Which Bill Chambers are you speaking of?

                                                CLEVELAND'S IRISH CULTURAL FESTIVAL                                     

            or Which Bill Chambers are you speaking of?

by

    J.C. Sullivan

Copyright, 1997

         Cleveland's West Irish-American Club sports  a  record for picking   wet weekends for their Annual Ohio Irish Festival at their spacious and impressive grounds in North Olmsted. According to Bill Chambers.. well, wait a minute - let's back up a moment. When you talk about Bill Chambers in Cleveland, you'd better apply the right moniker so one knows exactly which Bill you're speaking of.

     A past-Project engineer of the event, supported by a cast of hundreds, is 'Brick 'em' Bill Chambers, who together with his brother Emmett, operate Inland Refractories Company, a supplier of firebrick to the hot metals industry. Not to be confused, of course, with other colorful Cleveland Chambers.

     There's also 'Lay 'em down' Bill, from Chambers Funeral Home, opposite St. Patrick's Church (West Park) on Rocky River Drive. Because a three day Irish  mist visited a recent  Festival, wetting the crowd and grounds for the second year in a row, 'Lay 'em down' Bill said of 'Brick 'em Bill, "He ought to find a country that's suffering from a drought and get hired to stage a festival!"

     Another local, 'Sing 'em ' Bill is a performing artist at the festival and has been seen and  heard throughout Ohio with  various  other local performers.

     The fourth Bill one could speak of in Cleveland is  'Set 'em up' Bill, a tugboat Captain and former owner of the popular Public House, at Kamm's corner, Rocky River Drive and Lorain Avenue. Mayo visitors to Cleveland are always to be seen there. Sean Murray was there lrecently,  in town for his son's wedding. 'Set'em up'  sold  the Public House a few years ago so he’snow been crowned  'Tug 'em Bill.'  A classmate of this writer at St. Vincent DePaul grade School, he'll be the subject of a future story.  We fondly hope this story will  get by censors and moral advisers. I threatened him that I’d tell  Mayo readers how I saved his life after he cut his arm playing Pom-Pom-Poolaway in Jefferson Park. The deal was that if he ever bought a pub I'd drink for free the rest of my life. Maybe he was forced to sell the joint?        

     A visitor to another recent  festival was  former Ohio Congressman Martin Hoke, who claims kinship with Wexford's Ignatius Xavier Rossiter. Rossiter allegedly was a leader in the 1798 rising. Hoke visited the West Side I'A's tent where he purchased a sweater. When he said, "Hi, I'm Martin Hoke, Ann Halloran, recoiled in mock horror and said, "Ohmigod, a Republican!" It's assumed, of course, that to be Irish in America one must be a Democrat. Ten minutes later Hoke encountered a Halloran look-a-like while walking through the parking lot. His greeting brought another, "Ohmigod, a Republican," to which the Congressman replied, "Didn't we just meet?"  Turns out it was Halloran's sister. Ann had told her what had happened earlier and she was having fun too.

    Television Station WEWS TV5 caused a bit of a stir when they changed their tentative plans to interview Congressman Hoke. Wanting to interview him about President Clinton's policies, they'd made arrangements to speak with the Congressman outside the I-A's gates. The I-A has a strict policy of no- politicking on the grounds. However, because of the rain, the TV crew decided to move inside the gates, underneath the overhang by the Clubhouse. Ever-mindful Club President Helen Malloy gently reminded TV5 reporter Bill Shiels that there was to be no mention of the club when they broadcast the political interview later during the evening news. And they didn't! They did

interview Festival Staffer Mary Kay Bomberg and took their cameras around the grounds to show the Greater Cleveland viewing audience how much fun there was to be had by coming out to the Festival.

Shamrock and Sword - The San Patricio Battalion

Shamrock and Sword – Robert Ryal Miller

A Book Review by J.C. Sullivan

A part of Irish-American, or perhaps Irish-North American history, is little known in the U.S. but rather well-known in Mexico. The history of the San Patricio Battalion of the Mexican Army is mythological to many Mexicans and unknown to most American-Irish.

In the 1840s, conflict was occurring when the governments of Mexico and the United States could not agree on peaceful terms to resolve their dispute over land. President Polk moved troops opposite the Mexican border along the Rio Grande River. Among these troops were many foreign born soldiers. 25% of them, to be exact, were Irish. War with Mexico was begun in 1846.

