I am looking for family information for Michael O’Brien born 3 April 1845 in Ireland, from his obituary in Ontario, Canada.
Michael’s parents, Patrick O’Brien listed as a stone cutter in Canadian census and Ellen Murphy, both were born in Ireland.
Patrick came to Ontario, Canada to work on the construction of the Welland Canal in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Patrick and Ellen immigrated to Canada as a married couple but in different years. Their first chid, Michael O’Brien, immigrated to Canada even later than either of his parents, as a ‘youth’ and he would have sacramental church records somewhere in Ireland.
Michael had a sister Mary O’Brien born about 1848. We are not sure if she was Irish or Canadian born.
An old uncle said his family came from Limerick, County Cork, Ireland. This same uncle said his great grandfather was a stonemason.
Many years ago, a Roman Catholic, Irish, Priest visiting Ontario, Canada, told a relative of this O’Brien family that these O’Briens came from Timoleague.
Any information or suggestions for tracing this family in Ireland is appreciated.
Anna
Wednesday 6th Feb 2013, 06:33PM
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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
Thursday 21st Mar 2013, 03:29PM