Margaret Sullivan (b. c. 1820; m. Timothy Shea 1838 Allihies; mother of Margaret Shea in the family tree)
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Margaret Sullivan (b. c. 1820; m. Timothy Shea 1838 Allihies; mother of Margaret Shea in the family tree)

family confidence: 75 — strongShea (paternal in-law via Margaret Shea Lyne)

Wife in the 1838 Allihies Shea-Sullivan marriage (9 Feb 1838), born Sullivan. The family tree (GEDCOM record merged here 2026-10-03, with the Timothy Shea records, on the user's instruction) has her born 1820 in Co. Cork, wife of Timothy Shea and mother of Margaret Shea (b. 7 May 1839, Cluin), JJM's maternal grandmother. Not to be confused with that daughter, who was born Shea and married a Sullivan in 1855.

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Birth:
~1820, Castletownbere, County Cork 252026-05-27 — Luke Murphy family tree (Ancestry.com)The tree gives '1820, Cork' with no citation and the same year for her husband; no record states her age, so it looks like an estimate. A bride of Feb 1838 was probably born before about 1820. Place: 'Cork' in the tree; Castletownbere is the record's inference from the Allihies marriage.
Residence:
Castletownbere, County Cork
DateFactConf.Sources
1838-02-09marriage · married Timothy Shea of Cluane; she is 'Margaret Sullivan', Roman Catholic, address 'Not Recorded', her father 'Not Recorded | Sullivan'; witnesses Patrick Shea and Denis Neil; priest James Devine; '4 ET 4 CONS GRAD.' (related to her husband in the fourth degree) (Allihies (village + parish on west Beara))

Typed Roots Ireland abstract, proofed 4 Oct 2026; the tree's marriage is this record.

951838-02-09 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland; 2026-05-27 — Luke Murphy family tree (Ancestry.com)
1838-02-09name · born Sullivan: her father's surname is given as Sullivan

Wife's Father 'Not Recorded | Sullivan' in the abstract.

951838-02-09 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland

Relationships

Family (blood)

  • parent of Margaret (Shea) Sullivan Lyne (JJM's maternal grandmother)65
    The family tree gives Margaret Shea, born and baptised 7 May 1839 at Cluin, daughter of Timothy Shea and Margaret Sullivan, citing the Irish Catholic parish registers (NLI microfilm 04286, part 01); the citation ids of child, father and mother appear to point to one register entry, which is not filed in the archive (Luke's research deck indexes the same baptism as 'Margreta O'Shea', 7 May 1839, Eyeries). The 1838 groom's 'Cluane' matches the baptism's 'Cluin'. That this 1839 child is James's grandmother (married John Sullivan 1855, Myles Lyne 1865) is the tree's identification. Today's transcription of the 1865 civil marriage return (Sonnet, 4 Oct 2026, not yet proofed) reads her father as '[T?]im Shea', Farmer (Tim 60, against Jim or Dim), where the record had '[John?] Shea' as the one point against the tree; it now supports it. Against: she would have been 15 at her first marriage (Feb 1855), and the Annals call her 'Margaret O'Shea of Direenavogig' (a residence at marriage, not a birthplace). Tree with a cited register entry (about 85 for the 1839 parentage) times the identification (about 75): 65. · 2026-05-27 — Luke Murphy family tree (Ancestry.com); 1838-02-09 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland; 1865-06-09 — Marriage Returns, Superintendent Registrar's District of Castletown

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Person ID: person_margaret_sullivan_shea_1838