Ancestry for Crowley

Ceecee:

I searched on the free site irishgenealogy.ie for all 1867 Michael Crowley civil birth records in the Dunmanway registration district. Three records came up.

One of them (see second record at the link) was for a Michael Crowley born June 25 1867. His father was Jeremiah and his mother Ellen Donovan. They live in Inchafune townland in Ballymoney civil parish not far from the town of Ballyneen. 

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1867/03469/2274273.pdf.

This has to be your Michael. Do you know the names of any of his siblings?

Roger McDonnell

Ceecee:

I located a February 14 1860 marriage between a Jerry Crowley and an Ellen Donovan at the Roscarbery RC church. Source irishgenealogy.ie church records

Roger

When Michael Crowley married Ellen Sheehan in Mass. in 1892, he gave his parents' names as Michael and Ann (this record from Ancestry; I checked the original).

Ceecee,

Do you have a birth or baptism record from June 1867 for Michael Crowley? I would add that folks often did not know the year they were born, and information on records in the US that are self-reported, are not always accurate. From personal experience, I never take for "gospel truth" the birth dates found in US census records or on headstones. 

I would search five years on either side of that 1867 date for his birth, and remember that Nancy is another name for Ann in the Irish records, so keep your eyes out for that.

I agree that his father is also Michael since he gave himself the "junior" suffix in the marriage record....or whomever was writing it down did.

Regards,

Thank you to all who have helped so far. I appreciate the efforts and am looking into some of your findings. I do think he was a Jr, however, Michael Crowley Sr. and Ann Crowley aren’t getting me anywhere, so I’ll try Jeremiah Crowley and Ellen Donovan and see what that uncovers. 

Carolyn, I do have a baptism date for Michael J Crowley however it is for June 12, 1867 which wouldn’t make sense if he was born June 25 but, like you mentioned, those dates could be incorrect. 

Ceecee,

I didn't mean do you know his birth/baptismal date, I meant do you have the actual record that one could find on irishgenealogy.ie under the church records tab as well as the civil records tab (civil birth records begin in 1864)? Parents had a month to register a birth with the civil authorities before they were fined, so sometimes you will see discrepancies in the records if they didn't do that in time. Personally, I would not tackle finding a new set of parents for him other than what he named in his marriage record because I would think a 23 year old man could recall his parents'names.

Regards,