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I'm researching my children's paternal line...it is O'Connor. Earliest ancestor was known to be born in Ireland, but do not know where. First one in America:
John O'Connor, b: abt 1815 in Ireland. Married: Mary O'Connell, also born in Ireland.
Their son, John O'Connor was born in Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania in 1852. This John married Susan Coulston who was born in 1856 in Philadelphia.
This family migrated to Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
John O'Connor, b: abt 1815 in Ireland. Married: Mary O'Connell, also born in Ireland.
Their son, John O'Connor was born in Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania in 1852. This John married Susan Coulston who was born in 1856 in Philadelphia.
This family migrated to Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
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Permalink Reply by Janet O'Conor Camarata on
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My paternal line and the first in America was Patrick O'Connor (We believe we lost an "n" when Patrick's oldest daughter, Mary Ethel "Mollie" O'Connor taught school and dropped it when she became the teacher in a one-room schoolhouse or the 1880 Census taker was unfamiliar with the name and spelled all the O'Connors with one "n".).
Patrick was from County Kerry "from the mouth of the river Shannon." He landed in New York sometime in the early 1860's when he was about 14 years old. He disappearsed for 10 years and popped up on his homestead in Osborne County, Kansas arriving about 1871. He married a local girl, Emma Drusetta Farthing, in 1879.
He had six children. Patrick and Emma died of influenza in January 1892 in Luray, Osborne County, Kansas.
Supposedly, Patrick arrived in New York with an uncle and two cousins. And while in New York he lived with an aunt. No names are given, so continually wonder if there are unknown relatives out there waiting to be discovered...... -
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