I am searching for any information about Margaret Lynaugh(and variants- Lynagh, Lynach, Lyneth....)
Margaret was born circa 1834 in County Cork. I do not have a mother or father named yet for her.
Margaret had 2 younger sisters, Betty, who married a Kane, and Mary who married a Murray.
Margaret's mother died sometime before 1850. She worked for a wealthy family before her death, and after her death, Margaret worked for the same family to help support her sisters. Guessing father must have been dead too at the time.
This family had a daughter named Ellen, who was Margarets age, and the 2 had been friends since childhood. Apparently, Margaret came to America with the daughter of her employer, who was eloping against her parents wishes.
Ellen and her husband were married in NYC, and Margaret was a witness. Margaret then moved to upstate NY, where she worked as a cook in a hunting camp where she met ROBERT C. FULTON. They were married around 1856.
This is all I know about Margaret before she came to America. I realize it may be like finding a needle in a haystack, but I would like to know more about my 3x great grandmother and where she came from, and this looked like an excellent place to start!
Her husband Robert C. Fulton was also born in Ireland, but that will be posted somewhere else, as I don't know what county he came from.
Sunday 7th Apr 2013, 02:29PM
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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