I'm looking for possible family

I'm looking for any possible living relatives in Ireland I have names of my ancestors. Charles Edgar Curran is one.

In order to help you in your search can you tell us a bit more about Charles Edward Curran, year of birth ect?

There were several people born in Ireland with the same name.

Hi Lauren

Do you have any other information? There are Currane families from Co Kerry, and a few Charles Curranes (the surmname was spelt mostly like this  in Kerry, and changed in USA) I have found a brother  of my 2 x great grandfather that went to Massachusetts - Michael O'Connor/Connor who married Mary Currane(Curran in USA) in 1865 in Boston MA, I(I have found any living descendants yet)

Have a look at this website - may help with Kerry records, although there weren't many with a middle name at that time that was recorded, hope this helps

Link: http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?name2fm=&name2l=&namefm=Charles&namel=Currane&location=Kerry&dd=&mm=&yy=&submit=Search&sort=date&pageSize=100&diocese=&parish=&century=&decade=&exact=&ddB=&ddM=&ddD=&mmB=&mmM=&mmD=&yyB=&yyM=&yyD=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=

or go to : http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

Hope this helps 

Maureen O'Connor NZ

Hi Maureen -

I saw your post about the Curran's from Co. Kerry.  My grandmother, Mary Agnes Curran was from the Mall in Annascaul.  She married Mago Sheehy from Dingle and they moved to Somerville, Massachusetts.  A number of her family members moved to Massachusetts as well.   Do you think there is a connection with your family??

Donna (McTeague) Sadoski

Massachusetts - USA

Hi Donna

I know Michael's parents Michael & Ellen O'Connor came from Annascaul but think Mary's parents may have come from Dingle - see below Michael & Mary's marriage in Chicopee MA, they weren't in MA too long before they married, Michael's brother (my 2 x great grandfather) Patrick O'Connor & Elizabeth Deen stayed in Castlegregory, but a lot of their children immigrated - 4 to New Zealand,

Name:    Michael O'Conner
Titles and Terms:
Event Type:    Marriage
Event Date:    19 Feb 1865
Event Place:    Chicopee, Massachusetts
Gender:    Male
Age:    23
Marital Status:
Race:
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Registration Year:
Registration Place:
Birth Year (Estimated):    1842
Father's Name:    Michael O'Conner
Father's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Name:    Ellen Barry
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Name:    Mary Curran
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Race:
Spouse's Marital Status:
Spouse's Father's Name:    Dennis Curran
Spouse's Father's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Mother's Name:    Johanna Cahill
Spouse's Mother's Titles and Terms:
Certificate Number:    181
GS Film number:    1433022
Digital Folder Number:    4279268
Image Number:    00622
Number of Images:

Citing this Record:
"Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4SG-KXL : accessed 29 Sep 2013), Michael O'Conner and Mary Curran, 1865.

This is Denis Currane & Johanna's marriage -

Area - KERRY (RC) , Parish/Church/Congregation - DINGLE

Marriage of DENIS CURRANE of DINGLE and JOHANNA CAHIL of NR on 25 February 1830

Husband Wife Name DENIS CURRANE  JOHANNA CAHIL                                                                      Address DINGLE  NR  Occupation  NR NR Father NR  CURRANE NR NR Mother  NR NRNR NR

Further details in the record

Priest NR Husband Age NR Husband Denomination RC Husband Marital Status NR Wife Age NR Wife Marital Status NR Husband's Father's Occupation NR Wife's Father's Occupation NR Witness 1 PATRICK CAHIL Witness 2 PATRICK DEVINE

About the record

Book NumberPageEntry NumberRecord_IdentifierN/R88N/RKY-RC-MA-33876

The church register page containing this record has not yet been imaged.

Interestingly I have just made contact with a descendant of Michael & Mary's 

If you like you can email me at zazu1pukekohe@gmail.com

Hope this helps

Maureen O'Connor NZ

Hi Maureen -

Thank you for your message.  I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  It's been extremely busy this month so I haven't had too much time for my genealogy research.

I found in my Curran family tree that the name was spelt both Currane and Curran.

The family seemed to be primarily in Annascaul and Dingle.   I will keep looking for a connection and be in touch if I find one.

Thank you!

Best wishes

Donna

USA

Hi Maureen -

Thank you for your message.  I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  It's been extremely busy this month so I haven't had too much time for my genealogy research.

I found in my Curran family tree that the name was spelt both Currane and Curran.

The family seemed to be primarily in Annascaul and Dingle.   I will keep looking for a connection and be in touch if I find one.

Thank you!

Best wishes

Donna

USA

Hi Maureen -

Thank you for your message.  I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  It's been extremely busy this month so I haven't had too much time for my genealogy research.

I found in my Curran family tree that the name was spelt both Currane and Curran.

The family seemed to be primarily in Annascaul and Dingle.   I will keep looking for a connection and be in touch if I find one.

Thank you!

Best wishes

Donna

USA

Hi Donna, Maureen and Lauren

there is a facebook page that is connected to this website, its called west Kerry reaching out:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/175684842565187/

There might be a member that can help ye.

Maureen that website you mrentioned is the best one I've come across, it has helped me go back 6 or 7 generations.

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

There is also

Mar

Castlegregory Deaths 1864-1870, Co. Kerry page 1

there is also a site giving information on the Griffiths valuation and tithe applotments for Kerry but I can't find their address!!

Hope this helps

Sarah

Lauren,

My name is Jim O'Reilly and I am writing from Chicago.  Your great grandfather Charles Edgar Curran was the first cousin of my father Charles Curran O'Reilly and your grandfather Robert Francis Curran was my second cousin.    Your great great grandfather was Charles Peter Curran and he was from Pittsburgh - his wife was Margaret May McDonald.  His father, Charles Curran, immigrated to Pittsburgh from Derry around 1865.  He met another Irish immigrant, Catherine Hartnett in Pittsburgh and married her in 1869.   Charles Curran's father, Patrick Curran, had a farm in the townland of Brockagh, Cumber Lower just east of Derry.   The Currans were on this land in the 1831 Irish census and that is the earliest record we have of the family so far.    Oral history says that Patrick Curran was married to Jane Tracy  and that his parents were Charles Curran and Sarah Hamill.   Charles and Sarah are your great great great great great grandparents. 

If you want more information (photographs, letters, maps etc) - search for "Pittsburgh Currans Bulletin Board" on Facebook and ask to join.  Much info posted there.     There is also a tree on Ancestry.com (that includes you!) - search for user chasloretta - the tree is call "The O'Reilly Family Tree.  You will only be able to see non-living people unless you ask for permission to see the living members of the family on the tree.   If you ask, I will invite you to see the whole tree.

Cousin Jim