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Note: onsors Ned Dilaney and Biddy Do____. This date varies from that entered on the grave marker (Age 83), Lee, Illinois. MARY FARRELL, his wife, also was born in County Tipperary. Information sources there place her family background probably in the area of Commons, a community two miles east of Ballysloe. Commons' location falls within the parish church of Ballingary. This would be the most likely place of their marriage. In 1853, Daniel and Mary departed from the townland of Kilbraugh*, traveling ten miles into the town of Thurles where they continued by train with their eight children into Cork. From Cork to Canada by Ship and to the U.S.A. (a baby died at sea), landing in the Chicago area, moving to DeKalb County, Illinois, December of 1856. They first settled in Paw Paw Township with a Post Office address of Ross Grove, according to old census records (1860?). The record listed Margaret, Catherine, Mary Ann and Ella (Nellie) along with a non-relative John, a laborer, and a child Emily. Their son John Andrew had traveled to Texas by this time looking for his sister Julia. Thomas was counted a laborer with another family in Clinton Township. Son Patrick and his wife Mary, with their two children Johanna and Daniel, were counted in Shabbona Township. The McCormick homestead was established by 1860 and was located in Clinton Township, SW1/4, E1/2, Sec.20; 80 acres just west and south of the present town of Waterman, Illinois. KILBRAUGH: a parish in the barony of Middlethird, County of Tipperary and province of Munster: containing 481 inhabitants. It comprises 1,136 statute acres, as apploted under the Tithe Act, and is a rectory in the Diocese of Cashel, forming part of the Union of Fethard: the tithes amount to 90 pounds. (Copied from Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.) (The Cormac tithe, about 2.37 pounds. Speculatively, between nine and ten dollars.) *The townland of Kilbraugh is located near the Munster River which is the east boundary of County Tipperary. SOURCE: John Robert McCormick, McCormick Family Genealogy, 1983.
Note: DANIEL CORMACK was born in County Tipperary. Sources of information place the family living in the area of Ballysloe. Baptismal records of the Sacred Heart Church, Gortnahoo: 29 May 1816, Dan son of Michael Cormack laborer, and Mary Rochford. Sp
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