marriage, nor his wife's name though it might be Ellen).  He had 4 sons (Daniel, Dennis, John, Timothy) and 1 daughter (Mary).

Mj:

Welcome back!

I will forward your message to Anne-Marie. May be hard to find a baptismal record back to 1778 and death records prior to 1864 are problematic unless the RC church kept some records.

Roger

Mj:

Welcome back!

I will forward your message to Anne-Marie. May be hard to find a baptismal record back to 1778 and death records prior to 1864 are problematic unless the RC church kept some records.

Roger

Hi MJ

Unfortunately the records for the Newmarket area start about 1800 for baptisms so there is no record for Jeremiah born in the 1700rds, there are also very few burial records and the name Jeremiah Sullivan is a very very common name in entire Cork

There is a Jeremiah Sullivan who married an Ellen Connell in Milford in Feb 1832 but that seems a bit late for someone born in 1778 but not impossible, Milford is 20 minutes away from Newmarket

Kind regards,

Anne Marie

Thank you Anne Marie.  I appreciate your time!  What a disappointment though.  I don't think Jeremiah/Ellen Connell married 1832 is the pairing I'm looking for as his children were born starting in about 1805 through 1817-ish.  We *do* think his wife is Ellen (possibly Leary).

If the baptism records begin in 1800, is it too much to ask you to look for the the baptism records for his children?

Daniel Sullivan b. 1805 Newmarket

Dennis Sullivan b. 1807 Newmarket (my line)

Timothy Sullivan b. 1810 Newmarket

Mary Sullivan b. 1815 Newmarket

John S Sullivan b. 1817 Newmarket

All the boys immigrated to the US, so I have lots of info from 1840 on - it's the early stuff that is a mystery.

Hi MJ

Newmarket started much later then the rest of the area, see here , no records till the 1830's http://corknortheast.rootsireland.ie/generic.php?filename=centres/corkn…

Daniel Sullivan was born in The year 1831 to John Sullivan and betty Flynn in Newmarket Clonfert Co Cork.John Sullivan was my gggrandfather
Down through the generations there has been 3 Jeramiah Sullivan's in our family that I know of
I think Clonfert was the parish in those days not Newmarket.John.

John,

I think we are talking about two different Daniel Sullivans.  I have solid evidence that Jeremiah was a father to Daniel, Dennis, John, and Timothy.  The sons (and one daughter) were all born in the early 1800s in Clonfert.  From my research, I have found that there are many names used over and over which make the connections difficult.