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Ellen Culliton is my great grandmother, my mom's dad's mother ane I'm interested in knowing more about her life there before immigrating to the USA.  I'm also very interested in knowing much more about her parents and her siblings who, I think, continued to live in that area for the rest of their lives.  I have her mom as Mary Hanlon (b about 1840) and her dad as William J Culleton (born about 1836, died June 1921)

Ellen was the oldest of seven children.  Ellen married John Kehoe in Mulrankin, Wexford on 19 Oct 1884.

John's father was Richard Kehoe (b 1835), a fisherman, who was alive when the marriage took place of his son, John to Ellen Culliton on 19 Oct 1884.  I do not know the name of John's mother and hoped that it might be in the marriage records.  Family history indicates it was a Roman Catholic marriage.  John was born 31 May 1864 and died 2 Jun 1931.  John was my mother's grandfather (her father's father).  I have very little other information. 

John immigrated to the USA in 1887 or 1889 (according to the 1900 and 1910 census), living in Cleveland Ohio.  He became a blacksmith when he came to the USA.  He may have lived in New York for some time immediately after arrival in the USA.

John's wife, Ellen (Culliton) Kehoe (b 9 Sep 1862 in Neamstown, Wexford) and son William Joseph Kehoe (b 25 Jul 1886 probably in Mulrankin, Wexford) arrived in the USA in 1890, a year after John, according to the 1910 census.  William was born in Ireland and all of John and Ellen's younger children were born in Cleveland Ohio.  Ellen had 12 children, 8 of whom were living according to the 1910 census.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

JackWest

Sunday 23rd Jul 2017, 11:30PM

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  • Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Monday 24th Jul 2017, 12:01AM

  • Thank you again, Roger! 

    I had Mary's birth date estimate off by 6 years and I had no idea of either William or Mary's death dates, so you've unlocked a lot for me.

    I see both William and Mary showed their place of birth as Wexford, so records of their birth should be in Wexford. I noticed that William and Mary Culliton had their grandson, James (age 12 in the 1901 census, so born about 1889) living with them, but none of their children.  Also, James was the one who reported his grandmother's death.  I think he must have lost one or both parents before the 1901 census, but I don't have him yet in my family tree.  I will try to find out which of his children James came from.  I already know my great grandmother Ellen Culliton (married John Kehoe) had a son James that was born about the same time as James Culliton, but this is James Kehoe and he shows up in the 1900 and 1910 USA census with his family.  So it isn't him.  I also know about a James Fagan, who was Mary's child, but he was born in the USA in 1905.

    I would still like to find out which of the family maybe stayed in Ireland and if they have descendants that are still alive.  What is the best way to do that?  The grandson James is the most likely one to have stayed in Ireland to raise a family.  I also think that Margaret (b 11 Nov 1870) and Mary (b 7 Oct 1873), Ellen's younger sisters, might have stayed in Ireland also.  I do not have later records of either of them.

    - Jack West

    JackWest

    Tuesday 25th Jul 2017, 02:13AM

  • Jack:

    The only record sources we have after the 1911 census would be the civil birth, marriage and death record images on www.irishgenealogy.ie  Birth images stop in 1915, marriages in 1940 and deaths in 1965. You could look for James Culleton marriage records in Wexford and then later a possible death record.

    Same with Margaret and Mary, you could look for marriage records starting around 1890 and go from there.

    The tough part is trying to find current descendants living in Ireland. Autosomal DNA testing may help. 

    Roger

    Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Wednesday 26th Jul 2017, 03:58PM

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