Conditions in the American Army were crude – discipline was meted out horrifically when compared to today’s modern Army. Living in tents in the southern Texas’ environment was brutal. Food was ill-prepared and water was brackish. Given these conditions, when soldiers did get some time off in town, alcohol, handsome women and the promise of land in Mexico lured many Irishmen to desert the American Army and cross over to Mexico. Some were enticed with the promise land of their own if they joined the Mexican Army. Unfortunately, they ended up fighting against the American Army. With the latter victorious in the war, military court martials settled the fate of the San Patricios.

Robert Ryan Miller’s Shamrock and Sword (Oklahoma University Press, Norman, OK) is a masterpiece of scholarly research gleaned from American and Mexican newspaper accounts. Mexican government records were not made available to him in his research;  bribery is a way of life south of our border.

For Mexican readers, Miller, Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, sets the story straight, correcting their popular myths. At the same time he educates Americans about what really happened. More importantly, in this reviewer’s opinion, he devotes a chapter to Why They Defected. The American War with Mexico produced the highest rate of desertion in American military history.

A key figure in the San Patricio story is artillerist John Riley (Reilly), who said he was Galway-born.  According to Miller his home parish might have been Clifden. In 1845, when he joined the American Army, he stated he was thirty-five years old. This would give him a birth date of 1817. Miller indicates that by Riley’s own testimony he was a veteran of the British Army. He had demonstrated previous artillery expertise. Miller surmises that he might have deserted the British Army while he was possibly stationed in Canada.

After hostilities between the two nations ceased, the deserters were sentenced to death. Riley and others were eventually spared. However, in San Angel, sixteen San Patricos were hung.  Two days later the remaining thirty convicted deserters were hung when the American flag was raised over Churubusco, signaling the American victory.

Most American soldiers in Mexico approved of the hangings. As far as they were concerned these men were traitors.  But Why They Defected is ably demonstrated and brought to light by Miller.

 Irish men have long jumped into the military uniform of other nations to escape poverty, for adventure or for what they have perceived to be righteous causes. The same reasons Miller postulates are applicable to Irish men throughout history.  One can conclude many things from Shamrock and Sword. This writer believes Irish men, and men the world over, are perhaps a bit too keen to put on the uniform of another nation for whatever reason. Throughout history we have done so gallantly and honorably. However, in the process, we have created many widows and grieving family. And wars go on and on and on.

 My final conclusion in reading Miller’s story is I have come to believe that war is the natural state, peace is unnatural. Irish men, men everywhere, need to think differently about matters and not take matters at face value, i.e. popular thought.

Miller’s work should be taught in military academies. Why They Defect should be coupled with Why They Fight. Maybe in the process all men will be less apt to stand up for others when they should be standing up for their own nation and write another story, Why Aren’t We Being Friends?

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Sullivan is a military veteran and an internationally-published writer residing in northeast Ohio.  He is fifth-generation American-Irish on his maternal side and 4^th generation on his paternal side.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny visits Cleveland, Ohio

Jimmy Buttimer - Savannah's Irish-American Poet

SAVANNAH'S IRISH-AMERICAN POET

                              

   by

                         

   J.C. Sullivan

     Throughout our lives we meet 'Irish' people. Some are native-born, some are Irish-Americans'. Some we soon forget, some we can never forget. Savannah's Irish poet laureate, Jimmy Buttimer, falls into this latter category. Currently enrolled in a Masters Program (History), he's always been interested in history. With the death of his grandfather, Patrick Joseph Buttimer, the entire family took care of him the last few years of his life, they talked a great deal about his childhood in Savannah.

     "He knew his grandfather, the original emigrant from Cork, and his name was Patrick Joseph. So I started to research a lot to do with the family and a lot of the records I found intact on his life were his service records in the Confederate Army. I followed his regiment and found a diary of one of the members of the regiment that had some really remarkable passages in there about the Irish soldiers that made up about a third of the regiment. I went ahead from there and added imagination to the facts that I found but my poetry is all based on primary sources and materials.

 He was in a unit called the First Georgia Regulars.  They were a unique regiment, probably the crackerjack regiment. They were sent from Georgia to Virginia early in the war," Buttimer said. He continued. "They had professional discipline; the officers were from the best, well-known families in the State. They were very strict in their discipline and training and so they were much more professional than many other units in existence at the beginning of the war.  They were recruited, a large number of them, from Irish dockworkers here in Savannah.  Instead of a regional pool they were created statewide and sent up to Virginia in service of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate)."

