GGrandfather James Quigley

Hi John the Quigley name is found in North Louth mainly, will search later for posssible birth. Interesting site for Louth here http://www.jbhall.freeservers.com/ 

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Pat

Hi Again John the book McLysaghts surnames of Ireland states it is from the Irish meaning people of unkempt hair. It states the name is mainly found in Donegal and Derry, North west Ireland and North, also in North Louth, could also be Scottish origin, lots of migration especially from Donegal to Scotland, at its nearest point Scotland is 13 miles from Ireland.

I am not sure of English Canada, is that everywhere bar Quebec. I know there was migration in the 1830 in a big way from Cooley Penisula to St John, New Brunswick, this is North east Louth. (Louth is the smallest county in Ireland and narrow except for the peninsula. There was a query last year about the Cooley migration and it turns out in the early 1990s a man in New Brunswick published a book about it, cannot remember the title but think it is out of print. It is not uncommon for people of a cetain area of Ireland to go to pecific areas of Canada. Foster a landlord in MId Louth funded migration but this was mid 1850s.

You could try a query to the library here to see if they have any record. of migration to there. https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/Services/Library/Genealogy-Research-Sources…;

There are two other local sites but not in areas where I think there are a lot of Quigeys, but you can try them https://www.carlingfordpeople.ie/ there is only one Quigley here and she is from Dundalk in the gallery. There is a James Quigley marriage here in 1802, remember marriages often took place in the brides homeplace. http://www.termonfeckinhistory.ie/ 

There is surname distribution here in the 1850, free on the site but it is a subscription site. https://www.johngrenham.com/surnames/ 

I answered one other Quigley in Australia but it was 1880s, it appears to me in my unscientific way that the name is found from Dundalk across to Ardee and south to about Castlebellingham, so mainly north Louth. There is also a Louth Genealogy Facebook page, ask to join but without parents names it is impossible to find them or if they married in Ireland, there was also specific migration to some parts of West Canada but it was mainly from Monaghan I believe, this was often facilitated via the parish priest. From the surname site the name is found all over Ireland so no guarantee of Louth unless some other DNA turns up.

I live in Louth so feel free to ask further if aything occurs to you.

Regards

Pat

Thank you appreciate the help, I was thinking about New Brunswick but there are sparse records for that part of Canada in the 1840's. Will look at what you have suggested, might get lucky, or the Lord might help out. Have a blessed day.

John

Greetings Pat;

I do believe I might have found parents for my James Quigley in New Foundland Church Records 1793-1899. There is a birth recorded for James Quigley in 1847, parents William Quigley and Mary English.

John,

It is possible that the parents of your James Quigley are William Quigley and Mary. It looks as though William was born in 1789 Co. Louth to Owen Quigley and Ann Burn. You should be related to Moonan's, Lynch's, and Mccue's.