Kelly (Sullivan) Rishor
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Hi all,
My name, Kelly Joleen Sullivan, is obviously Irish and for years I've tried to find the exact locations in Ireland my ancestors emigrated from. Recently, I found paternal ancestry from Ulster Ireland, and the "dark Irish" heritage came to light. As a young girl, I remember my father talking about the differences between black-haired, dark-skinned Irish and Mom's family being red-headed, freckled-faced Irish. Lucky me, I have all the traits mentioned here!
While I do know that "Dark Irish" is rumored to be of religious historical origin, or relating to poor heritages of Irish immigrants and the stories that bounce around year after year, I personally believe it was more about physicality and nothing more.
From what I know, Dad's family was originally from Ireland, migrated from New York to Louisiana, and then settled in California. Through maternal marriages, he picked up relations with Daniel Boone's brother George Boone. Also, Irish immigrant Elisha Warren Holmes, Sr, settler George C Yount and Philip Stone born in 1220 in Ardleigh, Essex, England.
Mom's family was from England, the Woolsey line in particular. (One of the most frustrating geological adventures to date. So many trees full of mistakes that it has been a nightmare to allocate profiles). With her heritage of Irish, Welsh, and English, we are connected to Cornell, Cheesbrough, Allen, Ault, Thomas, Case, and Woolsey. Her Grandmother traveled from Kansas to Wyoming by stagecoach. Most of the men worked in the coal mines. Little by little, they moved away. Oregon is where Mom was raised. After marriage, my parents settled in California.
This brings me to my childhood. We lived in Santa Barbara, well, Goleta. A medium-sized family with five kids. We played outside until dark, ate dinners at the table, and used words like "please" and "thank you."
We all looked so much alike and went boy, girl, boy, girl, boy in birth order and are each one year apart in age. The middle brother was born a day after our Dad's birth date and he teased Mom, "You missed my Birthday." The next year... I was born...on Dad's Birthday! One Sunday morning we all went to a pancake house downtown and a woman asked my parents, "Oh my, they all look so much alike, are they twins?" My parents laughed about that question for years.
Santa Barbara was a lovely place and we all grew up to be hard-working adults. Because we are all still living, that is all I will say about the kids.
For several years I've used MyHeritage.com and Ancestry.com for research (not as a premium $$ member) and have built a tree of over 1000 family members. The tree growing excites my daughter and she too wants to grow trees, so I hope with the help of WikiTree, we could all use one platform to plant our roots. We are very diligent in our documentation and hope others will benefit as we add and edit data. I think I'm getting the hang of formatting profiles. Hair pulling tediousness.
Anyway, I'm here to help WikiTree and the 'free collaborative efforts. If I've stepped over any boundaries in my eagerness to help, just drop me a note.
Keep calm and carry on!
Kelly
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As my generation begins to pass away, it is prudent to make provision for the work I have done on our family tree. In the case of my demise, I hereby give permission for the management of all of my private profiles to be transferred to any of my Family Members active at that time on WikiTree, whether or not they are on the Trusted Lists, in the order listed as follows:
Katrina Canfield and Joe Sullivan (Not on Wiki yet).
My 11th great grandfather Nicholas Snow and and Consance Hopkins. Also being connected to Dorothy (May) Bradford my first cousins 12 times removed were both confirmed passengers of the Mayflower. Dorothy died by drowning on 7 December 1620 in Provincetown Harbor when she fell from the Mayflower.
Edward I Plantagenet is the 23rd great grandfather of Kelly. He was Edward (Edward I) "Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots, King of England" Plantagenet, so that means I have Royal blood. :) Thanks Ken Parman for the cookie crumb! Going back 9 more fathers is Geoffrey II (Perche) de Château-Landon born in about 1000 in Chateau Landon, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France.
This trail tells us that William Welles is the 23rd great-grandfather of Kelly. I have even more Grand Fathers on this tree dating back to 1087 in Well, Lincolnshire, England with Walter DeWelle WikiTree can't even make a trail that far back! He is my 29th grandfather.
Again on my Father's side, Duke Hrolf (Robert) "le Marcheur, the Walker, The Dane, Duke of Normandy" Ganger formerly Normandie Born about 0842 in Maer, Jutland, Nord-Trondelag, Norway, is my 36th Grandfather. So we went from Norway to England and then Ireland. There we were Butler's of the Butler Dynasty. [1]
George C Yount was my 5th Grandfather. He was the first Euro-American permanent settler in Napa Valley, where he was the grantee of two Mexican land grants. Yountville, California is named for him. He was the first to plant grapes in Sonoma, Co. Also credited for the rescue of the Donner Party. His nephew, Harry Yount, was a gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park and is considered the first park ranger of the National Park Service.
Kelly and Daniel Boone are 8th cousins 9 times removed.
William Frederick (Bill) "Buffalo Bill" Cody is a 16th cousin five times removed. In 1883, Buffalo Bill started his own show, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, which was a touring circus. In 1893, Cody changed the title to "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World".
I'm also related to "Johnny Appleseed" as 15th cousins four times removed.
Cornell is another line and Ezra Cornell Co-founder of Cornell University, b. 1807 is my fifth cousin five times removed.
Warren Buffett and Kelly are 16th cousins once removed. In February 2008, he was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world, worth about $62 billion. Despite his massive wealth, he lives relatively frugally, still resides in the home he bought in 1958 for $31,500, and drives his own car. In 2006, he announced his plans to give 83 percent of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates and I are 18th cousins once removed. Gates is one of the most influential and richest people in the world.
Henry Livingston and I are 12th cousins 9 times removed. Henry Livingston, Sr. settled at Poughkeepsie, where he had a grant, for life, of the clerkship of Dutchess County. He was for many years a member of the Provincial Assembly from the County of Dutchess; was a Whig of the Revolution. He was also an Elder and Deacon of Poughkeepsie Dutch Reformed Church.
Joel R. Poinsett and Kelly are second cousins 6 times removed. US Congressman, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Diplomat. He was elected as a Jacksonian Republican to represent South Carolina's 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1821 until his resignation in 1825. Appointed as United States Minister to Mexico, he served in that diplomatic post from 1825 until 1829. In 1837 he was appointed as Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Martin Van Buren, serving until 1841. He introduced to the United States the poinsettia flower plant, which was named in his honor.
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Kelly is 23 degrees from Emeril Lagasse, 22 degrees from Nigella Lawson, 24 degrees from Maggie Beer, 47 degrees from Mary Hunnings, 26 degrees from Joop Braakhekke, 32 degrees from Michael Chow, 20 degrees from Ree Drummond, 24 degrees from Paul Hollywood, 25 degrees from Matty Matheson, 24 degrees from Martha Stewart, 30 degrees from Danny Trejo and 28 degrees from Molly Yeh on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Thanks, Mary Allen Bliefnick
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Regards, Paul Mooney
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This Mary has often mistaken for Mary Hoskins Stone which is incorrect. The Mary Stone married to Joshua Stone is my 7th Great Grandmother and to date cannot find a record of her maiden name. Many family trees have mixed up the Stone lines and it is like someone mixing similar jigsaw puzzles into one box, a time consuming mess to be figured out. I once assumed incorrectly that Hoskins was her last name cause of other online trees, but at this point, I try and find actual proof.
Thank you again,
Bobby Holmes