    One evening during Savannah's recent Irish Festival he took the stage at Kevin Barry's Pub on River Street. A hush fell over the crowd and a shh went out from them in an attempt to deaden the chatter from the next door bar. "To Have A History," is a tribute to his great-great grandfather. Speaking with a brogue that an American would be hard pressed to discern as not being native to Ireland, he begins.

   

 "Now I have heard the different camps proclaim their honor and these same men would                                                              seek to find the first wrong on a field of carnage

So as to say that one was Cain, the other Abel.

                 But I was there to live the hate, to smell the fear and heed the

slaughter and here's the Hell of it. We murdered them and they murdered us

                  and that was our war in the Deep South when we were fighting the Negroes.

                    On John's Island we were pressed by a vast host of Negroes.

 They carried the works on our right flank and  murdered the wounded Stono Scouts before our eyes. But their victory was short as we counterattacked and the men went red-eyed mad with rage.

We shot the captives where they stood

   or hunted them down in the tall grass to finish them off

with clubbed rifles and bayonets.

   And we would have killed them all but for our officers

who beat us with their swords."

     Midway through his poem he pauses to catch his breath and compose himself, temporarily overwhelmed by the deep emotions he feels. Flashing eyes reveal the inner passion of his deeply-felt West Cork Irish roots. After a few moments he continues.

   "In quiet moments long removed that hellish day is with me.

'Twas there I heard the sound of blood lapping from throat to earth

   and saw the bodies arch and heave with each fresh gout of blood.

   And now I'm back in the Old Fort

with the Negroes and the Irish as before the war.

   And my neighbor comes from Africa

with ritual scars upon his face as a sign of his people.

   And now his son runs with my son

as two-legged pups through the dusty lanes.

   And I often stop and wonder...at the quareness of it all.

At times like these my heart is troubled

   and I walk the few blocks to the river.

And I watch its currents moil.

   'Tis a great, muddy beast of a river...

'Tis the lifeblood of God, and it carries the sins of the world.

   What was it drove my hand to murder?

Was it truly the love of one thing and the hatred of another?

   Or did the priest say more than he knew?

We are made in His image. We are made in His image.

   So ye that would seek the first wrong on a field of carnage

   content yourself with what ye find.

But I would tell ye as ye do not know, that murder is murder

   and a history is a hard thing to have."

IN THE SERVICEOF THE BRITISH/COMMONWEALT

Benjamin Sullivan, b. Berwick, Me., ca. 1738. Served as an Officer in the Royal Navy aboard a man-o-war. Was lost at sea before the American Revolution. No marriage mentioned in records. Eldest brother of American Major General John
Sullivan.

Rear Admiral Thomas Ball Sulivan (d 1857), had fourteen children; four of his sons were in the British navy. Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, eldest son of the foregoing. During the Crimean War in 1854 then-Captain Sulivan, commanding the Lightning, participated in attack on the Russian fortress of Sweaborg in 1855.

 Norton Allen Sulivan, Vice-Admiral, and son of TB Sulivan, took part in the battle of Jutland in 1916.

 John Sullivan, V.C., b. April, 1831, Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. During Crimean War, on 10^th of April, 1855, was awarded Victoria Cross. Was created Knight of the Legion of Honour on the 16^th of June, 1856, by the Emperor of the French. Received Sardinian, Turkish and Crimean Medals, with clasps for Inkermann and Sebastopol. Also recipient of Silver Medal of Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a drowning man in shark infested waters.

Private John Sullivan, 29^th Reg’t of Foot. KIA. Gujrat, 21 Feb 1849, northwest Indian Punjab battle of Anglo-Sikh War.

Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, V.C. - 1915; Gallipoli, Turkey.

Arthur Percy Sullivan , V.C. - 1919; Sheika River, Russia

Admiral George Lydiard Sulivan, another son of Admiral T.B. Sulivan.

Sir Charles Sulivan, Admiral of the Blue. Son of Sir Richard Sullivan, East India Company.

Thomas Hebert, d 1824, son of Colonel John Vera O'Sullivan, served with British and Dutch forces.

Denis Patrick. The Following is part of the letter from The Welch Regiment Museum regarding 25728 Denis Patrick Sullivan 17th and 18th (service) Battalions,The Welsh Regiment ct Medal citations of D.P.Sullivan who was a brave and gallant soldier. His gallantry and leadership at Mory, 23/24 March,1918, was such as to merit a mention in the official history of the regiment. 

