Welcome to the Mullen Family Tree. This is what all I have compiled over the past 21 years, with the help of numerous family members. Please feel free to send me any and all corrections and updates as I will continuosly need them. The search for and compilation of family trees never ends. Keep the information coming in. Happy hunting and hope you enjoy what you find. Li Sullins
*****NEWS*****
WE HAVE PARENTS FOR OUR MULLENS FROM IRELAND!!!
Yes, while once again posting another MULLEN inquiry to the Ireland section of www.genforum.com I reworded the subject line asking "MULLEN--isn't anyone out there missing us? blah, blah, blah...and this wonderful woman from Chicago went to a site, looked up old Lawrence's death cert and lo and behold, there they were...they names I had presumed to attach to our ancestors parents. Lawrence and Ellen Mullen. The names were listed as:
Lawrence Mullen, b. Ireland
Ellen Teerin/Feerin, b. Co., Galway, Ireland
AND
Lawrence Mullen
b. Ireland
Ellen Ferrin
b. Co. Galway, Ireland
Now, understand, the last name of "Teerin" is a real typo...the name WILL be Feerin/Ferrin and most likely "Fearon", in Ireland. I've been surfing like mad to find this name and there is a 'Fearon' genforum. So, I posted there to see what I can find. But, how ironic, using old Irish naming traditions, that *I* deduced what Lawrence's name would be AND Ellen's. I mean, after all, what are the odd's of that? So, we do have the parents of our Ireland ancestors, after my 22 yrs of research, FINALLY...now, just to keep on digging and see if we can actually pinpoint a village/townland for them all now.
Babies of 2011...
****NEWS?????**** DEATHS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES??? Imagine my surprise checking the Missouri Social Security Death Index to see so many of our family listed there and NO ONE bothering to write (snail mail nor email) to me and inform me of these folks passing. Is there anything else that anyone would like to PLEASE share with me to put in the family tree book so I may update it? Perhaps other deaths I am not aware of from around the country? How about marriages, births or even divorces. We are also VERY interested in who enlisted in the military, graduated from college, owns their own business, has or is playing a professional sport...anything. A wonderful story that came to mind, that was handed down and you remembered it. These things ARE news to all of us and we would love to update the Mullen family descendants information for the book. Please remember to make sure that you keep the information and any and all photos (photo copies or attachments are just fine) are most welcome and make the Mullen book that keeps growing even more interesting for all of us.
A BIT OF TRIVIAL MULLEN TRIVIA
Did you know that....
Oh, there is more trivial Mullen family trivia. I just have to take the time to gather it all up and post it here on this page. HA!
Irish Folk Wisdom
by Mairtin O'Griofa copyright 1993 Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
I found some delightful Irish Folk Wisdom in this book. I hope you enjoy some of the exerts that I have borrowed from it.
WOMEN
A bad woman knows a foolish man's faults.
There is nothing more wicked than a woman of evil temper.
The mother's failings will naturally be seen in the daughter.
Three things you can't comprehend: the mind of a woman, the workings of the bees, and the ebb and flow of the tide.
There is nothing sharper than a woman's tongue.
A woman can beat the devil.
LOVE
Love is blind to blemishes and fault.
What is nearest the heart is nearest the lips.
She who fills the heart fills the eye.
Love conceals ugliness, and hate sees many faults.
MARRIAGE
There is no cure for love but marriage.
Woe to him who does not heed a good wife's counsel.
Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.
Marriages are all happy; it's having breakfast together that causes all the problems.
Never make a toil of pleasure, as the man said when he dug his wife's grave only three feet deep.
There's only one thing on earth better than a good wife, and that's no wife.
The blanket is the warmer for being doubled.
There's no feast until a roast and no torment until a marriage.
It's a lonesome washing without a man's shirt in it.
CHILDREN
Praise the child and it will progress.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son is a mother's sorrow.
What the child sees is what the child does.
If you love the mother, you love her brood.
Every finger has not the same length, nor every son the same disposition.
No man ever wore a tie as nice as his child's arm around his neck.
There's no love until there's a family.
HOUSE AND HEARTH
There's no hearth like your own hearth.
Wide is the door of the little cottage.
The eye should be blind in the house of another.
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