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<\/a><\/p>\nBased on the high DNA match, this connection seems likely. Here is my Kerivan DNA tree which needs some work:<\/p>\n
This should start with John Kerivan, not Alice Rooney. Also, I need to add Suzy’s siblings Lorraine and Richard. I already have William Kerivan in my Ancestry tree, so this\u00a0 line should be an easy add. Here are more of Aunt Lorraine’s Kerivan relatives:<\/p>\n Here there are 9 matches and I have four in my Kerivan DNA tree.<\/p>\n I ususally do not start from the past and work to the present, but I’ll make an exception here.<\/p>\n Here is the famlly in Needham, Massachusetts in 1880:<\/p>\n The parents are said to be born in Ireland.<\/p>\n Willie was born in 1876 in Needham.<\/p>\n On this record, his father John was said to be born in Newton, MA and his mother in Ireland. Some records have John born in Marblehead. Here is a Census for Salem in 1850 which would support that John was born in that part of Massachusetts:<\/p>\n Note here that son William was a shoe maker. Patrick was born in Ireland, but the apparent chidren were born in Massachusetts. By 1855, the family moves to Needham:<\/p>\n This is surely the same family. I have that Catherine died in 1845, so Mary must be a second wife. Now Ellen is added to the family in 1855. Patrick is shown as born in Ireland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Social Security has William’s wife as Beatrice Curtis:<\/p>\n George is mentioned in his father’s obituary:<\/p>\n The obituary for George appears to link him to the John who tested at Ancestry.<\/p>\n This Kerivan Tree is much better, but a proper tree should go back at least to Patrick Kerivan.<\/p>\n Here is what Lorraine has. William and Richard P must be in my Ancestry Tree already. We were already introduced to Richard and William the shoemaker in the 1850’s censuses for Salem and Needham.<\/p>\n Here a few of the names appear to be misspelled.<\/p>\n I’ll add Joseph to my Ancestry tree as a floating tree and then attach him if the genealogy checks out.\u00a0 However, already I see that Joseph and Lorraine have a shared match named Robert:<\/p>\n Ancestry thinks that Robert descends from John Kerivan.<\/p>\n Joseph has his father being born in 1949 in Clinton, Iowa. That would mean thta he should be in the 1950 Census.<\/p>\n Next, I have to figure out if Bernadine was in fact a Kerivan.<\/p>\n Here is where some of the strange spelling gets introduced.<\/p>\n William Joseph Kerivan is said to be born in Maine according to the 1920 Census but his father was from Massachusetts:<\/p>\n This William Joseph also married later in life:<\/p>\n I now have this floating tree for Joseph:<\/p>\n However, my non-floating tree has a William and Bridget already:<\/p>\n That means that I need to merge Wm with William and Bridget Kerivan with Bridget Norton.<\/p>\n This is the first step in bringing the Kerivan DNA Tree back a generation.<\/p>\n I think that masassas is Francis but I am not sure:<\/p>\n Francis’ mother lived on Maxwell Street in Boston, MA in 1930:<\/p>\n In not too long, my floating tree is at the point that it can be connected:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWilliam A Kerivan<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nJoseph and Lorraine<\/h2>\n
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