The 18th Welsh during four days, surrounded and fighting against great odds, was virtually wiped out. Only the commanding Officer, one officer and twenty other ranks survived to tell the tale, and amongst them was D.P.Sullivan. The remainder died at their posts or were wounded and/or were taken prisoner.

Through their efforts, and the efforts  of others,  the German advance was halted, and thereafter the course of the war turned in our favour. Seargeant Sullivan's decorations for gallantry have often been on display as part of the rotation on display of a large collection of decorations. His other two decorations, the British War and Victory medals were not presented to the regiment.  The citations-

25728 Private Denis Patrick Sullivan, 17th (service)Battalion ,The Welsh Regiment, 1st Glamorgan Bantam Battalion

John O’Sullivan, age 20.  47 Lynsted Road, Liverpool, England. Crew member of Irish-registered City of Limerick, died when the ship was attacked by German aircraft 15 JUL 1940 off the French coast and later sank.

Sullivans in Texas History

Many of the Irish were recruited by the Spanish to come from Ireland to Texas in the 1830s. Ships brought whole villages from Ireland directly to South Texas below Corpus Christi. They settled in San Patricio & Refugio. The poor people didn't know what was in store for them. 

Many died during and after the voyage. The survivors were subjected to the tremendous heat, mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, loneliness, tropical disease and the dreaded hostile Indians. It was a one way ticket. Many survived and eventually moved to Victoria, San Antonio and along the Rio Grande.

The name Sullivan and O'Sullivan occurs very frequently during early Texas history. Cpl. Denis Sullivan name appears before, at and after the Battle of San Jacinto, where Sam Houston and his outnumbered army defeated Santa Ana for Texas Independence. Incidentally, the land that the battle was fought on was owned by the widow McCormick from Ireland.

There were three O'Sullivans from Ireland who fought at the important Battle of Sabine Pass with Dick Dowling and his Irish Davis Guards. Many of the famous Texas Rangers were Sullivan/O'Sullivan. One in particular whose first name was Sullivan, was the famous Sullivan "Sul" Ross. He became governor of Texas and also the first president of the great Texas A & M University.

There is a Cultural Building called the Institute of Texan Cultures in downtown San Antonio (Hemis Fair Plaza ) dedicated to the various groups that settled in Texas. Contact the San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau for the Institutes telephone number. I'm sure that they have an 1 ( 800 ) number. You should be able to get the book and/or more information from them.

My First Flight

My First Flight

Catholics in the Old South

A Book Review by J.C. Sullivan

Randall M. Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn have edited a score of essays dealing with a number of issues that affected Catholic life in the American South, a topic that heretofore has received no historical attention in mainstream literary life. Gathering from a multitude of little-known resources however, they have pieced together an intellectual masterpiece about this almost unknown subject. Although the Irish influence can be found throughout all resource material and subsequent chapters, Irish America will find the one that is most interesting to us is  The South’s Irish Catholics:  A Case of Cultural Confinement by Dennis Clark.

Because of our legacy of exile, Clark points out that our presence is demonstrated with our priests in Florida’s Spanish missions, as officials for the Spanish crown in Louisiana and Texas, convicts in George, settlers in the Carolinas and traders among the Indians. While in Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans we kept our cultural identity through social societies such as the Hibernians. Others of us not so fortunate contracted for indentured service that benefited tradesmen and householders.

Clark maintains that it was not only the “Scotch-Irish” from Ulster that peopled the Appalachian, Ozark and Smoky Mountains but also Irish-Catholic fugitives fleeing from indentured service. He quotes Colonists in Bondage:  White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776. We gained security in the impenetrable mountains and because of the freedom we sought, created the “distrust of strangers, authority and inquisitive influences” that has long been notable among mountain people.

This scholarly piece takes us away from the notion of our  large cities. Many of our ancestors did, indeed, settle the cities, but so many, many more moved throughout America where the work was to be found. My own maternal gggfather, Patrick W. Murphy worked the rivers and railroads, wherever he found the work. American actor Tyrone Power, father of the late actor Tyrone Power, encountered them everywhere. He found we were “clannish, strangers to the local population, sharing their own speech and secret morale. Their itinerant work on flatboats, railroads and drainage gangs made them peripheral to the religious and social communities they touched.”

