AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
The Driscoll-Sullivan Family
The Irish portion of the family includes the Sullivans (O'Sullivan), Connors of Bantry and the Driscolls (O'Driscoll), all from County Cork who emmigrated in the late 1880s, settling in Bayonne, NJ. Our Sullivan ancestors were Eugene and Mary ( maiden name, Driscoll).
Eugene was born to Eugene (Owen) Sullivan and Nora (Honora) Connor Sullivan in late 1866 in the vicinity of Bantry Bay. He and possibly one or more brothers left Ireland between 1880-1890, presumably at different times. Eugene stated on the 1910 federal census that he arrived in the US about 1880. Mary, his wife, stated that she arrived in the US in 1886, but this information has not been confirmed. Eugene probably did arrive earlier, because family stories say that he went to work while still quite young. In 1880, he would have been 14 or 15. Eugene and Mary seem to have met and married in the US and settled in Bayonne sometime in 1888-89. Eugene is listed in the 1890-91 city directory and one of their infants was baptized at St. Mary's Parish in 1889. Besides Eugene's brothers, two Sullivan sisters, Nellie (married name Foley) and Margaret also came to the USA, sometime in the early 1900s. Margaret was unmarried as late as 1912, but is believed to have married subsequently. Cousins of Eugene (or Mary) may have lived in Brooklyn and were possibly named RICE.
<>The place of origin in Cork of the Driscoll's is not known but may have also been from West Cork in the vicinity of Bantry Bay as well. The Driscolls in America consisted of at least 5 daughters, and possibly one son (Michael), all of whom came to the US, approximately 1886-1890. Mary's sister Julia was godmother to Grandpa Jerimiah Sullivan in 1893. Collateral links with the Driscoll family include Margaret Kashubeck (Staten Island, New York), Nellie Randall (Rye, New York), Julia Fitzpatrick (Winter Haven, Florida), and Nora Blake (Media, Pennsylvania).Another name associated with this family is Costello. Family lore says this surname was connected with an ill-fated Armada. Such an Armada landed in Bantry in 1796. Little else is known about this line.
