I am looking for information on a William Young born about 1801- 1804. He emmigrated to the United States along with his wife, Margaret McLean( McLane, MacLean) born about 1831 in Ireland and their 4 oldest children.
William died 5 Nov 1869 in Lawrence, Massachusetts and according to his headstone was born in Ballinora, County Cork. I have no parent information as the city does not have a record of his death.
His wife , Margaret, died 15 Apr 1893 in Lawrence,Massachusetts and her parents are listed as Owen McLean and Ann Donovan.
The 4 children born in Ireland were: Bartholomew ( 1843-1895), Mary ( 1845-1909), Nicholas ( 1846-1901), and William J ( 1850-1878). All died in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Their youngest child, John A Young, was born in Lawrence in 1856 and died there in 1915.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
rxbuck67
Thursday 8th Nov 2012, 08:16PMMessage Board Replies
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: Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given at the 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.
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 relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/
Do you know what religion they were? : 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
Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com
British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The National Archives of Ireland: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
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Monday 14th Jan 2013, 11:13AM