The furthest back I can go to date is Owen O’Shea (1727 – 1795) in Kanturk, Co. Cork. Owen married Ellen ? (1735 – 1786).
I share a DNA match with Timothy David O’Shea, residing in New York as of 2023. Timothy traces his ancestry to Owen O’Shea from Kanturk. While I initially assumed Owen to be our common great-great-grandfather, I would love to have more documentation to back this up. However, I am going with it until I find to the contrary.
If anyone has any more clarifying evidence for or against my assumptions, I would appreciate an email to infosheacollins@gmail.com
No doubt Owen and Ellen had more than two children, but of the only two I have found to date, one is named Timothy, and I don’t know the first name of the other son from whom I believe I am descended.
Timothy (wife unknown) had at least one son named Michael, but must have had others.
Owen’s other son, whose first name is unknown, had at least three children:
- Thomas O’Shea (died 1869) married Bridget Storin (1808 – 1869) and they had four sons and one daughter.
- James O’Shea Due to lack of evidence to the contrary and going on the slim clues I have, I am putting James’s wife to be Margaret Connors…
- Timothy O’Shea – born 1796. Thomas was deported from England to Tasmania in 1851. He left a wife behind in Kilmacanerla, and maybe even children. Given his age at the time he was transported, it is doubtful he survived his sentn