Doherty Family from Moville, Donegal circa 1850

Hi

Thank you for your message.

Do you know much about Grace's emigration? The dates, the reason why she left, who she might 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, this could be a good place to find more information. There are lots of books and documents available about the Irish emigration to NZ. There is a website you could look at: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/irish/2 for information about the Irish in New Zealand.

Do you know what religion she was? Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is -http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseact… 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.

Have you tried looking for the family on later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/     or the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) https://familysearch.org/   ?

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Genealogy Support 

Hi,

There are 3 children born to a John Doherty and Elizabeth Kelly recorded in rootsireland.ie all born in Co. Derry.

I'm not sure if this is the same family as the dates are later than Grace Ellen's 1841.

They are Isabella 1856, Mary Esther 1858 and Elizabeth 1861.

Another website that is good for everything Donegal is Donegal Genealogy Resources - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/

Also you should join the Donegal Mailing Lists - http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-DONEGAL.html

If you post your query on the list - the people on the lists are very helpful.

Regards,

Eimer