I am looking for my ancestors from Ireland for as far back in time as I can find. I am in possession of a copy of a Census of Ireland, 1911 Form A document. The document is dated April 2, 1911. The document is signed by my great-grandfather Patrick Prendergast who lists his age as 60. His wife's first name is Julia, maiden last name Hayden. In the document, "Children still living" total 5 and he identifies them as William, age 15 (my grandfather whom I am named after-born in Ireland in 1896 and came to the United States in the early 1900s and married Hannah Conmy), Margaret, daughter, age 11 whom I understand never married, another son age 9 (first name ??) whom I understand never married, John age 6 whom I understand married and Peter, age 3, whom I understand became a priest in Ireland. Patrick lists "Total Children born alive" as 7. The 7 Prendergasts (parents and children still living) identified on the document were all born in Kilkenny County.
The Signature of Enumerator on the 1911 census document is James Bourne (I believe that's how he signed it).
Thank you for any help you can be to me.
Prendergast
Saturday 2nd Feb 2013, 06:51PMMessage Board Replies
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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 4th Apr 2013, 09:57AM