Patrick 'Tailor' Sullivan + Catherine Murphy marriage — 23 Feb 1884 Eyeries (Catherine = JJM's paternal aunt + godmother)

Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland · Eyeries Parish, Co. Cork, Ireland · 1884-02-23

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Summary

Roman Catholic church marriage record. - Date: 23 Feb 1884 - Husband: **Patrick Sullivan** of **Slieve** — known in the family as **"Patrick Sullivan Tailor"** (he was a tailor by trade per user signal 2026-05-27). Father **John Sullivan** of **Reenavaud**. - Wife: **Catherine Murphy** of **Fawnkil**; RC; father **James Murphy** of **Fawnkil** - Witnesses: **James McCarthy** of **Eyries** + **Philip Sullivan** of **Reenavaud** - Priest: **J. Larkin** (same priest as the 1881 Pat-Ellen marriage 3 years earlier; continuing Eyeries-area parish service) **Locks ONE key identification**: **Catherine Murphy = JJM's paternal aunt + godmother**. Her father is "James Murphy" — same name as Patrick Murphy's father (the GEDCOM-attested James Murphy b. ~1816 Ballycrovane). Catherine is Patrick Murphy's sister and **almost certainly the same Catherine Murphy who served as JJM's godmother at the 1883 baptism** (her father James is of Fawnkil per the abstract's notes, occupation Not Recorded; the same James Murphy who appears on the 1881 Pat-Ellen marriage cert as Patrick's father). **REJECTED HYPOTHESIS (per user 2026-05-27)**: an earlier reading of this cert speculated that Patrick Sullivan = son of the 1855 John Sullivan + Margaret Shea marriage, which would have made him Ellen Lyne's half-brother and braided the Murphy + Sullivan + Lyne families together a second time. **The user clarified that Patrick Sullivan (Tailor) is from a different Sullivan line**; his father John Sullivan of Reenavaud is most likely a DIFFERENT John Sullivan from Margaret Shea's first husband (common Beara surname, distinct people). No Sullivan-via-Shea double-braid; Patrick Tailor Sullivan enters JJM's family only as uncle-by-marriage via Catherine. Children of Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan + Catherine Murphy (per the GEDCOM Catherine-Sullivan family): John (1884), Mary (1886), **Nora (1888)**, Philip (1890), Patrick (1892), Denny (1893), Katie (1897). All JJM's paternal first cousins via Catherine. **Nora Sullivan** = the 1910 Butte census "niece" of Ellen Murphy (b. 1888 Ireland, immigrated 1906; later m. John Hanley 1912 per the Butte Daily Post wedding announcement). Confirmed by user 2026-05-27 as Catherine + Patrick-Tailor's daughter.

In its time

Parties named in the record

groom
Patrick Sullivan(= Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan (m. Catherine Murphy 1884 Eyeries; tailor by trade))95
residence: Slieve
bride
Catherine Murphy(= Catherine Murphy Sullivan (b. ~1864; sister of Patrick Murphy; m. Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan 1884; JJM's godmother 1883))95
residence: Fawnkil
father of bride
James Murphy(= Seamus Mór (Big James) Murphy — PJM's father, of Ballycrovane Beara)100
occupation: Not Recorded · residence: Fawnkil
father of groom
John Sullivan(= John Sullivan of Reenavaud (father of Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan))75
residence: Reenavaud

