There are other names. I know of a person from Co. Roscommon who joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and came to the US around 1890. Her sibling became a Sister of Charity. One of those orders was around Frenchpark I think. You should research both those orders in Ireland, especially the Good Shepherd. They were the Magdalene order. The House of the Good Shepherd institutions were in many major cities in the US. Catholic girls were brought there by authorities, or dropped off by parents who couldn't afford them or didn't want to deal with them. Some were pregnant; others were sent there to be kept from the impurities of the outside world. [See Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.] VERY little is available on the internet about the House of the Good Shepherd institutions. What I found was frightening -- about girls trying to escape. Look at the US Census records and you'll see that the young "inmates" were laundresses and seamstresses. Those institutions were shut down in 1931, due to US labor law violations. Some of the Sisters then went on to teach at "industrial schools."
