Posted By:	Sharon Umiker
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	Subject:	Sullivan and Desmond Families 1850s-1900s
	Post Date:	April 21, 2007 at 14:08:15
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/allegany/messages/607.html
	Forum:	Allegany County, NY Genealogy Forum
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m looking for information regarding the Cornelius and Catherine Sullivan family who lived in Wellsville, Allegany, New York starting around the early 1850s. The couple is buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery (Immaculate Conception Parish) and had the following children: David (b. abt 1853 and died before 1861), John (b. abt 1855), another child ????, then David (b. abt 1861), Mary E. (b. abt 1863) and my great grandmother Johanna b. Sep 1868). I found them on the 1855 NY State Census and it looks like their eldest child may have actually been a daughter, Ann. Since Sullivan is a common name, I didn't want to mis-match the folks in Sacred Heart Cemetery. I know that" Mary E. married Joseph S. Smith (born to German parents so the name may have been Schmidt or similar and just Americanize.) Their daughter, Marie married Robert Granville McCutcheon of Allentown. Johanna married a John F. Desmond who was born about Nov 1866 in New York. Again, working with a common Irish surname. They lived in Pennsylvania for a little while and a census shows his brother Herbert living with them. Johanna and John had two daughters: Florence b. Mar 1899 (never married. may have been a nun??? died in 1945). and my grandmother Helen b. 18 Aug 1900. Helen married Henry George Umiker (son of Albert Daniel/AD Umiker who ran Umiker Monument Works next to Umiker's Market--run by Albert's brother Richard.) On the 1920 Federal Census of NY, the enumerator actually noted the counties in Ireland the Smith and Umiker respondents gave as the Irish lines place of Origin--but it's hard to see which is matches which: They are County Kerry, County Cork, and County Limerick. If anyone has any information on the Sullivans or Desmonds I would truly appreciate it. Thanks!