I am trying to find descendants of my ggrandfather and his brothers that came
from the Gurteen area ( or gorteen) area of county Sligo. This town is in the
parrish of Kilfree.
Corneilus and brother John Callaghan were born in the 1830-1840's and came to
Cincinnati in the 1870's. Corneilus saved his money and sent for his
girlfriend (Kate Finan) back in Gurteen and she came to Ohio where they were
married and their first child was born. ( I think at St Xaviers). After
living in OH for a few years Corneilus and Kate went to Elk Point,SD where
the US govt was giving 70 acres of free land to anyone that would settle
there. Corneilus had a brother Peter already living in Elk Point.
I know what happened to Peter and Corneilus after arriving in SD but have no
record of brother John back in Cincinnati. I have corresponded with another
Callaghan descendant who had a greatgrandmother leave the Gurteen area in the
late 1890's and also settled in Cincinnati, 20-25 years after Corneilus.
Gurteen is a very small town in Sligo and I think there has to be some other
family in Cin,OH that gave them reason to leave Sligo for Cin.
Are there any Callahan's out there who had descendants from County Sligo that
settled in the Cin area? Anyone have a John Callaghan from Cincinnati that
arrived late 1860's or early 1870's that can help me find out what happened
to John?
The father of these 3 brothers was Andrew and some of the other brothers
names back in Ireland were: Martin, Matthew and Thomas..Also other brothers
and sisters, names unknown.
Does anyone know how to get marriage and birth certificates from Cin,OH. I
have better dates at my office. I sent a request to St xavier but never got
a response.
Jim Callahan
816-942-9307