Patrick McGovern Ballinamore

Mark:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Patrick McGovern is very elusive. Civil registration started in Ireland in 1864 and civil birth records can be found on the free site www.irishgenealogy.ie  I searched from 1864-1872 and did not find a record with the parents names you provided. The RC parish for Ballinamore would be Ballinamore/Outeragh. Also there were variants to the surname McGovern such as Magauran

I searched on the subscription site Roots Ireland for all of Ireland and did not find any baptismal records for McGovern/Magauran children with father Andrew and mother with the surname Gilchrist.

I also searched the subscription site FindMyPast because Co. Fermanagh records are not on Roots Ireland and did not find a record.

I searched for a death record for Andrew McGovern/Magauran and did not find a record.

Any other family clues?

Maybe someone else with have better luck.

Roger McDonnell

Thank you Roger. I attached the passenger list record which notes "Ballymore" as a place of birth which I assumed was Ballinamore? Perhaps I was looking at the wrong area? His death index noted a birthdate of 1859. Thanks again for your help.

Mark:

There are a number of Ballymores in Ireland including a town, civil parish and RC parish in Co. Westmeath  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymore,_County_Westmeath   However, RC records for Ballymore parish in Westmeath go way back so Patrick's baptismal record should have come up unless his parents names are not correct.

I assume none of his children were born in Ireland? Have you looked at British census records to see if there are any clues on his county of origin?

Roger

Hello Miriam,

Thank you for responding. Patrick immigrated at some point to Middlesbrough in Yorkshire and married mary Ann Connors. All of their children were born in the U.K. and then migrated to the U.S. in the 1920's. None of the U.K. census records show details on Patrick's birth place other than Ireland. I only have Ballinamore from the ships passenger lists on his voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1926. Thanks in advance for your help.

Mark

Spouse & Children

• Mary Ann Connors

  1866–1929

• William McGovern

  1887–

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  Mary Agnes McGovern

  1888–1975

• jane mcgovern

  1890–1890

• catherine mcgovern

  1891–

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  Andrew mcgovern

  1892–1931

• Dennis Mcgovern

  1894–

• Ellen McGovern

  1896–1967

• Margaret McGovern

  1898–

• James McGovern

  1900–

• Patrick McGovern

  1905–1968

• Josephine MCGOVERN

  1908–

• Winifred Mcgovern

  1910–1939