Condon Page

Origins

The Condon line is the most diverse branch of my grandparents, with roots in Ireland, Norway, and Germany. In addition its also a very religiously diverse branch with practitioners of Catholicism and various forms of Protestantism. The four main branches of the Condon family include the Condons themselves, who were originally from County Cork, Ireland, particularly the Mitchelstown area. There is also the Steinwand family from the Stuttgart region in Germany, people practiced both Catholicism and Lutheranism. On the maternal side, the Braaten family hails from the Valdres and Helgeland region of Norway and were typically Lutheran. The last major family on this side is the Gallaghers, who come from Ireland, from various counties, namely, Wicklow, Longford and possibly Dublin.

Bubbles (Colleen Condon) (1940-2005)

Colleen Marie Condon or Bubbles, as she was known to her grandchildren, was a very strong-willed and independent woman. She was ahead of her time in many ways. Born in 1941, to an upper-middle class family Before 1974, women could not have their own bank accounts. In 1975 she moved herself, five kids, and her husband from Minneapolis to Sanibel, Florida, where she ran five businesses over the span of 30 years. Starting in 1975 with the Salimar Hotel, then the Port of Call restaurant, then she worked for Jim’s Shell Shop, and then managed condominiums, and lastly Sanibel’s Finest, a shell shop in 1984, which she owned for 21 years until her death. For a woman born in 1940, the amount she got done within her life is remarkable and unmatched. Many women of her generation became housewives, while she worked and managed to become independent.

Pedigree

Gen 3	Gen 4	Gen 5	Gen 6	Gen 7
Colleen Marie Condon	Donald John Condon	Jeremiah Vincent Condon	John Condon	Edmund Condon
				Margaret Slattery
			Mary White	James White
				Elizabeth Maguire
		Anne Mary Steinwand	Mathias Steinwand	Johannes Steinwand
				Christina Kopp
			Marie Gunzenhauser	Bernard Gunzenhauser
				Dorothea Meyer
	Thelma “Betty” Marie Braaten	Melvin Thomas Braaten	Thorsten Braaten	Torger Anderson
				Anna Tostensdatter Søndreøl
			Benjamine Indiane Mathilde Knudsdatter Mellang	Knud Pedersen Mellang
				Dorthea Kristine Jansen
		Mary Hortense Gallagher	Charles Edward Gallagher	Owen Gallagher
				Margaret Dailey
			Ellen Mary Goss	James Goss
				Mary Plunkett