The McCarthy story

My Great grandfather Timothy McCarthy, born 25 June, 1881 at Castlemary, Cloyne, Co. Cork came to the US in 1899 with his father John McCarthy. His mother, Fanny (Morrison) McCarthy had passed away in 1894 in Midleton, Co. Cork. Previous to their arrival, two sisters had came to America, to Boston and had married a pair of O'Connell brothers in the Charlestown neighborhood. Upon arrival Timothy began working on the coal barges that came and went from the Boston wharves. His father John stayed sometime with one of the daughters but then decided to return to Midleton. He would die there in 1910. Tim remained working on the barges his entire working life. My father, who dated and married his grand daughter, my mom, met him in 1954 and described him as always being covered in black coal soot except for at church or a family gathering. Tim married Margaret Sullivan, born 1882 at Carrick-on-the Suir, Co. Tipperary and who had arrived at Ellis Island in 1900 and made her way to Boston. They were wed in 1905. They would go on to have 7 children, the third being my grandfather John McCarthy born 1910. All in all Tim's immigration in 1899 brought that half of my Irish Family to the US and from Tim onward the family was hard working, proud to Irish and proud to be American family. Like so many millions of others,