The myriad of footnote references makes those of us with a historical bent more anxious to see these become part of Irish-American mainstream literary bookshelf collections.  Niehaus The Irish in New Orleans; The Life and Times of John England, First Bishop of Charleston; Catholicity in Washington, Georgia; Catholicism in the Lower South; all beggar the inquisitive mind to seek this nourishment for the Irish soul.

"A Fighting Heart" - A champion Kid from Cleveland. .

Seamus Boyle's letter to Urban Outfitters regarding disgusting anti-Irish products

Mr Hayne, as the National President of the largest Irish American Organization in the United States, the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, it is with great displeasure that I must write to you and ask that you immediately remove the disgusting products you have for sale in your stores depicting the Irish as Drunks and defaming the Irish Nation and the Patron Saint of Ireland, St Patrick. St Patrick's Day, March 17th, is a day when the Irish celebrate the patron saint of Ireland and yes we do celebrate in a respectful manner with many of us starting the day by attending Mass prior to marching in parades. There are those few who use this day as an excuse to over celebrate but that does not give you or anyone else the right to defame and debase a whole race of people by selling the garbage that you display in your stores. For you or anyone else to have articles like the trucker's cap depicting a drunk vomiting shamrocks or selling jugs such as the Leprechauns Piss Jug is culturally offensive and uncalled for. If this is the way you must make your money by debasing a whole race of people I can assure you that with over 40 million people in this country claiming Irish ancestry they will not be your customers after this display of arrogance and disrespect to a whole nation. I ask, would you have the same type of garbage depicting the African American, Jewish or Muslim Nations emblazoned on your product? I think not. Why do it to the Irish? Perhaps it is because we are Catholic and you think you can get away with it, or is because you think we do not care about our heritage or perhaps because you just dont care about our nationality. Well Mr Hayne, we do care about our Heritage, our Religion and what the perception of us as a nation is, so I am sure you will be hearing from many more of our proud Irish American people throughout this country and abroad. Thousands of our people shop at you stores throughout the country and with help of the news media, Irish and catholic organizations and the general public we will get the word out that Urban Outfitters does not have any respect for the Irish people or the Catholic Religion and we will ask them to Boycott your establishments. If you have a change of heart and decide to do the right thing by immediately removing this offensive product from your stores please contact me and I will make sure that our people continue to shop your business. Seamus Boyle National President Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, Inc

Sullivans Hollow, Mississippi

Since I first saw this, I note the following site updates matters past Clara Sullivan - http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/SULLIVAN/1999-02/0920241745
 JC Sullivan

This was contributed by "English" english@c-zone.net

"From various sources I prepared the following data. Please note all of it is not proved, as these sources were internet sources, mainly census data, but a couple of brief family excerpts. A good source was the Chester Sullivan book on Sullivan's Hollow; however, in that book he says Thomas Sullivan came from South Carolina, stopped off in Alabama - census records show that Thomas Sullivan was born in Georgia, one site I found gave his place of birth as Columbia (I have not confirmed this to my satisfaction). Anyway, since the Sullivans were probably one of the most notorious families in Mississippi's history, I thought I might post this and see if anyone can help me out."

Ginny Walker English

Descendants of Thomas Sullivan

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS SULLIVAN was born January 15, 1775 in Columbia, Georgia, and died June 10, 1855 in Sullivan's Hollow, Smith County, Mississippi. He married (1) MAUD ELIZABETH ARNOLD. He married (2) MARY POLLY WORKMAN.Notes

   From Chester Sullivan's Book "Sullivan's Hollow" copyright 1978 by University Press of Mississippi 96 95 94 93 92 7 6 5 4 3. Library of Congress: Sullivan, Chester. Sullivan's Hollow.

"The Hollow was settled by Thomas Sullivan, who was born in 1785. In 1807 he came to Mississippi from Bishopville, in up country South Carolina, bringing his wife Elizabeth, four or five of their children, and his brother John. They came west in wagons drawn by horses and oxen on the Natchez to Fort Stephens Wagon Road, which passed within five miles of Old Jaynesville. Sometimes people moving into the Southwest would settle temporarily and make a crop along the way. The Sullivan family followed that practice by spending a year in Alabama (Washington County). 

