LORETTA REGAN
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. LORETTA REGAN (daughter of Private and Private).
2. Private Private married Private [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Private Children:
Generation: 3
6. CON CORNELIUS JOSEPH GATENS was born on 15 Oct 1858 (son of JAMES GATENS); died on 11 Feb 1924. Notes:
CORNELIUS married Mary Jane McCook in NOLAN SETTLEMENT_ IZ, CEDAR VALLEY_ IA, FURNITURE BUSINESS. Mary (daughter of Peter G McCook and Catherine Lowry) was born on 30 Nov 1862; died on 25 Mar 1899. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Mary Jane McCook was born on 30 Nov 1862 (daughter of Peter G McCook and Catherine Lowry); died on 25 Mar 1899. Notes:
Children:
Generation: 4
12. JAMES GATENS was born in 1827; died on 04 Dec 1898. Children:
- 6. CON CORNELIUS JOSEPH GATENS was born on 15 Oct 1858; died on 11 Feb 1924.
14. Peter G McCook was born in c 1823 in Ireland (son of Unknown McCook). Notes:
Possibly him in 1850 Providence, Luzerne PA
Also saw this, no idea if any connection
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY/2002-03/1015995911
Galway -
Of Peter McCOOK, parish of Kilbeacounty, near Gort, county Galway, who came
to this country 10 or 12 years ago; when last heard from he was in Virginia.
Information received by his brother Patrick,Milton, Mass.
Thomas Nolan, after whom this settlement was named, was a farmer democrat residing on section one in Graham township of Johnson county. He was born in Tipperary county, Ireland in 1828, and came to America in 1835. Landing in New York and living there 5 years, he finally settled in Graham township.
It was Father William Edmonds, pioneer priest of St. Mary?s of Iowa City, who first made the arduous trip in a bobsled, or wagon, once a month to say mass in the log cabins of the settlers before 1860. He is remembered for having named the parish. Father Edmonds hailed Mr. Nolan, who dwelt in the woods, heedless of his religion, and reprimanded him for not practicing his faith. To coax him, Father Edmonds said, ?Now, Mr. Nolan, if you help with the other 4 families to erect a little church for the honor of God, we shall name the place of settlement, Nolan Settlement.? Thus, Mr. Nolan, Horty, Leonard, Peters, Mahoney, Wall and Sullivan formed or rather constituted the primary makeup of St. Bridget?s parish, Nolan Settlement in 1859.
Forty acres was then purchased for $250, and in 1863 the first frame structure was erected in what is now the cemetery. Although it was but 20Peter married Catherine Lowry. Catherine was born in c 1830 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Catherine Lowry was born in c 1830 in Ireland. Notes:
Possibility this is Catherine Lowry b 31 Jul 1831 Ossory, Agahaboe, Laois, Ireland, daughter of John Lowry and Mary Lawler.
There is a Catharine Lowry in the 1850 census at Philadelphia Dock Ward, Philadelphia, PA in the household of Phineas A HartChildren:
- Bernard McCook was born on 31 Jan 1859 in Johnson Co, IA, NEAR SOLON IA, WAS A FARMER; died on 17 Jan 1911.
- John McCook was born in 1860; died on 22 Sep 1871 in AGED 11 YRS 6 MOS.
- 7. Mary Jane McCook was born on 30 Nov 1862; died on 25 Mar 1899.
- Private
- Steve R McCook was born in 1865; died in 1931 in HOSPITAL IN IOWA CITY, IA.