James and Agnes (Kelly) Cusick/Pittsburgh, PA
Baptismal record from St. Patrick Church, Strip District, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA:29 Sep 1867.
JOHN CUSICK, son of James and Agnes (Kelly) Cusick;sponsors:Michael Cusick and Catherine Smith.
More on James Cusick:believed to have immigrated to the U.S. sometime during the Great Irish Potato Famine from County Cork, Ireland. Died before 1880.
More on Agnes Kelly:1860 Census; Pitt Township, Allegheny Co; age: 20 yrs.mother:Honoria Kelly, age 60, widow - maiden name believed to be "Gannon." siblings:John, 26; Dennis, 22; Ann, 28; and Catherine, 18;all subjects of Irish origin. Died 12 Mar 1912 in Pittsburgh.
More on John Cusick:a.k.a. John James Joseph Cusick;married Elizabeth E. Hoover in 1895 in Fayette Co., PA;died 17 Feb 1910 in Pittsburgh, PA leaving a widow and two children, Charles and Mary Cusick.
More on Honoria Gannon Kelly:believed to have some kind of Irish (County Mayo) ancestral connection to the family of American-born prelate John Mark Gannon (1877-1968), later the Archbishop of Erie, PA and founder of Gannon University -though this is largely conjecture at this point.
Any information on any of these subjects would be gratefully received.Bruce Myers.