Jeremiah DRISCOLL'S birth date is unknown. About 1860 he married Susan Burke whose parents were Daniel Burke and Susan Wholey. Jeremiah and Susan's children were Timothy, Dennis, Jeremiah, Mary Ellen, Bartholemew, Susanna, Patrick, and Hannah. The children were born from about 1860 to about 1873. Tim was baptised 2 Feb 1860 in the parish of Tullagh. There are civil registrations (LDS website) for Susanna and for Bartholemew. On Bartholemew's the civil parish of Tullagh in County Cork is listed.

Jeremiah died before 1879. Susan immigrated with her children Hannah, Jeremiah, Mary Ellen, and her niece, Mary Burke, in 1880. They went first to Minnesota where Mary Ellen Driscoll was left with Susan's niece, Hannah Crowley Redmond, and Mary Burke was sent to Iowa to live with Susan's niece, Susan Crowley Kearney.

Susan Driscoll went on to Dakota Territory with Hannah and Jeremiah. Dennis, Bartholemew, and Patrick followed later. Susan joined her older sister, Ellen Burke Crowley, also a widow. Ellen Crowley was homesteading in Hanson County. Susan also homesteaded and was issued her land on 30 Jun 1886. She spent the rest of her life in Hanson County where she died 14 Jun 1911.

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