The Farrell family came from Cork and Limerick Counties, Ireland, to Boston. Some members went to Canada; others stayed in the United States. In the 1840s, Michael Farrell came to the Romeoville area to work on the canal. He and his wife Ann had 10 children. They lived on a farm. Their youngest child, Rose (b. 1868) married Peter Ward Sr. Their home was located where Romeoville High School now stands. However, by 1890, most of the Farrell family had left the Romeoville area. Richard Farrell, the last of Michael’s sons to leave the area, sold the farm, on whose land was later constructed the first Romeo Village Hall (1895). The farmland was later rented to tenant farmers by new owners, the Illinois Steel Company.
Romeoville Area Historical Society
Located in the James P. Sczepaniak Museum