Thomas F Higins

I and my partner will be arriving in Ireland in early to mid October, 2013. We hope to locate the home site of my great grandfather Thomas F HIGGINS, born in 1836, from Ballintober, Co. Roscommon. Also, my grandfather, Thomas F HIGGINS Jr, born in 1871. My grandfather was about 7 years old when he arrived in the U.S. Any help you can provide as to locating their old property would be wonderful.

Brian Higgins

Tuesday 5th Feb 2013, 04:09AM

Ballintober (Roscommon)

County Roscommon

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Hi Brian,

Thank you very much for your message.

Can you provide any other information regarding the family that may help our volunteers? Do you know the name of any family that remained in Ireland after Thomas emigrated? Do you know of any occupations?

I did a search for Higgins in Balllintober in the 1901 census records, some results came back. You may want to look at the results for yourself here:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year=1901&surname=Higgins&exact=&firstname=&county=Roscommon&townland=&ded=&age=&sex=&relationToHead=&religion=&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving=&birthplace=&language=&deafdumb=&search=Search&sort=dedSort&pageSize=100&pager.offset=0

If some of the people listed are a part of your family, these records will be a good place to start the search for a property.

Hopefully, with a bit more information one of our volunteers may be able to offer you some advice or assistance.

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support

Wednesday 10th Apr 2013, 12:31PM

Thomas F Higins

Brian Higgins

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