John did not stay long in Mississippi before returning to South Carolina. Originally settling in southeastern Simpson county on the upper reaches of Bowie Creek near what became Old Jaynesville, the Sullivans later moved twelve miles east into what would become Smith County, where they built the log house still inhabited by their descendants." (emphasis added). p. 6

 NOTE: Smith County 1850 Census shows Thomas Sullivan, family number 314 age 65, born in GEORGIA. Also shows wife Mary age 47 born in Georgia. See additional census records below.

Sullivan's Hollow lies south of Mize in a system of hills drained by Sullivan's Hollow Creek from its headwaters near Thomas Sullivan's house to where it joins Bunker Hill Mill Creek. Originally the Hollow was six miles long and three miles wide, running in a northerly crescent from west to east. Sullivan's Hollow in time expanded until it encompassed the southwest corner of Smith County and parts of Covington and Simpson counties. By the turn of the century what was generally known as Sullivan's Hollow was the area bounded by Mize on the north, Hot Coffee on the southeast, and Mount Olive and Saratoga on the southwest. (p.8)

Thomas planted his corn with a stick. He raised sweet potatoes, field peas, and a small amount of cotton used to make the family's clothing. He took any excess cotton on a two-week trip to Mobile or Natchez, where he sold it, saving the money against the time when the Indian lands would officially be opened and sold to white settlers. He bought only coffee and salt. He and his family kept chickens, hogs, and sheep for wool, and "They had the woods full of cattle." (p.9)

Thomas Sullivan had two Negro slaves. It is said that he was good to them but "made them work mighty hard". (p. 10) Thomas Sullivan became known to his descendants as "Pappy Tom". (p. 10)

Thomas Sullivan died in 1855 in the house he had built. It is said that before his death he complained of darkness in the daylight.

Children of Thomas Sullivan and Maud Arnold are:

 1. JAMES "JIM"2 SULLIVAN, b. 1810, Mississippi.

 2. MARGARET "PEGGY" SULLIVAN, b. 1812; m. JACOB JAMES JAKE HARVEY, 1827.

 3. THOMAS HOGTON (HOG TOM) SULLIVAN, b. 1814.

 4. LODERICK (LOD) SULLIVAN, b. 1816, Mississippi.

 5. STEPHEN SULLIVAN, b. 1816; m. MARY A. DUNFORD, 1850.

 6. OWEN SULLIVAN, b. 1817.

 7. JOSEPH SULLIVAN, b. June 1818, Sullivan's Hollow; d. February 15, 1895, Sullivan's Hollow.

 8. DANIEL SULLIVAN, b. 1819.

 9. CELIA SULLIVAN, b. 1820; m. NORRIS OWEN, SR.

Children of Thomas Sullivan and Mary Workman are:

FREDERICK2 SULLIVAN, b. February 20, 1821, Sullivan's Hollow, d. April 15, 1897, Sullivan's Hollow.

THOMAS JEFFERSON SULLIVAN, b. 1823; d. 1897, Sullivan's Hollow; m. MARY ELIZABETH STEWART.

CAROLINE SULLIVAN, b. 1824; d. 1872; m. H. ALLEN BYRD.

HENDERSON (HENSE) SULLIVAN, b. 1825.

ELIZA JANE SULLIVAN, b. July 28, 1827, Sullivan's Hollow; d. 1890, Rapides Parish, Louisania; m. CALVIN ATES, 1850.

MARK D. SULLIVAN, b. March 29, 1830, Sullivan's Hollow, d. August 17, 1913, Sullivan's Hollow.

WILEY (BIG WILEY) SULLIVAN, b. August 30, 1833, Sullivan's Hollow; d. April 18, 1904. m. ANNIE THERRISA REDDOCK.

MARY ANN SULLIVAN, b. May 19, 1835, Sullivan's Hollow; m. JOHN L. SPELL, September 1865.

SAMUEL SULLIVAN, b. June 11, 1839, Sullivan's Hollow; d. January 25, 1917; m. SARAH E. HATHORNE.

CORNELIUS (CONN) SULLIVAN, b. 1841, Sullivan's Hollow; m. JANE WIGGINTON.

LOUGHTON SULLIVAN, b. May 24, 1844, Sullivan's Hollow; d. August 20, 1898; m. MARTHA JO (MATTIE) WEST.

ALEXANDER M. SULLIVAN, b. October 09, 1847, Sullivan's Hollow; d. March 20, 1937, Smith County, Mississippi; m. MARYAN CATHERINE KEYES.

