My great grandfather Charles Miller was born in 1845 in Aughnacloy Tyrone to Peter and Jame Baird Miller. They emigrated to Pittsburgh PA prior to 1870 with son William who later returned to Ireland and married a blacjksmiths widow with children ( names unknown) Another son, James never left Ireland. James m Elizabeth Cairns and had 2 sons James and William and 3 daughters (names unknown).
Daughters Mary Ann (m James Johnston of Aughnacloy) and Margaret (m James Sterling) also emigrated to the Pittsburgh area. Another daughter Liza was lost at sea on her way to Australia.
Does anyone have access to church records in Carnteel? Not sure of their religion My info is from notes written in 1950 by a daughter of Mary Ann Miller Johnston. Accuracy may not be very good. Need hep to find the parents of Peter and Jane. And are there any descendants of William and James still living in Ireland? Will be visiting in June and would love to see the area they came from and perhaps meet my Irish cousins.
I have a tree on Ancestry.com: Cassidy-Miller - that details their descendants.
Friday 16th Nov 2012, 04:13PM
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Hi
Thank you for your message.
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.
When in June will you be visiting Ireland? If you would like to share your travel plans with us closer to your arrival via info@irelandxo.com - we will endeavour to put you intouch with a volunteer who may be able to offer some advice or assistance.
In the meantime - have you tried checking Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ or the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) https://familysearch.org/ for your relatives & their family?
You may also try:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/
Church records may be of some use to you. Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance.
Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf
Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm and at the Presbyterian Historical Society http://www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com in Belfast. PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It can difficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simply disappeared over the last sixty years.
Civil registration records are available from the General Register Office (GRO). These start from 1864. You can access the website here: http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm
Remember to post as much information as you can with regard to the people you are researching. The more information you post, the more likely it is that one of our volunteers will be able to advise or assist you. Also include information concerning which sources you may have already used so others may further your search.
I wish you the best of luck with your search.
Kind regards,
Genealogy support
Monday 21st Jan 2013, 12:35PM