Tobias Coady - Abt 1795-abt 1881

I am researching my great great-grandfather, Tobias Coady and seek assistance on his place of origin.

Here is what I know:

• He was born in the late 1700s, possibly in Inistioge. One undocumented source has his birth year as 1795 but it is unknown where that came from.
• His son's obituary said he emigrated first to Newfoundland. By 1824 he was in Nova Scotia, Canada and by 1831 he was in Prince Edward Island, Canada where he remained until his death.
• He married a Susannah Pennell, likely in Nova Scotia, in the early 1820s. Their first child, my great grandmother, Catherine Coady, was born in Yarmouth, NS in 1824. Tobias and Susannah had 12 children.

Here's some other information I have.

• A Tobias Cody attended an 1843 meeting in Charlottetown, PEI with a James Cody. The roster said Tobias was from Kilkenny and James from Inistioge, Kilkenny.
• A search of the tithe applotment books uncovered a James Coady in Inistioge in 1829. Father? Sibling? Cousin?
• A search of the Inistioge catholic parish registers uncovered a number of Coady and Cody (many, many with this spelling) births but the records don't start until 1810 so I am unable to find anything about Tobias' birth. Many of the parents resided in Inistioge and Oldcourt.
• An individual in Australia pointed me to a 1809 marriage between a Tobias Coady and Eleanor Collins in Dublin. The Australian knew that Eleanor was imprisioned for stealing from her employer. She was pregnant at the time, sentenced to jail and gave birth to a son. In 1817, she and the baby were shipped to Australia. DNA matches between Australian and PEI Coadys have been inconclusive as to whether or not this was the same Tobias Coady. If they are the same person, it may indicate that after his first wife was imprisoned, he left Ireland for Canada Eleanor and the baby were sent to Australia. It seems unlikely he could get a divorce or annulment after her imprisonment so I am leery of assuming they are the same person.

Might anyone have information to assist me in pinning down where my Tobias Coady came from? Thanks for your help!

Kathleen Clarkin Foley, Northfield, MN - USA