Dear Province of Ulster: I have been trying to find my great Grandfather, Patrick Kane, born around 1839 to parents Maurice Kane and Mary Catherine Mullen. I do not know their Parish, County or Province of birth, however I am hopeful about finding information on Patrick by posting messages on all Province Message Boards in Ireland. Recently I found seven Maurice Kanes in Griffith's Valuation and have also posted messages on those Parish Message Boards.
Maurice was born around 1800 and married Mary Catherine around 1838. They immigrated with Patrick to Quebec, Canada in the mid to late 1850s. Maurice was a farmer and they came to Canada during the potato famine. They settled in Bristol, Quebec and I recently was excited to find their tombstone at St Brigit's Parish in Bristol. However, the St Brigit's records do not show their birth place only their Country of birth.
I believe that with the help from the Message Boards and all the people involved with Ireland Reaching Out, that I will eventually find my great Grandfather's place of birth.
I will be visiting Ireland with my husband in June and look forward to our travels across Ireland and to visiting my ancestors' Country of birth and hopefully place of birth.
Regards
Darleen (Cain) Finnamore
Ottawa Canada
Sunday 10th Feb 2013, 05:34PM
Message Board Replies
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Hi Darleen,
Thank you very much for your message.
Unfortunately, it may be difficult to find information with so little information to go on.
Kane/Keane is quite a common surname in Ireland. You can use the Irish Times surname database to show you how spread out the name was in mid-19th century Ireland.
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&Surname=Kane&UserID=
Have you tried using online databases of Church records to see if you can find a birth record for Patrick? There a few that may be helpful:
www.familysearch.org This has a huge database of genealogical records available including some birth and marriage records for Ireland.
www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html Records are currently being uploaded here free of charge. However as it is an ongoing project only certain counties are available as of yet-Kerry, Dublin, Carlow and parts of Cork
www.rootsireland.ie Also have a large collection of Church records available, however you have to pay to view these records.
Have you tried looking into the family?s emigration? If you can find their immigration record you may be able to find some information. For immigration information in Canada check http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
A good website with additional information is http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/Canadian-immigration-records.html
Some other websites that you may find useful are:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm
I hope that some of these links are helpful and that you can find a place of origin. If you find any more information please post it here as the more information you post, the more likely it is that one of our volunteers will be able to advise or assist you. Also include information concerning which sources you may have already used so others may further your search.
Finally, we have recently added a new link ot the top of our page for people that are visiting in 2013.It takes you to a short web form. We would greatly appreciate it if you could take a couple of minutes to fill it out. Thank you!
Best wishes,
Genealogy Support
Wednesday 17th Apr 2013, 10:51AM