CLARA SULLIVAN, b. 1822, Sullivan's Hollow; m. JAMES "JIM" TEW.

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The Centre for the Diocese of Cork was set up in Cork City some years ago but will not be providing a research service for a number of years.  Then we have the Diocese of Ross, which incorporates most of West Cork.  This area is known as a black spot in Irish Genealogy.  A centre was established for this area some years ago but has since been closed due to legal difficulties. Mallow Heritage Centre is the only Centre that provides a Research Service in Co. Cork.  Many people decide to carry out research in our forty-six parishes, which helps them to identify whether their ancestors originated in the Cloyne Diocesan area and if not, to eliminate this area from their research.

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Please forward Euro €65.00 (US $90) per family for an Initial Search, (key family provided if located) or Priority Service, (Service provided within 21 days) Euro €90 (US $125). Single Search, Euro €40 (US $55) (A single search aims to locate the Baptismal record or Marriage record of an individual). This fee applies whether the result of the search is positive or negative.  The cheapest method of payment appears to be by personal cheque in your own currency made payable to Mallow Heritage Centre.

All the above fees include a search of the 46 parishes of the Diocese of Cloyne.

All searches include a family assessment - over generations-, of all sources and data available at Mallow Heritage Centre (i.e. further generation searches, Census Records, Griffith's Valuation, Tithe Applotment Records, Graveyard Inscriptions, National School Records).  Any records located in addition to the requested search will be provided at a further cost, if required.

If the search proves negative the client will be advised on alternative search routes if appropriate.

Online Record: www.rootsireland.ie

MALLOW HERITAGE CENTRE

                   

The following is a list of the Computerised ROMAN CATHOLIC Parish Records.

PARISH                                                             BAPTISMS                                        MARRIAGES

Aghada                                                              1792-1895                                        1785-1897

Aghinagh                                                          1848-1895                                        1858-1895

Glanworth &                                                    1836-1899                                        1836-1899

Ballindangan                                    

Ballyclough                                                      1807-1922                                        1805-1922

Ballyhea                                                                          1809-1922                                        1811-1922

Ballymacoda                                                    1835-1899                                        1836-1899

Ballyvourney                                                   1822-1895                                        1871-1899

Banteer                                                             1828-1922                                        1828-1922

Blarney                                                             1820-1922                                        1779-1922                        

                                                                                                                                       (GAP 1814-1821

Buttevant                                                          1814-1905                                        1820-1920

Carrigtwohill                                                    1817-1922                                        1818-1922

Castlelyons                                                      1791-1910                                        1830-1922

Castlemagner                                                   1832-1899                                        1832-1898

Castletownroche                                                            1810-1922                                        1811-1922

Charleville                                                       1827-1922                                        1774-1922                                                                                                                                                                 (GAP 1815-1827)

Churchtown                                                     1812-1909                                        1813-1922

Clondrohid                                                       1807-1895                                        1822-1894

Cloyne                                                              1791-1922                                        1791-1895

Cobh                                                                  1812-1908                                        1812-1899

Coachford                                                        1820-1895                                        1820-1895

Conna                                                                1832-1911                                        1844-1922

Doneraile                                                          1815-1922                                        1815-1899

Donoughmore                                                  1803-1895                                        1790-1899

Fermoy                                                              1827-1899                                        1828-1899

Glantane                                                           1829-1895                                        1858-1895

Grenagh                                                                           1840-1899                                        1840-1899

Imogeela                                                           1835-1899                                        1834-1899

Inniscarra                                                         1814-1895                                        1814-1899

Kanturk                                                             1822-1922                                        1824-1922

Kildorrery                                                        1824-1899                                        1803-1895

Killavullen                                                       1805-1895                                        1806-1895

Killeagh                                                                           1829-1896                                        1823-1897

Killnamatyra                                                    1803-1894                                        1803-1895

Kilworth                                                           1829-1899                                        1830-1899

Lisgoold                                                                           1807-1895                                        1822-1899

Macroom                                                          1805-1898                                        1780-1899

Mallow                                                               1809-1922                                        1758-1922

                                                                            (GAP 1810-1817 & 1829-1831)

Meelin                                                               1866-1899                                        1867-1899

Midleton                                                           1819-1899                                        1810-1899

                                                                                                                                       (GAP1855-1865

Milford                                                             1827-1896                                        1823-1895

                                                                            (GAP 1844-1858)

