Enright and Power families from MWEEVOO/MEEVOO, BALLYCONRY, Lisselton, Co. Kerry and later from TRALEE and the USA

Enright and Power families from MWEEVOO/MEEVOO, BALLYCONRY, Lisselton, Co. Kerry and later from TRALEE and the USA

I am looking for information about John Enright and Ellen/Helen Enright (née Power). They are my great, great grandparents and they lived together in Meevoo (Ballyconry) and later in Tralee. I believe they married on 28th February 1865 in the Parish of Causeway, Kerry. According to the parish marriage record I have found, John Enright was from Ballyconry and Ellen Power was from Clahane. However, Ellen appears with different birth places in different documents. In the 1901 census, her birth place is listed as Kilmore, Kerry. I have also found a parish baptism record for an Ellen Enright born in October 1849 in Tralee. I am unsure about the exact location of Clahane as there seem to be several of them in different locations, including a neighbourhood in Tralee. In addition, I suppose it could also be a misspelling of Cloghane.

Therefore, I think Ellen/Helen Enright (née Power) may have been born in 1849. She died of typhus fever in the Dingle workhouse in 1915. She may have been in the workhouse because there was a typhus hospital there.

I think John Enright may have been born in Arduachter (I think this is a misspelling of Ardought??), Causeway in 1843. If this is correct, his parents were Michael Enright and Mary Savage and his sisters were Ann Enright (born 1846) and Mary Enright (born 1850). Family members who acted as sponsors at the births include John Enright and Catherine Enright.

I do not know when John Enright died but I believe it was after 1880 and before 1901.

Information from Parish Records:

John Enright and Ellen Enright (née Power) had at least 5 children in Meevoo before moving to Tralee and having at least two further children there. The children are as follows:

Catherine Enright, born in 1866 in Meevoo (Moivu).

Julia Enright, born 1867 in Meevoo.

Cornelius Enright, born 1868 in Meevoo.

Elizabeth Enright, born 1870 in Meevoo. Elizabeth later married James Stritch and lived at 93 and 114 Rock Street in Tralee before moving to Widnes in the UK later in life.

Ellen Enright, born 1873 in Meevoo. Ellen is my great grandmother and her daughter, Catherine Enright is my grandmother. No father was registered for my grandmother Catherine when she was born in December 1897 and 10 months after her birth, Ellen left Ireland and moved to the US, arriving there in October 1898. She departed from Queenstown and travelled via Liverpool in the UK before continuing to New York on a ship called the Teutonic. According to the shipping records, she arrived at Ellis Island and her final destination was Shamrock Street in Boston (possibly to stay with her Aunt, although the shipping record is not easy to read). I have attached the documentation regarding Ellen’s arrival in New York (she is number 20 in the list). Unfortunately, I have been unable to trace Ellen once she was in the US and I have no idea if she did actually live in Boston or whether she moved to a different part of the country. I suspect that she married in the US and may have had another daughter. Some time between 1898 and 1925 she died and left an inheritance to my grandmother Catherine, who had moved to Widnes in the UK, where she married my grandfather, Patrick Horan. There is a rumour in my family that Ellen Enright died in a crash (possibly a train crash) in the US and that her estate was shared between my grandmother, Catherine, and another daughter (who lived in the US). I have no details of this American daughter and I am extremely interested in finding out more about this and about anybody currently in the US who may recognise these facts as part of their family history. I do not have a married name for Ellen Enright (if she did indeed marry in the US) and therefore have found it very difficult to trace her.

Bridget Enright, born in 1876 at Wallpooles (Walpoles?) Street, Tralee.

Mary Enright, born in 1881 at Rock Street in Tralee.

Many of the sponsors at the above births were members of the Power and Enright families, although I know nothing about them (e.g. Michael Power, Ellen Enright, Elizabeth Power, James Power, Julia Power, and William Enright).

Information from the 1901 and 1911 Censuses

Ellen Enright (née Power), my great, great grandmother, appears in the 1901 census as living at 93 Rock Street in Tralee, Kerry. By this date, her husband John Enright had died, although I do not know when. Also living at the address were Mary Enright (see above, born 1881), Elizabeth Stritch (nee Enright – see above, born 1870), James Stritch (Elizabeth’s husband), and their daughter Mary Josephine Stritch (aged 9 months); Catherine Enright (my grandmother, aged 3 years; daughter of Ellen Enright junior, who had moved to the US in 1898).

By the time of the 1911 census, the house number had changed to 114 and the Stritch family (Elizabeth and James) was still living at Rock Street. However, my grandmother Catherine Enright has disappeared, along with Mary Josephine Stritch. I wonder whether my grandmother Catherine may have been living with her mother Ellen in the US at this time. In the 1911 census, the Stritch family have two new children, Elizabeth and Thomas. All of the Stritch family, including Mary Josephine Stritch, later moved to Widnes in the UK. The census return shows that Ellen Enright senior (née Power, my great, great grandmother) was away visiting her brother on the night that the census took place.

I would like to know if anybody recognises the above family members and facts from their own research. Also, I would appreciate any advice on how to move forward with some of the outstanding questions I have.  I am particularly interested in:

1. Finding out more about the lives and ancestry of my great, great grandparents John Enright and Ellen Enright (née Power), either at their birth places or during their lives in Meevoo/Ballyconry and Tralee.

    

2. Any details of my great grandmother Ellen Enright’s (born 1873) life and death in the US after she moved there in 1898. Does anybody recognise her as a member of their own family in the US? Does anybody know who she married and if she had children? Did she die in a crash and if so, when?

    

3. Any other information about the above ancestors and their families.

    

Thank you in advance for your help

Paul Flynn