Sorry should have said Hi Bob, Mary
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Mary Palmer <cal.mary(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jim,
My family have a John and a Mary Callahan in each generation. They came
from Cork,
my Grt Grandfather John Callaghan was baptised at St.Colman´s Cobh Island
in Cork harbour in 1825.(On the certificate his parents were John Callaghan
& Mary) He joined the Royal navy in Plymouth England in 1845 and the name
was then anglizised to Callahan, although on his marriage certificate in
Aghada,Cork 1854 (a ferry boat ride from Cobh) he used Callaghan again. His
brother William was married in Aghada also in 1848. Both brothers married
girls with the surname Gunn.
In 1861 I have Grt John and his wife on the Middlesex,London Census with
his children Mary,Catherine,John, Ellen, William (my Grandfather) and James.
My Grandfather William´s children were William, John (my father) and Mary.
My Grandfather was a ship´s Cook on the "Karamea" and died on same of
pnuemonia on the 5th October,1912. But I have always wondered if he or any
of his family did go to Philadelphia because I have located a one way trip
of his. It says "place joined present ship PHILADELPHIA. Date joined present
ship Fri 09 Dec. 1898. Discharge place Glasgow(Scotland) Thu 22 Dec 1898.
He had married my Grandmother Mary in London in 1892. and I thought he may
have used his seafaring trips to visit his two families (maybe I just have a
good imagination).
My father´s children were John, Albert & Mary (me).
Hope I haven´t bored you. I always think it is worth passing info on, just
in case !!
Mary Palmer nee Callahan cal.mary(a)gmail.com
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM, bob peterson <robert6367(a)aol.com> wrote:
> similar story but it was John Callahan and Mary that came from County Cork
> in the potatoe famine ie 1860 and landed in delaware and finally started
> Callahn Florist in Philadelpia...looked them up in some of the passenger
> boats but lot of john Callahans
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> Subject: [CALLAHAN] Callaghan's
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> My Callaghan g-grandparents left Sligo Ireland around 1865 and eventuality
> settled in South Dakota.
> Two of my g-grandfathers brothers also settled in this town in South
> Dakota.
> I assume they went there for free land that the US government was giving
> to
> encourage settlement in this part of the country.
>
> My grandfather died before I was born and my father died when I was six
> yrs
> of age. My dad had no brothers and therefore I grew up without knowing
> anything about my Callaghan heritage. When I was around 30yrs of age I
> received
> a
> copy of a book on the Callaghan genealogy written by a descendant of one
> of my
> g-grandfathers brothers. The book provided lots of details and mentioned
> that
> we came from County Sligo. I read and studied the book many times. When
> I
> was approx 47-48 I decided I was going to Ireland and find the
> Callaghan's.
>
> My wife and I went to Ireland and eventually found the village where my
> family came from. I knew it was Sligo but did not know where in Sligo.
> We
> found
> the village and stayed there for about 3 days. We found a few Callaghan
> women
> but they had no interest in genealogy. I kept working on finding the
> Callaghan's. My wife and I kept going back to that village for the next
> 10yrs.
> We
> also found my wife's family in Galway. We have made lot's of great friends
> in
> Ireland
>
> I eventually found some male Callaghan's from that village but there were
> no
> records and could not determine if we came from the same family.I
> suspected
> that we did but it was just wishful thinking on my part. Approx 3 or 4
> yrs ago
> I had my DNA tested hoping to find a Callaghan match, did not find any
> matches. Last year I went back to Ireland and convinced one of those male
> Callaghan's to have his DNA tested. He took the test (simple cheek swab)
> and we
> matched.
>
> I was pretty certain we would match because of similarity of names in his
> family and mine but would not have known for sure without the DNA. We
> can't
> tell
> how his g-grandfather was related to my g-grandfather but we do know
> there
> was a connection
>
> I am telling this story hoping to convince more Callaghan's to have their
> DNA
> tested
>
> Jim Callahan
> Kansas City
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