Marcella McDonald(?) m. Patrick Dolan, St. Louis MO, 1852
I'm trying to connect with anyone who knows anything about the above couple.I believe that Patrick Dolan married Marcella McDonnell or McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1852, going on to have a fairly large family. We're particularly interested in their son Edward Dolan, seemingly born around 1856.A cousin and I are working a hypothesis that this son ran away from home around 1870 (he's in the 1860 census with his parents but not the 1870 one, unlike his sister Kate who's in both), settled in Illinois, and adopted the last name Dulian -- a name that simply isn't in the records before 1880 or so.Edward Dulian was definitely our common ancestor, and all that's known of him is that he did run away from home about that time and changed his name thereafter -- from what, we don't know, but there are reasons to think it was something close to Dulin or Dolan.
Of course, evidence that Edward Dolan had died between 1860 and 1870 would invalidate this hypothesis, so that's what we're looking for here.Does anyone have info on the family of Patrick and Marcella?If so, please e-mail me; all help appreciated.