Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/71/2
Title
O'Neill-O'Brien letters
Date(s)
- 1861-1977 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
38pp
Context area
Archival history
Vincent O'Brien of Berkeley, California provided the O'Neill-O'Brien letters and associated materials to Kerby A. Miller in spring 1977 for transcription and/or reproduction. George Gleeson was in possession of the James Gleeson letter manuscripts.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Materials pertaining to the O’Neill, O’Brien, Gleeson, Tormey, O’Connor, Cooke, and Molony families of Limerick, Westmeath, and Tipperary. The series includes:
- Abstracts and extracts of three letters written between 1900 and 1905 to Margaret O’Brien in Melbourne, Australia by her aunts Ellen O’Neill in Los Angeles and Cecile O’Brien in San Francisco discussing family;
- Letter fragment from Patrick Cooke of County Limerick written aboard the SS Baltic circa 1910;
- Transcripts of letters written to Fannie and Willie Tormey in Vallejo, California in 1891 and 1898, including a letter from Fannie’s grandmother in Westmeath;
- Two letters written by James Gleeson of Australia to his father, Michael Gleeson, back home in Ireland, ca. 1861;
- Letter sent from Castlepollard, County Westmeath to Jane O’brien of San Francisco in 1923 which includes discussion and pictures of members of the O’Brien and Tormey families;
- Family histories of the O’Connors and Molonys which help chart the marriages joining the various families in the collection, the former of which was dictated by John Molony in 1910.