Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/66/22
Title
Creedon family letters
Date(s)
- 1883-1977 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
24pp
Context area
Archival history
Transcripts of the Creedon letters were donated to Kerby A. Miller by Humphrey Twomey of Mayfield, Cork in January 1977.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Materials pertaining to five letters written between 1883 and 1907 by members of the Creedon-Nolan family in Pleasant Valley (now Avoca) Pennsylvania to Catherine Sheehan (née Creedon) in Burnfort, County Cork. The series consists of the 1977 letter of donation from Humphrey Twomey (great-grandson of Catherine Sheehan), Twomey’s biographical notes on the Creedon family, and Twomey’s transcripts of the five Creedon letters. Sheehan was the only family member not to emigrate to Pleasant Valley, likely because her husband was too elderly to emigrate; she died in 1917 having long lost contact with her family in America.