Re: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:20 pm
Was at the public library on Saturday, and had a look for shipping records for the Daniel Quinlivan family. Was easy to find - see below screenshot.
The entire Daniel Quinlivan family who were listed in the 1885 Minnesota census are on the shipping record of the Ship Baltic arriving in the USA on 22 Sept 1880 (the other date on the record is 23 July 1880). There was one extra son "Wm" transcribed as "William" age 15. He was not with the family in the 1885 census and is missing from any Minnesota records.
Edward was born in 1857 according to his passport application in 1890, so would have been 23 years when arriving in 1880. He said he left Queenstown on or about 18 Sept 1880 which could have been the same timing as the Daniel Quinlivan family on the Baltic. His passport application lists the ship he arrived in the USA, but it is difficult to read and looks like it starts with an "E". Not able to make out the word "Baltic" from the scribble.
Paddy, although there are discrepancies in age and ship name, might be a slight possibility that the name of the younger Edward Quinlivan in St. Paul was actually "William Edward"?
Given the year 1880 when the Quinlivans arrived and that they became farmers in western Minnesota, there is a good chance that the family was part of the Catholic colonization efforts in Minnesota. This program was sponsored by Bishop Ireland of St. Paul and their goal was to bring destitute Irish families from the west of Ireland to the farm lands of western Minnesota.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMa ... 05-213.pdf
Above is a link to an interesting article "Bishop Ireland's Connemara Experiment" by Father James P. Shannon on the Minnesota Historical Society website. The focus of the article is on a group from Galway which was a failure, but thousands of other settlers were successful. A quote from the article: "In 1879 the Catholic Colonization Bureau of St. Paul, the organization administering [Bishop] Ireland's settlement project, had secured an option on fifty thousand acres of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's land grant in Big Stone and Traverse counties..." Traverse County is where Daniel Quinlivan had his farm in the 1885 census. He was still there in the 1920 census so must have had better luck than the group from Galway.
Perhaps the Edward Quinlivan of St. Paul listed on the Mary Grogan probate records is also somehow associated with the same Catholic colonization efforts in Minnesota.
The entire Daniel Quinlivan family who were listed in the 1885 Minnesota census are on the shipping record of the Ship Baltic arriving in the USA on 22 Sept 1880 (the other date on the record is 23 July 1880). There was one extra son "Wm" transcribed as "William" age 15. He was not with the family in the 1885 census and is missing from any Minnesota records.
Edward was born in 1857 according to his passport application in 1890, so would have been 23 years when arriving in 1880. He said he left Queenstown on or about 18 Sept 1880 which could have been the same timing as the Daniel Quinlivan family on the Baltic. His passport application lists the ship he arrived in the USA, but it is difficult to read and looks like it starts with an "E". Not able to make out the word "Baltic" from the scribble.
Paddy, although there are discrepancies in age and ship name, might be a slight possibility that the name of the younger Edward Quinlivan in St. Paul was actually "William Edward"?
Given the year 1880 when the Quinlivans arrived and that they became farmers in western Minnesota, there is a good chance that the family was part of the Catholic colonization efforts in Minnesota. This program was sponsored by Bishop Ireland of St. Paul and their goal was to bring destitute Irish families from the west of Ireland to the farm lands of western Minnesota.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMa ... 05-213.pdf
Above is a link to an interesting article "Bishop Ireland's Connemara Experiment" by Father James P. Shannon on the Minnesota Historical Society website. The focus of the article is on a group from Galway which was a failure, but thousands of other settlers were successful. A quote from the article: "In 1879 the Catholic Colonization Bureau of St. Paul, the organization administering [Bishop] Ireland's settlement project, had secured an option on fifty thousand acres of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's land grant in Big Stone and Traverse counties..." Traverse County is where Daniel Quinlivan had his farm in the 1885 census. He was still there in the 1920 census so must have had better luck than the group from Galway.
Perhaps the Edward Quinlivan of St. Paul listed on the Mary Grogan probate records is also somehow associated with the same Catholic colonization efforts in Minnesota.