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Updated June 29th, 2008
Nolan Family History

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Welcome to the Nolan Family History Website

    The Nolan Family History website traces our Irish heritage back to our first Irish/American ancestors. Starting with Matthew Nolan and Patrick Nolan continuing down to the present day family members.   Matthew and Patrick Nolan (Nowlan) immigrated from Waterford, Ireland in the mid 1840's with possibly a sister Francis (Anna). We have documented the two Nolan brothers originally settling in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in heart of coal country.

Matthew Nolan married Mary Shea in 1850 in Minersville, Pennsylvania at Vincent De Paul's Catholic Church.   Matthew and Mary Nolan raised their family in the village of Greenbury, Pennsylvania just outside the village of Heckscherville, also known as the Irish Valley.  Both Matthew and Mary Nolan lived out their remaining lives in this small coal mining community and are buried in the local Catholic Church - St. Kieran's in Heckscherville.

Patrick Nolan married Ellen O'Neill in 1855 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania at St. Patrick's Catholic Church.  Shortly after marriage, Patrick and Ellen migrated west to Wabasha County, Minnesota and settled a farm in Millville, Minnesota which stands today just outside of Millville, Minnesota.

The information in the following pages will trace Matthew Nolan and Patrick Nolan from Ireland down each family line to the present day family members.  The following web pages include information on the Nolan name, Irish immigration, Patrick and Matthew family information, Nolan family trees of Matthew and Patrick, and family photographs. With your help we can add to the family information for future generations of the Nolan family. Today our families live throughout America with several different last names, but we all have the common Irish heritage in our blood.

Thank you all for you help with information that are contained in the Nolan Family History website.

Thank You
for viewing the Nolan Family History Website. Continue to check back to the website for new information on our family.

Please help! If you see missing information on your branch of the family, (dates, relitives names, ect..) and have additional family information or you have old photos you would like to share, send me an email at the email addresses below.

Email Address:
jack.nolan@kdkb.com
or
jacknolan5@cox.net

Phone:
(602) 909-9837

Thank You!

Jack Nolan
(Grest Great Grandson
of Mathew Nolan)
(5 --- John Matthew "Jack" Nolan Jr. on the Matthew Nolan Family Tree)

The Greenbury Grotto
Greenbury, Pennsylvania

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Last Mass at St. Kieran's
St. Kieran's Church in Heckscherville will close after the last Mass on Saturday July, 12th at 5:30pm. The first Mass was held on August, 1st 1858. The Church was a very important part of Matthew Nolan families lives.
Matthew and Mary Nolan are buried in the Church Cemetery.
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