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 eighteenContinue reading “Chelsea Landing”
Category Archives: McMahon
Distant Branches
In 1900 Kate McMahon switched one crowded Irish neighborhood filled with friends and relatives for another 6700 miles away. Born in this Cork City row house in the Lough neighborhood in 1877, she emigrated to Chelsea, Massachusetts (next to Boston), to live with her uncle Michael Connolly. He worked at the local rubber factory alongContinue reading “Distant Branches”
Irish Connector
Catherine “Kate” McMahon came to America in 1900, and last year, from a farm in County Kerry, Ireland, I got a message from someone looking for her. Kate was the McMahon that left. The rest had stayed behind in the then gritty city of Cork. My online family tree had provided the missing link forContinue reading “Irish Connector”
Visiting the Relatives 