Hayes Family - Holywood, Bangor, County Down

Hi Suzanne,

Thank you very much for your message. I hope that someone with information contacts you.

In the meantime you could try contacting the local parish priest to see if he can be of any assistance, or offer any advice on how to ?reach out? locally. Here are the links to their contact pages:

Catholic: http://79.170.44.208/parishofholywood.org/contact-us-2

Church of Ireland: http://www.holywoodparishchurch.co.uk/contact/

Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

Kind regards,    

Genealogy Support

Hi Emma

Thank you for your reply and hints to my post.  Good luck with the programme roll out and fingers crossed someone may contact me.  Always patient when it comes to family history!

Regards,

Suzanne

Hi Suzanne, my Hayes family are also from Bangor. My earliest known are my great grandfather Hugh Hayes 1857 and his wife Mary Curran.

I have many relatives in America and Australia but I can't find the connecting relative. My parents migrated to Australia from Bangor in 1950, the remainder of family still in Bangor. Also great grandparents Niblock from Groomsport. I suspect we are connected.

Cheers Moira Hayes

Hi Moira

Wonder if there is a connection here.

I haven't found a Hugh Hayes within my Bangor family as yet.

My gg grandfather Hayes arrived in Australia circa 1872 and settled in Adelaide South Australia.

I have found a Thomas Hayes in the same street, Ean Hill Street Hollywood in the Griffiths Valuation but don't know his connection to my family. Being in the same street as my ggg grandfather Niven Hayes, they may be brothers.

Thomas Hayes may connect with your family.

Regards
Suzanne Hayes