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Catherine and James Lynch are identified. In years ending in zero (ie. 1870 or 1880), the federal government did a census; those are the well-known census documents housed at the National Archives. New York state, however, conducted its own census in…

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The daughter of Andrew and Matilda Carey is mentioned in column three of The Evening Telegram

This replica of a Famine-era cabin sits in Gleninchiquin Park in the parish of Tuosist in southwest County Kerry. Hundreds of the parish's residents emigrated to New York in the 1850s.

When they first arrived in America, some members of this family went by "Connor" and others by "O'Connor." By the 1870s, however, they were all using "O'Connor," and for consistency's sake we will refer to them by the name O'Connor even though some…