This is Jerry’s (W. Jerome Sullivan) original compilation of family history written in the 1980’s (?) . As these three notes were added to this blog page as photos of the originals, the text size is small but hopefully can be read.  An update to the first paragraph from what we now know is that James Sullivan’s birth year is unknown but may have been as recent as 1836-1841 not 1831.  We learned in 2012 via discovering Daniel Sullivan’s will in Paddy O’Neil’s trunk, that James had an older brother John as well as a baby sister Mary.  The picture now is that the family emigrated from Limerick, Ireland in 1847 or 1848 at the height of the Irish Famine (principally 1845-1850).  Daniel, his wife Mary, and sons John and James and daughter Mary arrived in Dunnville probably via Grosse Ille in Quebec.  At the time of sailing, John was about 12, James maybe 7-9 years old and Mary one year old.  It’s unknown if any other family travelled with them.  By 1861, the date of Daniel Sullivan’s will, they were on the farm on the Bird Rd., with the log cabin as the original home.  Daniel and James could not read nor write, John may have learned to read and write later.

Jerry’s history is a great single place to check out birth, death and marriage years for the children of James and Sarah Sullivan.