Looking for information on Nicholas Lonergan and John Lonergan, brothers who emigrated from Ireland, County Cork to New York City circa 1870. Nicholas was born approximately February 1853. His brother, John, was probably just a little older or younger. They both settled in the State of New York, Nicholas settling in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children for the duration of his life. Nicholas married Margaret Tobin, also an immigrant from Ireland, in 1874-75. Their children's names were: Anna "Nan," James "Frank," Joseph Martin, Charles Stewart, Katherine "Kitty," Edward A., and Raymond Jerome.
Monday 12th Nov 2012, 07:17PM
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Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given at the 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 even find 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 relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/
Information regarding genealogy in CO Cork is available here:
http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/
and here:
http://www.cork-guide.ie/genealogy.html
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
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com
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Monday 14th Jan 2013, 05:23PM