Street Fighting Man

Digging up research on our ancestors unearths bad news with the good.  Michael O’Connor was arrested for street fighting on December 13, 1880 in Cork City. He was fined and spent four days in jail. Police described him as 23 years old, 5’8,” with brown hair, grey eyes, and a sallow complexion. Because the report

Crowded House

The stereotype of oversized Irish Catholic families proves true in my ancestry. Ellen O’Connor, for instance, was one of ten children born in the city of Cork, Ireland in 1863. She and a handful of her siblings came to the US in the late 1880s and started out in Chelsea, Massachusetts (next to Boston), where