Derham Families Australia, particularly Queensland

Hi Valerie,

Have you checked the immigration records in Australia? Generally, more information was given at the port of arrival rather than the port of departure. The University of Woolongong has produced, on microfiche, a complete index and transcript of all information concerning immigrants of Irish origin recorded on ships' passenger lists between 1848 and 1867. These are useful for finding out an exact place of origin as well as parents' names. The Public Record Office of Victoria has good online databases of settlers at www.prov.vic.gov.au Otherwise, other records may be found in the Colonial Office Papers of the UK National Archives, class reference CO 201. This class contains a wide variety of records, including petitions for assisted passages, emigrants' lists, records of emigrants on board ship, petitions from settlers for financial assistance and much more.The site for the National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/family-history/genealogy-selected-websites may be of use to you. It has several helpful links for tracing people who emigrated to Australia. 

Also https://familysearch.org/ is an excellent site for searching for records both in Ireland and abroad. 

I wish you the best of luck with your search. 

Please make sure you link anyone else in your family who is interested in their Irish heritage to our site - and indeed anyone else you know of Irish heritage.

Kind regards,

Cynthia O'Connor

Genealogy Support

Ireland Reaching Out

Hi!  I'm a Bergin of Roscrea area origins.  My GGF left the area pre-Famine in 1841.  He was from Rathnaveogue, just a few mi South of Roscrea.  He came to the US with his cousins named Curley, also of the same area.  We are lucky as there are so many Bergins in the Roscrea area that we have focused our searches on the Curleys (the name is rare outside of Roscommon & Galway) & then sought the Bergins in the areas where we found Curleys.  It's mainly Roscrea, Bourney, Rathnaveogue, Cobally, & Dunkerrin-Barna-Moneygall.  If you locate them you'll see they're all on the Tipp-Offaly border close to Roscrea.  Though most standard sources (Woulfe, MacLysaght et al.) site a single Bergin clann spreading from Geashill, Co Offaly, I suspect that there were several distinct Bergin clanns emerging from several clanns associated with the O'Connor Falys from which the Geashill Bergins arose. There was an Amergin O'Connor (Amergin is the name  from which Bergin comes) of the O'Connor Falys who lived in the 11th (?) century.  The clanns O'Dempsey, O'More, O'Meagher, O'Malloy & O'Carroll were all associated with O'Connor Faly & each had an ancestor named Amergin, eg. Amergin O'Meagher; Amergin being a personal named apparently esteemed by those clanns.  Why do I spend so much time here on this topic?  I've been frustrated by the lack of Bergin information in standard Name sources like MacLysaght.  It just appears that the available information is contained in a single paragraph.  Not so!  With a bit a of searching there's plenty of information in such sources as The Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland  freely available on Google Books for DL. DL. So, We both have origins with Bergins in the NE extension of Tipperary right next to the "tongue" of Offaly which splits North Tipperary.  That right smack in the midst of Ely O'Carroll territory & so I suspect that we are both out of the O'Carroll clan.  Now to prove it.  I'll still pursue it but I think that will be discovered by the next generation.  If you need a hand with your search, I'm more than glad to help where I can.

John Bergin

Schenectady, NY

USA

Hi!  I'm a Bergin of Roscrea area origins.  My GGF left the area pre-Famine in 1841.  He was from Rathnaveogue, just a few mi South of Roscrea.  He came to the US with his cousins named Curley, also of the same area.  We are lucky as there are so many Bergins in the Roscrea area that we have focused our searches on the Curleys (the name is rare outside of Roscommon & Galway) & then sought the Bergins in the areas where we found Curleys.  It's mainly Roscrea, Bourney, Rathnaveogue, Cobally, & Dunkerrin-Barna-Moneygall.  If you locate them you'll see they're all on the Tipp-Offaly border close to Roscrea.  Though most standard sources (Woulfe, MacLysaght et al.) site a single Bergin clann spreading from Geashill, Co Offaly, I suspect that there were several distinct Bergin clanns emerging from several clanns associated with the O'Connor Falys from which the Geashill Bergins arose. There was an Amergin O'Connor (Amergin is the name  from which Bergin comes) of the O'Connor Falys who lived in the 11th (?) century.  The clanns O'Dempsey, O'More, O'Meagher, O'Malloy & O'Carroll were all associated with O'Connor Faly & each had an ancestor named Amergin, eg. Amergin O'Meagher; Amergin being a personal named apparently esteemed by those clanns.  Why do I spend so much time here on this topic?  I've been frustrated by the lack of Bergin information in standard Name sources like MacLysaght.  It just appears that the available information is contained in a single paragraph.  Not so!  With a bit a of searching there's plenty of information in such sources as The Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland  freely available on Google Books for DL. DL. So, We both have origins with Bergins in the NE extension of Tipperary right next to the "tongue" of Offaly which splits North Tipperary.  That right smack in the midst of Ely O'Carroll territory & so I suspect that we are both out of the O'Carroll clan.  Now to prove it.  I'll still pursue it but I think that will be discovered by the next generation.  If you need a hand with your search, I'm more than glad to help where I can.

John Bergin

Schenectady, NY

USA