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From: "Sean Mac Suibhne" <>
Subject: RE: East side Irish
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:23:30 -0800
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My husband's Sweeney family came to Cleveland in 1840 from Donegal.
Michael/wife Bridget(McCart) and three small children. They bought a
home on Parkman and by 1860 Michael and son Patrick did masonry work and
son Alex a teamster and was hired to help in the building of St.
Joseph's Church. Later Michael bought land in Euclid (Bluestone) and
divided it up among his married daughter Mary Broughan, and sons
Patrick,/wife Ellen Behan his wife and Alexander/ wife Mary Dowling.
Several other family members resided in Euclid along with them and all
I'm sure helped in the support and building of St. Paul's Catholic
Church. These families stayed until the mid 1930s later moving to the
Collinwood/Nottingham area.

Cindy Duiker Mac Suibhne



-----Original Message-----
From: Janet [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 3:27 PM
To:
Subject: East side Irish

Mary Kay, I'd love to see a discussion on some of the Irish who settled
on
the east side. I think my family would fall into that group.

Peter, Owen, and Miles Goldrick emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland in
1848,
landing at Philadelphia. By 1853, Peter and Owen were in Cleveland on
Meadow Street. They later moved to Hamilton Street. They started as
"draymen", and I think this means they hauled coal because Peter ended
up
owning a coal company on Lake and Alabama Streets. Peter served on the
Cleveland City Council twice. He was elected to serve Ward 5 in 1863 and
had
something to do with escorting Abraham Lincoln's body. In 1875, he was
apppointed to represent Ward 7 to fill the unexpired term of another
councilman who had died. In 1871, Peter Goldrick and a group of other
men
(Patrick Walsh, Patrick O'Marah and John Nevins) tried to start a weekly
Irish newspaper promoting Irish independence. It was supposed to
represent
all Irishmen regardless of religion -- however it was later alleged in a
lawsuit in the Cleveland courts that it turned into primarily a Catholic
endeavor. Patrick O'Marah sued Bishop Richard Gilmour, who was at that
time
the Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland, Thomas Manning, James T.
Maloney,
Rev. T. P. Thorpe, Peter Goldrick and others for making it a Catholic
enterprise instead of one that would represent all the Irish of
Cleveland.
Peter's brother, Owen, was elected to be a Ward Assessor in the
mid-1870s.
Miles Goldrick, my great great grandfather, lived briefly in Cleveland
in
the 1850s but moved back to Philadelphia (I think his wife, Margaret
Burns,
might have been from that area) In 1861, they moved to Cleveland
permanently. He started as
a shoemaker, but by 1870 he was a bridge builder. His sons were all
railroaders.
His son, Philip Goldrick married Alice Mahoney, daughter of William
Mahoney,
who lived on Summit Alley, then Erie St., and finally on Hamilton Street
where he lived until his death in 1911. William Mahoney married
Catherine
White in 1856 in St. John's Cathedral.
Some of the Goldricks and Mahoneys eventually moved to the west side,
near
Brooklyn, I think because there was a large railroad switching yard
there.
I mentioned the parts about Peter Goldrick to show that the Irish played
an
important part in Cleveland politics even as early as the 1860s -- I
read a
lot of early Cleveland newspapers which I got on microfilm from the OHS
and
I believe it was the Cleveland Leader which had a strong anti-Irish
editorial policy.
I'd like to hear the stories of some other Cleveland Irish families --
in my
"reading" of the census, it's my belief that many of these people lived
on
the same streets, attended the same churches and must have known each
other.

Janet Goldrick Friend



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