Dear Ireland Reaching Out: I have been trying to find my great great Grandfather, Maurice Kane born around 1800 who married Mary Catherine Mullen around 1838. They had a son, Patrick, around 1839 and immigrated to Quebec, Canada in the mid to late 1850s. Maurice was a farmer and they came to Canada during the potatoe famine. They settled in Bristol, Quebec and I recently was excited to find their tombstone at St Brigit's Parish in Bristol. However, the St Brigit's records do not show their birth place only their Country (not County) of birth. I found seven Maurice Kane's in Griffith's Valuation and have posted messages on all those Parish message boards so I am hopeful that something may come from those postings. However since I do not know for certain their Parish or County of birth I am again hopeful that this general posting might lead me to finding Maurice, Mary Catherine and Patrick'. Just finding Patrick's birth place would be wonderful.
I will be visiting Ireland with my husband in June and look forward with much excitement to hearing from you.
I greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide with finding my ancestors.
Regards
Darleen (Cain) Finnamore
Ottawa Canada
Monday 4th Feb 2013, 06:04PM
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Hi Darleen
Thank you for your message. If you haven't already - please fill out the short form Visiting Ireland in 2013 located on the HOME page of our site.
Do you have any additional information pertaining to these individuals that may assist others in furthering your research? 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, this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps even find out an exact place of origin.
Do you know their religion? The reality of finding documentation pertaining to births/baptisms/marriages/deaths in Ireland prior to the early 1800's ? particularly in rural areas ? is that they simply may not exist. Some registers for urban areas pre-dating the mid-1800s may exist ? though often these can be fragmented- as there was an increased need in cities or larger towns to document the population. Please also note that the Church of Ireland was the official church of the country and therefore the bulk of information that does survive for earlier periods is often from these registers.
Some sites which might be helpful are:
British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093
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
The National Archives Scotland- family history: http://www.nas.gov.uk/familyHistory/
The Library & Archives of Canada - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/
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.
Kind regards,
Genealogy Support
Thursday 7th Mar 2013, 03:31PM