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Yeah, hi, I guess you are my cousin! My grandmother was Annie McNulty, daughter of Anthony McNulty and Winifred Roche (or Roach - I've seen both spellings) of Culdaly ( or Culdalee - have seen it both ways) Aclare, Co. Sligo. She immigrated to MA about 1910 (according to a census record I found), I think with Winnie, and then I think Bessie and your grandmother (Catherine) came over later.  My grandmother was one of the two sisters sent to the orphanage (at a nearby convent) after Catherine was born - she used to tell us stories about the nuns in the orphanage and when my parents visited Ireland about 25 or 30 years ago, they still had records on my grandmother and her sister!  Anyway, Annie married Michael Kearns (originally from Tuam, near Galway, but they did not meet until both were in the US - the census record lists him as imigrating c. 1914) and they raised their family in Woburn, MA (4 daughters and 2 sons who survived to adulthood - my mother is one of their daughters; 2 other daughters died in childhood.) My mother always called your grandmother "Nana" O'Donnell, even tho she was her aunt, not her grandmother. I think I have more info on Bessie and Winnie's families somewhere on another computer but have to get it retrieved. I do know none of the sisters ever returned to Ireland except for one visit to see their father. My grandmother said they sailed back on the Mauretania (sister ship to the Lusitania) a couple days after the Titanic sank (1912) and that newsboys were on the pier hawking papers with headlines that the "Unsinkable Ship" had gone down as they were boarding their ship!
Didn't your grandmother (Catherine) have 14 kids or so?
Would love to hear more,
Jean R., New Jersey