McCormick family in Canada

Canadian McCormick:

Great work on your web site. I searched two subscription sites: Roots Ireland and FindMyast.ie  and only came up with one possible marriage record but it appears to be 18 months too late. The record I found was in the Drom RC parish in Co. Tipperary. Marriage was on February 21 1830 between Thomas Cormack and Bridget Connor.

As you know both surnames are very common and found in all counties in the 19th century.

Not sure what company you tested your DNA but make sure you update your data to other sites that may allow a free upload. Gedmatch www.gedmatch.com is another site to add your data. 

Roger McDonnell

Mac Cormack , - Cormick - Mac Cormaic  -  Surnames of Ireland by Dr. Edward MacLysght, 3rd Edition, revised and corrected 1978.

This like MacCormican is formed from the forename Cormac. This name is numerous throughout all the provinces, the spelling MacCormick being more usual in Ulster. For the most part it originated as a simple patronymic; the only recognised sept of the name was of the Fermanagh-Longford area. Many of the MacCormacc(k) families of Ulster are of Scottish origin, being a branch of the clan Buchanan-MacCormack of MacLaine.  Bibl; IF94.

Further Reference:

MacCormick - Scottish-Irish in Ireland and in in America, as shown in sketches of the pioneer Scottish-Irish families McCormick, Stevenson, McKenzie, and Bell ... by Andrew P. McCormick, New Orleans, 1897.

Regards,

McCORMACK - Scottish Credit: House of Names

You may already be aware of them, but there are records for what appears to be your family in the Family Search database [https://www.familysearch.org].  If you search there, you can find Thomas under ID number L18L-ZGR, and can access the records for the others easily through that record, as you will see.  Thomas and Bridget are shown, with their birth years as you gave them, plus Mary (born 1831 in Canada, as you said) and six other children.  The records do not indicate where in Ireland they were born, but do show Thomas's parents as John & Margaret McCormick.

In each record, at the right hand side of the screen you can see the screen names of those who have created or modified the record, and can send them private messages, so you might be able to get more info by contacting them (and perhaps also locate some relatives that way).  KMcCormick is shown as the main person providing info in those records, so you might want to contact him/her.

FamilySearch is operated by the LDS church, and is free to use.  You have to create an account to use the database, but they don’t ask for much personal info, and no missionaries will contact you or anything like that.  The database does not have separate family trees, and is essentially one huge tree of linked records, in which there is a single record for each person, with a unique identification number (although sometimes people unknowingly create duplicate records for the same person, which you can merge when you spot them).

Hi Roger,

Thank you for the reply and thank you for liking my web page.

The KMcCormick on family search is actually me. I started that over 20 years ago when I started out and ended up abandoning it and starting over. As for what you found in Drom Tipperary. That record could still bew a possibility. The concrete evidence I have is the baptismal records for Mary & Margaret. The other evidence I have found indicating they were here earlier the 1830, I have been unable to back up by any 2nd documentation. It entirely possible they arrive in the summer of 1830. I will investigate this further. Thank you so much for the help.

Are Irish parish records fairly consistant in the early 1800s or are there parishes where no records are available?

I'm having trouble getting the references to open on the LDS site, so if you go there and register, just type in the search box until you locate this. Sarson, James krunker

Hi, Thank you for the response. I have looked on Family Search and found 2 James Krunker Sarson but I don't see a connection. What exactly is the connection here? Maybe I am looking at the wrong Sarson.