Mitchestown                                                    1792-1899                                        1815-1899

                                                                            (GAP 1802-1814

Mourneabbey                                                  1829-1907                                        1829-1907

Newmarket                                                       1833-1906                                        1822-1922

Rathcormac                                                      1792-1899                                        1829-1899

Shandrum                                                         1793-1917                                        1793-1922

Youghal                                                                           1803-1899                                        1802-1906

                                                                                                                                                                    

              

                                            

                                            

MALLOW HERITAGE CENTRE

The following is a list of computerised CHURCH OF IRELAND Parish Records

PARISH                        RECORD                 YEAR

AHERN                         Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1846 - 1892

BALLYCLOUGH                   Baptism                No Records                                                           Marriage               1845 - 1898

BALLYHEA                      Baptism                1764 - 1899

                              Marriage               1780 - 1844

                              Death                  1777 - 1898

BALLYHOOLY                    Baptism                1894 - 1897

                              Marriage               1850 – 1899

BALLYNOE                      Baptism                1882 - 1899

                              Marriage               1858 - 1896

                              Death                  1886 - 1898

BRIDGETOWN                                        Baptism                1859 - 1871

                              Marriage               No Records

BRIGOWN                       Baptism                1768 - 1898

                              Marriage               1810 - 1848

                              Death                  1810 - 1899

BUTTEVANT                     Baptism                1800 - 1899

                               Marriage               1845 - 1899

                              Death                  1800 - 1899

CARRIGALEARY                  Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1848 - 1871

CASTLEHYDE                    Baptism                1768 - 1827

                              Marriage               1775 - 1899

CASTLELYONS                   Baptism                1815 - 1839

                              Marriage               1846 - 1898

                              Death                  1890

CASLTEMAGNER                  Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1849 - 1899

CASTLEMARTYR                  Baptism                1800 - 1898

                              Marriage               1845 - 1894

CASTLETOWNROCHE               Baptism                1829 - 1899

                              Marriage               1845 - 1895

CHARLEVILLE                   Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1845 - 1899

CLONDULANE                    Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1848 - 1889

CLONMEEN                      Baptism                1889 - 1896

                              Marriage               1848 - 1862

                              Death                  1892

CLONPRIEST                    Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1851 – 1870

CURRAGLASS                    Baptism                1894 - 1898

                              Marriage               1846 - 1897

DONERAILE                     Baptism                1730 - 1900

                              Marriage               1741 - 1895

                              Death                  1700 - 1899

DONOUGHMORE                   Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1845 - 1887

                              Death                  1899

DRISHANE                      Baptism                1877 - 1900

                              Marriage               No Records

DROMTARRIFFE                  Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1849 - 1888

FARAHY                        Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1845 - 1898   

FERMOY                        Baptism                1822 - 1899

                              Marriage               1838 - 1899

                              Deaths                 1800 - 1899

GLANWORTH                     Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1846 - 1881

GLENVILLE                     Baptism                1877 - 1899

                              Marriage               1851 - 1899

GORTROE                       Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1846 - 1872

KANTURK                       Baptism                1878 - 1899

                              Marriage               No Records

KILBOLANE                     Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1846 - 1894

KILBRIN                       Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1845 - 1898

KILLEAGH                      Baptism                1782 - 1880

                              Marriage               1776 - 1876

KILSHANNIG                    Baptism                1731 - 1899                                                  Marriage               1845 - 1898

                              Death                  1731 - 1899

KILWORTH                      Baptism                1887 - 1899                                                 Marriage               1845 - 1897

                              Death                  1887 - 1899

KNOCKMOURNE                   Baptism                1899

                              Marriage               1745 - 1790

MALLOW                        Baptism                1732 - 1899

                              Marriage               1780 - 1899

MONANIMY                      Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1845 - 1879

MOURNEABBEY                   Baptism                1832 - 1884

                              Marriage               No Records

                              Death                  1850 - 1874

NATHLASH                      Baptism                1844 - 1868

                              Marriage               No Records

NEWMARKET                                          Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1846 - 1895

RAHAN                         Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1847 - 1894

                              Deaths                 1881 - 1886

RATHCORMAC                    Baptism                1800 - 1899

                              Marriage               1821 - 1897

                              Deaths                 1800 - 1899

TULLYLEASE                    Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1860

WATERGRASSHILL                Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1848 - 1895

WHITECHURCH                   Baptism                No Records

                              Marriage               1848 - 1877