Chelsea Landing

Life in America for the O’Connors started here on Library Street, back then called Matthew Street.  Daniel O’Connor, my great grandfather, arrived in the US on January 11, 1892 on the SS Umbria which landed in New York. He was joined in his voyage across the Atlantic by his younger sister, Maggie. She was eighteen

Drizzly and Grey

My two days of meandering in the South Parish section of Cork City were drizzly and grey, affording only a few opportunities to stop and draw on the sidewalks. A number of families that fed into my family tree lived here in the 1800s and I was on a mission to record these places using