Help finding documents on grandmother

Hi Mike, was her sister also by the same name, was she 8 years old when she died?
Margot

I should have also asked, what was her Mother and Fathers names.
There are a few Ellen Brosnan's at that time.

Hi, Margot, and thanks for your reply.  Yes, you're right that her older sister was about 8 when she died.  My grandmother's parents' names are Cornelius Brosnan/Brosnahan and Bridget Collins.  Con was a cooper from Knockbrack, and Bridget from Abbeyfeale.  They married in 1884, Bridget had 9 children and 7 survived to adulthood.  Con's parents' house still stands, though is now used to store lumber and turf.

As to my grandmother, Nellie Brosnan, I took birth dates of her immediately older and younger brothers and added and subtracted 40 weeks (for mother's pregnancy).  That narrows her birthdate down to early June 1902 to mid September 1903.  But no luck finding her birth or baptism date or date of arrival in the USA, supposedly 1920.  It has been a challenge!

Many thanks for giving it some thought!
Mike

Hi Mike, thanks for the information.
Looking at the 1901 Census.....she is ......Nell aged 7, working out her birth year would be approx. 1894.
YES, her she is .......see the attachment below. (number 350)

Margot

Hi, Margot, and yes that is her older sister (whose name she shares) who died around 1901 as a little girl. So strange that all siblings except my grandmother show up in records, not even in USA arrival manifests. I'll post updates if I find anything.  Thank you for your help!

Mike

Hi, Margot.  The 1894 Knockbrack, Knocknagoshel birth record is in fact my grandmother!  It turns out that as time went on, she stretched her birth year more and more. :-)  Even her headstone shows a 1902 birth year, the source of this confusion.  Since her mother had 9 children and only 7 survived, we assumed one that didn't survive was an older Ellen.  (The same happened with two Daniels, whose records we have.)  My cousins and I guess that as she reached her late 20s and remained single, she made herself younger.  No idea of the real reason, of course. I finally found the ship manifest with her US arrival, indicating the 1894 birth year, verifying there is no older Nellie.  That discovery allowed me to find her as a teenage servant at a dress shop in Abbeyfeale, then a servant in a US household, a return to Ireland, and another return to the US, getting a little younger each time.  At that rate, she is probably younger than me by now.  :-D  Many thanks again for your help.

Mike