Just came across your message March of last year. I go back to my 3rd Great Grandfather Jeremiah Cullen, wife Catherine and daughter Mary. Jeremiah was b abt 1793 - 1800. Not sure where. The 1824 Tithe shows a Jeremiah in Grangecon, Baltinglass, Dublin and Kildare. 1851 Shows the family in Grangecon, Ballynure, Wicklow. They are living in a house and 6 acres owned by Pierce David Mahoney. I believe he may have been the Gardner since that's what he put as his occupation in the US. A descendant of David Mahoney, Peter Tynan Mahony a irish genealogist gave a lecture on Irish genealogy to our club. After, I went to talk with him about the pictures of Dubuque, Iowa he used. I'm from Dubuque. He asked what my Irish names were and when I told him he said he knew my Grandmoter. He also told me we were cousins and and to keep looking for our connection and then contact him. It took me 20 years to find it and by then Peter had passed away. His brother Dave Allen the comedian had also passed and I have no one to confirm. I know from genealogy Peter left on the Internet, (He didn't like the LDS and put nothing on there) that he had an ancestor named Andrew Cullen a GGGrandfather. Andrew married Mary Kelly and a Catherine Cullen was witness. This has to be the connection but just not sure how brother or cousin.

Jermiah left Grangecon in 1852 on the ship Boracy for Quebec. From there they walked to OH and spent a couple of years there and by 1857 daughter Mary marries Michael Gilligan of Dubuque Co. Iowa.

I keep hoping to find some one from Peter's family that can supply the information I need to show the connection.

Thank you for reading this book.
Marilyn