People — link detail

Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan (m. Catherine Murphy 1884 Eyeries; tailor by trade)(as printed: Patrick Sullivan)
role: groom · family confidence: 95 certain
residence: Slieve
JJM's uncle-by-marriage via Catherine Murphy. Tailor by trade. User clarified (2026-05-27) the earlier speculative tie to the 1855 John Sullivan + Margaret Shea marriage is REJECTED; Patrick-Tailor is from a different Sullivan line.
Catherine Murphy Sullivan (b. ~1864; sister of Patrick Murphy; m. Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan 1884; JJM's godmother 1883)(as printed: Catherine Murphy)
role: bride · family confidence: 95 certain
residence: Fawnkil
Same Catherine Murphy who served as JJM's godmother in 1883 (per the baptism cert). Father James Murphy of Fawnkil matches the James Murphy = Patrick Murphy's father per the 1881 Pat-Ellen marriage cert. Catherine = Patrick Murphy's sister = JJM's paternal aunt. Now anchored as one of the defining family-tree nodes.
Seamus Mór (Big James) Murphy — PJM's father, of Ballycrovane Beara(as printed: James Murphy)
role: father of bride · family confidence: 100 certain
occupation: Not Recorded · residence: Fawnkil
JJM's paternal grandfather. Confirms his residence as Fawnkil (a townland near Eyeries on Beara) in 1884 — extends his life from the 1881 marriage cert (which gives Farmer; this 1884 abstract records no occupation) to 1884. [Linked to the family tree's James Murphy until that record was merged into Seamus Mór, 2026-10-03.]
John Sullivan of Reenavaud (father of Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan)(as printed: John Sullivan)
role: father of groom · family confidence: 75 strong
residence: Reenavaud
Father of Patrick "Tailor" Sullivan. Per user 2026-05-27 this John Sullivan is DISTINCT from the John Sullivan who married Margaret Shea in 1855 (same common name, different person). His own record is separate.

Also mentioned

James McCarthy · witness
Of Eyries. Same surname (and possibly same person) as the witness to Patrick Murphy + Ellen Lyne's 1881 marriage.
Philip Sullivan · witness
Of Reenavaud. Possibly a brother of the groom Patrick (a Philip Sullivan also appears in the GEDCOM as a child of Catherine Murphy + Patrick Sullivan — b. ~1890; might be named for this witness Philip).
J. Larkin · officiating_priest
Same priest as Patrick Murphy + Ellen Lyne marriage 1881. Continuing parish service.

Places

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

Themes

Irish American community

Story threads

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: 1884-02-23 (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 page, 612 x 792 pt, Chrome "Skia/PDF"). Rasterised with pdftoppm at 300 dpi (2550 x 3300 px). The form fills the top 2150 px; it was cut into six tiles (two columns x three rows, 60 px overlap, rows to y = 2100), each upscaled 2x with LANCZOS; the monospace Notes box was re-cut in two halves and upscaled 3x so that both of its lines could be read whole, and the footer strip below y = 2100 was re-cut at 3x. 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 box, is kept exactly; the Notes box breaks its line after "WIT" and that break is kept. proofed_by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04 --- # Church Marriage Record [logo] - **Date of Marriage:** 23-Feb-1884 - **Parish / District:** EYERIES - **County:** Co. Cork ## Husband - **Name:** Patrick | Sullivan - **Address:** Slieve - **Denomination:** Roman Catholic - **Occupation:** Not Recorded - **Age:** Not Recorded - **Status:** Not Recorded ## Wife - **Name:** Catherine | Murphy - **Address:** Fawnkil - **Denomination:** Roman Catholic - **Occupation:** Not Recorded - **Age:** Not Recorded - **Status:** Not Recorded ## Husband's Father - **Name:** John | Sullivan - **Address:** [blank] - **Denomination:** [blank] - **Occupation:** Not Recorded ## Wife's Father - **Name:** James | Murphy - **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:** James | Mccarthy - **Address:** [blank] ## Witness 2 - **Name:** Philip | Sullivan - **Address:** [blank] **Notes:** ``` PRIEST; J. LARKIN. PARENT 1 ADD = REENAVAUD. PAR 2 ADD = FAWNKIL. WIT 1 ADD = EYRIES. WIT 2 ADD = REENAVAUD. ``` © 2023 Copyright Cork South West www.rootsireland.ie

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Open questions

Disentangle `person_catherine_murphy_aughabrack` (originally created for the 1881 Reynolds-case Catherine Murphy at Aughabrack) from `person_catherine_murphy_godmother_of_jjm_1883` (= this 1884 bride = Patrick Murphy's sister). The GEDCOM matcher previously linked the Aughabrack record to GEDCOM Catherine b. ~1864 — that linkage should be reversed if the Aughabrack 1881 woman is a different Catherine from Patrick's sister. Three potentially-distinct Catherine Murphys of Beara b. 1860s — needs careful disambiguation pass.
Patrick Sullivan = son of John Sullivan + Margaret Shea? Plausible from address overlap (Sullivan family of the same Eyeries area) but residence-of-father differs (Reenavaud here vs Agroom in 1855). Could be the same John Sullivan with a family move, or two distinct John Sullivans.