Descendants of Bartholomew Houlihan
of County Kerry, Ireland

County Kerry

Generation #2

Margaret (1Bartholomew) Houlihan

Margaret Houlihan was born 1832 Kilshenaugh Parish, County Kerry, Ireland. On 2/18/1849 in Ballybunion, County Kerry, Ireland, Margaret married Dennis Mullin b. 1830 Knockenaugh, County Kerry, Ireland. 

Beginning in 1845, a disease struck Ireland, destroying the primary food crop. The Potato Blight began in southeastern Ireland and eventually spread throughout the island. By 1849 one out of every four Irish had died from starvation or disease and one out of every four Irish had migrated, mostly to America. And, the Mullin Family became part of this great migration. [Great Famine]

To survive the famine, the family migrated to America in stages. Dennis and Margaret, his brother Patrick, and her parents sailed aboard the Barque Hopewell, arriving 5/9/1851 in New York. His mother Margaret, sister Ellen, and Maurice Daughton immigrated sometime later.

Margaret and family are next found 9/15/1851 in Pickaway Co OH where sons Joseph and Michael were christened. And on 10/6/1856 in Fairfield Co OH, Dennis petitioned for naturalization.

The family migrated to Decatur Co IA in 1858 and later to Taylor Co IA in 1876.

Margaret is last found in the 1920 Taylor Co IA Census, living with her daughter Mary Hart. Margaret died 1/13/1920 in Taylor Co IA and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Ringgold Co IA.

Name MARGARET HOULIHIN
Date of Birth 1 June 1834
Address BARRACKS
Father BARTHOLOMEW HOULIHAN
Mother MARY GALLIVIN
Father Occupation NR
Sponsor 1 JULIANA DEE
Priest REV.J.BUCKLEY
Name DENIS MULLINS MARGARET HOULIHAN
Address LAHISHRA NR
Priest REV.J.WALSH
Husband's Father's Occupation NR
Witness 1 BARTHOLOMEW HOULIHAN
Witness 2 ELLEN MULLINS

Limerick, Ireland to New York, 9 May 1851

I, Abm Dixon, Master of the Br Bark Hopewell, do solemnly. . .swear that the following List. . .delivered by me to the. . .District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board the said Bark at Limerick, from which port said Bark has now arrived. . . .
Abraham Dixon
Sworn to this May 9 1851

List or Manifest of all passengers taken on board the Bark Hopewell whereof Abraham Dixon is Master, from Limerick. Burthen 268 tons

112 Patrick Holohan 40 M [Bartholomew Houlihan, age 62]
113 Dennis Millins 20 M [Dennis Mullin, age 25 M]
114 Patrick Millins 16 M [Patrick Mullin, age 22 M]
115 Margaret Mullins 17 F [Margaret Houlihan Mullin, age 19 F]
116 Mary Holohan 40 F [Mary Galvin Houlihan, age 48 F]
117* ????? Holohan ?? ? Infant M [Joseph Mullin, infant M]
118* ????? Holohan ?? ? Infant M [Michael Mullin, infant M]
124 John Daughton 40 M

    Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild, "Bark Hopewell (1851)," <http://www.immigrantships.net/v7/1800v7/hopewell18510509.html> 2011.

 
1920 Taylor Co IA Census: Gay Twp
                                                    Dad  Mom
                Last      First   Sex R  Age POB   POB  POB
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59  59  Hart    Mary      Head    F   W  63  Ohio  Ire  Ire
        Mullin  Margaret  Mother  F   W  96  Ire   Ire  Ire

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