McCALLION.

[cbluesdog]

Patrick

Yes, I'd love to see the Ann Simon document.  My e-mail is cbluesdog@yahoo.com if you can send it in electronic form.

I did see in the Tithe Applotment books (I think) that many properties seemed to be held in a number of names.  I'd like to spend some time looking into this further when I get some free time (I'm currently very busy with a do-or-die project at work).

Do you think that Michael's father was a certain James McCallion, possibly married to Mary MLaughlin?  Andrew Howard's note in Ancestry.com quotes your message to him, which seems to suggest this.  If so, what's this based on?

I've noticed a hill or mountain to the Northwest of Three Trees and I just realized that this must be Glackmore Hill.  It's quite interesting how the town lands are so long and narrow.  It seems like each town land was laid out such that there was good land close to the shore with access to the sea plus gradually poorer land further inland and running up to the mountain.

Are there any maps that go along with the Tithe Applotment and Griffith's Valuation listings?  Ideally, I'd like to understand where in Glackmore my great-grandfather Michael McCallion grew up.

Thanks

Steve C.

[DoireM]

Hi Steve,

Can I throw something out there to see if it relates to a McCallion.  I have a photocopy of a postcard dated March 29, 1912 postmark Philadelphia (West Philadelphia Station).  It is addressed to my grand-aunt Annie McCallion of Gortnamona, Q.P. 

It reads as follows .... 'Hoping your are a good girl with best love from cousin Annie.  Good bye my little girl.' xxxx

Now my grand aunt would of been 23 years old in 1912.  I have no idea who this person is in Philadelphia who wrote this postcard.  Any thoughts!!

[cbluesdog]

Marie

I gather that the great-aunt was Annie McCallion born 1889 to Michael McCallion of Gortnamona who was married to Helen Bradley.  Michael's parents were James McCallion and Nancy Barr.  From the Iskaheen RC birth records, they had Catherine (b. 1861), James (b. 1863), Michael (b. 1866), Sarah (b. 1869). Denis (b. 1873) and Thomas (b. 1875). 

If she was a first cousin, then Annie in Philly was either a daughter of one of Micheal's older siblings (if there were any) or the daughter of one of Nancy Barr's older siblings.  I say older siblings because it sounds like Annie in Philly was substantially older than your great-aunt, say 10-15 years older.  If so, she would have been born in the range 1874-1879. 

Michael's older siblings were Catherine and James.  The only record for Catherine is a son, Dan, born in 1886 with Hugh Doherty.  James didn't have any children by the name Ann and Denis's children were born in Boston in 1899 or after.  There is a Sarah or Sally McCallion who married James McCaul from Gortin/Ture.  Their children were born about the right time but none of them were named Ann.

It appears that Nancy Barr had sisters Mary and Sarah.  Mary was married to Charles McCann and they had the following children: Mary, Sarah, Anne, John, Bridget, Elizabeth, Thomas and Andrew.  Anne McCann was born in 1881 which seems a little late but possible.  I didn't know whether she emigrated to the US, but I thought it might be significant that she doesn't appear to have had any children in Muff parish.

On further research, I found that Annie McCann was living in Gortnamona with her mother according to the 1901 Irish Census but was not living there in the 1911 Irish Census.  An Annie McCann was living in Philadelphia in 1910 at 911 N 63rd Street (near the intersection with Lebanon) as a servant in the household of Mary M Parke.  It is stated that she emigrated to the US in 1904 which is consistent with the Irish Census.  She was living in Philadelphia in 1920 as a servant with the Brady family next door at 1101 N 63rd Street. She may have moved to Washington, DC by 1930 but that's less sure.  I have not found a death date for her.

It sounds to me as though Annie McCann is most likely the cousin who wrote to your great-aunt.  Was there a return address on the card?

Steve C.

[cbluesdog]

Marie

I just checked and the 911 N 63rd address is in West Philadelphia.

Steve

[DoireM]

Many thanks Steve,

Yes, it's the Annie McCallion born to Michael and Ellen in 1889. 

You have given me food for thought here regarding the Barr/McCann line.  I was hoping it was Thomas McCallion's line ..... drawing blanks as to where he went!!

I will focus on the Philadelphia information you have supplied me. 

Much appreciated,
Marie

[Bald Eagle]

There is another card which do not have a scan of. I took a note of it but just what follows:- Hugh McCallion, Gortnamonagh, from Annie, Philadelphia March 1912. I have no idea what the message says as I have no note of it.

The first card bothers me somewhat as it reads as though it was sent to a child rather than a 23 year old adult. Any thoughts on that?

[DoireM]

Patrick,

The copy postcard I have, I got from James your brother some time ago. 

Hugh is Annie's brother in the reference note you have.  The only thing I can think as to why Annie in Philadelphia has written, probably to all her cousins in Gortnamonagh, is that she really hasn't moved on in time and thinks of her cousins as in the times she herself grew up in Gortnamonagh.

[Bald Eagle]

Is that postcard written in a similar way

[DoireM]

Patrick,

I didn't know there was a postcard to Hugh, until you posted here.