Re: Philip Gorman and Rose McMally Gorman, IL.
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Philip Gorman and Rose McMally Gorman, IL.
3/20/02
Good morning, Adam. I am actually John JORDAN Moore (aka [email protected]); Linda is my wife, and the reigning high priestess of our, particular Family Tree Maker cell ..... she is also the one in whose name the account is registered.
I am the thrice-great-grandson of John JORDAN, late of Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, who married Catherine WHELAN there on January 6, 1827 (She was the daughter of James Whelan and Eliza McNAMARA, who, in their turn, had been married at Bruff on February 13, 1794). John and Catherine Jordan's younger daughter, Catherine ("Kate"), my twice-great-aunt, was, according to her obituary in the Tolono Herald, born at Bruff on May 10, 1838 ..... this is most likely conjectural, at least in part. Her siblings - including my great-grandfather - were born in 1827, 1829, and 1832, respectively, and that seems like a pretty big gap in an Irish Catholic family.
An-y-way, Catherine Jordan emigrated in 1854, and came to Champaign County by way of New York City and Chicago. She Married John O'Beirne, and died at Tolono in 1904. The O'BEIRNE's daughter, Catherine (also "Kate") married Adam Gorman ..... she left eight sons: Phil (1891), Tony (1892), Frank (1894), Jack (1895), Adam (1896), Jim (1901), Tom (1904) and George (1905) ..... most of them as a widow, Adam Gorman, Sr. having died in 1906.
Catherine Jordan O'BEIRNE also had a sister, Margaret Jordan McGARIGLE, who also lived near Tolono, and who also had a large family.
Have you ever crossed trails with an Erville O'Beirne in your researches? She was living out in Sun City, AZ twenty years ago, and is rather unlikely to still be alive, but she was a demon researcher concerning these families.
Don't know how this fits, but the coincidences of name and place struck me.
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Re: Philip Gorman and Rose McMally Gorman, IL.
Catherine Nichin 5/08/06