Margaret Shea's FIRST marriage — to John Sullivan, 20 Feb 1855, Eyeries

Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland (Church Marriage Record) · Eyeries Parish, Co. Cork, Ireland · 1855-02-20

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Summary

Roman Catholic church marriage record from Eyeries parish. - Date: 20 Feb 1855 - Husband: **John Sullivan** of **Agroom** (= Ardgroom), Roman Catholic; father surname Sullivan (first name not recorded) - Wife: **Margaret Shea**, Roman Catholic; father surname Shea (first name not recorded) - Witnesses: **Jeremiah McCarthy** (printed Mccarthy) and a second person also named **Margaret Shea** (the Notes line reads "IST WIT., NAME IS DERMOT E. JEREMIAH." — it is about the first witness, perhaps that the register calls him Dermot; the priest has his own sentence, "PRIEST: D. HEALY.") - Priest: **D. Healy** This is **Margaret Shea's first marriage**. John Sullivan died before 1865; Margaret subsequently remarried Myles Lyne on 9 June 1865 (per the corresponding civil cert). REJECTED HYPOTHESIS (user 2026-05-27): an earlier read of the 1884 Patrick Sullivan + Catherine Murphy cert speculated that Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan was a son of THIS 1855 John+Margaret marriage (and thus Ellen Lyne's half-brother). The user clarified Patrick Tailor is from a different Sullivan line. Any actual Sullivan children of John + Margaret Shea remain unidentified — would require Eyeries parish baptismal-register lookup 1855-1865.

In its time

Famine emigration1845–1855

Parties named in the record

groom
John Sullivan(= John Sullivan (Margaret Shea's first husband, m. 1855 Eyeries; probably Ellen's father))75
residence: Agroom
bride
Margaret Shea(= Margaret (Shea) Sullivan Lyne (JJM's maternal grandmother))100

People — link detail

John Sullivan (Margaret Shea's first husband, m. 1855 Eyeries; probably Ellen's father)(as printed: John Sullivan)
role: groom · family confidence: 75 strong
residence: Agroom
Margaret Shea's first husband (= JJM's maternal grandmother's first husband). Distinct from the John Sullivan of Reenavaud who fathered Patrick Tailor Sullivan (per user 2026-05-27). Any Sullivan children he had with Margaret 1855-1865 remain unidentified.
Margaret (Shea) Sullivan Lyne (JJM's maternal grandmother)(as printed: Margaret Shea)
role: bride · family confidence: 100 certain
Same Margaret Shea who later married Myles Lyne (1865) and became JJM's maternal grandmother (mother of Ellen Lyne Murphy).

Also mentioned

Jeremiah McCarthy · witness
Margaret Shea (second) · witness
Second witness also named Margaret Shea — possibly the bride's mother or sister.
D. Healy · officiating_priest
Eyeries parish priest in 1855.

Places

Ardgroom (village + RC Chapel) (primary)
County Cork (primary)
Beara Peninsula (primary)
Eyeries (village + parish + RC Chapel) (primary)

Themes

Irish American community

Story threads

The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Related sources

Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence high

--- newspaper: Roots Ireland "Church Marriage Record" (Cork South West / Irish Family History Foundation online index abstract, printed from a browser to PDF); a typed database abstract, not a newspaper and not an image of the parish register date: 1855-02-20 (date of marriage as given) page: single printed page; no register book, page or entry number is shown transcribed_by: claude-sonnet-5-5 (Claude Code subagent), 2026-10-04 method: source.pdf (1 landscape page, 792.96 x 612 pt, Chrome "Skia/PDF"). Rasterised with pdftoppm at 300 dpi (3304 x 2550 px). The form fills the top 1900 px; it was cut into six tiles (two columns x three rows, 60 px overlap), each upscaled 2x with LANCZOS, and the small monospace Notes line was re-cut and upscaled 4x. Everything was read from the image first; the PDF's text layer was compared afterwards and agrees exactly. Each two-box name field is written forename | surname. Bands are listed left-hand band first, then right-hand band, as on the form. Empty boxes are marked [blank]. Printed text, including "Not Recorded" and the capitals of the Notes line, is kept exactly. proofed_by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04 --- # Church Marriage Record [logo] - **Date of Marriage:** 20-Feb-1855 - **Parish / District:** EYERIES - **County:** Co. Cork ## Husband - **Name:** John | Sullivan - **Address:** Agroom - **Denomination:** Roman Catholic - **Occupation:** Not Recorded - **Age:** Not Recorded - **Status:** Not Recorded ## Wife - **Name:** Margaret | Shea - **Address:** Not Recorded - **Denomination:** Roman Catholic - **Occupation:** Not Recorded - **Age:** Not Recorded - **Status:** Not Recorded ## Husband's Father - **Name:** Not Recorded | Sullivan - **Address:** [blank] - **Denomination:** [blank] - **Occupation:** Not Recorded ## Wife's Father - **Name:** Not Recorded | Shea - **Address:** [blank] - **Denomination:** [blank] - **Occupation:** Not Recorded ## Husband's Mother - **Name:** Not Recorded | Not Recorded - **Address:** [blank] - **Denomination:** [blank] - **Occupation:** [blank] ## Wife's Mother - **Name:** Not Recorded | Not Recorded - **Address:** [blank] - **Denomination:** [blank] - **Occupation:** [blank] ## Witness 1 - **Name:** Jeremiah | Mccarthy - **Address:** [blank] ## Witness 2 - **Name:** Margaret | Shea - **Address:** [blank] **Notes:** `PRIEST: D. HEALY. IST WIT., NAME IS DERMOT E. JEREMIAH.` © 2022 Copyright Cork South West www.rootsireland.ie

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Open questions

Children of John Sullivan + Margaret Shea (1855-1865) — unidentified in the archive. Earlier speculation that Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan (m. Catherine Murphy 1884) was their son REJECTED per user 2026-05-27. Any actual Sullivan-Shea children would require systematic Eyeries parish baptismal- register lookup 1855-1865.
John Sullivan's exact death date — somewhere between 1855 and 1865. Eyeries parish burial register would resolve.