Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:44:51 -0700

Enjoyed Rosemary's story of her family line...Here is mine.

My gr-grandfather, John McEnnerney (he invented the spelling in the US, in
order to be DIFFERENT from all the others in the NYC City Directory) arrived
in America in the mid-1880s, from Cootehill, County Cavan.  Family legend
has it that the trip to America was a wedding gift to John and his wife
Annie (Johanna) Sweeney McEnnerney.  They eventually settled in the mining
town of Leadville, Colorado, and were soon joined by his sister Catherine
McEnnerney and her husband, Patrick Hamill.  Later, their cousin, also a
Catherine McEnnerney, joined them there, suggesting that there was still
communication between the US and the old country as late as 1900 or so.  The
family ran a boarding house in Leadville from 1887-1907.  Between the
McEnnerneys, the Hamills, and cousin Kate (eventually married to a Murphy),
there were 16 children born to the family in Leadville.

John & Catherine's parents were Hugh McEnnerney & Annie Carroll, and their
cousin Kate's parents were Matthew McEnnerney & Margaret Carroll, suggesting
that two brothers married two sisters back in Cootehill, sometime in the
1850s.

Cousin Kate eventually married one of the boarders, a Patrick Murphy, who
led the family's migration to California in 1906, seeking work rebuilding
San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.  The rest of the family
followed in May of 1907, and most are still in the San Francisco Bay Area.
(My maternal grandmother, Kitty, was John's fourth child.)

Anyone else have Mc relatives from County Cavan?

Frank Dunnigan