Dear Province of Leinster: 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, 05:05PM
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Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reasonwhy they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given atthe port of arrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g.Liverpool, New York, etc.), this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps evenfind out an exact place of origin. Ellis Island:http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden:http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info:http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/ The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml
Thursday 21st Mar 2013, 01:16PM