I have that my two children descend from Jeremiah Warren:
From Ancestry ThruLines for my daughter:
This shows a DNA connection between children of Bridget Warren and John J Warren.
Here is a Warren DNA Tree I built in 2020:
Mary is a new DNA match to the tree since 2020.
Adding Mary to My Tree?
Ancestry suggest that I evaluate Mary’s tree. Here is what Mary has:
I only need connect Mary back to Francis J. Sullivan. Here is the family in 1910:
Here are the children I already had for Frank J. Sullivan:
Notice this is the same family due to Blanche, Henry and Russell Sullivan. That means that Douglas Sullivan must be George Douglas Sullivan, the great-grandfather of Mary. The Roman Catholic records show Douglas’ full name:
The Massachusetts records only have him as Douglas:
Next, we need the connection from Douglas to Mary’s grandfather.
Frank passes away in 1917:
George is a single truck driver for the City of Lowell in 1930:
Here is Mary’s grandfather Jerry in 1950:
Jerold appears to have been in the Navy:
Here, I have added Mary to my Warren DNA Tree:
A Tale of Two John Cavanaughs
All the DNA connection is important as there is some confusion between two John Cavanaughs in Lowell. I previously set out the genealogy of my children in this 2019 Blog.
My Childrens’ John Cavanaugh
This John was born in 1880 to John Warren and Louisa Kavanaugh:
As stated in the Roman Catholic record, he was illegitimate. This John went by John Warren sometimes and John Cavanaugh at other times. Here is his marriage record:
Despite going by John Cavanaugh, he chooses to use his birth name at the time of his marriage in 1911.
The Mistaken John Cavanaugh
The mistaken John Cavanaugh was born about 10 years earlier than my children’s’ John.
The people in this neighborhood of Lowell worked in a bleachery.
Confusingly, the two Johns were also half brothers according to my research:
The chronology is that Louisa Gatley marries Michael Cavanaugh. They have two children, but Michael dies in 1872. Louisa then has a child with widower John Warren who already has a family. John Warren drowns two years later. Massachusetts records list John’s death as ‘accidental drowning’. However, he had two half siblings who were Cavanaughs.
More on DNA and Shared Matches
So far, Mary has supported my genealogy showing that my children’s great-grandfather was actually a Warren and not a Cavanaugh. Eileen is Heather’s closest match for the Jeremiah Warren ThruLines:
On Heather’s Shared Match list, Eileen and Mary share 72 cM. Also I see a Kevin who is Mary’s father.
Summary and Conclusions
I have not reviewed the Warren ThruLines for many years. Now there are a few more matches. Some are on the ThruLines and some are not. The matches support my assertion that my children do not technically descend from a Cavanaugh Line but from a Warren Line.