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I really appreciate all of your help on the Flynn family from Boherbue, County Cork.  I guess I still will not be able to crack this one, but will keep plugging away. From all of the info found on them in the US, nothing that tells me where.  The only reason I believe it could be Cork is my father told me that is what his grandmother told him and his great grandfather was a Stevedore in Milwaukee so I figure he most have learned some of that trade while living in Cork, but just speculation.  Thank you for your help. - John Reese

Thank you Sinann.  I just found out about Elizabeth so I haven't tried to follow her yet.  William migrated to NY then Wisconsin in the 1850s and married a Johanna Frawley in Beloit, Wisconsin.  I do know his parents name from a 1882 City History of Milwaukee which said father was Brian and mother was Ellen Sullivan.  So now it is a matter of connecting the dotes.  There is also some possibility he came from the County May because another Flynn family buried on same plot in Milwaukee has the first person to die born in the County Mayo.  I was able to find her parents and I think her baptism, but not my William.  The demographics for the name Flynn in Ireland is kind of like Smith in any other country.  in 1850 there were over 500 families in Cork, and almost 300 in May.  And of course most of the rest of the county's were highly populated with Flynn families.  This has been a 40 year mystery for me.  Thank you for your help.  If you have any other thoughts pass them my way.  JR

Hello,

My name is John Reese.  I am doing some family research on my great great grandfather, William Flynn.  William was born in Ireland on the 1 May 1832.  His parents were Brian Flynn and Ellen Sullivan.  My father said the family came from County Cork.  I found an entry the other day for an Elizabeth Flynn baptized at the St Mary's Roman Catholic Parish, Boherbue, County Cork, Ireland.  She was born/baptized on the 2nd of January 1835 at St Mary's roman Catholic Parish in Boherbue.  This record was extracted from St Mary's Parish out of a volume of books found in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.*  This extraction started in 1833 about one year after my 2nd great grandfather was born.  I am trying to find out if the parish records exist before 1833.  If so, would it be possible to have someone look at the 1832 register for William Flynn born 1 May 1832. If those record do not exist, where did a family from Boherbue take their child to get baptized. 

*""Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VRSN-65V : 8 December 2014), Brian Flynn in entry for Elizabeth Flynn, ; citing ROMAN CATHOLIC,BOHERBUE,CORK,IRELAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 941.5 D2C V. 11, 941.5 D2C V. 2."