Hello, I have an interest in your wife's family. I have 'intersected' with them while researching my McCormack family, also from Gorticashel Upper. My great grandparents were John McCormack & his wife, Anne (McSwiggan). Their children were Michael (my grandfather) who left for Australia in about 1874, Patrick, who married Mary McCullagh in 1885 and moved to New York, Phillip [aka Felix] and Alice. These latter two (both single) stayed on the land, and later, reared two "nephews" (2 of the 13 children of Patrick's sister-in-law, Hannah McCullagh) , Edward & Charles O'Hagan, after the death of their mother sometime after 1906 - a somewhat similar scenario to the Campbell girls' story! Edward O'Hagan eventually inherited the McCormack land, and it still remains in that family. I have long assumed that Patrick McCormack & his sister Mary, who reared the Campbell girls, were most likely to be related to "my" McCormacks (also living in the same Townland). If you are still hunting information about your wife's grandparents, I can look through the notes I have to find any extra "bits & pieces". Also, if you know any extra information which you can share with me as you progress your research, please make contact (email- *)
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